Word: glorious
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Traditionally, and especially in 20th century America, Jews have believed that the measure of a just society is how it treats its least fortunate. The picture of Abraham Joshua Heschel marching with Martin Luther King, the memory of Schwerner and Goodman dying with Chaney in Mississippi, and the glorious record of Jack Greenberg's crusades in the courts are examples of American Jews applying traditional Jewish values of justice and kindness to their dealings with African-Americans...
Trumpeting a glorious night of slumber...
...promising. In Anne Rice's screenplay, which she adapted from her megaselling 1976 novel, Lestat and his crew are displaced aristocrats, glorious anachronisms. They are enslaved by bloodlust: every night a little death. They lean into the victims' necks and give them the hickey from hell, the infernal overbite -- the kiss that bleeds. The nightly rampages of these putty-faced predators suggest an aids metaphor: voluptuous sexuality with fatal consequences. And after a couple of hundred years, the vampires get the edgy sourness of people married too long...
...afternoon, one glorious Saturday afternoon, the school pride was there...
Three singers who have among the most glorious voices in pop music are carrying on the Irish vocal tradition. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the rock band the Cranberries, the ever feisty Sinead O'Connor and newcomer Katell Keineg (born in Celtic Brittany, she lives in Dublin) have distinct personalities, to be sure, but they all have a flair for emotional and vocal dramatics -- a typical Celtic intensity -- and they all partake of that peculiarly Irish mix of melancholy, anger and romance. Moreover, they all share a feminist perspective, singing songs about women taking control of their lives...