I had obviously forgiven myself far too easily; and saying to myself I had gained from the loss in any way was just pure sophistry.

Placing the blame for the deficit on expenditures for entitlement programs is pure sophistry.

Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital, and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry.

He termed Shylick's arguments pure sophistry, from beginning to end.

That's pure sophistry, Bheid, and you know it.

The argument that this wind farm would reduce our dependence on imported oil is pure sophistry.

But while this argument is seductive, it is pure sophistry.

This is pure sophistry.

But to argue that the big powers or the U.N. should not intervene anywhere unless they intervene everywhere is pure sophistry.

Is this libertarianism pure sophistry?