What the data suggests is that instead of assigning a devil's advocate, you want to unearth the devil's advocate.
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" - Jenny, 25 "Always played devil's advocate. Cheapskate. Smelly.
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He is also the creator of party game Devil's Advocate.
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He's literally the devil's advocate (see what she did there?).
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ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Let me play devil's advocate for a second.
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Play devil's advocate or keep some of your thoughts to yourself.
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Let me do the Devil's Advocate portion of the podcast. Please.
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"I'm going to represent Joe, as a devil's advocate," Cosell said.
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It mattered not a whit whether the devil's advocate was right.
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I play the devil's advocate: What's not to like about a condo?
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I'm very focused on challenging, even if only to play devil's advocate.
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I'm playing devil's advocate here, but maybe the old people are right.
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Are there any devil's advocate douchebags who will try to debate them?
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Yet we can't change the past, the devil's advocate in us says.
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Devil's advocate here: Doesn't your resignation open up more positions for untrustworthy people?
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If getting tipsy and playing devil's advocate is your move, take up Shkreli's defense.
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"Playing devil's advocate with myself is very, very hard," Fallon says in Game Face.
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It ought to be televised, I've said, playing devil's advocate with true-believer friends.
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He's a sponsor," Colbert said, before launching into another segment called "The Devil's Advocate.
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But, to play devil's advocate, is it right to be so dismissive of diving?
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Consider including a few devil's-advocate types, or at least those with divergent tastes.
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And though Brokaw initially tried to present himself as a devil's advocate, he eventually apologized.
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It is a friend of "well, actually," and a distant cousin to the devil's advocate.
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" - Kerry, 33 "Let me play devil's advocate here..." - Sara, 33 "Actually. Actually. Actually. Actually. Actually. Actually.
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I must say, that in playing Devil's Advocate, I felt dumb saying these things out loud.
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"If it helps people and they like it, I will play the devil's advocate," he says.
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Sisk may well have misinterpreted Gorsuch's comments in a discussion of hypotheticals and "devil's advocate" arguments.
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Justices often play devil's advocate during oral arguments to get the best cases from both sides.
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" The writer said his "intention is always to play devil's advocate with a liberal audience's assumptions.
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He also makes it a practice to try to question both sides, even to play devil's advocate.
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There is the devil's advocate argument that a lot of this technology is democratizing access to listening.
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In fact, no hearing's attendees on either side of the room bothered to play at devil's advocate.
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The first thing is when you assign a devil's advocate, that person is just playing a role.
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Sands likes to play devil's advocate, Newlands said, to make sure big decisions have been fully considered.
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"Hey Google, play Devil's Advocate on Netflix on Chromecast," worked for me but not on every single try.
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You like to play Devil's advocate during debates and don't mind challenging others on their ideas and opinions.
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This episode tries to do some devil's advocate work, in part by playing the audio from Brendan's trial.
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"Sometimes the role of the estate planner is to play devil's advocate and push back," Mr. Behrendt said.
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You cannot be the devil's advocate about someone's dignity and someone's humanity because these are such personal things.
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Janis urges top leadership in any group to appoint a "devil's advocate" to beat back these social headwinds.
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They would recruit a devil's advocate, a jurist, to argue against the candidacy by fair means or foul.
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So, just to keep playing devil's advocate, you're sort of describing this as a Hiroshima and Nagasaki, right?
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When Howard brought up Polanski, I incorrectly played devil's advocate in the debate for the sake of being provocative.
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"Mirren has known the Hollywood actor ever since he starred in her husband's 1997 horror thriller "The Devil's Advocate.
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But on today's internet, the devil's advocate is less admired than ever, and it's often the advocate's own fault.
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Weapon: Words, hands, and the mind Mars in Gemini is often known for playing the role of devil's advocate.
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Bunche was an academic who liked to play devil's advocate, and he often disagreed with Dr. King's strategy and tactics.
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To play devil's advocate, 21 percent is significantly more than 15 percent, but it's also very far from 50 percent.
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President Obama voiced his opinion on Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem protest once again, but this time he played devil's advocate.
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But ever since seeing Theron's dark turn in The Devil's Advocate, Jenkins had known she wanted her for the role.
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To play devil's advocate, a vertical cut gives you a nice visual and a no-muss-no-fuss eating experience.
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Berenson, in his role as devil's advocate, emphasizes the research that sees cannabis as opening the door to opioid use.
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Something about a few of the clues brought out that "devil's advocate" in me that I see in the comments.
