Word: defenseless
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...been singing along with a Christian rock 'n' roll praise band. What the youngster offered the black-jacketed killer was heaven, saying, "You need Jesus." Ashbrook, 47, answered, "It's all bulls___, what you believe!" It was only then that he opened up on the over 100 defenseless worshippers, killing five more, wounding seven, creating martyrs...
...treatment of the Ku Klux Klan was even more troubling. According to the museum, the actions of the Klan were morally equivalent to those of Union soldiers, who "were often guilty of theft and murder" against defenseless Southern whites, and Northern carpetbaggers, who "were exploiting the ignorance of the former slaves for their own selfish purposes." Worst of all? The abolitionists, who dared "to place blacks in positions of authority." This was Alice in Wonderland history, a version in which everything I had learned was turned on its ear and served up as fact. And yet the white-haired Vicksburg...
...fate of moral crusaders to be vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy or have the arbitrary selectiveness of their campaigns held against them. Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement. The real test might be, Did she inspire followers, skeptics and even opponents to larger acts of kindness or greater visions of possibility...
...know, anyone. But could there be a heavy hint of party affiliation in his latest epic? Consider: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, written in the mid-'90s and shot in scandal-filled 1998, opens with a hot-headed character named Nute (pronounced Newt), whose attack on the defenseless planet of Naboo has all the speed and surprise of the Republican revolution. Nute's ally in the Galactic Senate is known as Lott, and Lott's main aim is to tie up Naboo's call to arms in committee, allowing it to die a quiet death, a la campaign...
...brilliantly patterned minutiae of daily life, the rewards of Nattel's research, that anchor the novel's loftier meanings. At muddy street level, Blaszka is stuck in poverty and provincial darkness. Typhus, cholera and rampaging Cossacks periodically cut down the defenseless population. Czarist laws keep Blaszka's youth from a modern formal education. But so do Orthodox parents who pray that their sons will devote themselves to Talmudic study and their daughters will aim no higher than the kitchen stove and the marriage...