Sentences with phrase «scare quotes»

Who else would have a personal breakthrough while putting identity in scare quotes?

And using scare quotes might be the beginning of better legal writing.

That's because lawyers put scare quotes on words, terms, and phrases they would not use otherwise.

And if scare quotes make lawyers comfortable enough to start using more plain language, their use might be a good thing.

If you still think scare quotes are always bad, look at how lawyers use them as a way to express understatement.

I use «free» in scare quotes because Kindle Unlimited is not a free program.

If lawyers stop disarming themselves by using legalese, maybe they won't need scare quotes.

I find your use of scare quotes condescending.

I use scare quotes there because the film forces us to judge Alex and also to examine our own gendered standards.

What you are describing are not «gatekeepers» and putting the word «science» in scare quotes when referring to science journals only makes you look like a fool.

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.

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).

This «great idea» (scare quotes definitely justified) did not get crowdfunded.

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.

Greenberg suggested this process attained a level of «purity» (a word he only used within scare quotes) that would reveal the truthfulness of the canvas, and the two - dimensional aspects of the space (flatness).

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

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.

Here, we'll divide scare quotes into two categories:

Now for the colloquial scare quotes.

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.»

I'll address scare quotes last.

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.

The «problem» — scare quotes usage — with making judgments more readable is that that this tends to demystify the legal profession.

Presuming that sales don't fall off, another way to look at it would be that participating in the Humble Bundle sped up sales by that last timespan divided by the length of the Humble Bundle run — at a «cost» of the 66 % per unit... and «cost» is in scare quotes because it's really unclear if those sales would have happened without the Humble Bundle.

Most abuses of quotation marks fall under the broad, nebulous label of scare quotes.

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.

Those scare quotes are because it's not true, come on.

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.

The scare quotes are telling.

Some prominent Christian political activists said that those who could not in good conscience stand with either of the major party candidates last year were guilty of «moral preening» and of putting our consciences before the country, sometimes even putting the words «conscience» and «witness» in scare quotes, a rhetorical gesture worthy of an Obama administration solicitor general.

Of course, Ryan is a scholar, without the scare quotes, who's earned a Ph.D. in political science at Notre Dame, co-authored What Is Marriage?

Aren't the scare quotes around «wife» an insult to adults who are trying their best to live good, decent lives?

I've heard that being into pumpkin stuff is «basic,» but those scare quotes should tell you that I'm old enough to not fully understand what basic means.

(Ah, scare quotes.)

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.

There's a reason why I put «publishing» in scare quotes.

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?

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.

Games «journalists» have a long way to go before they're trusted enough to remove the scare quotes from their supposed profession.