Euphemisms in example sentence
In South Africa, we hadto clear our language of apartheid’s claptrap and the official euphemisms thatsought to shroud the horrors of our daily lives – euphemisms such asresettlement” for “banishment,” and “permanent removal” for “death-squadassassination.”Yes, we had to clear our heads of the official language beforewe could write in a creative one; and some of us had to pay dearly for writingsthat asserted the truth in the face of connivance with the official lies: Ourbooks were banned from publication and removed from circulation, and weexperienced – either formally or through pressure on our family, friends, andassociates – personal bans that kept us from the outside world (and the outsideworld from us).