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# (''rhetoric, informal'') Any mechanism, deliberate or structural, by which a genuine judgment is displaced in expression by a safer or more palatable substitute. | # (''rhetoric, informal'') Any mechanism, deliberate or structural, by which a genuine judgment is displaced in expression by a safer or more palatable substitute. | ||
#: ''His carefully worded non-answer was textbook '''opinion occlusion''', saying everything except what he actually thought.'' | #: ''His carefully worded non-answer was textbook '''opinion occlusion''', saying everything except what he actually thought.'' | ||
# ( | # (entertainment industry) The deliberate suppression of a public figure's opinions especially the spicier ones by management or producers in order to preserve a commercially constructed image. | ||
#: ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Seol-hyun Seol-hyun's] dialogue on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Man_(TV_program) Running Man]'' was so heavily edited that entire appearances passed with barely a sentence aired, a textbook '''opinion occlusion'''; it is speculated that her competitive nature was cut to protect the innocent image her agency had built around her.'' | #: ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Seol-hyun Seol-hyun's] dialogue on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Man_(TV_program) Running Man]'' was so heavily edited that entire appearances passed with barely a sentence aired, a textbook '''opinion occlusion'''; it is speculated that her competitive nature was cut to protect the innocent image her agency had built around her.'' | ||