casuistic
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It would be easy enough to brush off this peculiar fact with some casuistic postmodernist explanation, such as saying that disenfranchised groups find empowerment through humor.
From Scientific American • Feb. 26, 2011
The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude."
From Time Magazine Archive
Nietzsche in one of his earliest works examines Wagner's theory and amplifies it by a rather casuistic interpretation of the evolution of art.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
The theory, casuistic and subtle, appealed momentarily to a society that had no theories at all.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
As a purely theoretic problem, namely, the casuistic question would hardly ever come up at all.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