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But researchers are now developing systems that leapfrog chit-chat to the next frontier: They can argue and play devil's advocate.
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Q: Playing devil's advocate - maybe (walking away without a deal) sends a message about the EU rather than about the UK?
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"I will sit there on the air and play out every position and play devil's advocate," he said in his defense.
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Allow me to play devil's advocate — I want to run through some of the objections I've seen and hear your answers.
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The Commission had planned to establish a peer review panel, also known as a devil's advocate, in June, the people said.
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It's a reply guy who hides behind the devil's advocate to voice all his most obnoxious opinions without actually owning them.
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Or, she says, it may help to play "devil's advocate," and list all the best-case (or even OK-case) scenarios.
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I almost want people to play the devil's advocate in interviews, and bring some sort of contrarian view that I can debate.
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" The statement continues, "When Howard brought up Polanski, I incorrectly played devil's advocate in the debate for the sake of being provocative.
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But to play devil's advocate, this granular targeting is the idea that has made Facebook as powerful and successful as it is.
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Channing Dungey moved up the ranks at Warner to become a production executive on films like The Matrix and The Devil's Advocate.
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" He also explicitly acknowledges Geimer "WAS raped by Roman Polanski" ... adding he "incorrectly played devil's advocate for the sake of being provocative.
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It takes liberties with his story, makes him seem like an awful boyfriend, and at times plays devil's advocate to his politics.
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Bosworth has since clarified that he didn't believe what he was writing at the time, suggesting that he was playing devil's advocate.
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Douthat: My views align pretty closely with yours, David, so let me play devil's advocate (if you will) against our shared perspective.
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The firm considered selling part of its stake last year, reportedly convening an internal assessment called "Devil's Advocate" to help it decide.
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In several meetings in Newcastle, he avoided asking leading questions and frequently played devil's advocate to people seeking to blame the government.
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So the devil's advocate is pictured as a highhanded nerd popping up to play logic games in the face of pressing issues.
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Before she's even started, before anybody's even paying attention to ... I'm going to play devil's advocate on and off throughout this. Okay.
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IBM is developing technology meant to prompt critical thinking in humans, in the form of what Goldberg calls an AI-powered devil's advocate.
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Okay, to play devil's advocate, can we say definitively that Trump knew who he was dealing with or what he was getting into?
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I was trying to be devil's advocate because you weren't seeing someone's point, and now I feel like you're not seeing my point.
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A: Although, to play devil's advocate, if the act is the same—taking a t-shirt off—does the history or context matter?
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Without wanting to play the devil's advocate — or Sean Parker's — I'm not entirely sure that streaming is necessarily an existential threat to moviegoing.
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Don't say things like "there are two sides to every story!" or play devil's advocate when it comes to conversations about race. 68.
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Behind his pipe, he's a man who is quick to laugh but likes to play devil's advocate, all while maintaining a contemplative air.
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No matter how "fi" the "sci" is in "sci-fi," there will always be a devil's advocate ready and waiting with the facts.
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It's Always Sunny knows you're confused at this point, so it lets the show's resident jerk-in-charge Dennis (Howerton) play devil's advocate.
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LG: To play devil's advocate, there are some companies that aren't first to market, they come later, and they just do things really well.
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The ones who begin every racist observation with, "I'm not trying to be racist but" or the "I'm going to be devil's advocate" line.
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My friend, married, asked "as devil's advocate" whether they were simply compensating for the lack of romantic love and children with their social concern.
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To play devil's advocate, a common argument is that countries looted by the West don't have the museum facilities to properly house the objects.
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Saying, look, playing devil's advocate here, the idea that there's something wrong with making stuff that lots of people want to consume is bogus.
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The highest-rated film in the category is Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves' Devil's Advocate, a demon-lawyer thriller that garnered a whopping 2.5 stars.
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Let me play devil's advocate, on the understanding that I am defending the devilish -- just one of many epithets that Trump has used for Clinton.
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"Sometimes, I just push back on something they designed or created and play devil's advocate to see how they react to different opinions," she says.
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Jeremy brings up all kinds of questions that put the existence of rape culture into doubt, as any good devil's advocate is wont to do.
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He later defended his comments about Sandy Hook in an interview, saying that he was playing "devil's advocate" by covering "every position" on the topic.
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Not only should they choose a devil's advocate, they should make that person's promotions, awards or bonuses contingent on playing the antagonist's part with zeal.
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If you just say, "Hey Google, play Devil's Advocate on Netflix," the device will just remind you that it can't play Netflix movies on its display.
