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The Bishop's apology strikes me as--excuse the term--"jesuitical" in its careful avoidance of the central issue.
Vatican says bishop's apology is not enough | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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If they attempt “clarification”, as Anderson is doing, they come across as jesuitical word-parers or philosophical mugwumps.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic 2010
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If they attempt “clarification”, as Anderson is doing, they come across as jesuitical word-parers or philosophical mugwumps.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic 2010
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He is bringing back the problem of jesuitical thinking, a mode of thought characterized by "dissembling and equivocating in a manner once associated with Jesuits."
Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame 2009
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If they attempt “clarification”, as Anderson is doing, they come across as jesuitical word-parers or philosophical mugwumps.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic 2010
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If they attempt “clarification”, as Anderson is doing, they come across as jesuitical word-parers or philosophical mugwumps.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Benjamin Wittes Comments on His AQ7 Letter at The New Republic 2010
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I care, he said, and I steeled myself for a jesuitical parsing of Part X of the Rules of the Senate of Canada.
Everyone take the winter off! - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca 2009
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This counter-reformation jesuitical "military bureaucracy" model of the clergy and religious is a fundamental structural problem with the church today, and the solution cannot be reduced to simply rooting out the bad.
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We cannot be as reasonably sure that the old conditions of men's relations in society are in whatever new shape destined to return, as we are sure that it was a good thing to prevent a feudal and jesuitical government like Austria from retaining a purely obstructive power in Europe, and a jesuitical government like France from establishing the same obstructive kind of power in America.
Voltaire 2007
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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, jesuitical?
minerva commented on the word jesuitical
Only that thou hast such jesuitical qualifyings, or I should think thee at last touched with remorse...
Belford to Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 21, 2007