"The nastiness, the vitriol, the ignorant, logic-resistant, fact-averse bile heaped upon a 20-year-old college student was simply stunning," said Bob Owen, from Long Beach, California.
First, the election reporters got themselves trapped in a narrative that was resistant to fact: Gore was a a poseur, and Bush was an amiable Forrest Gump.
Thus, when we are in the grip of an emotion, we tend to see those facts that affirm its existence and are resistant to facts that negate it.
Obama's emphasis on government intervention could become as calcified and resistant to facts as the Republican Party's free-market conservatism is now.
Hate is resistant to facts.
Hemley gives a perfunctory overview of anthropology's recent preoccupations, but seems resistant to the fact that what currently concerns anthropology is precisely this interrelatedness.
News articles, disease symptom photographs, resistant variety lists, fact sheets, and other information is provided for vegetable growers and extension specialists.
Fed this narcotising diet, a society searching for heroes it can believe in is perhaps less resistant to – in fact, actively calling for – the idea of celebrating chemically-altered humans.
"There's nothing that brings up these two things more: you're attached to wanting to get pregnant and you're resistant to the fact that you can't".
I'm lazy and resistant, so the fact that I always felt great when I left, took a long time to sink in.
The latter transfectants were in fact resistant to H2O2 treatment, up to a concentration of the oxidant in between 0.3 and 0.4 mM.