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On Twitter, he poses as a self-satisfied devil's advocate, crushing the Libs with logic, perpetually goading his most high-profile critics to publicly debate him.
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To be the devil's advocate for a second—surely, there must be something good about this couple-blogging, unicycle-riding, beard growing, vintage shop, austerity trend?
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Jake Roper, aka Vsauce3 on YouTube, is our devil's advocate this time around, with an extremely important research question: Would we survive Back to the Future?
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Scalia never played devil's advocate in the courtroom; he used his queries to make arguments to his colleagues, and, just as often, to the broader public.
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For our next national security adviser, let's hire a devil's advocate who speaks his or her own mind vociferously in private and shows tact in public.
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To play devil's advocate, folks who pay for a Wi-Fi hotspot on their smartphones can also "tether" and share the same connection as their phone.
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Early in this episode, Jamie goes from "It's not your fault, Brianna" to devil's advocate on a dime, so he can goad her into attacking him.
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To play devil's advocate for a second, however, what's the point of even putting out an album if you have to go around explaining it to people?
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One of these relatives routinely pushes back at any Trump-negative columns I write, and I've convinced myself that he's just baiting me and playing devil's advocate.
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The 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act requires NIEs to have vetted sources, highlight disagreements among agencies, and include a devil's-advocate assessment of the conclusions.
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I wanted to know what diversity actually means to Zennström, and — playing a little devil's advocate — if it is something early-stage startups should even care about.
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But let's play devil's advocate here: Does all this Trump chaos matter for the economy, or for the stock market (which isn't at all the same thing)?
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But what if I said, as devil's advocate, you are a leader … They elected me to do a particular job: to turn around the state of Maryland.
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In the great motion picture, "The Devil's Advocate," Al Pacino, brilliantly playing the Devil, concludes the film saying, with a smirk, that his favorite sin is vanity.
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However, when you consider Billie Lourd's wild dynamic with her brother in American Horror Story: Cult, you do start to get some siblings from The Devil's Advocate vibes.
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The agency has also furiously scrubbed references to climate change from its website, and encouraged the creation of a "red team" to play devil's advocate to established climate science.
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Learning the language of that desire is not a singular path, and, to play devil's advocate, French's images can rightfully populate some of them, be they trite or timeless.
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That complexity isn't easily captured in 24673 characters, and comments on even the most thoughtful Facebook post can be hijacked by one grandstanding person who wants to play devil's advocate.
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Gorsuch's theory, assuming he wasn't just playing devil's advocate, puts him on Arab Bank's side in the case, but it doesn't seem likely to persuade his colleagues to join him.
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So, to keep this whole thing as interesting as possible, I tried to play devil's advocate throughout our conversation, like a really shit Paxman or a really good Evan Davis.
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You want at least one person around the table who's going to be the devil's advocate, who's always going to make sure that you don't come to consensus too fast.
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But let me play devil's advocate, because one, how do you sense that, and two, like you said, people have been saying that about Trump for really a year now.
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"This sector has been on fire and to play devil's advocate I want to take a look at where the resistance can come in," Baruch told CNBC's "Trading Nation " on Thursday.
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Digital forensics and cyber security experts must be wary of their own complacency when drawing conclusions, and be sure to play the devil's advocate when presented with "typical" behavioral patterns and assumptions.
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" This spring, after the memo leaked to BuzzFeed , Bosworth said that he had been playing devil's advocate, and Zuckerberg issued a statement: "Boz is a talented leader who says many provocative things.
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To play devil's advocate, that could simply be there to establish his humanity, in order to make it all too clear that he is losing his mind by the end of the episode.
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I respect the show immensely for its willingness to play devil's advocate toward one of its main characters, and the episode displayed a level of awareness that the show has become famous for.
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The common devil's advocate argument is that Viagra has been FDA-approved to treat erectile dysfunction since the early 1990s, but treatment for female sexual dysfunction has been met with resistance and skepticism.
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The Taming of the Shrew's Kate, A Winter's Tale's Hermione, King Lear's Cordelia, and many others drop in on Keenan, chatting with her over oysters or playing devil's advocate in the back of cabs.
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" But even once they pay for visibility, a brand under pressure to remain engaging: "Playing devil's advocate for a second here: All the money in the world cannot transform shitty content into good content.
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Kagan said she often probed the lawyers from both sides in a "devil's advocate" style and would not want her comments to be misconstrued on TV as revealing her personal position in a dispute.
