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Euphemisms in sentence

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Those are the euphemisms, and this is how it was interpreted.
In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures.
I asked girlfriends and everybody spoke in euphemisms.
These are all euphemisms we use in humor to describe the one life event we are all going to experience: death.
Never saw a movie where the characters looked Italian, supposed to be Turk, taking English(American accent and euphemisms) with German words.
This sort of humor included nearly a dozen different euphemisms for the female anatomy (I lost count), and countless jokes about how to "score" with the opposite gender.
For example, on Sina’s microblog site, bloggers used pictures, euphemisms, and English or traditional Chinese characters to avoid censorship.
There are no euphemisms that can inoffensively imply that one of the great world religions is a murderous, irrational ideology, unacceptable for modern, civilized human beings.
I am often struck by the way many Europeans use arms-length euphemisms when talking about immigrants: they want immigrants to feel “welcome” or “comfortable.”
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).
So euphemisms were systematically used: “enhanced techniques” for torture, “interrogation expert” for torturer.