To this day, the Academy proceeds as if movies about black experience were race movies.
Instead, he proceeds as if judicial review inherently stifles all contradiction.
In effect, she proceeds as if the past five hundred years were a relatively trivial interval in the annals of human motivation.
Bergner proceeds as if the value of being called "animal," of being considered highly libidinous, were self-evident — as if such charges had never been used against women.
Where much historical fiction gets entangled in the simulation of historical authenticity, Mantel bypasses those knots of concoction, and proceeds as if authenticity were magic rather than a science.
Taylor does not attack the bad reduction case by case, but proceeds as if it were generally already winning — as if it were already vitiating the prospects of a moral and meaningful existence.
Amichai glides quickly between his own poetic suggestions, and this supple navigation credits his inventions with the otherness of their existence: he proceeds as if his own metaphors had the naturalness of found things, not the artifice of made things.
But you would never guess this from the official doctrine, which still proceeds as if marriage were something in which a man took the initiative, rather than a partnership of equals.
