interlocutor's

It goes like this: if you can't address your interlocutor's argument, then shift the burden of proof and accuse him/her of bad character or nefarious intent.

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It ends with said extremist pumping a few bullets into his interlocutor's head.

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Dr. Svalgaard presented an interlocutor's statement: "Frankly, the descriptions of "magnetic reconnection" are consistent with a plasma ‘double layer’."

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Rob Shepperson Mike didn't know it, but he was providing grist for his interlocutor's next book.

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Instead of responding to discourse, they talk about their would-be interlocutor's alleged "Mommy issues" and search out for hidden symbols of their "misogyny."

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But as the keen observer of the human condition that he was, he seemed to take into account his interlocutor's shortcomings and made gentle accommodations for them, without being patronizing.

John Seery: David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008 2008

While Marty ascribes to statements the communicative function (and thus in one sense the meaning) “that one should judge as the speaker does”, he points out that a demand on the interlocutor's will is not thereby made as it is in the case of certain other linguistic expressions.

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Eventually we came to see our interlocutor's point.

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He's been willing to take several pages from his famous Presidential interlocutor's playbook, particularly his clever use of the Internet to drum up support.

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Some of that space was lost to the news media, and its demand to be informed about all aspects of the presidency, plus its sense of entitlement to the star interlocutor's role.

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