sophistry
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Though "A View From the Bridge" was her Broadway debut, she had one other stage credit - in an off-Broadway play in 1993 called "Sophistry" with Ethan Hawke where she had only one line.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2012
There are two startling passages in another new off-Broadway play, the keenly observed if scattershot Sophistry, set on a college campus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sophistry does indeed pretend that there is even a man's "aspect" of himself.
From Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" by Belloc, Hilaire
For instance, when he assumes, that in the portrait of Beattie, the figures of Scepticism, Sophistry, and Infidelity, represent Hume, Voltaire, and Gibbon; remarking, that they have survived the "insult of Reynolds."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
Sophistry, with which Religion is explained away, 133.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William
Vocabulary lists containing sophistry
Ancient Philosophy
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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