Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. " ❋ Various (N/A)
You and some other commentators have been confuting these two issues in the comment threads on the Garzon affair. ❋ Unknown (2010)
You actually think you're being clever by deliberately confuting homosexuality and necrophilia disingenuously? ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the first volume of his Caledonia, he quotes the passage in Godscroft for the purpose of confuting it. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nobody can refuse to talk with him, he is so honest and really curious to know; a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting; for he thought not any evil happened to men of such ❋ Unknown (2006)
And if they set about confuting him in the name of truth, he has but to repeat the famous question, ‘What is truth?’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
However foolish it may be, I confess to a weakness for being on the stream at times when all experts agree that it is almost impossible to take fish -- not with the idea of confuting their theories, but with the hope of learning why it is so; and an experience one hot July proved to my entire satisfaction that there are times when trout are neither interested in food nor anything else. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He, then, is strong in argument and has the faculty of exhorting and confuting, who is able to show to each man the contradiction through which he errs and clearly to prove how he does not do that which he wishes and does that which he does not wish. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Above all, it appeared, that the best, the only method, which remained for confuting the daring aspersions that had affected her name, was, by proving the high respect he himself felt for her, and presenting her to the world in the sacred character of his wife. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Often, when conversing, I burned to contradict him, to punish his pride by confuting him, to show him that I was clever in spite of his disdainful neglect of my presence. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Socrates, as depicted in the Platonic dialogues, questioning and confuting the received opinions, is the model of the philosophic life; and his death at the hands of his countrymen for not believing in their myths epitomizes the risks of philosophy. ❋ Allan Bloom (2003)
This is my earnest object in adducing these Scriptural proofs, that confuting them, as far as in me lies, by these very passages, I may restrain them from such great blasphemy, and from insanely fabricating a multitude of gods. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
It is telling, then, that neither of them appears capable of even addressing, much less confuting, the specific charges against psychoanalysis levied in my essay and in my subsequent response to critics. ❋ Eagle, Morris (1994)
His survey of our relationship with humanity and the attendant stresses was commissioned by the Thagdal himself in the hope of confuting my own long-stated opposition to human assimilation. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1981)
With good reason, indeed, exhorting them to give alms, but yet withal striking at the covetousness of the Pharisees, and confuting their vain opinion of being clean by the washing of their hands, from their own opinion of the efficacy of alms. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
After all, I was no pilot, and if there was any way of confuting a course tape, I did not know it. ❋ Norton, Andre (1968)
The Lun-hêng is not professedly a philosophical work, intended to set forth a philosophical system, but in confuting and contesting the views of others, Wang Ch ` ung incidentally develops his own philosophy. ❋ Unknown (1962)
The Charge of Cowardice he soon confuting by a glorious and voluntary Sacrifice of his Life, which compelled his Ennemies to confess he was a Hero. ❋ Unknown (1961)
