This casuistry is too much for Cromwell, who loses his composure for the first and only time. From Wordnik.com. [The Men Who Made England] Reference
We can see how and why the word casuistry received the particular coloring with which it is now connected. From Wordnik.com. [CASUISTRY] Reference
The word casuistry (literally “concern with individual cases”) has been used in three different, if connected meanings. From Wordnik.com. [CASUISTRY] Reference
It is from this dispute that the word 'casuistry' got its bad name. From Wordnik.com. [Casuistry] Reference
This kind of casuistry is very common and very demoralizing; but it shows how rigid the law is. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
By 'casuistry' I mean casuistry in the older technical sense the application of general moral principles to cases rather than in the more modern colloquial sense. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
This stricture would apply even if Fischer used "casuistry" not in the normally understood sense of the term but in the sense suggested by his quotation from the OED. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened in Iran?] Reference
By a casuistry which is now elevated into an economic principle, but which has no defenders outside the realm of banking. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Totten's Weblog] Reference
An act of clever casuistry on part of Sanchez, I reckon. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
No amount of casuistry over the wording of 242 alters that fact. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Earnest men in this world have no time for subtleties and casuistry. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
Protectionists typically rely on casuistry to defend their position. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Schram: Good Riddance, Cash for Clunkers] Reference
Your casuistry is, as always, is your best shot at intellectual integrity. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
You see, casuistry and even "majoritarianism" helps little in these situations. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
My answer is simple and free from all attempts at casuistry: simply because we must. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
In an atmosphere of this kind, casuistry does not unfold; there is just no call for it. From Wordnik.com. [CASUISTRY] Reference
Many of its injunctions are intensely minute and hair-splitting to the extreme of casuistry. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Later on, both legalism and its unavoidable adjunct and opposite, casuistry, received new impetus. From Wordnik.com. [CASUISTRY] Reference
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”. From Wordnik.com. [Believe Me, It's Torture] Reference
Let's say this nonsense statement of tricked-out casuistry and wishful thinking could possibly be true. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kelly: Bristol Palin Dances, Pregnant, on Lisa Murkowski's Grave] Reference
I should like you to think out that problem in casuistry more for yourself, before I attempt to answer it. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
All his human weakness, his casuistry and his common sense, rose up to betray him and turn him from his work. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
Page 258, Volume 1 because legalism was well-nigh lacking in Greece that casuistry, too, was largely unknown. From Wordnik.com. [CASUISTRY] Reference
Perhaps after all this question of the moral element in the causes of war is a futile one, and leads to casuistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
He attained fame as a master of casuistry, and out of his lectures to students at Cologne grew his celebrated book. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
It is no more the duty of the moral law to set about codifying laws than it is of the conscience to practise casuistry. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Intolerance, however, is not persecution; and, if it were, the casuistry of the question is open still to much discussion. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
If they weren't bright enough to pull off a piece of minor casuistry like that, they wouldn't be where they are in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Ian Fletcher: Economics vs. Fakeonomics] Reference
In this case, it is the philosophers who are being realistic, while the realists 'rhetoric grows from an unspoken philosophic casuistry. From Wordnik.com. [In memoriam, MLK] Reference
Lake Leman were no neophytes, nor had they to unlearn the casuistry of the schools or to throw off a monastic indolence which habit had made a second nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
But he has the gnomic faculty that can convey truths of general experience in aphoristic form, and he can wind into a debatable moral issue with adroit casuistry. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
And it is worth noting that with the exception of a little gain from the practice of casuistry, religions have contributed nothing towards the building up of a science of ethics. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
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