Sentences with phrase «about provocative language»

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Owen Barfield is a British literary theorist and philologist who has extrapolated from Goethe, Coleridge, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Friedrich Max Muller in order to argue that language is basically and naturally metaphorical.8 Reasoning from this thesis, Barfield has also had some provocative things to say about the evolution of consciousness.9

Here is an interesting and provocative quote by Matthew Remski from his blog post about Krishnamacharya / Desikachar lineage: «Things might be simpler if we just ditched the language of lineage altogether.

Quentin Tarantino's darkly funny western about a freed slave turned bounty hunter won the Best Original Screenplay award, despite the controversy surrounding its use of racially provocative language.

I've long intended writing a piece with the provocative title of «the Nazi Thing» on the puzzling question of what it is about the climate debate which makes people on both sides resort to using language like «denier,» «death trains» on the one hand, and «eco-fascism» on the other, when it's so obviously counterproductive.