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The Hateful Eight is a 2015 American Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight dubious strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover some time after the American Civil War.
The Gish gallop (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ ʃ ˈ ɡ æ l ə p /) is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.
While accepting that ordinary pear-shaped gags exist, they observed that contemporary robbers used no such device as Palioly's Pear and cast doubt upon its very existence in the first place, saying that "fortunately for us this 'diabolical invention' appears to be one of the lost arts, if, indeed, it ever existed outside of de Calvi's head.
Foreign efforts to undermine American democracy won’t end on Nov. 5, U.S. intel officials say, as adversaries will try to undermine confidence in the election results.
But Major League Baseball entered the conversation loud and clear Tuesday, filing a motion casting doubt ahead of a key hearing at 2 p.m. Wednesday on Diamond Sports' ability to continue to ...
To reach his ends, Frazer is somewhat two-faced, having a Machiavellian tendency to doubt people and their situations. In many instances, he will quickly cast doubt upon Mainwaring's plans, or the bravery of one of his fellow platoon members (usually the mild-mannered Godfrey).
Former colleagues and landlords of Reade were quick to cast doubt on the allegations, from which only one piece of contemporaneous evidence emerged, according to the New York Times.
The falsity of Kay's claims with regard to the works of de Claremont is demonstrable, because the de Claremont books were first published by another company and only assigned to Kay upon republication, and this obvious attempt at deception in turn cast doubt upon Kay's claim to the Gamache authorship, which were also independently published ...