Example sentences for: socratic

How can you use “socratic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • USA Today 's journalism fulfills the political philosophy of the Framers, themselves heavily influenced by the ancient rhetoricians (see Carl J. Richard's The Founders and the Classics ). Both groups favored the Isocratic notion of a truth emerging from ongoing debate over the Socratic notion of The Truth emerging from an old kibitzer's endless dialectical probing.

  • Starr ethics consultant Sam Dash, for instance, gets a meta-Socratic $400 an hour, putting together, says the paper, many five-hour $2,000 weeks.

  • The Socratic method is effective only in seeking resolution to nonscientific matters: morality, justice, ethics.

  • Thus the Socratic method is extremely effective for the training of attorneys.

  • Either it's "clumsy, lumpy" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or the sparring of co-stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel (as a cult member and her deprogrammer) makes for a film that "creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The film's core, a showdown between Keitel and Winslet, is "a knockabout fusion of sexual warfare, New Age therapy, cross-generational Socratic dialogue, and feminist role reversal" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Mentioned in nearly every review: 1) Winslet bares all; 2) Keitel ends up in a red dress and lipstick.


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