Sentences with phrase «verbal justification for it»

«Porn is the new rock and roll and what this piece of art is, in my opinion, is verbal justification for it.

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But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).

When she talks about mutual verbal provocation [FN39] in these relationships, the echo of the justification so commonly used by batterers, that their partners provoked them by asserting independence or failing to comply with (often unreasonable) demands, makes Johnston's account uncomfortable reading for those whose primary constituencies are perpetrators or victims of battering.