Word: argumentative
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...government’s argument that FAIR doesn’t have the right to challenge the Solomon Amendment without revealing the names of its members violates...the First Amendment protection of legal advocacy,” said Jonathan L. Hafetz, a New York-based attorney for the firm Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and Vecchione, which is representing Lambda and its fellow signatories...
...There was only one man in that room with the clout and reputation to recommend a measure this extreme. Zhong was delegated to call Governor Huang Huahua. The argument he could give was simple: the wild animal business in Guangdong was estimated to be worth anywhere from $100 million to $200 million a year; the economic impact of another SARS outbreak, however, was immeasurable. Zhong made that call on Sunday. He can be very persuasive: the order was given later that day to the Guangdong Health Department and the Guangdong Forestry Department, among other agencies, to launch a campaign...
...It’s not only more liberal but more conformist just because there is a great majority on one side,” he said. “And that majority doesn’t seek to confirm its view by argument...but rather enjoys it. It’s like a person hugging himself...
...scents of the Tropics. Unsparing in his portrayal of the violence of the era, Vatikiotis is admirably evenhanded in his attempts to elucidate the social forces that underlay it. For the most part, The Spice Garden avoids the usual plague of the journalistic novel of crudely putting exposition and argument in the mouths of its characters. The friendship between Father Xavier and Ghani is well rendered and has the ring of truth. Vatikiotis' writing style is polished and evocative, despite occasional patches of purple that could have been pruned. The novel's Romeo-and-Juliet subplot is sugary and painfully...
...struck me as robotoid, threw cold water on my desires even when every voyeuristic impulse was begging to be satisfied. And putting cotton tails and bunny ears on Playboy Club hostesses made them no more alluring than Bugs Bunny in drag. But just as surely, the feminists? very sensible argument flies in the face of biology and culture. ?Men look at women,? John Berger famously wrote. ?Women watch themselves being looked at.? I believe he also said that the camera is a man looking at a woman. And for better or worse, for 50 years, Playboy has been that camera...