...have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement." The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism....blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's...

...people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement. The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism....blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's...

...political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness ... A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft...blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.26 Orwell was convinced that the Russian, Italian,...

...to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.' Orwell commented that: The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism....blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's...

...people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement. The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism....blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's...

...immediacy or emotional force of the Anglo-Saxon.33 As George Orwell stated, "Inflated style is in of itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words...snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details."34 As already discussed, slang, like euphemisms and technical terms, veils the harsh realities...

...want of it nothing can atone. Lindley Murray, 1795, English Grammar, Appendix [introduction] 28:43 The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism....like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real...

...people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement. The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism....falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity" (363-64)....

..."some comfortable English professor" defending totalitarianism by dropping "a mass of Latin words . . . upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details" should remain a corrective occupational mantra87 - I would also hold the door open for...

...straightforward language recalls Orwell's words on the subject of "Politics and the English Language": Inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass...blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's...