| What they had, perhaps, acquired from the sophistic movement was a touch of effrontery. |
| It exhibits, after all allowance for peculiar Greek sentiments, the rhetorical development of a sophistic thesis. |
| His ideas are no more expressive of sophistic thought than of some very ancient Greek traditions. |
| One is that Mr Massow made a noble stand against a sinister cult, whose claim to value ideas above artistic execution is merely a sophistic cover for an absence of talent. |
| Mr. Jowett censures this speech as sophistic and confused in view. |
| The truth is, that there is no clear distinction between the matter of Dialectic and the matter of sophistic. |
