Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take a recent description of an aspect of Hegel's philosophy that I read. What the author meant to say in the sentence was that Hegel believed that self-consciousness lay at the core of mankind's production of artwork. Instead he produced a sentence with many "qua's" scattered throughout. He even added a German passage in the middle of the sentence without feeling any particular need to translate...
...emphasize the clever stylization of the piece simply because I realize that the more creative journalist must regularly hear complaints from some one or other offended faction screaming, "It's not true!" To such denials Mr. Morris might rightly respond, "It's not meant to be perfectly true, only pointed in its essence toward a truth. That is, I am employing the device of hyperbole in order to engage the reader in a daringly venomous attack against the materialism of Dade County." This attack, unfortunately, amounts only to wasted space on your op-ed page, for, both in its reasoning...
...support of one's associates in trouble. The judges trying the insider trading cases on Wall Street are deluged with letters describing "pillars of the community," "major benefactors to innumerable worthy cause" etc. They've heard it all before. Such loyal support does not and should never be meant to excuse criminal behavior...
...would not succumb to the unending, unfair, anti-Israel journalism of the past six weeks. To begin to understand the Israeli position, all we have to do is imagine what it must be like for an 18-year-old soldier to be surrounded by scores of Palestinians, throwing rocks meant to kill. It is very hard for me to understand why Moses feels "shame and guilt," rather than sadness about the situation in the West Bank and Gaza. I too feel "nauseous" when watching the news on television, not because of Israel's "immorality," however, but because of the injustice...
...Russians are coming. That was the word from Moscow last week as the Soviet Union confirmed that it will send some 520 athletes to the Seoul Summer Olympics in September. The announcement meant that U.S. and Soviet athletes will meet in Summer Olympic competition for the first time since 1976. Two nations that will not be there, though, are North Korea, which pulled out of the Games after its demand to be host for half the events was denied, and Cuba...