Sentence examples for passes for debate from inspiring English sources

Is this what passes for debate these days?

What passes for debate now is geared towards destruction.

Last June, the writer Graham Linehan wrote this searing critique of the "squabbling that passes for debate" on Today.

One of the things that people hate most about modern politics is the almost mindless partisanship that passes for debate.

Today, what passes for debate has occluded the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual stakes of aesthetic experience, which assumes the odor of a minor private vice.

Philosophy, said Mr. Blackburn, should help to inoculate people against false appeals and baseless assertions -- just the sort of thing that passes for debate in America's polarized culture.

But even if all you do is clearly articulate why you think he's completely wrong, you'll be helping to lift the discussion far above what usually passes for debates about religion.

No matter who wins the Democratic nomination, however, debates like this will be excellent practice for when he or she has to face the eventual Republican nominee -- who will be hamstrung, by the softball nature of what passes for debates among Republicans.

Several prominent businessmen make it clear they would invest in Cuba if the embargo was lifted.There is an eerie similarity to the ranting insults that pass for debate on each side of the Florida Straits.

Sensing that the case might be used by politicians to whip up anti-Muslim passions, he steered clear of the hate-mongering that has passed for debate in recent years.

And it's nothing like the carefully controlled exchanges of sound bites and unquestioned assumptions that now pass for debate on our front pages and TV screens.