Sentences with phrase «slippery concept»

It's also a gleeful get out of jail free card for the filmmakers to take liberties with «fact», as slippery a concept as that becomes.

It is the contradictions in his work which produce a kind of dynamism; mathematical vs. optical illusion, or psychedelic vs. classicism; a human framework for slippery concepts.

A tiny, tiny number of general counsel in big corporate organisations are doing amazing work with big data and outcomes and all the other things required to tie down slippery concepts like «quality» and «value», but they are the exception, not the rule, and, meanwhile, the headlong pursuit of process poses a systemic risk to Law itself.

However, Amin Maalouf, a French - Lebanese cultural Christian, argues that identity can be a slippery concept and a potentially dangerous game.

Knowledge is a slippery concept: what we know, how we know we know it, what we know others know, what others know of what we know, how what we or they know differs from what we just believe.

The infinite has always been a slippery concept.

Ultimately, age is a slippery concept to define, but is perhaps best left in the eye of the beholder (would you believe that Art De Vany, pictured below, is 73 years young?)

Meaning, while a slippery concept, seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral values.

As Jack's hidden past catches up with him, the seams of this tiny town begin to tear, and the emerging truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray.

A Code of Ethics is a slippery concept.

Democratic Intuition, the most recent of Mokgosi's multi-chapter projects, considers the slippery concept of democracy as an idea that is inscribed in individuals through institutions, ideology, and culture.

The course also asks us to consider the slippery concept of ownership of place.