10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOOLLY-MINDED»
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woolly-minded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Strategies in Academic Discourse
This is why people committed to a scientific world-view often ignore them, or
dismiss them as woolly minded sentimentalities. . . . Yet thinking of the mind as a
computational system leaves room for the view that our beliefs and values are ...
Elena Tognini-Bonelli, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, 2005
2
Frantz Fanon: A Biography
... I have been trying to drag the woolly-minded idea of African Unity out of the
subjectivist or even woolly-minded swamps in which the majority of its supporters
live.' Contradicting the views on the need for national cultures he had expressed
...
3
Education 3-13: 40 Years of Research on Primary, Elementary ...
It has been seized on by some as a definitive evaluation of progressivism; it has
been considered as an objective rebuttal of the woolly-minded, impractical
idealism of Plowden. That Plowden was often woolly-minded cannot be denied,
that ...
Mark Brundrett, Michael Bottery, Peter Silcock, 2013
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Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel ...
A few years ago, my (I think) friend William Labov went around the world giving a
lecture in which something that I had written was offered as a paradigm example
of what he called "woolly minded introspectionism". In attempting to ...
5
British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War
that the 'principal target remains the woolly minded left-wing intellectual and the
not-too-woolly minded trade unionist'.104 More and more other partners, outlets
and approaches become acceptable. The right-wing Economic League in Britain,
...
6
Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene
"It was as well," he wrote. "I had not the logical power that is needed at the Bar. I'
m sure I would have failed there." He considered that he had left Oxford "woolly-
minded." More than likely he was suffering the effect of overexposure to Oxford ...
Mary Lago, Lady Christiana Jane Powell Herringham, 1996
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Sympathy and Solidarity: and Other Essays
Liberals had only a few woolly minded ideas about the efficacy of electoral
politics, “bourgeois right,” and—guilt, an unclean emotion in which, like self-pity,
some are thought to wallow. Also, liberals were typically regarded as fickle: just
when ...
8
Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America
Michael Edwards calls it “a concept that seems so unsure of itself that definitions
are akin to nailing jelly to a wall”; he cites another account that calls it “a woolly
expression for woolly-minded people.” Yet Edwards comes not to bury the ...
9
Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology
Biologists who rate themselves straightforward, tough-minded, no-nonsense
people are apt to dismiss the whole notion of exogenetic evolution as fanciful,
woolly-minded, or (with a certain pejorative inflection) merely "philosophical."
These ...
Peter Brian Medawar, P. B. Medawar, 1985
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The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: ...
... consciousness,'' the ''highest state of samadhi,'' so that he cannot differentiate
day from night or breakfast from lunch. It does not mean he becomes vague or
woolly-minded. Rather, he actually sees verbalized and conceptualized values
as ...
Carolyn Rose Gimian, Chogyam Trungpa, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOOLLY-MINDED»
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woolly-minded is used in the context of the following news items.
Joyce McMillan: Time to come off fence on Calais
The rhetorical questions invite the obvious answer, today as four centuries ago; and to point that out is not woolly-minded idealism, but an essential recognition ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
Chesterton vs. the Woolly-Minded
Chesterton vs. the Woolly-Minded. July 17, 2015 by Mark Shea Leave a Comment. A reader writes, “If God is love why would he care who you love or how many. «Patheos, Jul 15»
Tax evaders get come-uppance in Canterbury Players' comedy
The person responsible is Sarah the accountant ex-wife of Tom Lambert (Colin Baker), a woolly-minded TV gardening personality. Played charismatically by ... «Messenger Newspapers, Apr 15»
No Breakthrough in Minsk
The memorandum signed in Minsk on February 12th creates a new framework in a quite woolly-minded way and in fact, opens the door for new interpretations ... «New Eastern Europe, Feb 15»
The Non-Woolly-Minded Fed Critics Make Some Points
Alan Blinder doesn't mention the major justification for having an independent central bank: It should prevent free-spending legislators and administrators from ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
Beware of Woolly-Minded Attacks on the Fed
Welcome to 2015. On the Chinese calendar, it will soon be the Year of the Sheep. On the financial calendar, it looks like the Year of the Fed. Let's hope the Fed ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 15»
Russell Brand and Prince Charles among Debrett's 500 most …
Brand, 39, is also praised in an entry reading: “Those who deplore the histrionic celebrity's woolly-minded populism and woeful grasp of economics are ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jan 15»
Balclutha's eco-friendly nut growers
The more woolly-minded park themselves beneath the heirloom fruit trees, courting calamity. The ancient bommy-knocker pears might be flavourless but despite ... «Stuff.co.nz, Oct 14»
'Proportionality' in Israel and Gaza?
It's primarily because the Western Left (as well as the more woolly-minded left-liberals who still get much of their 'theory' on Israel from the radical Left) is utterly ... «American Thinker, Jul 14»
Nomad ChargeCard & ChargeKey
You woolly-minded dolt. The ChargeKey has two, hard plastic ends to attach to a keyring, while its middle section is made of Stretch Armstrong-a-like, flexible ... «DIY Magazine, Jul 14»
