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How his answers and explanations flow ready; jesuitic, plausible to the ear!

Here he was trying to start a mortal combat, and this kid was tying him up in Jesuitic quibbling.

Who are they that, carping and quarrelling, in their jesuitic most moderate way, seek to shackle the Patriotic movement?

There was no involvement of Anchieta in this episode, retrofitted by anti jesuitic advertising.

Ideological orientation suggesting medieval Jesuitic viewpoint exacerbated by post-Romantic Germanic nihilism.

Last and greatest, see, for one moment, the Abbe Maury; with his jesuitic eyes, his impassive brass face, 'image of all the cardinal sins.'

The area was part of the Jesuitic Sesmaria, where the Jesuits built a cemetery and a church consecrated to Saint Francis Xavier.

His intellectual ordnance of anarchist panache, hatred of bureaucracy, Jesuitic argumentation, deep reverence for the past and watered-down Marxism, was applied to many targets, including relations between the sexes.

Denis Diderot was born in Langres, Champagne, and began his formal education at the jesuitic Collège jésuite in Langres.

The book first appeared when Bismarck inaugurated his anti-Catholic legislation, as a retort to the attacks made by liberal journals on the dogma of papal infallibility and on Jesuitic textbooks.

With such sanctified meekness does the Incorruptible lift his seagreen cheek to the smiter; lift his thin voice, and with jesuitic dexterity plead, and prosper: asking at last, in a prosperous manner: "But what witnesses has the Citoyen Barbaroux to support his testimony?"

"That's a pretty Jesuitical argument for a criminal to use."

However, he was very cunning over that business, almost Jesuitical indeed.

"We come from a kind of Jesuitical school of accounting."

To characterize a lie as an "economy of truth" would be a Jesuitical formulation.

"Who gave you that Jesuitical bit of knowledge?"

Due to a "refined Jesuitical spirit", he remained a virgin until age 25.

This is an "angels on the head of a pin" answer, a Jesuitical answer.

To say that one had smoked marijuana but did not inhale would be a Jesuitical distinction.

However, it also calls for Jesuitical schools propaganda and using British taxpayers' money to support the ratification process.

"A Jesuitical distinction if ever I heard one."

It was a most philosophic and jesuitical motorman.

His is a spiel of Jesuitical intensity.

Imagine it: In the daytime, Jesuitical preparations for long uphill organizing drives.

Talk about a Jesuitical distinction.

His disposition was serene, but you could sense a prickly, Jesuitical undercurrent coursing beneath it.

The artist looked over Vincent's recent work and his comments were honest and constructive, not in the least 'Jesuitical'.

They are Jesuitical.

Maurras had no scruples in taking the supposedly Jesuitical line that the end justified the means.

Congress, meanwhile, was engaged in a Jesuitical disputation on what does and does not constitute an impeachable offense.

President-in-Office, too much of what we want to say is lost in Jesuitical sophistry in our text.

It is common to regard "Jesuitical" and "Talmudic" as synonymous, but this does an injustice to both words.

Your reasoning is Jesuitical, Ramses; I see we will have to have a talk about it one day.

"Play it by ear," she said at last, "and if that's casuistry, blame it on my basically Jesuitical nature.

No he didn't, he provided obscurantist Jesuitical drivel.

The sudden strength of his own will surprised him; in the power of his will there was already something Jesuitical.

Conversations with Mr. Pinkerton about the paradigm can turn Jesuitical.

"I do think one ought to avoid prejudicial terms," Father Mahoney writes, "such as this one and Jesuitical."

But George was a man of contradictions: of impoverished parents but from a noble family, honest by nature but Jesuitical in method.

Unlike the Jesuitical Mario Cuomo or the good soldier General Powell, Mr. Quayle is not hampered by any doubts about his worthiness or the Fahrenheit of his belly.