Word: argumentive
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...That's what has angered gay rights advocates, and overshadowed Mohler's concession that homosexuals may be born that way. "What is wrong with Mohler's argument is that it implies that there is something wrong with being gay," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "I would welcome the fact that they are beginning to concede that homosexuality is not a chosen lifestyle. But it is hard for me to believe that anyone that would then conclude that our next step ought to be to get about the business of changing everybody is really offering any sort...
...antiviolence Zeitgeist that 24 has become not only a poster show for gore but also a bête noire of Iraq-war opponents, who say that it rationalizes state brutality. They seized on a New Yorker article in which Army officers complained that West Point students cited 24 as an argument for torture. (G.O.P. Senator John McCain, a 24 fan, has made the same criticism...
This inflated and meaningless statement is devoid of argument and substance; it is meant to do only this—excite fear, and impugn the patriotic resolve of his opponents. He invokes “the terroristsâ€â€”perhaps the sectarian militia at war with one another, each jockeying to occupy the power vacuum that we created—to make you think that this war has anything to do with the War on Terror. He invokes “nerve†and “a stand-up fight†to remind...
...thesis, but unfortunately, the book lacks potency and persuasive appeal.In contrast to the stringent maxims of Mao’s “Little Red Book,†much of Gao’s rhetoric is lofty and abstract. Despite the clarity of his prose, his argument, detached from all concrete reasoning, reads like a parade of non sequiturs.In the first of the essays, “Preface to ‘Without Isms,’†Gao attempts to argue for writing “without isms,†by which he ostensibly means...
...declare Democratic hopeful John Edwards a "faggot." The condemnation that followed, in which at least seven newspapers banished her column from their opinion pages, became a ragged coda for the state of a movement that had once been justly proud of its ability to win an argument...