A similar coarseness can be seen in the other categories invoked, like "the Islamic world".
That phrase, invoked like a mantra, tethered Mr. Gore tightly to President Clinton.
Shock is being invoked like a national inoculation exercise, a reaction that inevitably follows the broadcast of vision showing one child being hurled across a room in an Australian correction facility and another sitting hooded and shackled.
Performance metrics, of course, are invoked like talismans.
Claire Messud's latest novel, "The Woman Upstairs," is an incongruous mashup of a very self-consciously literary novel (invoking the likes of Chekhov) and one of those psychological horror films like "Single White Female" or "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle," in which someone, ominously, is not who she appears to be.
As we spoke, he barely completed a sentence without invoking the likes of Plato.
In this third match of the series, by repeatedly invoking the likes of Mitt Romney and Grover Norquist, Warren succeeded in plastering a scarlet "R" upon his back.
Some conservatives have accused the administration of throwing the fight by not invoking other arguments, like morality.
For example, when his intractably suffering patient died shortly after being treated, Jeremy (Palliative Specialist) acknowledged how he could be compelled to use double effect despite finding it distasteful: I don't like invoking the Principle of Double Effect as justification for what I did with that patient…at all.
McCarthy treats the comics with the intellectual seriousness and rigor he insists they deserve, and invokes the likes of Barthes, Bataille, de Man, Blanchot, and Derrida in making his critical case.
