When I met Sarah, she was wearing red lipstick, black boots, and tortoiseshell glasses; she is at once hipper than Green — she's grounded in theory and cutting-edge art — and steadier, with a quieter, more skeptical sense of humor.
With his Roman nose and booming stage voice, he bore a resemblance to John Barrymore (which first helped his career, then hindered it), but in place of Barrymore's Shakespearean gravity William projected a skeptical sense of humor about himself.
Hume's solution is "skeptical" in the sense that, though it accounts for the origins of our idea of necessary connection, it does not make our causal inferences any more rational than they were before.
Challenging what they saw as liberal overreaching and wishful thinking with hard, often crushing, empirical facts, these early neoconservatives were, in a sense, the skeptical conscience of liberalism.
And he wove together — twisted together — all of that into what amounted to a single conceptual project based on recurrent themes: social class, popular culture, black humor, anti-formalist rigor and, though rarely acknowledged, a moral sense, unshakably skeptical, that ran through everything like a spine.
And he wove together — twisted together — all of that into what amounted to a single conceptual project based on recurrent themes: class politics, popular culture, black humor, anti-formalist rigor and a moral sense, unshakably skeptical, that ran through everything like a spine.
Hand in hand with this reassuring creed, however, go the skeptical intelligence and the sense of the grotesque displayed in such poems as "Caliban upon Setebos" and "Mr. Sludge, 'The Medium.' " His The Ring and the Book (1868 69) gives the dramatic monologue format unprecedented scope.
They walked and walked, gradually growing skeptical of their own sense of direction.
This section treats the narrator's emotional landscape as a response to his skeptical conclusions about reason, sense-perception, and the self.
However, in order to overthrow common sense, the skeptic must place the skeptical conclusion, rather, on a firmer footing than the common sense conclusion.
Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, a Republican, said that she was skeptical that expanding Medicaid made sense, but that her state would nonetheless do a thorough study of its options.
