“The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.”
"Hugh Hefner" (1985)
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)
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“Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse.”
Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) American journalist
Free Speech and Plain Language (1936)
Context: Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse. I notice that a writer in a recent magazine gives this advice to budding newspaper men:
“A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.”
Fred W. Friendly (1915–1998) President of CBS News
Commenting on New Yorker staff writer Alastair Reid's use of composite characters.
p. 65, The interplay of influence: mass media and their publics in news, advertising, politics, Wadsworth series in mass communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Edition 2, Wadsworth, 1988.
“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director
“Kreeft calls the word "interesting": "that all-purpose meaningless euphemism."”
Peter Kreeft (1937) American philosopher
The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings, Ignatius Press (2005), p. 9
“He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
Aphorism #98
Interglacial (2004)
“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Dancing of Sounds http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21378/Dancing_of_Sounds <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy.”
Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
Context: I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy. … What fun, to feel superior to T. S. Eliot. And that's the impulse that I am suspicious of.