Saying something hard, ugly or forbidden to name in a soft, indirect or disguised way.
In The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Well then, brother Gerasim? said Pyotr Ivanovich, just to say something. Pity? It is God's will. We will all end up there.
"We will all end up there" avoids the verb to die. Gerasim points to death with "there," as a place everyone goes, and the delicacy of the detour makes the truth clearer, not less clear.