unargued

This is not to deny that morality must ultimately rest on unargued human sentiments.

It is unargued for, and simply assumed, that to kill a lion is an act of gravity.

Here authoritarian restrictions on free speech and unargued surrender to militancy go cozily together.

But the absolute moral premises themselves must come from elsewhere, presumably from unargued conviction.

So long as the papacy was prepared, in practice, to do a deal with them, they were content to leave the theoretical debate unresolved and unargued.

Then there's Mr. Crumb's unargued stature as the father of alternative comics.

"Instant, unqualified, unargued obedience."

In this book there are perhaps too many "easy, unargued assumptions" (for example in Kramer's criticism of the work of the art historian T. J. Clark ).

To move, or appear to move, beyond this necessary empirical work, by the early construction of a general theoretical framework, is usually in practice an unargued transition from local and specific to general concepts.

'My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst 'Unargued I obey; So God ordains; 'God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more 'Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her Praise.'

This dismissive charge unargued, and unproved, was echoed by Martín Torodash, and Philippine religious historian John N. Schumacher, and influenced the thinking of many other scholars including the ethnographer historian William H. Scott.

Ruskin's espousal of a craftsmanly aesthetics, Robinson points out, is grounded in Christian convictions about the humility proper to a fallen creature: lacking such grounds, Pound's holding to the craftsmanly not only seems arbitrary and unargued, it is as often presumptuous as humble.

Both in the exclusion of the I-Thou relationship and in the critical method, an uneasy union of formalist grammatical analysis, highly idiosyncratic diagrams, and a belief that his approach is 'scientific, or 'objective' when it rests on a whole series of unargued critical assumptions, this remains a learned but peripheral book.