And there they function to make some kinds of ideas seem self-evidently "realist," hard-nosed and rational, and others patently inadmissible, self-evidently inappropriate.
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Connecticut, as if doing so self-evidently renders the opinion absurd.
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Poptimism says that pop music is not objectively, self-evidently worthless.
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Everything you're saying is so self-evidently true that it borders on the obvious.
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He's self-evidently a thin-skinned racist buffoon who's high on his own farts.
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Self-evidently, the design they propose requires both fuel and oxidant to be solid.
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And it was a good idea, because he made it so self-evidently correct.
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We tend to assume that our ways of showing caring are self-evidently right.
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It's self-evidently absurd, and of course Mexico isn't going to pay for it.
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" Scalia explained that the "Appointments Clause is, intentionally and self-evidently, a limitation on Congress.
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In the minds of city-dwellers and green voters, this is self-evidently a good thing.
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Nor was 1989, that giddy moment for the liberal democratic idea, deemed self-evidently all conquering.
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"If you look at their propaganda this is a very self-evidently determined policy," he said.
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This is so self-evidently horrible that few Republicans have been willing to defend it out loud.
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For Mr. Scocca, that level is self-evidently somewhere around one billion dollars; beyond that, you're irredeemable.
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This is self-evidently traumatic for the body politic, harming our capacity for empathy and reason and decency.
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The adage that the documentarian's camera affects the events it records has never been more self-evidently true.
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But Judge has spent much of his time as a satirist focusing on less self-evidently stupid targets.
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It used to feel like they were denying citizens the right to see what was self-evidently there.
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The Apple Watch is self-evidently a piece of technology, but its soft, pebbly shape is friendly and universal.
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"Cultural appropriation" was also a hot topic, self-evidently insulting to some, robustly defended as cultural exchange by others.
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The sum result is a document that falls self-evidently short of proving its heavy and heavily-touted thesis.
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If CORVIDS cannot come up with a valid set of data for a result, that result is self-evidently fishy.
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Ms. Lam's position is "self-evidently untrue and absurd," Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, commented recently.
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It seemed like something that was in NME's wheelhouse, but also they were self-evidently fantastic straight from the get go.
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Bijan Stephen, culture reporter: Look, this is a self-evidently bad idea, but that doesn't mean the result can't be good.
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So the claim that the Kremlin would at least try to get a Trump sex tape didn't seem self-evidently absurd.
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But when you release terabytes of data indiscriminately, I don't know what to call that, but it's not self-evidently journalism.
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Trump's tariff justifications have often been self-evidently absurd — seriously, who imagines that imports of Canadian steel threaten U.S. national security?
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Unlike the linguist—and new atheist—Steven Pinker, Gray regards the idea that the world is getting better as self-evidently silly.
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This may seem like a self-evidently absurd question: College athletes already are being paid in the form of scholarships and stipends.
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That talking point was self-evidently absurd for anyone operating with a basic understanding of the timeline that culminated in Trump's impeachment.
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Quarterback is the sport's most important position, and Kaepernick is self-evidently a better player than several QBs currently on N.F.L. rosters.
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The triumphalism of Islamic State's media certainly grates on the Western viewer, but what exactly makes their execution videos so self-evidently unshowable?
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In other words, we would know basically nothing about it, since the tale is self-evidently not a historical account but a parable.
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Some are self-evidently dangerous, such as the belief that Africans can't get infected, or that it is no more deadly than flu.
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On The Magicians, Alice and Julia are so self-evidently better suited to heroism than Quentin is that even he can see it.
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These bans are self-evidently designed to deter the worst behaviors that often accompany large groups of unsupervised men on the cusp of adulthood.
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And why has Kickstarter slapped its "Project We Love" sticker on what is self-evidently a solution to a problem literally no one has?
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Trump has not called for discriminating against hot air balloon enthusiasts or a war on exploding nightwear, because that would be self-evidently ridiculous.
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Second, and perhaps more fundamentally, liberals tend to view themselves as self-evidently standing for the rights and interests of "the people" against the elites.
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But he has said it would be "self evidently ridiculous" if the agency received more in blockbuster funding than in core funding in a year.
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But, self-evidently, there is no reason for a candidate to drop out so early if he thinks he could ultimately prevail in subsequent ballots.
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This is another small film, made on a self-evidently low budget, that has a big imagination and is bedeviled by tough, urgent political questions.
