Deer have passionate defenders, but their live-and-let-live arguments seem motivated more by anthropomorphic affection than by common sense.
The four civic crises belong to the available, still contested past, the one that hangs around and starts living arguments.
Now 94, Mr. Turner is a living argument against health fads.
If anyone would seem to be a living argument for tetanus vaccination, it is Camille Borst, 25.
His one demand: to be put on exhibit in a glass case in the world's parliaments as a barely living argument against war.
During rehearsals we interrogated the material, asking not only what was said but how altered it was becoming in the transition from the tapes to the stage, where actors take their place in a living argument.
Even the 'cost of living' argument – for which read 'Those Tory toffs haven't got a clue what your life's like' – relies on the electorate accepting that Labour has some better appreciation of those realities".
The enemies were not only the censors, but snobbish elements in the literary community itself, including Prof. John Pentland Mahaffy of Trinity College Dublin, who said, "James Joyce is a living argument in defense of my contention that it was a mistake to establish a separate university for the aborigines of this island — for the corner boys who spit into the Liffey".
Our book that deserved to do better The Sacred Combe by Thomas Maloney marries the familiar – a tale of a marriage imploding, a search for meaning, and a family battered by loss – with the unusual: a living argument between Enlightenment and Romance, embodied in an ancient house, its inhabitants and the landscape.
If he was patriotic, it wasn't obvious – "My only country / is six feet high / and whether I love it or not / I'll die / for its independence" – but his way of speaking constituted a living argument for seeing things from both sides.
A poet could be a risk-taker, a miracle-maker, a moral panjandrum and a convict of the senses; a poet could divine the landscape, search the heart, shape a living argument about the complications of reality, and a poet could write a novel.
