hand-wave

That you choose to hand-wave that away says quite a bit about your agenda.

Assessing Applegate's Attack 2010

And BTW ID does have positive evidence - people like Zachriel just hand-wave it away all the while never supporting their position.

A True Scientist 2010

If you want to hand-wave away the accounting rules involved as mere "conventions" with no real meaning that can be adjusted to fit the needs of your argument, fine.

Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

This last with a hand-wave, deliberately echoing our last convo on the matter, a bit too deliberately to be anything other than irreducibly sarcastic, this time around.

Portland Music Listener [Card #5: The Heirophant] (WORK-IN-PROGRESS) Christopher Snyder 2011

Instead it is simply a hand-wave, an editorial tic, something so obvious, apparently, that it can merely be alluded to in a casual throwaway comment.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

If you want to hand-wave away the accounting rules involved as mere "conventions" with no real meaning that can be adjusted to fit the needs of your argument, fine.

Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Yglesias does not have a clue on that score, but all that is required is a hand-wave to have the Chinese reacting to that fictitious relationship.

Matthew Yglesias » Chinese Inflation Revisited 2010

I hand-wave for now and leave that to wiser folks (like Forbes readers).

Entrepreneurs As The New Asset Class 2010

The Peacock King denies her with a delicate hand-wave and a low chuckle, shaking his head.

The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1 Erica 'Irk' Bercegeay 2010

Since New Mexico seems to run about 12% lower in most internet penetration stats than the national average, by a broad hand-wave we can approximate that low-income, low-education families in New Mexico (whether those are in the city, the suburbs, or the country, and whether they are geographically contiguous or scattered across the state) have an internet access rate of around 30%.

Vikram Savkar: The Developing World Comes Home Vikram Savkar 2010