'periphrasis' in Aesthetics and Politics | Bookmarker

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(noun) use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression / (noun) an instance of periphrasis

adept practitioners of the diplomatic art of euphemism and periphrasis, that knowingly does not call things by their name

—p.106 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin

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