Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desired effect. But some demonstrate what happens when he overuses his stylistic devices. Will, more than any other writer, quotes from other sources, and his reading list goes from government document to Jane Austen. But he often pedantingly falls victim to the temptation to quote, it seems, for the sake of quoting...
Perhaps the most intriguing point raised by Will's book is not its specific contents or arguments--for Will himself relishes political argument for the sake of argument, not necessarily for its substance--but the phenomena the book highlights. While most columnists are content to rehash news events, adding a tinge of opinion called "analysis," or to provide simple textbook explanation. Will adds class to the profession, with his own pursuit of journalistic virtue
...argument's sake we limit this discussion to Harvard, it's clear that these generalizations have some basis in fact. But they are also the result of adults--and particularly mainstream journalists--scrounging for definite, sweeping trends where there is actually a complex mixture of conflicting opinions and actions...
...exerted a subtle, intrusive pressure on Dutch, French and English painters well into the 19th century. The idea that landscape did not have to be "moralized" as allegory or treated merely as a background to royal portraits or Crucifixions-that it could be seen and loved for its own sake, as the repository of unburnished natural truth-was widely confirmed by Ruisdael's work...
...vital interest in Central America's future. That interest will ultimately depend on forming a genuine partnership with the region. Says Fernando Volio, who will be Costa Rica's next foreign minister: é "We don't want to be involved in the global confrontation just for the sake of the superpowers. We want the U.S. to be involved for our sake as well, and we want to sense and see that clearly." By getting more involved with the Central American countries for their sakes, the U.S. will help its own cause in the long run. ?By Thomas A. Sancton...