Example sentences for: tannen

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

  • But when she applies her precepts to our great national conversation, Tannen gets confused.

  • Tannen's antagonism toward antagonism makes sense in the former case but not in the latter.

  • Professor Tannen might be surprised to learn that one of the most well-known introductory books on ancient Chinese thought is called Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China . Indeed, I think most students of ancient China would agree that if there ever was a disputatious intellectual culture, it was that of China in the Warring States period (circa 479-221 B.C.).

  • Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen.

  • Indeed, Tannen embraces a colleague's claim that "right-wing talk radio" deploys phrases "similar to verbal manipulations employed by propagandists in the Nazi era."


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