counterargument

“The counterargument is, you know, ‘Aren’t you promoting a constitutional crisis?’

Appel: Echoing Seth, because he’s the most important person here, I actually think that the 25 years of “Family Guy” is the counterargument to the perceived tenderness of sensibilities.

At the same time, Soderbergh has continued to make his own canny counterarguments, usually in the form of movies.

The wife-and-husband team serves a strong, but never stern, counterargument to the visionaries promising that we’ll put humans on Mars in the very near future.

I lean supporting, mainly due to screen time and narrative emphasis, though I’m sympathetic to counterarguments citing the outsized emotional impact of Gladstone’s performance.