sophistry
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That the ’70s American psyche, brutalized by Watergate and Vietnam, found solace in Castaneda’s sophistry isn’t surprising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
One judge said the claimed difference with gambling “is sophistry to the nth degree. . . . It’s still the house.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Roberts uses sophistry to avoid answering those bigger questions.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2025
Rodgers said the bankruptcy judge's decision, which 3M is appealing, "should have ended the sophistry" and 3M's attempt to avoid liability.
From Reuters ● Dec. 23, 2022
It sounded to her like sophistry, or an explanation for its own sake.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Malcolm Gladwell has spent his entire career creating fallacious arguments otherwise know as sophistries.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2018
Baraka’s poems are filled with tantrums and sophistries, stances and dances.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2015
He’s begun to keep tabs on the online world, alert to the multiplicity of life and language beneath the tantrums and sophistries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
"Respect for others," he writes, "springs spontaneously and naturally in man, long before reasoning and its sophistries come into play."
From Time Magazine Archive
After plastering him with sickening sophistries as to his "sweetest recompense," it gives the utterly unnecessary monition, "March! no fatal repose, there are still laurels to gather"!
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
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