Word: argumentive
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...nature and the natural world. Comparisons between natural events and human actions pervade the collection, as in “The Damned,” when Phillips compares the sudden flight of birds from burning brush to “shame when, from the wrong end / of a foundering argument, it at last lets go.” Of a white egret walking in the white foam of the sea, in “Gold on Parchment,” Phillips observes that “invisibility seemed a thing worth / envying”. At other times, the beauty...
...Students and adults grab onto rumor in the hopes of establishing a palatable truth.In one of the better sequences of the novels, Mary’s classroom writing is published against her will in the local newspaper. Recent events mold Mary’s unexceptional words into a pointed argument about parental abuse. Nonfiction—the book, in this moment, suggests—holds no more fact than fiction, especially when in the hands of someone with something to prove. As appearance takes precedence over reality, Mary’s well-being goes unnoticed in the flood of accusations...
...said that the acting Dean was unaware of the impending cafe closure and criticized the lack of transparency in the decision making process regarding layoffs. Student activists have recently disputed the notion that the University’s core mission revolves around its educational mission—a central argument behind the administration’s justification for staff layoffs. Laura M. Binger, a third year law student who said Jackson made that claim during the recent meeting with labor activists, expressed her concern over what she views as a distortion of Harvard’s mission. Recent weeks have...
...highest court, where he would leave behind a record in which liberals and conservatives could both find encouraging signs. He was a strong supporter of environmental and consumer protections. But in criminal cases he tended to favor the prosecution. And in a 1986 dissent he adopted the "strict constructionist" argument that a court's job was to determine how constitutional language was understood by the framers who proposed it. When it came time for Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first part of Bush's gamble paid off - there was no bruising confirmation fight...
...trader never supplements that intuition by asking her spiritual guide for market advice. "There's an ethic," she says. But with financial institutions the world over suffering the consequences of their collective lack of prescience, mightn't there be an argument for using every possible method to gain foreknowledge...