| 单词 | hairsplitting |
| 例句 | It’s the sort of technical hairsplitting that might be appropriate if the user in question were a foul-mouthed teenager, not a world leader whose words were getting people killed. Perspective | Facebook’s oversight board whiffed. Trump deserves a permanent exile. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z As an introduction to the conundrums and complexities of Ali Smith’s bicameral novel “How to Be Both,” consider this conversation between a hairsplitting teenage girl named George and her more loosely cerebral mother. 'How to Be Both,' a Novel by Ali Smith 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z This may sound like hairsplitting, but when it comes to Verdi’s longest opera, less is less, even with a strong cast like the Met’s for this revival. Review: The Met Brings Back a Shorter, Weaker ‘Don Carlo’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z In a bit of hairsplitting worthy of a merit badge for marketing, one is billed as “crispy” and the other as “crunchy.” One Cookie, 2 Versions: Why Girl Scout S’mores Won’t All Be the Same 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Even when Bessus’s behavior is utterly craven, his sidekicks mount hairsplitting arguments that prove him valiant — and he believes them. Review | Two 400-year-old soap operas rip along in stagings by Brave Spirits Theatre 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Quibbling over terminology, hairsplitting the medicine and trying to litigate when life begins, a question that science and spirituality haven’t even begun to sort out. Perspective | The one point abortion rights activists need to keep making 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z This involves some higher-order hairsplitting, but I think it’s an important hair to split. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Making first contact with a parent 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z And how were Americans supposed to explain the president’s hairsplitting to their children? It’s a “blow job” because it’s work: How guys push women to make oral sex as common as shaking hands 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Among the secrets Anna winds up sharing with her Jungian analyst, Doktor Messerli, whose specialties are hairsplitting semantics and literal-minded dream interpretation, is that the little girl is not actually Bruno’s child. Review: Jill Alexander Essbaum’s ‘Hausfrau,’ a Good Wife, With a Few Caveats 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z This may seem like hairsplitting, but it is not without import. Review | ‘Birchers,’ a well-told, familiar entry in the ‘how we got to Trump’ genre 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Whether you use gift or credit on the bathroom or bedroom is some microscopic hairsplitting. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Can a couple cut strings on a monetary gift from parents? 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the court perhaps did not invalidate most such restrictions, but it condemned itself to years of judicial hairsplitting in search of a principle about balancing judgments. Opinion | The Supreme Court’s gun ruling is a serious misfire 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z But then Team Gorsuch began nitpicking and hairsplitting, and now the story seems relevant. Opinion | Some personal testimony in the matter of NPR v. the Supreme Court 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Now comes another occasion for jurisprudential hairsplitting about contacts between the government and religious schools. Opinion | Maine likes not-too-religious schools 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Democrats say this is hairsplitting that threatens the legitimacy of the court. Trump Announces New Slate of Possible Supreme Court Picks 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z It's trying to accomplish too much — wielding the populist and racist impulses in the GOP for her own ends — with too little — hairsplitting wordplay. Nikki Haley tried to argue the U.S. isn’t racist — but she just proved the opposite point 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Above that bit of below-the-belt gender neutrality comes an exercise in legal hairsplitting that robs the human form of whatever dignity it may possess. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Editors there decided that the dispute amounted to hairsplitting. How the World Missed Covid-19’s Silent Spread 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z In a June 5 interview with The Associated Press, the attorney general gave a hairsplitting description of his role in directing the law enforcement actions. For Barr, Standoff With Prosecutor Adds to String of Miscues 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Andy: See, this is what I mean: the smooth fox terrier and the wire fox terrier just feels like hairsplitting. Siba the Standard Poodle Wins Westminster Dog Show 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z On the surface, the distinction between reasonableness and rationality seems like hairsplitting; Latin ratio means to reason. When "Reasonable" Trumps "Rational" 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Democrats say this is hairsplitting hypocrisy that damages the legitimacy of the court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discharged from hospital after treatment for chills, fever 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z They generally involve rephrasing the accusation, then issuing a very narrowly-crafted and hairsplitting denial, while avoiding the central claim. Press Watch: What did the vice president know? Don't fall for Mike Pence's non-denial denials 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The Clinton impeachment fight gave us a President’s memorable hairsplitting over what the meaning of “is” is. “Do Us a Favor”: The Forty-eight Hours That Sealed Trump’s Impeachment 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z While I don’t disagree that Barr’s testimony employed the most tortured form of hairsplitting, sophist false logic, maligning the Jesuits as exemplars of this form of argumentation is itself, ironically, a sophist trope. