Positive-thinking movements and The Secret and nihilism and the faux anarchy of punk and youth and an addictive reliance on intellectual justifications for gnarly desires and behaviors are all pretty obviously nonsolutions.
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Their close alliance provoked John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, to refer privately to Mr. Yoo as Dr. Yes for his seeming eagerness to give the White House whatever legal justifications it desired, a Justice Department official recalled.
Slawenski also offers a theoretical justification for his desire for privacy: his devotion to the Buddhist principle of transcending the ego.
And is the inclusion of the public good an inner rationalization and justification for a desire for financial abundance?
Michael German, a former FBI undercover agent and now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program, felt that the 2009 report overemphasized the way in which the ideology of right-wing groups turned individuals violent rather than attracting individuals who were looking for a justification for their desire to commit acts of violence.
Lives fraught with all reality hands us to stifle and squelch these two elements -- duty, deprivation, sacrifice, the collective ills of Mankind -- must allow for some justification for the desire to balance it out with a little sparkle, something to highlight our everyday.
Addressing one of AT&T's key justifications for the deal — the desire to compete with Facebook and Google for ad dollars — Conrath said that the benefits do not outweigh the costs to society.
Whereas judgments are true or false and thereby can generate the need for justification, the desire for good will and those attitudes generated by it possess no truth value themselves, thereby eliminating any need for an external justification (Magill 1887: 21; Double 1996b: 848).
The intellectual justification for Corbyn's desire to cover the countryside with homes goes back to the 15th-century enclosures.
Young's justification for his creepy desire to become a lesbian amounted to "two words: pillow fight".