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The church often brings in the voices of skeptics such as Hitchens during the process to play devil's advocate and look for other causes for miracles, or find reasons that individuals should not be canonized.
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If the players in the First seem constantly to play Devil's advocate, questioning one another's musical statements, the Second invites them to collaborate on a blended palette of sounds and occasional passages of poignant wistfulness.
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A CIMON with proper emotional intelligence could detect when this might be occurring, and react by either providing an objective, neutral view — or even potentially taking on a contrarian or "Devil's advocate" perspective, Biniok says.
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So let's play Devil's Advocate and suggest that these extraordinary increases are limited to "food purchased away from home," to use the official jargon for meals purchased at fast-food joints, delis, cafes, microbreweries and restaurants.
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She sympathized with a poet who played the devil's advocate, saying some admiring things about a figure—"he-who-shall-not-be-named"—that now represents the ultimate taboo, the ultimate signifier of guilt and innocence.
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If I could play devil's advocate: If Facebook throws money at a news organization that allows them to employ a fact-checker that they wouldn't employ otherwise—it seems like there's some upside to that, no?
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Endless possibilities: the Wizards Unite map Still, as any Ravenclaw would, I threw a devil's advocate question at Niantic CEO John Hanke: Don't we already have an epidemic of people staring at smartphones while walking down streets?
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In warning against that approach, Mr. Biden essentially played devil's advocate to a united front of Robert M. Gates, the defense secretary; David H. Petraeus, then the commander of Central Command; and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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If you visited Noah's site on Friday, you'd have seen a lengthy, all-caps statement about why they chose to close, accompanied by a recording of an Al Pacino monologue from the 1997 film The Devil's Advocate.
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Although, to play devil's advocate, I could order a complete meal from Seamless for around $2375, which is how much one serving of my chicken dish cost from Whole Foods (not including staples like olive oil and salt).
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I don't think anyone would seriously suggest that Harbaugh is on the hot seat right now, but in making this list, I tried to play devil's advocate, and he had one of the strongest cases to move down.
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Right, but to play devil's advocate, or Michael Wolff's advocate, if the end result is a truthier picture of Donald Trump than one you've been able to get collectively from the Washington Post, the New York Times, etc.
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" He called the scrutiny "pathetic" and a "worn-out playbook of attacking my 25-year career as a political commentator -- which naturally meant asking rhetorical questions, challenging audiences, playing devil's advocate and seeing both sides of every issue.
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I don't play devil's advocate or dabble in empty skepticism when they tell me what has happened to them… unless said woman is Nicki Minaj, and the topic at hand is who she may or may not be dating.
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When you play devil's advocate—for instance, if you suggest that if everyone lived the way he does the economy would shrivel up—he can get riled, and you notice that he's sort of ripped, in a ropy way.
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"I mean I say some pretty wild stuff and a lot of it is satire but also I'm not trying to be — I'm not being fake about what I'm saying, but play the character like the devil's advocate," Jones says.
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" He called scrutiny of his past comments "pathetic" and a "worn-out playbook of attacking my 25-year career as a political commentator -- which naturally meant asking rhetorical questions, challenging audiences, playing devil's advocate and seeing both sides of every issue.
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JOE KERNEN: A lot of times I just -- you know what devil's advocate is, and with Myron, he just made it -- he was so dogmatic about never use tariffs, so I was kind of kidding around with him and pushing back.
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I tried to get some Conservative students to give a pro-Trump point of view for some balance, but most were shy to do so, which resulted in me playing Devil's Advocate to challenge how the rest of the class felt.
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His stand-up has long found creative ways to ridicule well-worn expressions ("I can't even begin to tell you; I'll begin to tell you," went one digression), and he delights in playing devil's advocate (see his remarkably persuasive case for Vanilla Ice).
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The commander-in-chief is under no obligation to heed counsel from any of his advisers, either in whole or in part, any more than the powers-that-be in the church hierarchy were obliged to accept recommendations from the devil's advocate.
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Well, just to play devil's advocate: If voters wanted to truly put an exclamation point on the award-season underperformance of "A Star Is Born," they could deprive Bradley Cooper's former front-runner of the only Oscar it is likely to take.
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If you'd allow me to stake a contrarian position here, to play the devil's advocate and position myself against the rather baffling consensus reached by the entire world, I'd like to posit that the Kit Kat is not the best chocolate bar one can buy.
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" WILKINS ON WHETHER IT WAS HARDER TO FIND CONSENSUS ON SOME POINTS: "I think every time the discussions involve a bit of debate, not because we're not having a consensus, but because we're kicking the tires, and so we like to play devil's advocate.