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A picture-perfect example of ‘gender discrimination’ in the media 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z But in a series of aggressive interrogations, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed indignation and asserted that the attorney general had been “purposely misleading,” engaged in “masterful hairsplitting” and even “lied to Congress.” Barr Defends Handling of Mueller Report Against Withering Rebukes 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z But a few cranky, persnickety, hairsplitting secularists say, with religious zeal, that the cross is now on public land, so the establishment clause is violated. Opinion | The Supreme Court has a chance to clear up decades of confusion 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The dominance of his philosophy led to the hairsplitting dualistic logic that history notes in the millennium or so following him with the Dark Ages, feudalism, the Inquisition, etc. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Deepfakes, split infinitives and not doing enough about R. Kelly 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Stone accused House Democrats of “attempting to play frivolous word games, and hairsplitting about semantics over nonmaterial matters.” Mueller seeks Roger Stone’s testimony to House intelligence panel, suggesting special counsel is near end of probe of Trump adviser 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z But all of this debate, hairsplitting and litigation distracts from a more persistent question: Is it O.K. for a president to shut down an investigation of himself? Opinion | Matthew Whitaker and the Corruption of Justice 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Drawing the line to separate such expenses, called “chargeable” in labor-law parlance, from nonchargeable political expenses proved a difficult, hairsplitting exercise. The Lawyers Who Beat the Unions 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Yet even the new rules can seem like hairsplitting. The No Fun League Tries to Loosen Up 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Rulings on Jewish law are too often engulfed in a labyrinth of hairsplitting debate. Why This Rabbi Loves Christmas 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Administration officials must walk a fine line, one that sometimes involves hairsplitting differences. White House Prohibits Cabinet From Addressing Democratic Convention 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The distinctions might seem like hairsplitting, but they matter for companies. Organic vs. Non-GMO Labels. Who’s Winning? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Assad, and now Russia, make little distinction among Islamist insurgent groups, and their supporters suggest that any such distinctions are meaningless hairsplitting. Russia Carries Out Airstrikes in Syria for 2nd Day 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Now that all of that hairsplitting craziness has sorted itself out, we can focus on the fun part—playing the actual games. Your Winning Guide To The College Football Playoff 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of hairsplitting: It’s not for me, but . In defense of Renee Zellweger: 22 thoughts about a startling new face Rather, in what some may see as hairsplitting, they were part of the Taliban. The Prisoner Swap’s Dilemma Jonathan F. Cohn, a lawyer for the airline, argued that a federal law encouraged prompt, informal reports of suspicious activities without fear of later “hairsplitting distinctions.” High Court Weighs Air Safety vs. Pilot’s Reputation 2013-12-09T22:17:55Z The lawyers, with Talmudic hairsplitting, argued that the reservoir water was not technically “available” to the Hasidim because it had been treated with chemicals like chlorine and so violated religious requirements for matzo baking. Hasidic Jews Turn Up Pressure on City to Accommodate Their Traditions 2013-08-21T19:24:21Z It was fine legal reasoning, not without some of that hairsplitting for which Jefferson reproached Randolph. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z But the Catholic missal melee is unfortunately a reminder that the tiresome practice of theological hairsplitting is still alive and well in the 21st century. Catholic Controversy: Is 'Being' Superior to 'Substance'? 2011-04-14T08:30:00Z One likes to meet now and again a book which forsakes the eternal sex question, or the hairsplitting discussion of ethical or psychological problems, and treats us to simpler and more satisfying fare.... Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters And her father, who now knew from Weir the story of the happening of thirty years before, assured her that she need be troubled over no moral hairsplitting. In the Shadow of the Hills Though dry and devoted to hairsplitting as orthodoxy no doubt was, it probably was not quite as lifeless as later generations represent it to have been. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark The same Talmud that fills chapter after chapter with minute legal details and hairsplitting debates outlines with a few strokes the most ideal conception of life, worth more than theories and systems of religious philosophy. Jewish Literature and Other Essays But, to avoid hairsplitting, what we call "modern" English literature may be said to date from about 1885. Modern British Poetry One moment's reflection will show why they need not be considered separately, and why we can leave it to Webster to do the hairsplitting. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 The restraints, the anomalies, the hairsplittings of the situation delighted her ingenuous youth. Robert Elsmere It is mere philosophical sophistry and hairsplitting, and we must believe, as a matter of fact, that physical energy is really physical, and not psychical, in its nature. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Even the study of the Talmud was abandoning simple, undistorted methods of interpretation, and espousing the hairsplitting dialectics of the northern French school. Jewish Literature and Other Essays "To the devil with their hairsplittings!" said I. "Let us have done with them and be at it." The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Of what practical use then, it may be asked, is all this hairsplitting? Some Principles of Maritime Strategy On the other hand, the Tossafists, the school of commentators succeeding him, by their petty quibbling and hairsplitting casuistry made the Talmudic books more intricate and less intelligible. Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history Not by the hairsplitting distinctions of scholars but by the sure logic of faith, the childlike saint has solved the only problem in human life-establishment of unity with God. Autobiography of a Yogi |
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