Sentences with phrase «story than an argument»

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, and in the piece they discuss why stories are much more influential than facts (again, a conclusion backed by numerous studies) through their ability to change emotional beliefs in a way that «logical» arguments just can't touch.

As behavioral psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained on her blog recently (via a great personal story, of course), by putting us in their protagonists» shoes, stories manage to engage more of the brain than straight recitations of facts or dry arguments, leading to more arousal and interest.

When I recently recorded my own video response to Fry (available at premierchristianity.com/blog), rather than giving five bulletproof arguments I chose to tell a story written by one of his literary heroes, Oscar Wilde.

The series, in effect, is an argument in favor of these stories, albeit on different grounds — scientific rather than religious or philosophical — though Bingham appears not to know this.

A substantial tome at 384 pages of text plus almost 800 footnotes, Huck's Raft is more a compendium of information than a sustained argument, but it's a reasonably lively read because Mintz knows how to tell a story.

@Frogist If knowing the full story and background of someones opinion or argument means I am a conspiracy theorist than you need to look up the meaning of the words bud, sorry but you FAIL!

However, know that sniffing out only the stories of greed and abuse in the church while ignoring all the stories of actual progress for society that it brings pretty much negates all of your arguments to that of an obsessed critic with nothing better to do than make up facts against the church.

The Daily News dismisses the «spooky stories» constitutional convention opponents are using in their campaign to block a «yes» vote, saying their arguments are «no more believable than a bad zombie movie.»

These patients» individual stories, as told via the media or testimony on Capitol Hill, may be more compelling than arguments based on data and may thus contribute to the rising pressure to accelerate FDA approvals, according to bioethicist Bernard Lo, who is president of the Greenwall Foundation.

Other than that split screen scene, no convincing argument is made to translate the story from the stage to film.

Not only must they find relevant quotations that support their argument (rather than simply summarizing the story), but they must do so while maintaining a formal tone and smooth style.

While there was some data from the Center for Teaching through Children's Books that seemed to show children actually learn less and retain less content and demonstrate a lower level of comprehension when reading an enhanced ebook app (there's simply too much distracting content that takes away from the story line), Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, countered that argument with the explanation that e-readers are engaging reluctant and disinterested readers in higher numbers than ever before.

Climate science debates occur every day in the blogosphere and on cable news shows, but this particular fight about a major temperature record (and therefore, major news story) highlights the extent to which many boil down to mere contradiction and rejections of facts, rather than arguments based on competing lines of evidence.

If Plimer has anything new to add rather than the same old arguments that have been doing the rounds on the internet for years then he's had plenty of opportunities to make them public with the very soft treatment he's had from many in the press (Tony Jones being an honorable exception), yet it's all been the same old story.

US defamation law allows private persons to prove and recover actual damages using a negligence standard (rather than the more stringent actual malice standard) 172 on the basis that private persons are more vulnerable to injury than public figures and their reputations are more deserving of protection.173 That recognition is consistent with the argument advanced herein, namely that there is something qualitatively different about individuals who possess reputation as celebrity: their discursive power to yoke the media to their reputation - constructing ends.174 Discursive power is the ability not just to erect a website putting his or her version of the story online (which virtually anyone can now do), but also the ability to cause mass media outlets to devote attention to his or her side of the story.

Mr. Jarvis in the above story would no doubt approve, but there's more to the plaintiff's argument than being a reactionary.

The problem is not that they are valueless, but that they are much less valuable and much less genuinely respectful of serious attachment to either facts or reasoned elaboration than they appear to be, much more susceptible to «bullshitting,» and in the end, in my view, more damaging than some fake story on Facebook to serious discourse or an attachment to integrity and seriousness in thinking and argument.

There are arguments on both sides of the aisle: for some, even Fiverr's open pricing plan (where members can price services higher than five dollars, which calls its whole naming convention into question, but that's a different story) sets a floor too low to take the creative work of artists and writers seriously; for others, it's a great way to jumpstart your career or take on small odd jobs to make ends meet.