Sentences with phrase «defense against the critic»

It is, I suppose, a defense in the same ad hominem sense in which his assertion of the centrality of happiness as an object of desire is a defense against the critic who denies the desirability of happiness.

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One defense against such criticisms offered by the paid - time broadcasters is that these critics have failed to realize the significant difference between print media and electronic media.

Stefanik, he said, has been an outspoken critic of defense cuts and has consistently fought against sequestration, which was successfully suspended.

Other extras include an astute audio commentary (dating back to 2009) with Australian critic Adrian Martin, who mounts a defense of Welles against a school of critical thought that considers him to be suffering from a kind of creative malaise in the section of his career that The Immortal Story kicked off.

As a critic and artist, Patrick Heron has long played the role of David in his defense of postwar British abstraction against the American Goliath of AbEx.

Nor would it be necessary to concoct accusations against scientist critics as a first - resort defense of the issue, and there'd be no need to tie it into unrelated social injustice issues, or collaborate with governments via any army in order to ram it down everybody's throats.

He explains that a SLAPP is a «strategic lawsuit against public participation,» a suit intended to censor or intimidate critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

A SLAPP suit, or strategic lawsuit against public participation, is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.