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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
Then with the rise of the visionary projects just mentioned the gravest doubts began to agitate the fertile and casuistic mind of the Lady Superior.
From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward
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 Saltus, Edgar
But, on the whole, it was only one manner of looking at it, nothing more, and there were plenty of materials for casuistic arguments in it.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
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