In particular, one must resist efforts to ventriloquize the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Remember] Reference
They can ventriloquize as anthropologists, report as journalists; they can confess, philosophize, they can leer as pornographers, or become as wide-eyed as children. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the History of Fiction] Reference
It was not after all Social Text that drew the absurd conclusion about authoritarianism and elitism; it was Sokal, trying to ventriloquize work he didn't fully understand. From Wordnik.com. [Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange] Reference
I asked the questions, and was of course supposed to ventriloquize the answers, and, thanks to the glassy stare of my doll, her replies almost convinced the audience I was doing so. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
You don't need ventriloquize other people's humor and pawn it off as your own original material. From Wordnik.com. [HELLO, my name is BLOG!] Reference
A Brit, who comes across as an insufferable Tory, he accused Sheehan of trying to "ventriloquize the dead" and of spouting off "sinister piffle.". From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore IMC] Reference
In large part, one of the significant and most dangerous failures of the Nigerian intellectual is the capacity to ventriloquize unreflective cant masquerading as "progressive" thought. From Wordnik.com. [Vanguard] Reference
An alternative approach to search-engine generated poetry and its capacity to ventriloquize a culture is that proposed by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry's apostrophe engine, which amplifies a poem by feeding its words into Google, and then mining the results for "you are" utterances. From Wordnik.com. [Blog of a Bookslut] Reference
Wolcot’s patriotism gains new force from his renewed ability to ventriloquize. From Wordnik.com. ['Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s] Reference
While I don’t want to ventriloquize Stan (or anyone else for that matter), Austrian economics would probably seem to him to be pretty deeply problematic (as it does to me). From Wordnik.com. [Essential Weekend Viewing: Kim Stanley Robinson at Duke, 1.29.10 « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Secondly, you ventriloquize unashamedly. From Wordnik.com. [Whether true or not] Reference
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