Sentence examples for commonplace argument from inspiring English sources

(In his letter, King refutes the commonplace argument that lynchings were an attempt to protect white women from the sexual aggression of black men: "It is fair to remember that almost the total of race mixture in America has come, not at Negro initiative, but by the acts of those very white men who talk loudest of race purity").

His ideology shifted over time, but his approach was always the same: exposing and attacking the flaws in commonplace arguments, often without any sense of proportion.

Here are some commonplace arguments against gay marriage: Marriage is an ancient institution that has always been defined as the union of one man and one woman, and we meddle with that definition at our peril.

If we talk about an opinion article it is even questionable that the reviewer should prescribe the author any changes (assuming the article is void of nonsense, excess of commonplace arguments or bad writing).

And even more discussed and attempted to refute commonplace skeptical arguments in defense of their own, anti-skeptical positions.

Reference to the unpopularity of a position has also become commonplace as an argument for its lack of validity (Hilbeck et al. 2015; Payne 2016).

While asserting the unprovable existence of extinct lines of eukaryotes is unsatisfying, if not unscientific, extinction is commonplace, and the argument seems, on the face of it, irrefutable.

This is the most commonplace version of the argument.

We summarize our surprising conclusion: The commonplace and widely accepted argument suggesting that synchrony makes excitatory inputs more effective is, at least in one very natural formalization (namely, that of Sect. 4), wrong.

Those are unnecessary distractions, yet these sorts of arguments are commonplace in a community built on confrontation.

Moreover, I started out in music journalism, where it was commonplace to field complaints, arguments, even threats, from disgruntled bands, managers, publicists and fans who didn't take kindly to your estimation that such and such artist's latest effort was "glorified ear poo".