The material wasn't that great, but the punch lines kept the campaign from degenerating into pure bitterness and ridicule -- at least until the Florida recount.
Along the way Pure Digital fought ridicule from the big video camera companies, who said nobody would want the device.
That person, whom I considered (at the risk of ridicule) very pure, still survived -- he was reading the poems of Rabindranath Tagore when we talked the last time, two weeks ago.
Mr. de Grazia responded that what was obscene to Mr. Summerfield was "pure as mountain snow to another," and ridiculed the Post Office for having banned books like Voltaire's "Candide" and Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer".
He ridiculed Zuckerman's use of pure blast physics to explain clinical findings that, for him, were better explained by 'the human factor', urging Zuckerman not to 'detract from his valuable experimental work by making statements about humans which are almost nonsense' (Osborn, 1941b: 869).
And while pure VR can shut itself away from public ridicule in a private room, AR's pitch tends to involve claims of more general utility because of the blended view it offers.
"Legalistic argle-bargle", "interpretive jiggery-pokery" and "pure applesauce" are just some of the phrases he has used to ridicule the arguments of his liberal opponents.
That the museum had become a soap opera set was pure Deitch, for better or worse: stuntlike, crazily experimental, scrambling high and low culture, risking ridicule and seeming not to care much when it rains down on his head.
Long ago, there was a Taoist heresy called Pure Discourse, which was suppressed by the Manchus because it promoted "excessive drinking, nihilistic behavior, and the ridiculing of all the peoples of the earth".
