The term "sweeping statement" refers to a broad and general assertion, often without any specific evidence or proof. Some antonyms or opposite phrases for sweeping statement might include "precise statement" or "specific claim," which involve more detailed or focused claims. "Narrowly framed argument" or "limited perspective" could also be used to describe an argument that is not sweeping in nature. These phrases highlight the importance of providing evidence and support for any claim, rather than making a sweeping statement that may not be accurate or reflective of the full picture. Being specific and precise in one's arguments is key to constructing a meaningful argument with well-supported claims.

What are the antonyms for Sweeping statement?

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Famous quotes with Sweeping statement

• Doniger is fond of using pseudoscientific language to make her dismissive, negative and often poorly evidenced opinions on Hinduism sound weightier than they are—claiming for instance that Western feminists who embrace the Hindu Goddess are wrong because, when she compares India to Monotheistic, Male- God cultures, there is “in general an inverse ratio between the worship of goddesses and the granting of rights to human women.” Doniger does not produce any evidence to substantiate this sweeping statement which she has made....

  Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
• My dad has hated me for as long as I can remember. That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds. It sounds petulant and really fantastic, the kind of weapon kids always use when the old man won't come across with the car for your heavy date at the drive-in with Peggy Sue or when he tells you that if you flunk world history the second time through he's going to beat the living hell out of you. In this day and age when everybody thinks psychology is God's gift to the poor old anally fixated human race and even the president of the United States pops a trank before dinner, it's really a good way to get rid of those Old Testament guilts that keep creeping up our throats like the aftertaste of a bad meal we overate. If you say your father hated you as a kid, you can go out and flash the neighborhood, commit rape, or burn down the Knights of Pythias bingo parlor and still cop a plea... But it also means that no one will believe you if it's true. You're the little boy who cried wolf. And for me it's true...I don't think Dad himself really knew it until then. Even if you could dig to the very bottom of his motives, he'd probably say - at the most - that he was hating me for my own good.

  Stephen King

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