It is very easy to get cut off from ground reality in the face of rampant sophistry and soft-soaping in the corridors. |
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What will not work is to try to resolve the matter by using weasel words and sophistry to escape from a moral obligation. |
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The property was derelict, and the cows, mostly rejects from other herds, were no respecters of finely-nuanced sophistry. |
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Gone is sophistry, the elegance of understatement, the joy of imagining the concealed, regaling in the revealed. |
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But Keynes smoothed over the harsh Marxist anti-individualism with artful sophistry and clever rhetoric into something salable to Americans. |
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What's more, the obvious mendacity of the statement renders the argument faulty and therefore a clear case of sophistry. |
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Understanding this merely requires a grand exercise in Orwellian doublethink, Greek sophistry and a uniquely Lawloresque take on the world. |
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No sophistry and no syllogisms can conjure away this inevitable consequence of inflation. |
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This fact of currency union renders all the sophistry of the Chancellor's five tests otiose. |
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Back in the world of politics, the Labour opposition and Conservative-led government have been drawing deep on their reserves of sophistry. |
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Nor is it pure sophistry to think of these genes as part of an extended human genome. |
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The member's question was illogical when he first asked it in the House and it continues to be an ill-constructed sophistry. |
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Of course, this may seem like sophistry, but it is an understanding that comes from those who have seen deeply into the nature of existence. |
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It is also not a matter of dialogue as sophistry, in the tradition of modern humanism. |
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Dialogue as the firm core of religious existence is neither indoctrination nor sophistry. |
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It has no room for sophistry or self-justification, or for what you can get away with without getting caught. |
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Only the true word is a strong and liberating word, while the strong word can degenerate into ideology, into sophistry, into absolute power. |
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And, it does so without engaging in sophistry, for the true horror writer is consumed by a cacoethes to engage his moral imagination, to reveal a sliver of the transcendent. |
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No ingenious sophistry can overthrow this fact of experience. |
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By contrast, when we turn to Gongsun Long, we encounter a disputer who may have been devoted to sophistry purely for sophistry's sake. |
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At moments during this hourlong dialogue, contentiousness morphed into a place where low comedy meets sophistry. |
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Bolster your side by appealing to the peanut gallery, apply sophistry to appeal to the unwashed masses passing by. |
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But this will not happen with micropolitical and opportunist sophistry or with endless pirouetting, which favour neither the Union nor Turkey. |
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Against Mr. Voysey's slick defensive sophistry, the play pits Edward's clear-eyed staunchness. |
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What we have is a perfect tautology, a talented bit of sophistry by the advocates of the legislation. |
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It means innocence, both in the sense of being free from guilt, and of a lack of sophistry. |
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Happiness, they say, may be the absence of misery. This is the kind of sophistry that is served up to us here today. |
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Unfortunately, this same sophistry continues to feed public policy debate even today! |
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The substitution of an effect for a cause is an old technique and trick of classical sophistry. |
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That some scientists confuse the unprovable with the nonexistent does not justify the deliberate attempt of IDists to substitute sophistry for science in our public schools. |
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Badiou insists that philosophy is the discipline concerned with truth, and that any effort to detract philosophy from this concern is tantamount to sophistry. |
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One of the arguments for intervention arising from the Syria strikes relies on a bit of sophistry. |
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Until that day, the general defends himself with sophistry. |
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Just today, we saw the Minister of the Environment use sophistry to postpone answering the very simple question put to him: Does he intend to ratify the Kyoto accord, yes or no, and when? |
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Further, we see Falstaffian sophistry, a kind of verbal histrionicism, borrowed and perfected by Prince Hal. |
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Since the Liberals already used this ridiculous argument, the Conservatives should have at least found another kind of sophistry to explain their opposition. |
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But several of those campaigning for president cut short this sophistry. |
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Later philosophers in the sixteenth century were less complimentary about his work and accused him of sophistry. |
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Many of the debating gambits condemned by ancient logicians as sophistry depend on shifting the discussion away from the issues and onto personalities. |
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Blake opposed the sophistry of theological thought that excuses pain, admits evil and apologises for injustice. |
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That Article is not there to allow clever sophistry, like the question once posed in an Oxford University admission interview, which asked: 'Is this a proper question? |
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This argument conceals a bitter sophistry. |
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No amount of rouge will ever camouflage rhetoric and sophistry. |
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Attuned to contradiction and multeity, he could blend youthful insouciance with Blougram's mature sophistry. |
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Indeed, he has responded with sophistry to a legal and legitimate request by our country, by our Republic, for the extradition to Venezuela of Mr. Posada Carriles for trial by our authorities. |
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The actress began her career when she was eight years old in an off-Broadway production of Sophistry. |
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