Sentences with phrase «obfuscating language»

The notion made for a good segue into her essay «The Islands of Evasion: Notes on International Art English» (2003), included in Social medium as a response to arguments — from Hito Steyerl, Martha Rosler, and others — regarding the obfuscating language used in e-flux press releases and other explanatory art texts.

I think that Bogle could have used less obfuscating language (pun intended) to get his point across, assuming that he is really only trying to point out that ETFs used as trading vehicles, (often) carry the same over-all dismal performance as any other instrument, if those instruments are used in an attempt to time the markets.

Not exact matches

Chilton said,» Unless this language is written to avoid it, this could blow a huge hole in the Volcker Rule and would obfuscate the intent of Congress and President Obama when the financial reform legislation became law in 2010.»

And then I recognized that my academic language of distancing analysis and explanation also served to obfuscate the clear moral dimensions of life and the need to choose between right and wrong, and that on some issues analysis or explanation is itself a form of collusion.

If the language we use is communicating false promises to others and obfuscating about the speaker's ongoing struggles with sin, then there is a problem.

Its prose is terrible, it uses obfuscating and unclear language for the sake of seeming grandiose (irony intended), its repettion is attrocious.

Its always hilarious to listen to you Liberal Leftists try to obfuscate what you really mean by creating these absurd permutations of the English language.

Yet to simply describe the film in such reductive, point - of - reference language seems to obfuscate the most triumphant reason to celebrate the minimalist action movie: it was the announcement of a fresh, formalist voice in the world of genre filmmaking.

The confounding of language at its most basic level reduces us to a state of civic catatonia: we can't think about these issues, let alone discuss them or act against them, when they've been so obfuscated, when words have been so twisted.»

All climate scientists junking the null hypothesis are piltdown man makers, the missing no longer link between real scientists and all conmen using language to obfuscate in support of vested interests, their own.