Word: defeatingly
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...watching was limited to a weekly dose of the Simpsons and, occasionally, an episode of The Family Guy a roommate had downloaded onto his computer. But my summer cartooning mixes the comic and the action, and the protagonists of these shows are heroes—they display great courage, defeat their enemies and always do the right thing...
Hero cartoons provide excitement and adventure and offer an escape from everyday life. But they also teach the beauty of living in the real world—we do not always have to be successful and defeat our enemies. And while we may hope to spend our lives doing good for the world, we shouldn’t demand it from ourselves all the time...
...once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory...
...these years, we thought MICHAEL JACKSON was beyond race, beyond gender, beyond defeat. Now we learn he loves to trumpet his ethnicity and is willing to admit he can fail. The problem is, he's having trouble accepting responsibility for that failure. Angry that his last album, Invincible, sold only 2 million copies in the U.S., Jackson is blaming his record label, Sony, for not promoting the CD with ads on his TV special, among other things. So the dethroned King of Pop rented a bus and, clutching a picture of Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola sporting demonic horns...
...among the faceless masses in a street scene. Extras, if they find work, will make seven dollars a day. (The highest paid Bollywood stars make a million dollars a picture.) They are willing to put up with incredible hardship?sleeping on pavements, hunger, illness?rather than return in defeat to their villages. Eventually, they pay hefty membership fees to join the Junior Artists Association. "Ambition can be like that," shrugs 42-year-old Suraj, an extra who fondly recalls his best role: as a dying soldier in a now-forgotten epic, he had the camera linger...