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

I have now laid open my affairs to you without Disguise and Stated the Facts as they appear, declining all Comments, or the use of any Sophistry to palliate my application, or urge my request.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

There foam'd rebellious Logic, gagg'd and bound, There, stripp'd, fair Rhetoric languish'd on the ground; His blunted arms by Sophistry are borne, And shameless Billingsgate her robes adorn.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

Sophistry, logomachy, eristic: we may learn what these are, sometimes, from Plato's own practice.

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter