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Перевод: apologist

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Тезаурус:

1. It brings together Lewis the scholar, Lewis the voracious reader of anything from medieval schoolmen or Italian epic to modern science fiction, Lewis the Christian apologist, Lewis the Irish satirist in the savage tradition of Swift, Lewis the failed Romantic poet.
2. So, too, did the alarmist outpourings of the National Association for Freedom, a far-right pressure-group directed by a clutch of ex-army officers and Norris McWhirter, better known as the author of the Guinness Book of Records and apologist for South Africa.
3. Compared to his first collector, Peggy Guggenheim, or to his first apologist, Clement Greenberg, or to the art critic, Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him, he was indeed a goy and a redneck.
4. As an apologist, he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books, which require, if we are to understand them aright, patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the (often quite puzzling and contradictory) material which they contain.
5. Debord, as a film-maker, and Levin, as his apologist, take refuge in the transcendental space of autonomy where meanings have the illusion of self-regulation and independence of the totality they represent.
6. Not normally thought of as an apologist, Souness is still traumatised by the tackle which left Hibernian's George McCluskey needing nine stitches in a knee wound.
7. It was, nonetheless, a film that tried to solicit an understanding of the emerging drug culture, and, for good or evil, persisted with its apologist tone that acid was OK when used with caution.
8. Initially, of course, those who drove her out had to justify their actions to Elizabeth and prevent the English queen making any serious attempt to restore her sister of Scotland; and they used that scholar of European distinction, George Buchanan, as their apologist, thus enabling the grave and learned humanist to display a remarkable talent for writing, as it were, copy for the Sun in the style of The Times , in his sensational Ane detectioun of the doinges of Marie quene of Scottes .
9. He failed, however, to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene.
10. One of Wolfe's targets is the critic Greenberg, about whom an apologist has gravely asserted: "The significance of Clement Greenberg cannot be overestimated.
11. Perhaps some component of Pascal's restless questioning was due to his displacement through recurrent ill-health, but what makes his questionings still worth reading, is that they confront the foundations of our existence and that despite the fact that he is sometimes seen merely as a Catholic apologist.
12. THE KRENZ credentials were never all that brilliant: loyal hatchetman for Mr Erich Honecker, smooth operator of the security apparatus, apologist of the Beijing massacre, and owner of the phoniest smile in the entire East German politburo.
13. It is a book which vigorously displays, from its opening paragraphs, all Lewis's strengths and weaknesses as a religious apologist.