I have found that, with my mother nursing me again, we have grown closer, even though my argumentative manner hasn't waned with my health. |
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Despite a somewhat argumentative meeting with my boss on Friday, things smoothed out in the end so I'll have a good reference. |
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He was snippy, feisty and reminded me of an argumentative drunk who challenges the whole bar to a fist fight. |
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Although a wonderful turn of the screw to contemplate, it is not the argumentative tactic that I would promote. |
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And what has become of the manager's reputation for being an argumentative cuss? |
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The paper then directed all of year 10 to select one question, answer it and discuss the reasons for their answer in an argumentative essay. |
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Towards the end of my little encounter with Sophie Ward we argue about whether or not she is argumentative. |
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If he doesn't eat, his sugar is low, then he tends to get very argumentative, moody and bad-tempered. |
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As I have already suggested, this clarity of style was compatible with considerable compression, even elusiveness, in argumentative structure. |
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Indeed, the seeds of bitterness germinating in him today are also the seeds of a disorganised, argumentative political party. |
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I love the garrulous, argumentative people, with their speech, which boasts impressively rounded vowels. |
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We had just come from one of our lunches, meetings filled with the argumentative yet respectful conversation of committed cinephiles. |
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According to his argumentative, self-defensive memoirs, he is always correct and almost everyone else catastrophically mistaken. |
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Here he portrayed his wife, not as mild or inoffensive, but as argumentative and idle. |
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He is widely disliked among his peers because he is disrespectful, argumentative and abusive towards people. |
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Self-control will help them appear strong, sensible, and reasonable rather than demanding, argumentative, or stubborn. |
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Reasoning, Toulmin argued, was an argumentative and persuasive activity, embedded in concrete human predicaments. |
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But without being overly argumentative, I think some people, given what they know about your background, would want me to ask this question. |
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He was said to be boorish and unmannerly and argumentative and moody and addicted to reading, of all things. |
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This is not the same as being argumentative, or arguing just for the sake of arguing. |
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I think you would have been in a much better argumentative position to come to us if you had said something at that time. |
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But while he as intelligent, charming, and witty, the Italian was also argumentative, mocking, and vain. |
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Ian is very analytical and an enormous absorber of information, and very argumentative. |
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She was very argumentative and truculent and when I tried to calm her down, I noticed something strange. |
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There is less agreement on Berkeley's argumentative approach to idealism and immaterialism and on the role of some of his specific arguments. |
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Some have speculated the argumentative Hampton could be a new addition to the Atlanta Housewives cast. |
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It can infuse vehemence and passion into spoken words in many ways, and when combined with argumentative passages it not only persuades the auditor but actually enslaves him. |
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Brachylogy is part of Socrates' dialectical strategy and functions as an argumentative trump card that enables the philosopher to disclose the limits of rhetoric as a form of fact finding. |
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In a detailed and argumentative manner, the author systematizes the complex plot of events and offers an enlightening vision from it. |
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For example, a naturally argumentative person who does not refrain from talking back to potential customers can expect few sales. |
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Stubbornness, close-mindedness, and possessiveness lead to defensive and argumentative behaviour that disrupts the process. |
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Others embraced the new pamphlet format to weigh in on the merits of Luther's arguments, both for and against, like argumentative bloggers. |
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Yes we argued, I'm an argumentative person but Dave can hold his own. |
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He could be argumentative but had this ability not to take himself too seriously. |
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A motion should be neither argumentative, nor in the style of a speech, nor contain unnecessary provisions or objectionable words. |
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If the person with an illness has become confused, they may become argumentative or in rare cases, even combative. |
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This is an argumentative system and agreements take a very long time to reach. |
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Your assignment is to write a short argumentative essay on one of the topics listed below. |
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It is probably even more argumentative than over sheep as they are doing tonight. |
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It was noted that the complainant was argumentative in court, repeatedly interrupted the judge, and challenged his authority. |
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It provided enough resistance to demand effort and intention without feeling stiff or argumentative. |
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This was based on the fact that the judge had been argumentative with the complainant in regard to the language issue. |
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In lively and controversial discussions in my own field, I can recognise participants' positions, arguments, and argumentative strategies. |
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Arguments are unavoidable in a genuine dialogue, but dialogue is not argumentative. |
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Yes, many of these dictators are nasty and evil but obfuscating the argument with comparative deflections doesn't alter the original argumentative premise. |
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Drunk, he could become stridently argumentative and eager for a fight. |
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Did we learn anything of value about our fellow human beings from the exercise, other than that they get dopey and argumentative when deprived of sleep for up to seven days? |
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This deeply engaged, argumentative monologue is an exercise in reaching, again and again beyond the limits of unbelieving. |
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I certainly feel like I get a good sampling of people who disagree with me, based on how frequently I end up commenting in an argumentative fashion. |
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The argumentative tradition, if used with deliberation and commitment, can also be extremely important in resisting social inequalities and removing poverty and deprivation. |
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I have been to two or three of these events and have been struck that they are often really engaging and argumentative and quite surprise the adults. |
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If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers. |
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But in an ostensibly substantial and argumentative book review? |
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I find I am much less argumentative with people in person when I have the opportunity to work through vexations in the peculiarly public way blogging allows. |
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And the second is that, absent agreed or court appointed experts, opinion evidence is likely to be affected by adversarial bias and to be argumentative rather than objective. |
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When she doesn't see the logic in others' feelings, Inspirierende Motivatorin can appear argumentative and difficult to approach, and may not seek or accept common-sense advice. |
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In their zigzaggingly argumentative way, the New Yorkers were taking their stand on what modern art was about. |
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And being too argumentative can cost you part of your social circle. |
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Scholarly handling of the Celtic languages has been rather argumentative owing to scarceness of primary source data. |
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An argumentative essay as summative assessment can demonstrate the students' knowledge and understanding and their ability to apply the concepts learned. |
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They say Rwandans are pretentious, have inflated views of their own intelligence, are haughty and disdainful, bitter, easily irritated, loud, argumentative, like to show off and are quick-tempered. |
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But that ricketiness ceases to matter when it is engulfed by a tsunami of jokes, a tidal wave of argumentative statements, a gorgeous gust of opinion. |
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The lack in argumentation and sustaining of thesis or opinions, in which processes of critical and argumentative thinking are involved, is an obstacle for the ability to maintain individual thinking. |
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Tomorrow's meeting will be passionate and argumentative. |
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It should not be argumentative or written in the style of a speech. |
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But in the first of many argumentative reversals, Auerbach turns on the Elohist. |
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Just take it on the chin if she makes any snidey or argumentative comments. |
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On an intuitive level, the basic idea is that the question whether an argument is acceptable concerns the question whether it is defended from its argumentative attacks. |
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When problems are placed in a proper argumentative setting, people turn out to be skilled arguers. |
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Three issues in the argumentative conception of early Chinse discourse. |
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Johnson argues remains unsurpassed in its argumentative force, Wollstonecraft indicts Burke's defence of an unequal society founded on the passivity of women. |
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In addition to pentasyllabic verse, there are also some argumentative philosophical poems and a large number of very contemporary poems written mostly on social occasions. |
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