There's a reason why you were called a sophist seneca. From Wordnik.com. ["The Waterboard Thrill Ride" art installation.] Reference
The surging music and tremendous themes of the poet, the sweet persuasion of the sophist were a wonder and delight. From Wordnik.com. [Lore of Proserpine] Reference
Luskin is the worst kind of sophist - the inept kind. From Wordnik.com. [Luskin Once Again Gets The Law Wrong - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Rhetoric - Selected Moments] Reference
We do not rest here, for the section moves on to the individual's desire to believe against all scepticism of "sophist" and. From Wordnik.com. ['A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_] Reference
However, if you focus on the "sophist" part of the word, "fallacious" is the correct meaning. From Wordnik.com. [CAMERA Snapshots] Reference
No! the appellation "sophist" suffices for each and all, which among men of common sense (12) sounds like a stigma. From Wordnik.com. [The Sportsman] Reference
The sophist is the despiser. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon] Reference
John McCain is a coward, a nepotist, and a sophist. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Adviser: McCain Likely To Confront Obama About Ayers At Debate] Reference
This argument is sophist and fallacious on its face. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp Hits Back At Hillary's Reagan Criticism] Reference
But I had thought this Plato was some kind of sophist. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
They are not new, for twenty-two centuries ago the sophist. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
Instead the Senator has proven herself to be a sub-sophist. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race] Reference
Dio relates that a sophist, of that name, was put to death by. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
He was a compound of the dandy, the sophist, and the agitator. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
Make yourself easy; you shall receive him back a clever sophist. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
Make yourself easy, I shall return to you an accomplished sophist. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
See, also, brilliant note of the sophist De Maistre, OEuvres, ii.p. 105. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
So I was noticed, and sent out with the sophist, my trouble all gone for nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Without her as a lifeline, it was my mom that offered a sophist word to the wise. From Wordnik.com. [Val Strange: You Are a Whole Different Person When You Are Scared] Reference
He went over the entire field of moral subtleties, and proved himself an excellent sophist. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
But now, Athens sends just one sophist with a silken tongue, and look what he has achieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
If he were a very subtle sophist himself, he was himself one on whom no sophistry could impose. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
Lest I be cast a sophist with no proof, Obama is not King – here are five additional reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Re: Obama is NOT King (And Martin Ain't Barack)] Reference
He was Anaxarchos, a tame philosopher who followed the court about; the kind Greeks call a sophist. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
A clever sophist this you speak of, who is able to compel those who have no wisdom to be rightly wise. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Attorney-General, upon whose support he had a right to depend, was an ingenious, but unsteady, sophist. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
He gave the sophist Polemo about eight thousand pounds, as the sum is calculated, for three declamations. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Not being a sophist, trained to bring out answers pat, I could only say, "But it's such marvelous theater.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Thus it is recorded that the sophist Alexinus in one of his lectures said a good many bad things about Stilpo the. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
St. Chrysostom has given us the lamentation of Libanius, the celebrated heathen sophist, bewailing the silence of Apollo at. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Accordingly, if virtue is one it can be taught, not however, by a sophist or the State, but by a philosopher, for virtue is knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Our youth is plied by the hangers-on of professor this, or sophist that, each of whom wishes the fame or the profit of having a houseful. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
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