Word: intentioned
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...their efforts elsewhere, jihadists haven't forgotten their ultimate battleground--the U.S. Late last week the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued another of their vague public warnings about possible threats. Privately, they say incoming intelligence reports are loaded with talk that al-Qaeda remnants are intent on pulling off another spectacular event. Officials believe such an attack is more likely to occur on U.S. interests abroad, simply because it's easier to assemble the weapons, explosives, vehicles and foot soldiers outside the U.S. But no one dares rule out attacks within the country. FBI agents were quietly...
Arcand (The Decline of the American Empire) has a gift for witty dialogue but a weakness for force-feeding his story with sentiment. References to ancient holocausts and to 9/11 simply expose the intent of a director who will do anything to touch his audience--with a sweet gesture or a cattle prod. And in a comedy of manners, that behavior is very impolite. --By Richard Corliss
...intent on convening a national debate about the proper place of God in public life, discretion is no virtue. Judge Moore has been exuberantly defying court orders regarding the Ten Commandments since his early days as a judge in Etowah County when he defended his right to display a homemade rosewood plaque in his courtroom. That crusade helped him get elected as Alabama's chief justice in 2000, so it should have surprised no one when he wheeled the 5,280-lb. monument of the Commandments into the courthouse rotunda in a midnight ceremony and then forced a showdown...
...next day her lover is cruelly murdered, and her elder daughter Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) is abducted by a renegade Indian band intent on selling Lilly and some other young women into sexual slavery in Mexico. The local sheriff won't help Maggie, and the Army is looking in all the wrong places. Only Jones, wise in the ways of the Indians and adept at tracking in the trackless wilderness, can help her and her spunky younger child Dot (Jenna Boyd) recover Lilly before it's too late...
...intent of this column is not missionary but analytical. Using two main texts - Richard Klein's wonderfully suggestive book-length essay "Cigarettes Are Sublime," and Ross McElwee's documentary film "Bright Leaves" - I want to take a calm look at smoking, and its place in the culture, from the inside - from the smoker's hot mouth, wheezing heart, sooty lung and vivid, endlessly rationalizing brain...