Usage examples for Catchwords

Famous quotes with Catchwords

• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  T. S. Eliot
• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
• Planning is one of the many catchwords whose present popularity is roughly proportionate to the obscurity of its definition.

  Chester Barnard
• Propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids logical argument and seeks to influence its victims by the mere repetition of catchwords, by the furious denunciation of foreign or domestic scapegoats, and by cunningly associating the lower passions with the highest ideals, so that atrocities come to be perpetrated in the name of God and the most cynical kind of is treated as a matter of religious principle and patriotic duty.

  Aldous Huxley
• When the generation that has known war is still alive, it is well that they should be given chapter and verse with regard to some of the best-known cries, catchwords, and exhortations by which they were so greatly influenced. As a warning, therefore, this collection is made. It constitutes only the exposure of a few samples. To cover the whole ground would be impossible.

  Arthur Ponsonby

When it comes to synonyms for the word "dicty-", several options can be considered. One such synonym is "pretentious," which refers to someone who acts in a haughty manner, attempt...