Bugliosi also reminds us that many stood up to Manson and refused to bow down to his use of fear, to his appeal to deep-seated hostility, to his application of the coded messages of the Beatles' music or to his selective prophecies of Biblical revelation — the mishmash of new cultic ideas.
Yet, as the president struggles to stay ahead of Moneybags Romney, his selective insensitivities may be hurting him.
I wonder whether he perhaps hopes this skirting of direct opinion, coupled with his selective interpretation of history, will lead me to demonize the president for him.
9.18am: William Hague accused Clegg of "selective amnesia" about his "selective amnesty" this morning on the BBC1 Breakfast show.
If you lean left, you may hate him for his vocal dislike of the Civil Rights Act, his conviction that there's some kind of Libya-to-Syria gunrunning going on, his insistence on spending cuts, and his selective embrace of the federal government when it comes to union busting.
Wasting his opportunity to tell the truth, he offers absolutely nothing new, and his selective use of facts and quotes are a transparent effort to continue his long campaign to confuse people, unfortunately consistent with his past behavior.
One must keep in mind when viewing Cohen's work that his selective use of flash, blur, and haphazard framing, all essential to his vision, were entirely novel at the time.
It was bound to find its form less in the conventional architecture of plot than in the symmetries of the narrator's inner world, the driving force of his desires, the selective harmonies of memory.
He studies many works of Anselm's (while most theologians of his time were very selective in their knowledge of this author), and makes acquaintance with works by Augustine, such as Confessions and Soliloquia, that were quite unusual readings for an academic theologian.
The ferocious and uncanting intellect that thrived in love denies Lewis the traditional consolations of mourning: he is tormented by the thought that suffering in life offers no guarantee of peace in death; that the mere act of remembering is one of overwriting – his own selective memories falling "like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night".
