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The inference from "oj is a cloud" and "oj and ok massively overlap" to "ok is not a cloud" is just as acceptable as the above inference involving heaps.
But it is alarming to notice that even though more people know about this now, it seems to be just as acceptable as always.
If I want to live alone in a cozy apartment with only a dog for company, that should be just as acceptable as living the "American Dream".
The commission's aim should be to sustain whale species worldwide rather than to pass moral judgment on nations where hunting whales might be just as acceptable as hunting deer is in the United States.
If I want to live alone in a cozy apartment with only a dog for company, that should be just as acceptable as living the "American Dream". And hopefully one day, it will be.
It was possible to imagine these directors making films for adult audiences that would solidify the NC-17 as a rating just as acceptable as an R. (After all, in its early days, the X generated some sizable hits — 1969's "Midnight Cowboy," which won best picture, took in $45 million, or $281 million in today's dollars; 1973's "Last Tango in Paris" made $36 million, or $225 million today).
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(John Sayles's City of Hope is still the best example of this, though most will cite Robert Altman's Short Cuts or Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, both of which are also acceptable, just as long as we're ignoring Paul Haggis's Crash).
It doesn't take a scientist to point out that our favourite romcoms have rewritten the rules of romance so that "modern love" could just as well mean "socially acceptable stalker's charter", but it's helpful that they did.
Any edgy or taboo subject can become just as hackneyed as an acceptable or non-controversial one if the exact same approach is made every time.
It looks a lot like the 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook (probably for good reason) and features just enough tech to pass as acceptable.
We justify these moral choices, and our complicity in them, either by reference to a greater good — killing terrorists is so essential that the collateral damage is morally acceptable — or, just as often, by pretending they aren't happening.
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