Stories about hellish conditions, draconian sentences, physical brutality and the neglect of rehabilitation saturate the news media.
"You're saying, 'In every possible world, everything is physical.' " In Sentence 2, "Everything is necessarily physical," "necessarily" has a narrower scope: it ignores the merely possible and attends only to what actually exists.
The only rational explanation for how George Zimmerman was able to claim self-defense and get off scot-free while Marissa Alexander, who was in actual physical danger, was sentenced to 20 years, is that Zimmerman's father is a retired judge.
When asked Friday to describe that philosophy, Sparano used the word "physical" in seven straight sentences.
Sentences are physical entities, since they are when uttered sounds and ink marks when printed.
America's two million prison inmates have been lawfully deprived of their liberty, but they have not been sentenced to physical and psychological abuse.
In effect, Jonze tells a story of a slick cyber-scammer luring Theodore (and many others) into a Faustian bargain a sentence of physical solitude in exchange for compassionate conversation and insight on demand (and even ahead of demand).
For months Armistead Maupin had been talking on the phone with Anthony Godby Johnson, the adopted son of Vicki Johnson, a social worker whom he claimed had adopted him after his real parents were tried and sentenced for physical and sexual abuse.
In effect, Jonze tells a story of a slick cyber-scammer luring Theodore (and many others) into a Faustian bargain — a sentence of physical solitude in exchange for compassionate conversation and insight on demand (and even ahead of demand).
Acid attacks that don't cause physical harm carry a sentence of one to five years.
If, during a yearly physical, one utters the sentence, "I had a headache," for example, the visit instantly goes from costing nothing to costing the price of an office visit co-pay.
