In this age of reflexive partisanship, we often see, but usually skip, simplistic red-meat rants devoid of serious argument or candid engagement with the "other side".
While free word-cloud software easily turns speeches into arresting visuals highlighting prominent words.The bad news is that the more data and quick-and-dirty tools are available, the more pundits will be tempted to "prove" something with a lazy count, devoid of serious argument.
Kant is said to have considered it his favorite among Scottish moral sense theories, but others have dismissed it as devoid of systematic argument, or derivative, in its theoretical aspirations, of Hume.
As it stands, and has stood, Deflategate is a kind of old-fashioned sports argument, devoid of statistics or research or indisputable science a throwback barroom debate.
As it stands, and has stood, Deflategate is a kind of old-fashioned sports argument, devoid of statistics or research or indisputable science — a throwback barroom debate.
If we were all armed, we would all be safe, an argument as devoid of humanity as it is of logic.
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Come Dine with Me is a curious state, devoid of politics (there are never political arguments) or racism or sexism, but dwelling somehow in its smoke, a study in class. .
Professor Minford's arguments are not as devoid of reason as that, but they are almost as divorced from reality.
Molina's argument was by no means devoid of a political edge.
