Sentences with phrase «out of whole cloth»

Likewise, the totals attributed to previous presidents appear to have been invented out of whole cloth.

You're so angry that not everyone believes as you do that you have to invent a narrative out of whole cloth just to understand the world around you.

You may be able to create a job out of whole cloth.

Sometimes, however, dedicated activists seem to literally make up studies out of whole cloth, or ideological scientists perform dubious studies to create fodder for their side.

Why in the world would making up a root password create a root account out of whole cloth?

Comics created out of whole cloth by Greg Rucka and Devin Grayson, co-creators of Kate Kate / Batwoman:

As Scalia's dissent makes clear, the majority opinion in Lawrence epitomizes everything that is wrong with the contemporary Court» its arbitrariness, its contempt for democratic governance, its constant readiness to fashion new constitutional rights out of whole cloth.

No one can accuse him of fabricating an allegation out of whole cloth.

That's right, even making up a God out of whole cloth will work.

kermit4jc And maybe the guys who wrote the Jewish scriptures realized that the people knew about mythical god creatures too, and invented YHWH out of whole cloth.

All that one need do, therefore, if the ordinary materialist should challenge one to explain how the brain can be an organ for limiting and determining to a certain form a consciousness elsewhere produced, is to retort with a tu quoque, asking him in turn to explain how it can be an organ for producing consciousness out of whole cloth.

He «admitted» it was a mistake, but anyone with a bit of sense could see that letting bankers have a free hand in making up derivatives out of whole cloth was criminal and insane and it led directly to the CDS fallout.

As Teachout notes, composers such as Stravinsky, Bart» k, Hindemith, and Shostakovich embraced their places in the great tradition of Western art «and sought to expand the frontiers of tonality, rather than arrogantly seeking to create «new» musical languages out of whole cloth.»

We do not for a moment mean to suggest that Gen. 12 - 50 was created out of whole cloth as an allegorical, fictional, personalized «history» of Israel....

A draft of the new maps for the State Senate created three districts out of whole cloth and pushed seven Democratic incumbents into four districts.

If one wants to understand the motivations of an alien presence that has landed on Earth via a meteorite, that person will have to either look elsewhere or create a motive out of whole cloth.

«Shattered Glass» (Lions Gate) Star New Republic reporter Stephen Glass was hoisted on his own petard when editors discovered he made up stories out of whole cloth.

I agree with you that good teachers recognize the value of phonemic awareness and phonological awareness, but if the curriculum they are assigned doesn't include it adequately and they didn't receive proper training on the essentials of reading instruction, it's left to them to make up curriculum out of whole cloth.

Because few breeds developed out of whole cloth and most breeds were produced in relative isolation by experimenting with crosses, back - crosses, and out - crosses, breed histories are replete with suppositions and speculations.

Kahn often paints from memory; occasionally he invents a nature scene out of whole cloth.

Creativity isn't only about making entirely new things out of whole cloth.

I'll close by briefly addressing another argument — one the challengers made up out of whole cloth late in the game, after the Supreme Court decided in American Electric Power that Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act does indeed authorize EPA to curb the carbon dioxide emissions of the nation's power plants.

As was said in a recent glowing tribute to Judge C.G. Weeramantry, Lord Diplock said, «Judges make law in bits and pieces; Authors write entire texts and make law out of whole cloth».

Centra Tech drastically exaggerated its connections, but as the complaint notes, it also spun up its c - suite out of whole cloth, going so far as to falsify these executives» credentials as well (emphasis ours):

The man spearheading the transformation of the former Valley View Mall into a new community called Dallas Midtown, Scott Beck, CEO of Beck Ventures, agrees that creating new communities out of whole cloth is the answer for many distressed malls — but not all.

Without the benefit of any constitutional text or interpretive history to lend meaning to the term «education,» federal courts would be fabricating a new substantive right out of whole cloth.

The digital photography is crummy, and the characters who most need to convince... feel created out of whole cloth.

This historical context does not mean, however, that scholars think Leviticus was made up out of whole cloth by exiled priests in the sixth century B.C.E. No doubt the priestly writers brought to their task memories or traditions of what once had been and so should be again.

«Before Brexit, there was Grexit and the European sovereign debt crisis, Scotland's independence referendum, and the U.S. legislative gridlock over its debt ceiling in 2011, which threatened to, out of whole cloth, create a default in the global benchmark risk - free asset,» Zezas adds.

Before Brexit, there was Grexit and the European sovereign debt crisis, Scotland's independence referendum, and the U.S. legislative gridlock over its debt ceiling in 2011, which threatened to, out of whole cloth, create a default in the global benchmark risk - free asset.

The modern day epithet of being a flat earther seems to have originated in the 19th century in a short story by Washington Irving, who made it up out of whole cloth.

Some were passed on in trusted circles while others were made up out of whole cloth.

It is all made up out of whole cloth.

The Royals could play in the shallower end of the free agent pool, bringing back Ervin Santana or looking to Brandon McCarthy or Francisco Liriano, but these options offer far less reliability than «Even Keel» Shields (look, if other people get to just make up «Big Game James» out of whole cloth, I get to make up my own, more appropriate, nickname).

A Bronco exec making this up out of whole cloth and giving it to the media to squash a fire that doesn't exist seems unlikely.

Note that this isn't some metric I'm making up out of whole cloth; I think back in 2007 or so the New York Times ran a series of articles on class differences in modern America, and they said that one of the best indicators of someone's economic class is whether they have goods and services that took a lot of labor to make, or whether their daily life doesn't command a lot of human resources.

Just taking quotes out of context and making claims up out of whole cloth.

The character's names reveal that Superbad, while mostly made up out of whole cloth, is emotionally autobiographical for writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

I confess it seems more than a touch unfair that while its primary competitors, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln, have both been dogged by questions of historical accuracy, no one seems to care that large portions of Argo — in particular the last act, featuring skin - of - the - teeth escape after skin - of - the - teeth escape — were made up out of whole cloth.

Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama.

Reilly Brown is one of those guys I'm referring to whenever I admit that I'm not making these digital techniques up out of whole cloth — I'm standing on the shoulders of others.