Word: argumentative
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...that sense, a unified document in music—not just another case of “slap on another voice to old tracks.” Then again, it was promoted/sold heavily at Starbucks, so I’ll buy into your anti-commercial argument. But for both Charles wins, this isn’t a case of “bad” awardsmanship as much as horrible nominations. I mean, Los Lonely Boys “Heaven” and Usher’s “Yeah!” may have their individual merits...
...case of Allston expansion, which, even now, is in its very early stages and subject to excruciating amounts of criticism for the number of actual decisions that have been made. He is perceived to be arrogant when he might simply be on the trail of a good argument. It’s that problem with the back of his shirt again—it’s not necessarily about what he does, but how mean-looking a grimace and how lackluster a handshake he gives when he does it, that angers professors...
Appiah’s father was a Ghanaian independence leader; his mother, Peggy Cripps, was the daughter of a British knight. Of his own many identities—a U.S. citizen, an African-American, a gay man—Appiah refuses to prioritize any one in particular. Echoing his argument in “The Ethics of Identity,” Appiah told me he believes no identity should be “determinative of absolutely every choice” one has to make...
...Posner’s credit, Catastrophe does anticipate Gabrielse’s counter-argument. Posner writes that “a cosmic ray hitting a fixed target such as the moon will tend to scatter the nuclei that it hits, making it less likely that they will clump”—and thus produce strange matter—“than if the collision were head on,” as it would be inside RHIC. So, the fact that the moon has existed for 4.5 billion years without condensing into a tiny ball does not necessarily...
Princeton philosopher Peter Singer argued in a recent New York Times review that Posner’s argument on this point is “bizarre.” But upon closer examination, it seems rather intuitive...