Word: methodizing
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There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of an overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that is was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point form which to start. His is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...Schreck, the actor who played the Dracula-like Count Orlock in the 1922 classic Nosferatu, really was a vampire. John Malkovich parades in fine, fey style as German director F.W. Murnau, and Dafoe, unrecognizable in Schreck's rodentoid pallor, is a hoot and a horror as the ultimate Method actor...
...judges who picked the side of the case they personally preferred and then stretched the Constitution or ran roughshod over state-court decisions in order to make the outcome fit their preference. But I was apparently mistaken, since the conservative, antiactivist majority on the Supreme Court employed precisely that method to decide the Florida voting case that made Bush President. (Extrapolating from some surveys I've done, I calculate that there are now approximately 23 people in the U.S. who genuinely believe the Justices would have made the same decision had it been Al Gore who held a slim lead...
...Trying to smoke a carry-on bag b) Prominent Born to Bong tattoo c) Unusually large and lumpy butt d) Request for a middle seat between David Crosby and Method...
...Number of American high school teachers surveyed in 1988 who said the only method of birth control they promoted to students was abstinence...