Sentences with phrase «convenient fiction»

People tell themselves whatever convenient fiction they need to, reality be damned.

Just as O.J. somehow distilled America's racial pathologies and JonBenét encapsulated anxieties about an increasingly sexualized culture, Tonya's very existence confronted the country's convenient fictions about being a place where everyone has a fair shot, where an even playing field is the rule.

«Separate «things,» «forms,» «objects,» «shapes,» etc., with beginnings and endings are mere convenient fictions,» wrote Robert Smithson in these pages in 1968.

But climate models are not convenient fictions.

Authority is a consensus human construct and a convenient fiction to which humanity has been in bondage for millenia.

The 1970s made King's supernatural realism possible, in a sense, by teaching Americans that reason and progress and enlightenment might be little more than convenient fictions, and that there are darker things in heaven and earth than had been dreamt of by George Eliot or John Cheever.

This assumption is a convenient fiction created by the pharmaceutical industry (and perpetuated by the medical establishment) to sell and market different drugs for different conditions.

This is about labor and management, and power and control all dressed up in the convenient fiction of «Kids First.»

• $ 360,000 to Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP) which supported and funded An Inconvenient Truth... or Convenient Fiction,

With more law firms claiming to have deep EDD expertise, «much of this is a convenient fiction, useful for marketing but of questionable veracity when it comes to client service.»