Yes, it results from a series of judgment calls about various methodologies and, yes, one can argue that each decision is "defensible," at least in isolation.
Some places when partly or wholly below sea level may be defensible, at least to some degree — like New Orleans with its network of levees and flood barriers.
"I think it's defensible that at least once in the life of this parliament the issue should be tested, but not at the expense of the government's priorities".
Whether or not that represents a reasonable account of the aims of Kumārila and other Mīmāṃsakas, it is surely a defensible view at least that such ideological effects were among the upshots of Mīmāṃsaka influence.
They want to see a defensible business plan or at least some compelling analysis that suggests the company eventually will grow into a healthy, standalone business (thus boosting those squishy success rates).
They have done, one gathers, some nasty stuff in their day, though usually for a decent or at least defensible cause.
From Richard Hofstadter's "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life": If anti-intellectualism has become, as I believe it has, a broadly diffused quality in our civilization, it has become so because it has often been linked to good, or at least defensible, causes…It made its way into our politics because it became associated with our passion for equality.
By George Packer February 20 , 2009From Richard Hofstadter's "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life": If anti-intellectualism has become, as I believe it has, a broadly diffused quality in our civilization, it has become so because it has often been linked to good, or at least defensible, causes…It made its way into our politics because it became associated with our passion for equality.
If anti-intellectualism has become, as I believe it has, a broadly diffused quality in our civilization, it has become so because it has often been linked to good, or at least defensible, causes…It made its way into our politics because it became associated with our passion for equality.
So this series rightly focuses on Karloff in the "Frankenstein" era, when the craftsmanship of the genre that was his destiny was at least defensible and actors could concentrate on the fruitful labor of creating a character rather than on the fruitless, soul-wearying task of clinging to the fraying threads of their dignity.
