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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No sophistry of Southerners could blind her to its enormity.† (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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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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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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—a gentle reproach which testified to the genuine goodness of her nature, not that it was prompted by any resentment at hearing her father spoken of in this fashion (for that was evidently a feeling which she had trained herself, by a long course of sophistries, to keep in close subjection at such moments), but rather because it was the bridle which, so as to avoid all appearance of egotism, she herself used to curb the gratification which her friend was attempting to procure for her.† (source)
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There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise.† (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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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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We make the Sophists: He raises up a Socrates to answer them.† (source)
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