Sentences with phrase «of scare quotes»

I used to think the use of scare quotes was a matter of writers being too lazy to find the right word, to find the words that would say precisely what the writer meant.

The first use of scare quotes (with a hyphen) I could find was from a 1946 nonfiction book.

Not exact matches

Or maybe that should be the Occupy «Movement,» with scare - quotes softening any suggestion that an actual social movement of any scope has arisen and persisted.

Major newspapers have begun to put the phrase «religious freedom» in scare quotes, as if everybody understands that it is just a cover for bigotry abusing the sacred name of liberty.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Despite a major scare against Dnipro in the round of 32, Tottenham remain as second favourites to win the Europa League this season with most bookmakers quoting around the 6/1 — 7/1 mark.

Brad Gill, executive director of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York, is quoted in a June 6 article in the Hudson Valley Business Journal about hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale in New York: «The state must not continue to squander this once - in - a-generation opportunity by pandering to those who twist the facts, exaggerate the problems and scare the public into thinking that natural gas exploration is new or unsafe.»

Funny that you quote Remski, considering he's posing as an expert and trying to scare people out of doing some poses all together by claiming they are dangerous — all while refusing to address questions regarding his experience and training as a yoga practitioner and teacher.

One of my all - time favorite quotes is: «If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough.»

The «museum» — it's tempting to envision the entire endeavor encapsulated in giant scare quotes — is one part extension of their couch - potato humor and one part conversation piece.

Notice the scare quotes — anything with a starting price tag of $ 184,900 is unlikely to be a bargain - basement proposition, but the sharply styled Brit nevertheless goes without some key McLaren tech in its quest for a more accessible price point.

I'm fond of quoting Rachel Thompson's advice here: write what scares you, and pick a couple or three topics that really get you going.

Is anyone actually 100 % clear whether Amazon is «offering» (scare quotes, because a leaked letter floating an idea to only a few authors isn't an actual offer) to give $ 9.99 for every e-book sold straight to the authors, or just offering to give Amazon's share of $ 9.99 as long as Hachette agrees to hand over their share?

It's amazing to me but we've actually had homeowners calling in lately after receiving quotes as much at three quarters of a percent higher in rate and some with origination fee above what we can do for them and then they tell me that the other lender told them that either we were going to «make it up in other fees» or other cautionary comments meant to scare the borrowers into staying with them at a higher rate.

Of course, put the word «good» in scare quotes — some personal finance experts would rather refer to it as «better debt» versus «worse debt,» with the understanding that all debt is inherently bad.

But for stubbornness or history or family tradition or whatever, I do still have some of my money «actively» invested (scare quotes due to lack of trades and tracking and analysis, etc., particularly over the past two years).

But while most adults know enough not to be scared of ghosts, they do get concerned about Ellicott City insurance quotes.

Though McKever was a backer of this project, her verbal scare quotes and proscriptions against institutional engagement with such objects signaled that she was not a fan.

Virtue — NO scare quotes this time (something you probably didn't understand of Digby's post)-- is not a requirement.

A compilation of cooling scare quotes includes items from 1971 and especially from 1975 to 1977 and none later, Bray (1991).

I put the word «market» in scare quotes because a sealed - bid auction barely qualifies — we'll get a better idea of market price when trades start happening on a regular basis.

Sorry about the scare quotes about «forecast», but one degree of freedom plus the slight problem that the paper was published in 2005, half way into the forecast period.

Exactly forty - two years later, Dr. Michael Crichton noted this root cause of the AGW scare in his Michelin Lecture at Caltech on 17 Jan 2003 (See text quoted above).

More to the point, will it be needed, once climate «science» loses its scare quotes, and starts doing a proper job of researching climate, instead of trying to convict Carbon?

Some of the furry climate change group are being quite critical of Roger P Jr. accusing him of being «horrors» (please note scare quotes) the congressional Republicans favorite son and their choice to testify at the recent US House hearing on climate.

And when the wind isn't blowing, you can use the rotating inertia (notice the lack of «scare quotes») from CCGT.

The scare quotes are because I am one of those recalcitrants who still can not see how such a statistic has any real world meaning.

Before we started this site we agreed that use of the word «Climategate» without appropriate scare quotes makes a comment clear borehole fodder.

One of the ironies in the public «debate» — I use scare quotes since what is transpiring is not a true debate, but rather a competition between an organized disinformation campaign to deny the reality of climate change, and a counter effort to provide a more realistic picture — is that the IPCC is constantly accused of «alarmism,» and is consciously, intentionally, and consistently conservative in their claims.

Yes I wrote this article (no scare quotes needed Nasif) but nowhere does the arguments laid out hinge on a derived value of absorptivity.

I try to use «scare quotes» and I mention, right at the top of my topics, that the Atmospheric «greenhouse effect» works differently from a physical greenhouse.

Unfortunately the Royal Society did not examine the more interesting questions of what fracking means for the climate, hence the scare quotes in the title of this post.

So we went after scare quotes with the equivalent of Raid — that spray that carried the slogan, coined by the beat poet Bob Kaufman in his day job in advertising — «Raid Kills Bugs Dead.»

The first use of the term scare quotes (without a hyphen) dates back to at least 1956, when it was used by a University of Cambridge professor in a philosophical essay.

Some individuals may be scared of the insurance policy rate quotes that are presented to them.

Of course, put the word «good» in scare quotes — some personal finance experts would rather refer to it as «better debt» versus «worse debt,» with the understanding that all debt is inherently bad.

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Another fan, 43 - year - old Hiroshi Kasahara, who runs an ad agency, said: «I have been trading stocks and forex but not bitcoin or other virtual currencies as I was a bit scared of them... But [now] I feel like opening an account» if the group accepts payment only in bitcoin, he was quoted by Arab News.

Oh, I'm not sure what part of Esty's quote scared you, Kim, (maybe using the word «discipline» instead of the word «teach»?)