The (presumed intentional) effect is to cause the shopper to question her own validity.
Opera has its own rules, its own validity.
But there is a second reason, one that quietly insists on its own validity all the way through this book.
While the philosophical basis of Jost's exploration of self had its own validity, the music had a natural theatricality.
One couldn't ask for a better new-music group and, as an experimental jazz composer, Mr. King offers a complex overlay of rhythm and melody that has its own validity.
I can be guilty of dismissing things as "a bit adolescent", but Okay Cupid is fresh and funny enough to remind me that teenage culture has its own validity, not just a validity afforded through the quasi-anthropological lens of adults' ironic distance.
Here in California, their sense of siege grew more intense in September when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law banning use of widely discredited sexual "conversion therapies" for minors — an assault on their own validity, some ex-gay men feel.
The movie presents Anderson's view of that open field of existence: namely, that it invites both the wildest fires of holy hell and a profound, mysterious love unlike any to be experienced elsewhere, an elevated and self-renewing path of creation, of mutual realization, which proves its own validity by risking self-destruction.
Nevertheless, regardless of their validity or lack thereof, or even whether they would implicitly deny their own validity and render moot why anyone would accept them, it is still necessary and possible to provide arguments for why anyone would even find these thinkers compelling.
Such experiences count as (at least some) evidence in favor of their own validity.
