Sentence examples similar to self-arguments from inspiring English sources

Yet, more than twenty years after its publication, "The First Stone" also seems a brilliantly prescient book — in its complexity, in the tense torque of its self-argument, and in its very vulnerability and stunned intolerance.

"Amsah" turns out to be "I'm sad". As the woman progresses from lamentation to self-argument in growls and higher-pitched replies to some sort of cultlike ritual, it becomes clear that the neighbor's story is the stuff of a novel that the young SH is too inexperienced to realize is writing itself next door.

In order to appreciate Candrakīrti's not-self argument, or the argument that shows the unreality of the conventionally real person, we need to understand Candrakīrti's purpose of refuting the personal self.

Pollock argues that all self-defeating arguments should be rejected, and that they should not be allowed to defeat other arguments.

Decuir maintained his self-defense argument.

A self-serving argument if there ever was one.

But they subsist on a self-reinforcing argument.

"I don't want to have the self-help argument.

There are a lot of self-serving arguments.

Physically speaking, food activists tend to present a self-negating argument.

Ms. Lawrence dismisses what she calls a "very self-serving argument by the tobacco lobby".