Word: absurder
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Romano posits that theoretically, MacKinnon would disagree with his assertion of innocence on the grounds that since he described her rape in print, he is actually guilty of rape itself. Romano argues it is in this absurd perversion of logic and the law that Only Words breaks down, because the real breathing MacKinnon does not believe that she was raped be Romano simply because he wrote about...
...absurd and obtuse it must seem, then, to look at books entitled "There's no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too!" Stanley Fish, the author of this book (published by Oxford!), and his fellow-travellers along the postmodern abyss do not really mean what they say, do they...
...bartenders in the Commonwealth and 18 is also the age when consensual sex becomes legal in this state. It is illogical to grant young people the right to judge and alter the sobriety of others when they cannot legally do the same for themselves, just as it is absurd to allow 18-year-olds to create new citizens when they can't celebrate the birth with even a sip of champagne...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to and E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," hopeless," nonsense" on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with out question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...