Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juliet of the Spirits/Nights of Cabiria. Early Fellini. Attenuated mysticism, and an eerie, compassion-soaked realism.
It turns out to be neither-just a misquote which, Truffaut states politely, "will no longer appear." Every Man for Himself and God Against All does recall Truffaut in the same way that a color-by-the-numbers painting recalls Cézanne. Based on the history of a young...
She is distressed by what she calls "a lack of compassion on the part of the councilors" and "inadequate community involvement and suupervision" on the part of the police. "People in this city don't work together and they never have," Savoy said.
Gone was the old language of sin among these later founders. Franklin spoke not of sins but, as a publisher would, of "Errata." He grounded virtue in "the Laws of our Nature" and in man's character as "a sociable being." Jefferson believed that "morality, compassion, generosity are innate...
Although Aurora's polished dialogue is not without wit, she never sounds much better than the star of a road-company Importance of Being Earnest. As he has demonstrated in novels like The Last Picture Show, Author McMurtry feels most at home with Texas natives, and the odd characters...