Sentence examples for Semantic game-playing from inspiring English sources
That is semantic game-playing.
And Mr. Hirson, rather like Valere, seems to be treading water as the play progresses, covering up a sense that he doesn't know where he's going with half-baked arguments and semantic game playing.
"It's a semantic game that's being played here, about what constitutes weakening, what constitutes backdooring, that the government is still playing hard and fast on in the hope that, essentially, a big lie sticks".
When it comes to marriage rights, gays and lesbians are willing to play semantic games.
"Budgets are too important to play semantic games," Ms. Angelo said.
"Those who play semantic games or try to tinker with state numbers to lock out parents and the public stand in the way of progress and reform," the letter said.
He's playing semantic games, telling a roomful of journalists that the definition of editing we've all been using is wrong, that the only thing that matters is who's actually working the keyboard.
The by-now-familiar refrain that Mr. Bush has not yet made any decisions about Iraq may literally be correct, in the sense that he may not yet have approved a war plan, but it smacks of the semantic games that administrations often play to disguise very real preparations for war.
But Haseltine is not willing to play semantic games with the word "gene".
Shefman said the province has been playing "semantic games with the inquest system," as inmates have died in the hospital instead of in the remand centre (even though the prisoners were still in provincial custody).