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To critics, this kind of corrupt behavior seems to self-evidently invalidate Trump's promises to drain the swamp in Washington and serve as the people's champion.
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Her early work used the voice of a blinkered, entitled party girl who often said dumb and offensive things, many of which were self-evidently false.
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The good news for Rubio is that it doesn't seem self-evidently clear whether any one of Christie, Kasich, or Bush will benefit from the debate.
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Taking Red at her word means believing in an idea that seems self-evidently kooky, but it's also an idea that drives much of modern society.
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Behold Salon's Amanda Marcotte: It is self-evidently anti-feminist to pretend that Clinton criticism is only produced by a "testosterone left" or victims of internalized misogyny.
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That is not surprising, since the single currency is anchored on shared promises of fiscal restraint made in 1992, when such prudence was considered self-evidently good.
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I believe that a life before birth is self-evidently a life and does not become one only after a woman chooses to call it her child.
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It still presupposes there are only two fundamental worldviews, left and right, and that people's preferences and temperaments will align, neatly and self-evidently, somewhere between them.
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Rockism held that rock and its grittiness were self-evidently superior to the slick artifice of pop, and it continues to hold sway at institutions like the Grammys.
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But by labeling Mitt Romney -- a self-evidently decent and rather moderate man -- as a wicked rich guy, Obama's campaign contributed to the oratorical weaponization of US politics.
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The two versions of this image are like before-and-after views of the Garden of Eden, one lush, one arid, but both self-evidently pigment on paper.
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"I am obviously very disappointed with this latest development, but self-evidently I hope this is not the last word," Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told reporters in Canberra.
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The idea of poptimism is not to invert the values system of rockism, to say that pop is self-evidently superior to rock and carries more artistic value.
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And that, obviously, is what was done with it: The shot was circulated, chuckled over, goofed on and treated — as so much is online — as self-evidently farcical.
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To love is to desire the good of the other, and for newly conceived children, it is self-evidently good to have a chance at a full life.
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He specializes in crowd work and self-evidently absurd arguments, like making the case that other countries hate Americans because we have the best cheese in the world.
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Nonetheless, it's hard to reconcile the self-evidently low turnout of heavily Hispanic areas with the apparent parity in Hispanic and non-Hispanic turnout reported by the exit polls.
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Few analysts used this data to argue that the black share of the electorate actually dropped in North Carolina with Mr. Obama's historic election — it was self-evidently wrong.
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"It's almost self-evidently absurd to think that nothing the IRS does has an impact on paperwork burdens beyond what Congress intended," said National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp.
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And he is self-evidently right that remembering one's nation's heroes or innocent victims often amounts to "palliating the culture of grievance" and thus gathering kindling for new historical fires.
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The first Mirror's Edge subscribed to a kind of mall-punk politics that treated making a city too clean as self-evidently evil, barely bothering to explain its characters' motivations.
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"Unlike Mr. Yiannopoulos' stock-in-trade, the ads themselves were innocuous, and self-evidently not an attempt to influence any opinion other than which book to buy," the ACLU said.
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Any journalist or centrist politician who treats them as self-evidently irresponsible is doing a 2011, internalizing the prejudices of the wealthy and treating them as if they were facts.
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It's the same reason Spotify doesn't offer lengthy explanations for its "Brain Food" or "Perfect Concentration" playlists, which are self-evidently useful in a culture pathologically obsessed with individual productivity.
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Trump didn't mention that since 2011 he has pushed the laughably, self-evidently false conspiracy theory about Barack Obama's place of birth, helping to elevate the fringe tale into the mainstream.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Agreeing the Brexit deal negotiated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "self-evidently" in the interest of Britain's economy, finance minister Sajid Javid said in a letter published on Monday.
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This was self-evidently absurd, because the DOJ memo criticized Comey for actions that hurt Clinton (his critical public statement about her, and his late letter saying new emails had been found).
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As for homeownership, avocado toast explanations are self-evidently ridiculous: It appears that factors like student loans and high rent make it difficult for young people to save for a down payment.
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Because putting 20 candidates onstage altogether would be self-evidently absurd, the DNC announced early on that the first debate would be a two-night event, with each night featuring 10 candidates.
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"We will raise taxes, yes we will," he told Chris Cuomo, who drilled Sanders on whether he was "bringing back the era of big government" as if that's self-evidently a bad thing.
