He argued for the "weak" version -- that language influences thought.
Even by Mr. Cavell's standards this is a fairly weak version of moral perfectionism.
Climate experts say a weak version of the El Niño phenomenon may be forming in the Pacific Ocean.
British soul/R&B is perennially terrible, which is to say a weak version of the real (US) thing.
The House bill has a weak version of a public option, but the Senate bill lacks one altogether.
Sanford Biggers, looping pairs of Chinese slippers over some wire strung across the gallery, also seems to be doing a weak version of Mr. Hammons's work.
"The third way Blair tried to put together was already in existence," says Ashdown. "It's called liberalism, though Blair's is a rather weak version of it.
Quijada would endorse a weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and the conlanging community includes some of the last true believers in a strong version.
Medicare, which pays low rates to providers, might actually offer stiffer competition to private plans than the current weak version of the public option in the Senate bill.
The music surrounding graduation festivities at most colleges begins and ends with a weak version of Elgar's famous "Pomp and Circumstance" March.
After several paragraphs attacking a straw-man Whorf, Deutscher also writes about the weak version, which is plenty interesting in itself.
