Sample Sentences for
sophistry
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    For once, they put the sophistry aside and used a little common sense.†  (source)
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    No sophistry of Southerners could blind her to its enormity.†  (source)
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    The sophists and the hairsplitters enjoy their finest hour.†  (source)
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    We make the Sophists: He raises up a Socrates to answer them.†  (source)
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    Even the sophistry of Whitehall paid court to that law, and Leamas got results.†  (source)
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    You sound like a sophist, boy.†  (source)
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    But I felt no need for these sophistries as I sat before my cousin, saw him, freed from his inconclusive struggle with Pindar, in his dark gray suit, his white tie, his scholar's gown; heard his grave tones and, all the time, savored the gillyflowers in full bloom under my windows.†  (source)
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    "That's a beautiful sophism," said the girl with a smile more beautiful still.†  (source)
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    I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.†  (source)
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    If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical — is false.†  (source)
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    Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenche.†  (source)
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    Or was she sophistically sensible, with a thrill of pleasure, that by adopting this course for getting rid of him she was ensuring a meeting with him, at any rate, once more?†  (source)
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    There is at this time a Parian philosopher residing in Athens, of whom I have heard; and I came to hear of him in this way:—I came across a man who has spent a world of money on the Sophists, Callias, the son of Hipponicus, and knowing that he had sons, I asked him: 'Callias,' I said, 'if your two sons were foals or calves, there would be no difficulty in finding some one to put over them; we should hire a trainer of horses, or a farmer probably, who would improve and perfect them in their own proper virtue and excellence; but as they are human beings, whom are you thinking of placing over them?†  (source)
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