Word: heinously
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After the initial breaking of the story, many felt that the U.S. must actively work to dissociate itself from those who allowed such atrocities to take place. Its citizens expected their leaders to act quickly and decisively to reaffirm that the U.S. would neither practice nor tolerate such a heinous breed of behavior and, moreover, prove to a skeptical global community that this was not the true face of America...
...bells] kind of make me hate God,” she says. “They ruin my spirituality. It’s horrible and heinous. I feel bad for anyone who has to ring them. They are the purveyors of a misery that never ends...
...upon the terrorists who wiped out eleven of that country's athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. As such it functions as a well-made and suspenseful thriller. But that's not its main business. Neither is a hymn of hate to the Palestinian perpetrators of that heinous crime, which was the true beginning of modern terrorism, carried out in the full glare of the media spotlight. Spielberg believes the actions of the Israelis was fully justified. But mainly he stresses the human cost of counter-terrorism, the fact that it is not easy to kill anyone, even...
Munich begins and ends with, and frequently reverts to, an account of an especially heinous historical act: the capture and eventual murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games by a Palestinian terrorist group calling itself Black September. Because television was omnipresent at the Games, the entire world was witness to that awful event. Indeed, it's not too much to say that most of us for the first time perceived the face of modern terrorism in the images that ABC and the other networks broadcast of those frightful 24 hours. Or, in fact, did not fully perceive...
...your family; what do you think can be passed on? AS: I didn’t listen to the lesson my father tried to teach me, which was to not join the military…my father saw, as most men who served in Vietnam saw, rather brutal and heinous things and wisely, he didn’t want his sons to see the same things. So I failed to listen to lessons that could have been taught to me. What I’ve done with “Jarhead” is simply try to be honest about...