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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'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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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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When a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word (section Oral arguments)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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against Marsh. 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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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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walks in on Neil and Diane kissing and mocks them. Later at a bar, Neil retorts that he is sick of Kevin's mistreatment and tells him to leave, breaking...
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first and last time. Spicer, in characteristic fashion, wrote a lengthy retort in The Tombstone Epitaph, in which he wrote: I have been reviled and slandered...
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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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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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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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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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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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Indigenous Aryanism (redirect from Indigenous Aryans arguments)
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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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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Visual Dasan of Kalki wrote 'when public does wrong the police retorts, who will retort if police does wrong', this one line plot is backed up by a screenplay...
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landscape have adopted the genre. In the course of constructing their argument, artists often include a wealth of references to past events and transgressions...
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Longo appeals against his sentence, of Longo's manipulative nature. Longo retorts by pointing out Finkel's success with his book about their encounters,...
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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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