Word: enlightenedness
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"Intervention in Bosnia is not in any country's immediate hard-headed concrete interest," Wallander says. "There is an enlightened long-term self-interest...that is the stability of Europe."
For too long, those on the Left have indulged in cynically moralistic rhetoric intended to discourage the expression of dissent and especially to show how much more enlightened and sophisticated they are than the rest of us. Anyone who disagrees with them is branded a bigot, a racist, a homophobe...
I was also enlightened that Nigel Thomas, another one of the pubescent primates, had a "strict stepfather" who "had allegedly abused him." His mother died of cancer five years ago and he had been living with his friend Gator for a few months. According to the Globe, Nigel and Gator...
Lacking suspense and development, American Buffalo delivers few memorable moments. Instead, the vacuousness the play depicts merely imparts to the audience a low-level malaise. It ends with Bobby sheepishly saying "I'm sorry," which is also his opening line, and the audience is no more enlightened than it was...
Not every gourmet will be thrilled by Bourre's contention that the best food for brains is, well, brains. Liver, kidneys and sweetbreads are also rich in mind-building and protein-developing fatty acids, as are Rocky Mountain oysters (a.k.a. bull testicles) -- "for enlightened connoisseurs," the author smoothly adds. But...