Diplospeak

And he knows how to cut through the diplospeak: when Clinton politely asked Russia's Boris Yeltsin for his views on a Caspian Sea gas deal proposed by Chevron Oil.

The hard-driving Cushing carried the title of "American Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" — diplospeak for President Tyler's man on the spot.

Following his August 2007 talks with President Bush in Washington, Brown fell back on coded diplospeak in their joint press conference.

I defended our policy with journalists and critics, one night engaging in a “frank exchange of views”—to use the diplospeak I would later master as a U.S. ambassador —with Washington Post columnist Bob Kagan and New York Times columnist David Brooks on the merits of our approach.