Sentences with phrase «authorial responsibility»

The book provides a point of departure for Sunstein's playful meditation on «the force» of serendipity in constitutional law, and it illustrates how storytellers — both moviemakers and Supreme Court justices — often conceal or refuse to acknowledge authorial responsibility for serendipitous creative decisions, with claims that their discoveries were externally predetermined.

Either no author is at work bringing the plot of this story to a satisfactory conclusion, or we will have to sit down at the word processor and assume that divine authorial responsibility.

Not exact matches

Whichever metaphor we prefer, it is clear that if God recedes as a governing, directing, authorial presence whose responsibility it is to see to the good of the whole or work out the plot of the play, then human responsibility correspondingly increases and intensifies.