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There's nothing I like more than the chance to play Devil's advocate, My beat is moral virtue comma complete, total lack of it, I'll only call you "victim" if it's clear that you're a predator, I'm lucky to have landed with a sympathetic editor.
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He's worked in Hollywood for more than 210 years on more than 100 films, including working on The Prince of Tides with Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte, The Devil's Advocate with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino, and Just Cause with Sean Connery and Scarlett Johansson.
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The devil's advocate gimmick slowly pushed him up the card to a respectable midcard run, then a winning streak over established stars and pairing him with Roddy Piper as his mentor, as a means of transitioning after the fun but limiting gimmick he returned with.
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The FTC and DOJ staff at the meeting asked tough questions of the Facebook critics, one of the people said, indicating the officials may have been either skeptical of the claims against the company or were playing devil's advocate to test the strength of the arguments.
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RELATED: Florida's Senate race heads to a hand recount Sporting a bow tie over his black robes during marathon hearings on Wednesday and Thursday, Walker played devil's advocate with both sides of the courtroom, probing each argument with a mix of legalese, current events and humor.
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So revered is he, and so solid the reasons for that reverence, that one hesitates to attempt the role of devil's advocate, Luddite's friend, or grump, and yet, in one regard, "Ex Libris" disappoints, for it offers so little in the way of moral or political abrasion.
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The past month or so has seen the proliferation of a certain breed of op-ed, spawning forth with alarming rapidity to play devil's advocate for God: What if, writers in basically every major outlet have pondered, the Democratic party became more accepting of anti-abortion arguments?
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This part of the process is equal parts research and discussion, as officials work together to determine whether this person was truly holy (and, until 1983, one official would be assigned the role of the "Devil's advocate," whose duty was to question and argue against the candidate's case).
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Initially, I thought I'd report about the rapport between Jones and Kelly, covering his claims of "playing Devil's Advocate" and addressing Kelly's almost heartless request that the parent of a Sandy Hook victim share "a message" with Jones, keeping in mind the interview would air on Father's Day.
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The group — which included former CIA Director R. James Woolsey and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Edward Soyster — called itself "Team B II." The original Team B was a working group put together in the '70s as a kind of devil's advocate in the Gerald Ford administration.
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This is largely due to a philosophy that sees her change the type of role she pursues every few years — in the late '90s she was the stunning romantic interest of a number of leading men in films such as The Devil's Advocate, The Cider House Rules and Reindeer Games.
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Shiv convinces her brothers to help her take down Rhea (she still has to update them on her latest plan by episode's end), and it's fun to see the Roy kids rally together with a common enemy — except Connor (Alan Ruck), who likes Rhea, mostly just to play devil's advocate.
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"I regularly play this game where I try to play devil's advocate and try and figure out why Giuliani is not registered under FARA, and I regularly, when I play this game, cannot figure out why Giuliani is not registered under FARA," Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative for the Center for International Policy, told The New Republic.
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Kelly, during a discussion about the comments, said she was playing "devil's advocate" by bringing up first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE's past career as a model who occasionally posed nude.
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The dialogue always goes something like this: A person argues it shouldn't exist any longer, loosely citing a study or article they skimmed, then a devil's advocate jump in with a defense of why no, it's actually good, and did you know that it started in World War I to conserve fuel for electric power, and not because Benjamin Franklin alluded to it in the 1700s?
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"Although I often disagree with his objections, I think it is valuable to have a devil's advocate challenging class action settlements and fee awards because there is otherwise often no meaningful pushback on what class counsel and the defendants put before the court," said Brian T. Fitzpatrick, a law professor at Vanderbilt Law School and the author of "The Conservative Case for Class Actions," which will be published next year.
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Convinced or at least determined to pretend that the left is demonic—"If you can't see why children belong nowhere near drag," Ahmari tweeted in May, "we have nothing to say to each other"—the conservative movement looks entirely inward as it decides whether to blow up our framework of freedoms and liberties and has, in French, brought on as Devil's Advocate someone who shares most of their anxieties and supports most of their agenda.
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Friends of his at the time supposedly said that he just liked playing devil's advocate, but I find it intellectually odious, and thinking about the fact that he was the one who came up with the Three Laws of Robotics, and I was reading about slavery and worker's rights, those two things just immediately clicked together to inspire this story, which is about someone who was a person and is now a robot, and as a robot has to use some of the same tools as people who were once enslaved had to use in order to navigate their situations.
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