Word: argument
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...face, we must look for metaphors. For example: losing the one person you loved surely would turn your world inside out, and make the outside one suddenly threatening rather than welcoming. Is Erica's revenge scenario a fever dream of bereavement - a post-death wish? Is it a theoretical argument that the sensible side of Erica is having with her angry side? "You look at the person you once were, walking down that street," she says on the radio, "and you wonder: Will you ever be her again?" The question is at the heart of a paradoxical movie that tries...
...better: with a little legwork, she tracks down her husband's killers. Whether or not Erica wants revenge, the genre does, and the movie must oblige, in a climax that fatally ups the implausibility quotient. The movie finally buys the old right-wing argument that a conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged...
...education at the time would have been enough for Will to write his plays. And, if you emphasize - as Stratfordians do - that most of Shakespeare's plays were adapted from older works, what he lacked in experience he could have made up for in imagination. "The problem is that argument presupposes that plays from the period consisted of this hidden autobiography," says leading Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "That's a modern image of the writer as someone who puts his own experiences into his plays, a very romantic idea of writing. But it's just not how plays were written...
...professors who came under fire last year for arguing that a pro-Israel lobby distorts U.S. foreign policy have returned with a book, this time toning down parts of their argument and offering rebuttals to critics of their controversial claims...
...while back, editor Jacob Weisberg called Joseph Smith, Mormonism's founder, an "obvious con man" and wrote, "Romney has every right to believe in con men, but I want to know if he does, and if so, I don't want him running the country." Thus a third argument that religion can't be a private affair for a presidential candidate: what a person deeply believes says something about his or her character, which voters may wish to take into account. Deeply religious people may find a candidate's ability to make that "leap of faith" admirable or even essential...