Things I say unreasonably often

Criticism:

• disconcerting
• mortifying
• tempting
• vexing
• that ain't right
• shenanigans
• X is corrosive of Y
• that isn't even wrong
• X is maddeningly half-true
• not even wrong
• X is pernicious nonsense
• that's just wacky
• boneheaded
• doomed
• evil and doomed
• crazypants
• I'm against it
• worse than useless
• that way lies madness
• I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an X
  (classically, X is “question”)

Praise:

• X is a Great American
• X is mighty
• altogether fitting and proper
• right and righteous
• admirable and recondite
• relevant to my interests
• at the convergence of my interests
• I don't know what that is
  but I think I'm in favor of it
• that's crazy talk
  (used ironically)
• is it madness ... or is it genius?
• probably not factual but definitely true
• neither evil nor doomed
• necessary for the progress of Western civilization
• hard truth

Analysis:

• I respect that
• I respect your life choices
• I submit X
• I suspect X
• implicit
• astringent
• animating principle
• X militates in favor of / against Y
• X is not the same as Y, but they rhyme
• that's X for all the reasons that it's X
  (most often X equals either good or bad)
• X with X sauce
• if it seems like X, that because it's X
  (e.g., “if it seems like a lie, that's because it's a lie”)
• has the X nature
• plausible
  • at least plausible
  • plausible ... but unlikely
  • implausible
  • wildly implausible
• there's no profound reason for that
• epistemologically challenging
• why is this good?
• X is neither sufficient nor even necessary for Y
• anti-X
  (anti-helpful, anti-feature, et cetera)
• reasonable people may differ about X,
  but not about Y
• a theory of vast explanatory power
  (used both straight and ironically)

Other stuff:

• I don't want to know; in fact, I want to not know
• I'm just sayin’
• ... but I digress ...
• discourse
• nourish
• cultivate
• using X-based technology
• thanks for the word
• mad science
• X qua X