Word: canting
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...turns to Jane Fonda or Billy Graham, she wields a razor instead of a club, making accurate, carefully-planned incisions. She distrusts dogma wherever she finds it, whether in Graham's entrepreneurial righteousness or Fonda's one-dimensional millionaire liberalism. A dedicated feminist, she nevertheless gets us past the cant and rhetoric that hardens around the core of feminist issues. Her review of Linda Bird Francke's book on her own abortion derides "Pro-choice" and "pro-life" activists alike for denying the obvious--abortion is a painful, morally ambiguous act demanding more than noisy "right on" slogans...
...recent election. Voters in New Hampshire today and in Massachusetts next week may join the parade, following their favorite Democratic or Republican platoon sergeant to the shores of the Persian Gulf. But they have a chance to stop the music, to demand sane words instead of rhythmic cant...
Foul shooting proved to be the critical factor of last night's contest. In an aggressive and hard-fought game, both teams succeeded in drawing many fouls, put only the Bruins successfully capitalized on them, hitting 77 per cant of their free throw attempts...
What makes Kramer stand out, even in this often heady company, is its lack of cant or trendy attitudes of any stripe. Rather than tailor his characters to represent the various party lines of present-day sexual politics, Benton allows the issues to develop freely and inferentially from the unruly passions of his story. Kramer avoids explicit feminist debates, and it does not provide heroes or villains of either sex. By such omissions, it departs dramatically from films like An Unmarried Woman and Alice, which feature warm, wholly sympathetic heroines and men who are usually either bastards or saints. Kramer...
...lately been talked to death. A viewer may approach Promises in the Dark with some wariness, therefore, because the subject of the film is a 17-year-old girl's death after a long battle with cancer. But Promises is clear, direct and honest, and free of both cant and sentimentality. It is also lively, in the exact sense of the word; the flow of intelligence and feeling between Buffy, the sick girl, and her family and friends makes her inevitable death tolerable...