Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presence is to have any reason at all, it can only be to express what many are afraid to admit to themselves in the deepest cell of their hearts, what in the dust of ruins we still do not recognize: that every single one of us was very well able to choose for himself between right or wrong, justice or chaos. We must withstand the tempters-in whatever gilded cups they may be serving the red wine of seduction-when they cry from the right or from the left: 'Put your ballot in our box and your sins will...
This is a film that explores moral complexities. The wife is brought to her deepest ruthlessness not only by her own genuine love and her own innate weakness, but also by beginning to learn the worst about her husband, by perceiving that she may lose her lover through the best that is in him, and crucially, by her husband's most earnest efforts to face his own evil, and to be good to her. Moreover, the young lovers' sin of youthfulness is perceived with complete compassion, even by the husband...
...deepest dissatisfaction was found not in Italy (where, on the eve of historic elections, many declare themselves "better off"), but in France. Two pieces of testimony, from opposite poles of French life, show how relative the sense of ill-being can be. Said a not-too-clean salesgirl, in a slum grocery shop in Paris: "I get 9,000 francs [about $30] a month; not enough to live on and too much to die on. . . . I don't know about [political issues]. All I know is that I can't live on my salary and that prices have...
...presupposed of the U.S. Congress, which in these parts is expected to do the right thing in the wrong way, if at all. Wrote the Manchester Guardian: "The U.S. has risen to the occasion. It is now for the nations of Western Europe to do no less." But the deepest wish of our friends in Europe is that they did not have to accept...
...quartered) "would find it difficult to live inside the same house together, let alone inside the same skin. . . . Henry Wallace No. 1 is a mystic, an amateur of esoteric doctrines. . . . Henry Wallace No. 2 is an opportunist, adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...