Handwave

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The word "handwave" in example sentences

A sudden handwave caught my attention as Charlie gestured me over to her table. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

No amount of complaining about the president lacking “political courage” can handwave away the fact that it is illegal for the president to bring the former prisoners here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm not being pedantic here: dismissing entire cultures with a magnificent handwave as "barbaric" reduces the notion of "culture" to a handful of abhorrent practices carried out by some members of the culture in question. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your middle ear is the same thing – a group of similar structures arranged to imply progression with no real mechanism – other than the handwave "variation and selection" to connect them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is not, however, a small political issue that you can handwave away as no big deal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So you see why it pisses me off when people try to call rape solely a women's issue, or handwave away the experiences of male survivors. ❋ Mllelaurel (2009)

I understand they had a science consultant to handwave something plausible, and I read an article about this, and still thought it was totally dumb. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, you can always handwave away anything that doesn't meet your definition of "major". ❋ Unknown (2009)

And how is that supposed to handwave away all of the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming? ❋ Unknown (2010)

So if they were going for clever, that would have worked a lot better, IMO anyway, and either figured we wouldn't notice it, or that we'd be willing to handwave it away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So, handwave a little and cheat the math a bit and that suggests: then ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lu's simple eyeball correlation of cosmic ray flux and ozone at the poles over the past 30 years using heavily smoothed data don't prove bupkes because it does not handle any of the confounding factors with anything but a handwave if that. ❋ EliRabett (2010)

But mangling extant science to force a plot point is another matter, as is using “sciency” terms to handwave. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And that brings us to the point that Egnor continues to either ignore or handwave his way past. 20 years ago, there were virtually no widespread strains of staphylococcus that were resistant to multiple antibiotics. 10 years ago, multiply resistant strains were becoming common – but staph infections that were resistant to methicillin and vancomycin were quite rare. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My frustrations and anger also encompass Dean's fans that are bound and determined to justify and handwave everything he does, no matter what it is. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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