How To Use Jesuitical In A Sentence
- 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
- It was designing of him, what Brother Polycarp would have called Jesuitical, and it troubled him, the deceit. At Swim, Two Boys
- Instead, Brown has treated us to a tortuous, Jesuitical argument so self-contradictory it merits its own reprimand.
- 'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. ' Gladys, the Reaper
- Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
- Arguments should not be pitched as if the judges were normal people with normal life experience; eschew plain common sense in favor of the kind of monkish jesuitical hair-splitting scholasticism that would make Plato’s headspin. The Volokh Conspiracy » Oral Argument — Common Mistakes:
- As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered. Beyond Good and Evil
- Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it. THEFT
- For decades, ‘Jesuitical’ became a term of abuse, signifying mental reservation, prevarication, and casuistry.
- Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
