Sentences with phrase «out of whole cloth as»
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....
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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.
The white belly followed, tapering, and then, trailing behind, the fan of its tail and long parallel legs of crimson lacquer, the toes of each of them closed and streamlined, but the whole shape flattening, when the band of sunlight was crossed, into a two - dimensional shadow once more, enormously displayed across the rectangle of cloth, as distinct and nearly as immobile, so languid was its flight, as an emblematic bird on a sail; then sliding across it and along the nearly still corridor of air between the invisible eaves and the chimneys, dipping along the curl of the lane like a sigh of wonder, and, at last, a furlong away slowly pivoting, at a gradual tilt, out of sight.
Sometimes it's hard for me to think of this novel as something I created, because I never sat down and planned it out as a whole, the way you might cut and piece together a suit from a bolt of cloth (as I'd always imagined a novel gets written).
In order to sex up CO2 greenhouse warming to a point that might make it scary the climate boffins invented, out of whole cloth with no empircal data to back it up, an imaginary «amplification» where a little CO2 warming increases greenhouse warming by water vapor by twice as much.
Just as you would never discuss baby names or china patterns on a first social date, you should not expect virtual strangers to read your mind, know your values, goals and plans, and create something for you out of whole cloth after just 20 minutes.
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».