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As led by Darcy (Patrick Stewart, clearly relishing the chance to play someone so vile), the neo-Nazis are so self-evidently terrible that all other human beings become less so in comparison.
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Just ask the Republican Party how it works out when you assume that someone is so self-evidently bad for America that Americans will rise up of their own accord to stop him.
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It is self-evidently the case that Egypt's population is "so exhausted" by the turmoil spanning over the 2011-2013 period that they no longer have an "appetite" to protest, Teneo Intelligence's Hawes said.
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LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Agreeing the Brexit deal negotiated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "self-evidently" in the interest of Britain's economy, finance minister Sajid Javid said in a letter published on Monday.
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In an era rife with heated talk of "fake news", media bias, and the role reporters play in safeguarding democracy, it's a propitious time for news coverage to be self-evidently fair-minded and trustworthy.
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Arguing that Congress had no authority in the area of foreign affairs, he asserted that it was therefore "self-evidently" true that lawmakers could not enact a law influencing the president's choices of diplomatic agents.
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When he debuted, Luger was a cocky babyface with the nickname "The Total Package," because he was self-evidently the total package of a wrestler: skill, charisma, looks, speed, and that massive, vascular hulk of a physique.
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A lot of us heard what Spicer said and thought it was self-evidently ridiculous (just compare the photos of the two inaugurations!), but a lot of Trump voters may have heard what Spicer said and believed him.
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"Self-evidently support had ebbed and recent CEO comments have not helped confidence during the recent crisis, however management turnover at this time is unlikely to help near term share price performance," KBW analysts said in a note.
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Having proposed such an audacious thesis, and collected a lot of interesting but not self-evidently cohesive or decisive information, the book needs to draw its ideas together and make its case that the American Revolution devastated the globe.
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And it's that depiction of how a powerful, national politician and his allies scramble to hold onto political power in the wake of a self-evidently ruinous personal failure that Curran believes is especially relevant for our currently fraught political climate.
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"We have self-evidently advanced our key strategic objectives over the last three years despite a very difficult external environment," CEO Yusuf Alireza, who has fought back by selling assets, cutting business units and trimming debt, said in a statement.
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This situation sometimes results in amusing developments: When Graham-Cassidy was being debated, progressives circulated a list of industry groups opposed to it — as though deferring to corporate interests were self-evidently good policy from a progressive point of view.
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And if those around me seemed in deeper thrall to the material than I was, that was surely due at least in part to a self-evidently bibulous crowd primed for what the Brits like to call a knees-up.
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This is so self-evidently an intelligent and experienced woman that when she finds 10 concise ways to tell you the world is a setup she convinces you she's been close enough to power to know she's not getting any.
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She is making a claim for Anne's importance in the terms of our television moment, when antiheroes are seen as self-evidently fascinating but a resilient teenage girl who has been adored for over a century might be dismissed as kid's stuff.
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Gastropubs may be a self-evidently poor choice for the health-conscious, but at the Fat Monk, a cozy newcomer on the northern tip of the Upper West Side, the love of confit—in all its grease-glistened glory—is rapturously embraced as creed.
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"Many of the extremists on VDare who use this term are in fact anti-Semites, and they may intentionally be using 'kritarch' as a way to express their anti-Semitism, but on its own, the term is not self-evidently anti-Semitic," he said.
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"Many of the extremists on VDare who use this term are in fact anti-Semites, and they may intentionally be using 'kritarch' as a way to express their anti-Semitism, but on its own, the term is not self-evidently anti-Semitic," he said.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were each casting aspersions upon Nafta as if it were self-evidently a bad deal for American workers, especially for the hollowed-out working and middle classes in the Midwestern states, like Ohio and Michigan, that would decide the election.
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Historians argue that this relationship was born in the multicultural tenements of Lower Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century, where Jews embraced the food sold by their Chinese neighbors as less self-evidently treyf than the Italian and Polish storefronts that held sausages and ham.
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" But roughly two decades later, Greaves noted, "We still have people under the authority of professionals licensing within the mental health field who are able to put forward the most delusional, paranoid ideas, which are so self-evidently harmful to the mentally vulnerable who might come their way.
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A former Bush speechwriter and private-equity executive, he has dedicated himself these past few years to a lonely and self-evidently futile goal: to convince America that President Donald Trump is a statesman with a coherent philosophy—or really anything other than an erratic, egomaniacal ethno-nationalist.
