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In the meeting, my brothers argued that none of the other boys we knew were washing the dishes, so why should our family be any different?
In his important work "The Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith argued, amongst many other things, that the measurement of a country's wealth was not just its gold and silver reserves.
In 1892, the US Army general Richard Henry Pratt argued that killing indigenous cultures was the only alternative to killing indigenous people.
The 18th-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was called the “new Diogenes” when he argued that the arts, sciences, and technology, corrupt people.
They argued that humans are born free, and thrown into existence without a divine plan.
In "The Ethics of Ambiguity" she argued that our greatest ethical imperative is to create our own life’s meaning, while protecting the freedom of others to do the same.
And to “become” a woman, she argued, was to become the Other.
As the Other, she argued that women were considered second to men, and therefore systematically restricted from pursuing freedom.
Nonetheless, that's how it was presented, and at trial nobody even argued it.
And so to avoid idealizing, you have to balance them out by remembering their frown, not just their smile, how bad they made you feel, the fact that after the lovemaking, you got lost coming down the mountain, argued like crazy and didn't speak for two days.
Now, keep in mind that Rudy never wanted to shoot the kid in the first place, and Angelo and he argued over the wrong-headedness of the hit.
When a friend once lambasted me for my first movie (a pretty bad videotaped affair), I argued that I could grow; Orson Welles' first movie, indeed, was even worse.
It showed exactly how the government and the scientist argued for humanity and the reasons of the "gadget".
Think of what its director, William Wyler, faced; in the aftermath of a military victory over statist powers who had committed abominable crimes and engulfed the world if battles, he was making a film that argued that the US's leaders were themselves profoundly anti-individual--that they had "wasted the best years of the lives of those drafted or misled into fighting the war--which since it ignored the rights of individuals had been for nothing except argument over the degree of slavery men were to exist under."
Together with "Frenzy", it's probably the most argued film among the fans of Hitchcock.
It could be argued that the actual mystery here is not one Christie's best but what makes 'The Hollow' special is the characterisation and I found the actors here, more or less without exception, were perfect in their parts.
It could be argued that a lot of the time is spent on the people, with the craft and the result of their collaborative efforts coming in second.
Eastwood and director Don Siegel rightfully argued that the ending should be unexpected and should be unhappy for a few reasons.
But please don't make the mistake of believing that what is recorded here has any general relevance for humanity in the way that a film by Jean Renoir or Martin Scorsese might be argued to have.
People have argued that while this movie is terribly-acted and terribly-produced but it comes through with a witty intelligent script.
I have to say many people have argued that some of us need to get with the times cause the new "Dukes" movie is a modernized version.
I argued with myself whether to rent this or not.
It could easily be argued that it is a fantasy or a drama as well.
The argument he presents was new to me and argued about how the fortune of the right crops and the right animals that where able to domesticated is certainly a compelling one.
John Michael Hayes did a fine job of adapting the book, tightening the plot and losing most of the cynicism, though it can be argued that the book's feminist slant was lost in the process as well.
But I think it can also be argued that single men are in danger too.
I have read them all and even the ones I disagree strongly with are well - argued and,in the spirit of fairness have marked them up positively for their style if not their content.
Jayston plays wonderfully the role: all the attributes that Bronte wrote about her hero are well argued by Jayston's fine, subtle and clever acting: tortured spirit, sometimes stern and abrupt, sometimes kind and genial, eccentric, good story-teller, full of passion, masterful, yet submissive in Jane's presence, with deep and mellow voice, and playing a cat-mouse game with Jane.
If the women are rarely more than eye candy, the men are compelled to wrestle with the various technological & situational challenges that the storyline tosses at them--which they do less well than my friends & I did in first grade when we played in our backyards & argued about what was supposed to happen next.
"Civil union" instead of marriage is like the old segregationist policy "Separate but equal", which the late Thurgood Marshall argued, if it's separate, it's not equal.
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