Sentence examples for sustained arguments from inspiring English sources

She addressed several policies, but in concise sound bites rather than sustained arguments.

His oeuvre thus consists of essays that display great erudition but make quick, darting points rather than full, sustained arguments.

CITY MISMANAGEMENT -- The State's most sustained arguments on causation, however, are based on evidence that the Board of Education mismanages New York City schools and the City itself fails to devote a sufficient part of its revenues to them.

There was only the most general sketch of a second term agenda, only a relatively cursory defense of the president's economic stewardship, and mostly assertions, rather than sustained arguments, to back up his claim that the country is headed (slowly) in the right direction.

What the antagonists in the exchange fail to mention, and indeed, what seems to have gone largely unnoticed more generally, is that the page layout and typography of the printed book remain among the most effective mechanisms invented by human beings for communicating sustained arguments and explanations of a sort that require careful consideration and study.

Other film critics have made sustained arguments that the film is a lengthy if coded study of repressed homosexuality, similar to that in Herman Melville's novel, Billy Budd.

There's no linear narrative, no sustained argument.

Though occasionally arresting, these globs of discussion never coalesce into a sustained argument.

"Extra Lives" is a busy, scattered book — a series of essays and pieces of reportage, several of them previously published — that lacks a narrative or a sustained argument.

Indeed, his book "The Anatomy of Fascism" -- which doubles as a history and a sustained argument -- is not the most original study of the subject.

However perverse Bataille seems, he argues, there is a systematic philosophy behind the work, although he was better at sudden insights than sustained argument.