Why is it, that when something is condemned, rejected or expressed “in the strongest possible terms” you never hear any terms that could be labeled as “strongest possible”? If I were to reject something “in the strongest possible terms”, I would, at the very least, add the word “crapdammit” to indicate my level of my disagreement.
It seems to me that “in the strongest possible terms” just another hollowed out phrase, a mere adjective rendered meaningless by it’s use in political blahblah.