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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 personality, opinions, or ambitions by management or producers in order to preserve a commercially constructed image. | |||
#: ''Seol-hyun's dialogue on ''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.'' | |||
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