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    nothing-to-hide argument pervades discussions about privacy. The data security expert Bruce Schneier calls it the "most common retort against privacy...
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  • everyday language, a riposte is synonymous with a retort and describes a quick and witty reply to an argument or an insult. In sabre and foil, the priority...
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  • saying as "Mind your own beeswax". It is meant to soften the force of the retort. Folk etymology has it that this idiom was used in the colonial period when...
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    author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, which is intended to be an "easily digestible argument about what rights we have...
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  • Retort is a community of about forty writers, teachers, artists, and activists, all self-styled opponents of capital and empire, which has been based for...
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    Insult (redirect from Comeback (retort))
    humorously set up an insult-hierarchy of seven-fold "degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the...
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  • On December 13, 1971, during oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court in the abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, Texas assistant attorney general...
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  • 'whataboutism', the trick of turning any argument against the opponent. When accused of falsifying elections, Russians retort that American elections are not unproblematic;...
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  • time. Brooke says that Gary never matched her level of effort, and Gary retorts that Brooke was never clear about what she wanted. Later, Johnny points...
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  • approaching a trap unprepared. But when he distrusts a wounded young deer, Ryu retorts that there's nobody more insensitive than Joe. Meanwhile, Jinpei discovers...
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  • whereas the issues in Bush v. Gore arose under the contest provisions". In retort to himself, Lund writes that the Florida court's decision in the contest...
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  • richly ambiguous touchstone. To Crites' argument that the plots of classical drama are more "just," Eugenius can retort that modern plots are more "lively"...
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    is a British political phrase and aphorism that is commonly used as a retort to a self-interested denial. The Welsh model Mandy Rice-Davies used the...
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    he painted this two-sided front and back portrait of Morgante to retort the argument that a subject could be seen from more angles in sculpture. In 2010...
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    would not be read, but which would fine-tune the meaning: "retort [chemistry]" and "retort [rhetoric]" would thus be distinguished. A number of determinatives...
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  • plan out to kill him for power. Showing his true colors, Peter viciously retorts that he pursues power for his family, that the one to inherit it is him...
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  • Émile says "Angéla, tu es infâme" ("Angela, you are horrid"), and she retorts, "Non, je suis une femme" ("No, I am a woman"). Anna Karina as Angela Jean-Claude...
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  • asks Stiles why he can't just extend people the benefit of the doubt, he retorts that Scott is too trusting. In "A Novel Approach", Stiles is attacked by...
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    a crucifix in hand. The Baphomet statue is the Satanic Temple's defiant retort du jour." In December 2013, the Satanic Temple petitioned the State of Florida...
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    is intended to demonstrate that there is a neutral position. The common retort, "What is your proof that there is no god?" therefore is a strawman fallacy...
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    Retrieved September 27, 2006. Sokol, Brett (June 28, 2001). "The Drudge Retort". Miami Times. Miami. Retrieved December 18, 2010. Landesman, Cosmo (April...
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    in the media. Such statements can either be free standing or created as retorts to the opposition's talking points and are frequently used in public relations...
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  • Mary follows him. Rob and Beth Ann get into an argument about how Rob did nothing to stop Ralph. As a retort, Rob yells at Beth Ann saying that she wasn't...
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  • commercials saying "Just follow your nose!", followed by his nephews retorting, "For the fruity taste that shows!" Toucan Sam became the mascot for Froot...
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  • Ray casually challenges the mother to call the police on him, and she retorts with "don't be a dickhead". 9 3 "I Came from Your Balls?" Nash Edgerton...
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  • paper” and is best considered nothing “more than a kind of clever and angry retort.”" Girish Shahane (September 14, 2019), in response to Narasimhan et al...
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  • [citation needed] In response to Marsh's claim that the cremation oven, or "retort," was broken, the oven was tested and found to be in working order, although...
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  • adventuring party has ever successfully cleared this dungeon, but Sense retorts that a first-class mage should be up to the task. Denken suggests that...
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  • way that you feel, I don't think we should share royalties any more." His retort was: "I don't want to share anything with you anyway." It must be very tough...
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  • her ability to beat any woman at any contest, the girls from Board Girls retort that she would be unable to beat any of them in some of their favorite games...
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