Sentence examples for assertion of pure from inspiring English sources

Second, although "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" is in many ways a realist novel (it is set in the recognizable world, it is full of real and familiar human beings, there is no formal experimentation at all), its very historical distance — its self-enclosed quality — represents an assertion of pure fictionality.

Happily, Wood partially eases his anxiety by suggesting that for Mitchell the setting offers similar intellectual rewards to his more obviously postmodern and structurally playful books like Cloud Atlas: "Its very historical distance – its self-enclosed quality – represents an assertion of pure fictionality.

It is this reasoning that stands behind the assertion that pounds of pure heroin seized the Bronx in 1967 had a poten tial street value of $2.7‐million.

It is not merely an assertion that within the domain of pure intuition, the concepts simply don't apply; that would merely beg the question.

It was pure provocation, an assertion of maximum power with minimum effort.

Second, the assertion of a "Ukraine collusion" angle is pure drivel.

This supports my assertion last year that the "tick" years (the ones in between major casing changes) are focused on changes outside of pure performance.

The show's ultimate expression of self-assertion was an exhilarating version of Sondheim's "Everybody Says Don't" that Ms. Salonga delivered as a burst of pure defiance.

But a spokeswoman for the agency dismissed the assertion as "pure folly".

Critique of Pure Reason.

Skin of pure alabaster?