Word: logical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...idea of parental notification has a logic to it in communities where high school girls cannot receive aspirin from a school nurse without a parent's approval. But again, abortion rights advocates argue that a girl who does not want to tell her parents she is pregnant may have profound reasons for her silence, and no new law is likely to overcome that immediate fear...
Such is the logic of alternative rock. It goes something like this: A really cool "alternative" band is somehow presumptuous enough to sign a record contract with a major label. Now everyone can buy their tapes. They get some radio play. They make a video. They tour. Bingo. "Mainstream. "Sellout. Q.E.D...
...piano so she doesn't drown out George's violin," says Richard Nixon. "Hillary pounds the piano so hard that Bill can't be heard. You want a wife who's intelligent, but not too intelligent." For Roger Ailes, who directed the Bush media effort four years ago, the logic is simple: "You couple them and go for a score on family values. You say that Bill and Hillary believe that children should have the right to sue their parents. I don't know if Bill believes that, but Hillary does, so you just assume. They themselves say they...
UFAIR? Faulty reasoning? Tarring a perfectly legitimate candidate with the same brush as a blatantly racist hate-monger? yes. Anyone who finds such reasoning sound needs to take a basic logic course. No one with working neurons can say that just because a bigot like duke espouses a position, all who hold that position are racists...
...question that we instinctively shrink from. And our incapacity to account for the power that undeniable resides in this music leaves room for cynicism and the logic of the market. Mozart the man is today an inscrutable phenomenon and, as such, we have no reason to assume a priori that his music is good, that his long-dismissed serious operas deserve another look...