Word: opinionizing
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...While moral opposition to stem cell research is a valid opinion, California voters have shown that the great majority of the state’s residents support the research. Although stem cell research may not produce treatments for many years, the knowledge that we will undoubtedly learn from such a field would make the wait worthwhile. Scientific research is rarely a discipline where new developments occur quickly or easily. Stem cells are no exception, and we should expect many painstaking years of research. The ultimate results of this research, possible cures for diseases ranging from Parkinson?...
...directing that ties The Physicists is, in my humble though fairly informed opinion, peerless. The fluidity with which scenes develop, the liveliness and manifest enthusiasm which the actors display and the poise and confidence with which they engage each other, to say nothing of the production’s highly toned style, all testify to a directorial vision and ability like few others on campus. That, on an opening night, comic timing could be as precise as it was had been unthinkable for me prior to attendance. The extent to which I found myself drawn into the performance rivaled what...
...people really started to talk and to help,” Erlick said. “My investigation coincided with the 1996 peace accords, so it was really interesting to hear people talk. Everyone had something to say and it was really like a litmus test of public opinion...
...last word, it took some energy to wrap my brain around the fact that my work was being perceived as that word. And why wouldn’t it? I did, after all, claim a decisive stance on a controversial issue in a confident tone. I put my opinion out there and maybe I should have expected such a response...
Unfortunately, I can’t retroactively revise the parts of my columns that inadvertently misrepresented or offended. I can, however, use this little box to apologize for the unintended ill effects of a brusquely delivered strong opinion. Readers are not the only ones susceptible to the lures of rhetorical confidence...