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  • Simply stating that coal is a part of our future because it is a part of our energy strategy now is Sartrian bad-faith at its best.

    Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill? 2010

  • There is historicism, the idea that our historical and cultural setting determines what we can think, so that we can't but think what we do think (and right now we can't accept serious Christian belief); there is warmed-over Nietzschean and Sartrian bombast, lots of

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • To continue in a Sartrian vein, what happens to a group in fusion that falls back into inertia?

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • Sartrian sense, because I am not a journalist, I am suspect. [emphasis added]

    ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY Maximilian Forte 2010

  • I think that all told, Limbaugh being the part-owner of that franchise would have been appropriately Sartrian.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • I’m not sure how productive this analogy is, but it seems preferable to treating pregnancy as an intentional tort, which is pretty counterintuitive unless we think of nonexistence as a preferable state, and that’s a bit too Sartrian for 11 in the morning.

    In Search of Fetal Metaphors 2005

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