A pro-attitude cannot be regarded as rational unless it can be justified by showing that the object of the attitude can be characterized by means of a Janus-word.

With hollow words, and ouerly request: Come, will ye dine with me this Holy day? I yeelded, tho he hop’d I would say Nay:

While at Chinese Communist Party headquarters in Yanan, Mr. Topping watched peasant folk dances with Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing, who was later a driving force in the murderous purge dubbed the Cultural Revolution.

High Churchmen were not beyond praying for the dead; and the stories collected in Boswell's Johnson show that the possibility of ghosts was a reality in the eighteenth century for many educated men […].