The formidable Fidesz spin machine manufactured sophistries to explain how an illegitimate outcome represented the inviolable democratic will of the Hungarian people.
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Trump, with his verbal outbursts, his naïveté in international affairs, and his susceptibility to the sophistries he hears from his advisers and cable TV pundits, seems uniquely unsuited to solving the North Korean crisis.
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I can't get enough of how she, formerly a food purist and determined orthorexic, uses that quote-unquote locution on her podcast Food Psych, a deceptively sweet piece of heresy that takes aim at the pieties, sophistries, and perils of diet culture.
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All of it—the rank reactive cowardice posturing as toughness, the sophistries and cynicism that excuse a constellation of self-serving cruelties great and small, the weakness for any comforting lie over every troubling truth—will still be here when Trump is, once again, a face in the crowd.
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IN ONE OF Russian literature's most memorable passages, Pimen, an elderly chronicler in "Boris Godunov", passes the task of recording history to a young monk: Write down, avoiding crafty sophistries,All things that you shall witness in this life:Both war and peace, the edicts of our Tsars,The holy miracles of saintly men,All prophecies and blessed revelations… Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
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When you bombard them with sophistries, wrong messages and show them only dead-ends, that is where you finally reach.
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The tremendous strain which the Star would have to suffer when the sophistries of recreants and the shibboleths of renegades were abroad will be obvious.
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The earliest known version of the story, in Latin, forms part of a manuscript collection, Liber narrationum de diversis visionibus et miraculis, which itself is part of MS. Troyes 946 from the Abbey of Clairvaux collection. This version was written at some date after 1173, when Serlo became abbot of L'Aumône Abbey, and before 1181, the date of his death. According to the story, one of Serlo's disciples, who had died young, appeared to him in a vision. He was wearing a parchment cape covered with writing: on it were written all the sophistries of scholastic philosophy.
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