artificality

Putting aside for a moment the severe artificality of a one-axis spectrum for judicial matters, the reality is that more than 10% of the legal profession takes the Roberts or Scalia or Stevens or Brennan view of the world, whether that Roe itself should still be reversed, or either side of Citizens United, or whatever.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball 2010

Putting aside for a moment the severe artificality of a one-axis spectrum for judicial matters, the reality is that more than 10% of the legal profession takes the Roberts or Scalia or Stevens or Brennan view of the world, whether that Roe itself should still be reversed, or either side of Citizens United, or whatever.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball 2010

It will be remembered that the contrapuntal vocal school, at one period in its history, also degenerated into artificality and the cultivation of form for its own sake, but this abuse was not only reproved by the Church, but also remedied by repeated reforms since the Council of Trent.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913