casuistical
Example Sentences
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So they developed a joyful lot of casuistical distinctions as to which kind of oaths were binding and which didn't count.
From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch
His characters, men and women, act not through blind, instinctive passion, but with deliberate and intelligent force; they reason, and too often with casuistical subtlety, about their emotions.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
He is an elderly man with a kind manner; type of the eighteenth century casuistical parson.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
The very "masses" in whose behalf Scaevola was calling on his fellow-citizens to undergo these casuistical gymnastics soon cared more for Bellona and Isis than for all the gods of Numa together.
From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Jesse Benedict Carter
Dr. Johnson, who, if any one, has the reputation of being a sturdy moralist, thus speaks: "We talked," says Boswell, "of the casuistical question—whether it was allowable at any time to depart from truth."
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
