Sentence examples for partisan words from inspiring English sources

Re "Partisan Words to Remember Them By" (Coping, by Anemona Hartocollis, Feb. 1), about people who used death notices to solicit contributions to defeat President Bush: What a splendid idea!

In his passingly polemic afterword, he makes the case for shortness as a kind of courtesy that is due readers confounded by an undifferentiated sea of partisan words - the spiels of advertising, newsprint and entertainment that seek to penetrate the "staging area" of our consciousness.

Yes, we all need to take personal responsibility but divisive partisan buzz words and tones will not unify us and will not get to the heart of what's needed to turn this country around.

The partisans of Word denigrate their adversaries as dumbers-down, seeking to replace depth and nuance with cartoons and dingbats, encroaching ever farther on their precious line counts and column-inch real estate.

For all that the public is willing to see parties argue their principles, the very word "partisan" (like "compromise") has become a dirty word.

It would not be, in other words, Partisan Review or Commentary.

Underlining the point, the URL for the article reads: "Obama moves to the right in a partisan war of words".

When I want to feel the angst of a Ranger fan, I ring up that one-word partisan, SidthelawyerfromQueens.

But in truth, a Word partisan could stroll through that program and point out an equal number of much-appreciated features that are available in Word but not in WordPerfect.

The public's faith in the rule of law depends, to no small degree, on the idea that judges try, as best they can, to maintain a judicial temperament — that they keep a certain distance from public and even private events that appear, in the truest sense of the word, partisan, and that they maintain an open mind.

And it is a form of civic behavior that doesn't even recognize the word partisan.