Word: sugarcoat
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Consider, on the other hand, the course outlines of departmental classes. required science and math courses' syllabi tend towards a straightforward format, rattling off requirements like items on a shopping list from hell. And chances are the writers of these bitter syllabi are not going to sugarcoat the courses, either. Chem 20's going to suck; it's going to suck hard; and there's nothing you can do about...
Others will try to sugarcoat it, but the fact is this: For a woman, the Harvard social scene is nothing more than an intellectualized meat market. A few principled women refuse to put themselves on display, but many more give into the market, spending more time than is healthy worrying about butts that are too big and breasts that are too small...
...campaign, moreover, he flatly rejected the idea of higher gasoline taxes, calling them "backbreaking." But now is precisely the time to talk of sacrifice. "He's got a honeymoon," says economist Ratajczak. "So he has to decide what nastiness he's going to serve up that the honeymoon will sugarcoat. And he has to serve up that nastiness early...
Much as administrators may try to sugarcoat it with cute stories and happy talk, the Faculty's budget crisis--an $11.7 million deficit with the prospect of a widening gap between income and expenditures--will require serious work to mend...
...19th century, Thomas Carlyle, addressing his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. During some 40 years of turbulent married life, Carlyle gradually diluted these honeyed words with wormwood. As Editor Trudy Bliss's generous sampling of Carlyle's domestic correspondence makes plain, he used confectionery phrases to sugarcoat endless pills packed with personal neuroses...