Sentences with phrase «often obscure the fact»

Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.

Scientific classifications often obscure the fact that «different modes of natural existence often shade off into each other» (MT 18).

Not exact matches

This fact has often been obscured by those writing about play.

In fact, as will become all too clear, Deleuze's response to this problem is often no less vague, obscure, at times near tautologous, than Whitehead's own.

Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that the text is often corrupt, and the language obscure to modern scholars.

The foundation also highlights the increasing number of working people who live in poverty, a fact often obscured in policy discussions and shows such as Benefits Street.

In this context, I'm troubled by the misinformation on which Americans all - too - often base their political beliefs — from both the politicians who obscure facts as they compete for votes and the news outlets that aim to satisfy a partisan audience.

They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie.

Opioid addiction is often described as an «equal opportunity» problem that can afflict people from all races and walks of life, but while true enough, this obscures the fact that the opioid crisis has particularly affected some of the poorest regions of the country, such as Appalachia, and that people living in poverty are especially at risk for...

The fact that you can find and buy so many of the classic PC games I refer to in these columns is often due to their hard work in tracking down obscure rights and licenses.

Criticisms aside, I particularly like the fact they included some obscure European eccentrics - it's not often you see the Russian Marussia B2, the Spanish GTA Spano and the Dutch Savage Rivale GTR - S in the same game.

Peter Coffin, whose practice includes photography, assemblage, performance, time - based media, installations, sound art, and sculpture in many forms, often uses art history, odd facts or obscure theories as a departure point for his surreal reinventions.

It requires an analytical approach and one should bear in mind the rather harsh old adage that the lawyer who acts for himself has — all too often — a fool for a client; in short, anger may obscure essential facts.