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It would be easy enough to brush off this peculiar fact with some casuistic postmodernist explanation, such as saying that disenfranchised groups find empowerment through humor.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 26, 2011
The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude."
From Time Magazine Archive
The theory, casuistic and subtle, appealed momentarily to a society that had no theories at all.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
He had added a volume of Shaaloth-u-Tshuvoth, or "Questions and Answers" to the colossal casuistic literature of his race.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
If the heap of things demanded proved on inspection less chaotic than at first they seemed, if they furnished their own relative test and measure, then the casuistic problem would be solved.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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