No historian has a privileged antenna to the past, and it would be disingenuous to claim that we can ventriloquize for these women in the absence of their own voices and other pieces of their lives. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)
As Kant was to write, however, as if to ventriloquize Locke's own anxiety about the "violence" (Essay 2: 161) of the mind's tendency to find alternate paths of cognition, "The point of excess for the imagination ... is like an abyss in which it fears to lose itself" ❋ Unknown (2008)
They can ventriloquize as anthropologists, report as journalists; they can confess, philosophize, they can leer as pornographers, or become as wide-eyed as children. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And many people are so anxious to pre-empt this accusation that they ventriloquize the reactions of Sunni mobs as if they were the vox populi, all the while muttering that we must take care not to offend such supersensitive people. ❋ GayandRight (2007)
In particular, one must resist efforts to ventriloquize the dead. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The result is a poetry in which the physis and mnemosyne — rerouted through the Keatsian image — ventriloquize his (and, perhaps, our own) deep-seated desire for an existence unburdened by the rigors of philosophical discourse or by the unrelenting ironic awareness of its impossibility. ❋ Unknown (1999)
It was not after all Social Text that drew the absurd conclusion about authoritarianism and elitism; it was Sokal, trying to ventriloquize work he didn't fully understand. ❋ Byers, Nina (1996)
I asked the questions, and was of course supposed to ventriloquize the answers, and, thanks to the glassy stare of my doll, her replies almost convinced the audience I was doing so. ❋ Pat Beauchamp Washington (N/A)
He can ventriloquize riotous personalities, as when an older woman tells Evie, With your great ears and ill-proportioned face you will never attract a man. ❋ [email protected] (Abigail Deutsch (2011)
In large part, one of the significant and most dangerous failures of the Nigerian intellectual is the capacity to ventriloquize unreflective cant masquerading as "progressive" thought. ❋ Alexsamade (2010)
You don't need ventriloquize other people's humor and pawn it off as your own original material. ❋ Unknown (2010)
An alternative approach to search-engine generated poetry and its capacity to ventriloquize a culture is that proposed by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry's apostrophe engine, which amplifies a poem by feeding its words into Google, and then mining the results for "you are" utterances. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A Brit, who comes across as an insufferable Tory, he accused Sheehan of trying to "ventriloquize the dead" and of spouting off "sinister piffle." ❋ Unknown (2009)
"I think one must deny to anyone the right to ventriloquize the dead" was Hitch's famous line in criticism of Cindy Sheehan for, as far as I can judge, telling the world that the death of her son Casey in combat was murder and laying the responsibility for it at George Bush's door. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While I don’t want to ventriloquize Stan (or anyone else for that matter), Austrian economics would probably seem to him to be pretty deeply problematic (as it does to me). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Wolcot’s patriotism gains new force from his renewed ability to ventriloquize ❋ Unknown (2006)
