There is no precedent for these delaying and obfuscatory tactics.
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Was Lisa Vanderpump manipulative and obfuscatory and impossible to pin down?
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And there's still a ton of poetry out there that's obfuscatory and worse.
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Gone are the punitively high surcharges and obfuscatory booking systems designed to trick customers.
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Cannabis businesses establish shell holding companies comprised of multiple subsidiaries with obfuscatory names, Zarrad told Motherboard.
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Borrowing the obfuscatory tactics of white supremacists, they masked their beliefs in high-flown words like reason, science, rationality, facts, and logic.
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After two days in Rationality House, I was feeling strung out, overwhelmed by the relentless interaction and confounded by the workshop's obfuscatory jargon.
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Each of these claims is narrowly true, but completely obfuscatory—and not just because impeachment is a political process, rather than a legal one.
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On the contrary, this new report very closely tracks the obfuscatory line used by Comey during his end-run around the DOJ to exonerate Clinton.
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As happens too often with architecture exhibitions, however, this show relies on an obfuscatory exhibition design, rather than in-depth research, for its primary impact.
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This is the absolute height of obfuscatory Silicon Valley bullshit: The law doesn't apply to us because something something platform something something marketplace something something apps.
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Cutting taxes for the rich has become unpopular, so Republicans have begun to adopt a range of obfuscatory strategies to deny that this is what they are doing.
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We check in with all four throughout the hour, and just when I was starting to lose patience with one obfuscatory storyline, the episode would switch over to another one.
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Seldom, if ever, is the point made that key Japanese officials effectively have denied their predecessors' landmark apologies with inflammatory acts as well as obfuscatory and revisionist statements of their own.
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In The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of the editorial page, writes that the Democrats have been co-opted by a professional cabal of people committing obfuscatory "agitprop" against their opponents.
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The result is a performance of freestyle bullshit in which Smith, who has transparently not studied for this test, buys himself time through sighs and scowls and, in a nicely Trumpian flourish, obfuscatory emphasis.
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Corbyn's response to Maduro's repression has been to voice his condemnation of "the violence that's been done by any side, by all sides" — a piece of obfuscatory equivalence worthy of Donald Trump's Charlottesville remark.
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The opacity of the central woman's identity, though, feels obfuscatory rather than interestingly mysterious, and much of the male-female partnering is dominated by upside-down swirling lifts that are at first breathtaking, later oddly routine.
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She referred to it as an "officer-involved shooting," a bit of obfuscatory cop-speak that is endemic in TV news despite the supposed mission of "news" being to inform its audience as to what happened, instead of forcing viewers to guess.
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Evidence suggests the Saviors are plenty bad, on balance, but the "We're all Negan" trope, in addition to being a trippy and strategically obfuscatory thing to tell an enemy, also implies a sort of cleareyed ownership of whatever ghastly acts the real Negan is doing in their name.
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From the obfuscatory slow-rolling of the injury to the retrospectively bizarre decision not to give him a MRI test after the mysterious debilitating arm pain—Syndergaard didn't want one, the team didn't insist—to the ambient pettiness and high-handed passive-aggressive weirdness around it, everything the Mets did and, more saliently, did not do, conspired to draw out the situation and make it worse.
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Roland Barthes. Arcimboldo. p. 335 > Arcimboldo speaks double language, at the same time obvious and obfuscatory; > he creates "mumbling" and "gibberish", but these inventions remain quite > rational. Generally, the only whim (bizarrerie) which isn't afforded by > Arcimboldo – he doesn't create language absolutely unclear … his art not > madly.Roland Barthes. Arcimboldo. p. 338 Arcimboldo's classification as mannerist also belongs to the 20th century.
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The novels are populated with an array of acquaintances, colleagues, criminals, and the occasional walk-on, which together present a spectrum of the Italian national character. The author often uses minor characters to demonstrate the Italian penchant for labyrinthine and sometimes obfuscatory dialogue. Having grown up under Fascism and having lost a brother in the partisan war of 1943-45, Piero Trotti is cynical yet dourly optimistic. By the fifth novel this optimism is in scant evidence.
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1–5, p. 21,40. In 1972, Moore, Krause and Moore's visiting American friend, singer-songwriter Peter Blegvad formed Slapp Happy, a self-described "naive rock" group which mixed simple pop structures with obfuscatory lyrics drawing equally from semiotic and symbolist traditions. Slapp Happy was the beginning of Krause's international musical career. They recorded two albums in Germany for Polydor with Faust as their backing band, Sort Of (1972) and what subsequently became known as Acnalbasac Noom (not released at the time).
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Jonah Lehrer makes a speech to the Knight Foundation after admitting that his book Imagine was based on fabricated quotes. Lehrer's speech was livestreamed over the internet and discussed on Twitter so that both Lehrer and the audience could see in real time the (often harshly critical) reaction to the speech, which was perceived as obfuscatory. His first subject is Jonah Lehrer, disgraced popular science journalist for The New Yorker and author of the book Imagine: How Creativity Works. Ronson also interviews the journalist who exposed Lehrer's plagiarism and misuse of quotes—Michael C. Moynihan.
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The elimination of the income tax was actually championed by Randolph, who persuaded his fellow legislators to pass the bill after mounting an initiative to force a public vote should the legislature not act. A 1980 episode of the public television program Alaska Review (currently held in the collections of the Alaska Film Archives) prominently featured an edited "debate" between Hammond and Randolph on the subject, centered on the fact that Alaska faced a one- billion-dollar budget surplus that year. As governor, Hammond advocated for fiscal responsibility, and introduced an amendment to the Alaska Constitution limiting state spending. This was mocked by one legislator as "Spendy Limitation," with an accompanying elegant and obfuscatory statement mimicking Hammond's unique way with the English language.
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Her thesis is that 'all value is radically contingent, being neither a fixed attribute, an inherent quality, or an objective property of things but, rather, an effect of multiple continuously changing, and continuously interacting variables'—that is, value is the 'product of the dynamics of a system, specifically an economic system.'" Steele went on to zero in on this flaw in Smith's argument: "If she adopts the therapeutic goal of Wittgenstein and Rorty that seeks to rid us of obfuscatory vocabularies, she offers no justification for her vocabulary, no metatheoretical argument against competing nonfoundationalist problematics. Such a gap would not be a serious problem if the book were not so contentiously aimed at exposing others' views." Martin Mueller, reviewing the book in Salmagundi, pointed to what he found as a weakness in her account of value: "There may be practical virtue in the amiable hypocrisy of a conceptual style that never asserts the ultimate principles by which it is guided.
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