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Critics have long pointed out that We is saddled with a self-evidently faulty business model that leaves it open to real estate downturns, and that its co-founder and just-pushed-out chief executive, Adam Neumann, was a walking parody of high-minded impulsivity and self-dealing.
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And, in another move that really makes me hope the show knows what it's doing here, both the Martha who dies and the Handmaid June threatens are women of color, which stands out on a show whose depiction of race has long been its most self-evidently troubling element.
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So to try to figure out why the forces behind the Met Gala seemed to view pink as not only on trend but also self-evidently camp, I called up Pamela Wojcik, a film scholar and the author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna.
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That implies a harder Brexit with more trade barriers than Mrs May's deal, raising the costs to the economy of leaving the EU. Sajid Javid, the chancellor, refuses to publish an economic-impact assessment of the new Brexit deal, saying simply that it is self-evidently good for the country.
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It was self-evidently absurd to grant a virtual-farming game access to your religious views, but that's just how the platform worked at the time, and so we got used to it, much in the same way we got used to conducting our private lives on any other corporate platform.
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The central political problem for the Resistance, at the moment, is that they see the Trump administration as self-evidently authoritarian and perhaps even trending Nazi-ward, while much of the country dislikes Trump and opposes many of his policies but just doesn't see that same scale of existential danger.
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The idea that a white male critic would presume to tell a black woman artist that her art somehow lacks authenticity because it doesn't place her race at the center of its construction and is, instead, a series of celebrations of the black female form — Nola is a portraitist — is presented as self-evidently ridiculous.
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Trump, like Biden, is prone to weird verbal riffs, but he's alert and light-footed in debate settings, and an able bully; he is adept at convincing Republicans his opponents are corrupt, no matter how self-evidently corrupt he is himself; and his ability to inspire his base to show up at the polls is formidable.
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Despite that inauspicious debut, the series is self-evidently one of the most influential television programs ever made; when it debuted in 1989 it entered a sitcom landscape that was still shaking off the last cobwebs of the 1970s sitcom revolution, and it suggested, boldly, that sitcoms didn't need to be about important issues or even use traditional storytelling methods to be great.
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As former New York Observer editor Elizabeth Spiers rightly noted, it calls to mind the way the network gave Donald Trump endless free air time during the 2016 election: I understand that CNN needs to acknowledge that Dennis Rodman is in Singapore with the President talking to Kim Jong Un and that's news because it's self-evidently absurd and dumb and bad.
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More important, he's used his erratic and self-evidently impromptu speaking style to support the central thrust of his campaign, which is an attack, not just on the substantive track record of the establishment, but on its discredited way of speaking — the instrumentality and the focus-grouping, the suppression of honesty and real emotion in favor of boilerplate, slipperiness and downright lies.
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Whether it's in the elegant economy of No I.D.'s beats or Jay's casual ease handling the English language or more specifically in the moments where Jay pokes fun at the disposability and short-sightedness of contemporary buzz rap, aping the cadence of 19-year-olds yelling "skrrt," 43:44 prizes a version of rap as self-evidently being about the pursuit of excellence.
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Whether it's in the elegant economy of No I.D.'s beats or Jay's casual ease handling the English language or more specifically in the moments where Jay pokes fun at the disposability and short-sightedness of contemporary buzz rap, aping the cadence of 19-year-olds yelling "skrrt," 4:44 prizes a version of rap as self-evidently being about the pursuit of excellence.
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Regarding their charge that former FBI Director James Comey or anyone at the FBI was biased in favor of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE in the 2016 campaign, this bogus accusation is laughable and self-evidently false.
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Apple's notch at the top of the iPhone X allows the company to have a nearly borderless screen everywhere else, plus it accommodates the earpiece and TrueDepth camera for Face ID. Asus et al have a sizeable "chin" at the bottom of their phones, so the cutouts at the top are self-evidently motivated by the desire to just look — not function, look — like an iPhone X. Part of me sympathizes with manufacturers like Asus who are desperately scrabbling around for a distinguishing feature.
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Here is an example from a featured article by the former director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the March 15, 2015, issue of the New York Review of Books, the leading U.S. intellectual journal, left-liberal in orientation: American contributions to international security, global economic growth, freedom, and human well-being have been so self-evidently unique and have been so clearly directed to others' benefit that Americans have long believed that the U.S. amounts to a different kind of country.
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