Like so much of online discourse, from comments to Twitter and Facebook, sharp polarities cracked the surface quickly, illuminating our cultural clash on such things as decorum, manners, discretion, judgment, class, wit, wisdom, irreverence, satire, and so on.
But to apply a concept is to make a judgment about class membership, and to make a judgment about class membership always involves relating the thing about which the judgment is made to other paradigm members of the class.
Tango lacks judgment and class — he's a noisy show-off — and some months later Frank, having taken over Bumpy's operation, draws a gun on Tango and, as dozens of people look on, shoots him in the head.
It also points to the ways that our judgments about food — and efforts to reform it — are intertwined with judgments about class.
"And he is sharp in his judgments of class and status".
She is the force that powers "The Names of Love," an unstoppable flywheel of lust, good intentions, poor judgment, world-class ditziness, and sentimental blah.
There was a time when we were happy with Miss Goodteacher's judgment that her class knew how to read.
In an interview you gave in 2007, when Philip K. Dick's novels appeared in a Library of America anthology that you edited, you talked about the gentrification of Dick, and the way his reputation has changed over the years, saying, "A lot of the biases against genre fiction have not to do with any kind of aesthetic or literary judgment but with class discomfort.
To clarify these possibilities, experiment 2 was designed to push participants to a deeper level of lexical processing by the word class judgment.
In what is one of the most unlikely and significant victories in environmental and human rights history, 30,000 indigenous people and campesinos won a $9.5 billion judgment in a class action suit after 20 years of ugly legal battles (now upheld by Ecuador's highest court).
Last month, the Florida Supreme Court upheld a decision to toss out a $145 billion judgment in a class-action suit.
