| That simple gesture undercuts all the caveats, qualifications and circumlocutions. |
| This often works, but if you are writing in the active mood, the changes to the passive for the circumlocutions can be irksome. |
| The patients are either able to communicate to some extent by means of circumlocutions or they cannot communicate at all. |
| Has a speaking vocabulary sufficient to respond simply with some circumlocutions. |
| When senior Tories are asked about his tax affairs their squirming circumlocutions are painful to hear. |
| Everyday language uses a number of euphemisms, including polite formulas, circumlocutions, allusions, and stock phrases. |
