Sample Sentences forsophistry (editor-reviewed)
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Where facts failed her, she used sophistry.sophistry = the use of seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
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Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. (source)
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He sees that they consistently are doing exactly that which they accuse the Sophists of doing…using emotionally persuasive language for the ulterior purpose of making the weaker argument, (source)Sophists = people who use seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
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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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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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The sophists and the hairsplitters enjoy their finest hour.† (source)
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For once, they put the sophistry aside and used a little common sense.† (source)
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You sound like a sophist, boy.† (source)
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The other delegates from America—red-headed Schwartz with his saint's face and his infinite patience in straddling two worlds, as well as dozens of commercial alienists with hang-dog faces, who would be present partly to increase their standing, and hence their reach for the big plums of the criminal practice, partly to master novel sophistries that they could weave into their stock in trade, to the infinite confusion of all values.† (source)
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Deerslayer, on the other hand, manifested a very different temper, proving by the moderation of his language, the fairness of his views, and the simplicity of his distinctions, that he possessed every disposition to hear reason, a strong, innate desire to do justice, and an ingenuousness that was singularly indisposed to have recourse to sophism to maintain an argument; or to defend a prejudice.† (source)
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Conscience is the chaos of chimeras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions.† (source)
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He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans thought them good and were following the best they knew.† (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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We make the Sophists: He raises up a Socrates to answer them.† (source)
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