While the Democrat flails around, trying to maintain the thread of an argument, the Republican is simply projecting a series of images into voters' minds: socialism, Obamacare, radical, left-wing, America in danger.
Possibly as a result, the book is a bit uneven, dwelling too long on particular stories at Medtronic and losing the broader thread of the author's argument.
Then due to the vanity and laziness that led him to think he could wing the most important 95 minutes of his life, he lost the thread of his argument, he lost control of his temper and he lost the perspective necessary to correct these mistakes as he went.
He lost the thread of his argument.
As King develops his theme, he unspools the thread of his argument with wonderful fluidity.
The thread of his argument is often lost for pages, even chapters.
The dialectic between the two poles was dominant and, though intelligently mediated by the positions of the other individuals, the pillar of the whole discussion clearly had its foundations in the thread of arguments brought into the field by the counter-figures of the two masters.
To ask ourselves this would be the logical consequence of the thread of argument we have pursued, but it is possible that, put in these terms, the question we are facing has not been posed properly.
Among others, John Locke made it a habit to lament the way Bibles came so elaborately subdivided, destroying the thread of argument or narrative and producing readers who remembered sentences rather than concepts.
Tongue-tied, underprepared and tone-deaf, the Texas governor mangled his attack lines, lost the thread of his arguments and accused rank-and-file conservatives — his natural base — of heartlessness on immigration.
