Word: argumentatively
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...cheapness argument is hard to buy, though, since so many iPhone apps are free. Perhaps there just aren't any Festivus-observing developers yet. That would be odd, since Salkin noted that a Grievances application is available to Festivus observers on Facebook, where a number of member groups exist for celebrants. "I don't know how active it is, though," he said. He did have one suggestion for anyone who craved Festivus for their iPhone: You can buy the audio version of his book on the iTunes Music Store...
...just flip-flopped on the topic? It was more complicated. Imagine if all our public discourse was conducted in the language of legal combat. His was. Learned argument did not aim to represent an opponent's position fairly, but to make it look as ridiculous as possible. Part of his rhetoric regarding Jews reflected this. Also, Christians using harsh language against Jews were often actually aiming at Christian opponents, whom they painted as darkly as possible by comparing them to hostile caricatures of Jews...
...chair exclusively devoted to food?’ There was a great division in the room.”Sokolov compares the birth of food studies to the emergence of Women and Gender Studies and Black Studies as legitimate disciplines. “As I recall it, a parallel argument was made for Black Studies,” he says. “Whereas it was true that there had been distinguished work done in Black Studies, without having a real structure, it wasn’t being given a fair crack. People weren’t really thinking about...
...this factor—now associated with our concept of “youth culture”—that Garber emphasizes, pointing to film, modern theater (specifically, “West Side Story”), music, cartoons, and even commercials. At the end of her argument, we cannot deny that as much as we have been influenced by this play, we have influenced how it is presently read. The thorough analysis of Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” in the context of the influences of “Hamlet?...
...front of about sixty men and women last night to accompany the white ribbon campaign. Among them, in jacket and tie, were over a dozen members of the Phoenix final club. “Those of you who have done work with male violence know the nature versus nurture argument comes up all the time. But it’s always brought up to end debate,” said Gordon W. Braxton, a prevention specialist in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. “Today we want to use it as a conversation starter...