While the criticism against the quotations seem sound considering this assertion, it negates the context of Virgil Abloh, a designer of clothing (his own label, Off-White, as well as Louis Vuitton men's), furniture, and other objects (this oeuvre will be put on display in his first major solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago come 2019).
Even to my own ears, the assertion sounded unseemly.
The assertion sounds like a vain, sad boast coming from a man who lives in a cramped trailer outside Jacksonville.
So Mr. Bush made what sounded like an assertion of an ongoing relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, but phrased it cagily – suggesting that he or his speechwriter knew full well that his case was shaky.
It was one of those speeches that are meant to be self-evidently persuasive, in which each separate assertion sounds reasonable enough -- but the links between them are all wrong.
The Tory leader's assertion sounds very like the claims those Northern Ireland Conservatives used to make back in the late 1980s, when they urged both Tories and Labour to organise in the Province and help transform politics from Orange versus Green to left versus right.
Given the howling political firestorm over Richard A. Clarke's new book, "Against All Enemies," it is surprising how familiar many of his assertions sound, his recitation of pre-9/11 antiterrorism missteps by the Bush and Clinton administrations echoing earlier books and old newspaper and magazine articles.
This assertion may sound far-fetched.
That may sound like an extreme assertion, but the new book by Wills, a Pulitzer Prize winner who has written extensively about Christianity and the church, says that at the start, Christianity not only didn't have priests but opposed them.
Mr. Scherman's assertion that "sound alone isn't music" until it "becomes a song" may be true for pop electronic groups like Everything But the Girl and Massive Attack, who adhere to traditional pop song formats to receive radio play.
She even sounded skeptical at my assertion that we had completed the whole package.
