Sentence examples for largely indefensible from inspiring English sources
Each clutching its defining language, its assumed cultural superiority and its list of historic grievances, they glared at each other across their largely indefensible borders, and then they marched across them.This produced the first world war; and the first world war led to Hitler; and Hitler caused the second world war.
The first is his Naturphilosophie, which, although its empirical claims are largely indefensible, opens up the possibility of a modern hermeneutic view of nature that does not restrict nature's significance to what can be established about it in scientific terms.
George Orwell argued in "Politics and the English Language" that "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible".
"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible," he wrote in "Politics and the English Language".
Writing in 1945, George Orwell explained why war-mongers mangled the language: "in our era political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible".
In his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language," Orwell writes that "political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible," hence the need for euphemisms, "question begging" and what he calls "sheer cloudy vagueness".
They bragged of reining in farm expenditures by $35 billion, but about 45 percent of this savings was taken out of food stamps; indefensible subsidies bolstering corn, wheat, soybeans and other powerful industry lobbies were largely spared.
But the indefensible is still indefensible.
