Sentences with phrase «scarry points»

As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in Pain, to someone who suffers pain, nothing is more certain than the pain; she suggests that the experience of pain may be as close to a textbook case of «certainty» as we have.

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Any of my attempts to discuss the healthy diet were either dismissed, denied, or treated with anger, at one point even mocked: (Hence it has been a very scarry and lonely journey in search of sources articulating my own belief in natural healing processes.

Advertising — and not painting — is the contemporary arbiter of what is beautiful (a point made eloquently by Elaine Scarry in her 1997 book On Beauty) which is a bone - chilling thought.