Word: judgmental
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...working conditions--for decades one of the most consequential cases in history--he needed just three paragraphs to say his piece. He was piercing but entirely civil and expressed sadness that he felt compelled to write at all: "I regret sincerely that I am unable to agree with the judgment in this case...
...gray-brown cloud above his head? As the great storm explodes across the canvas, devouring the sickly yellow coin of the sun, the mighty general is just a comma in the larger scheme. This isn't merely history taking place in a landscape. It's landscape as the judgment of history...
...down to size too. In the same way, The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834, Turner's furious account of the fire that destroyed the old seat of government, was understood in his own time--just like the fire itself--as a judgment on the corruption of Parliament...
...have to do what Kenzie did-make the decision based on what he believes in. Those decisions have a cost for you and sometimes for other people, and you'll never know really if they were right or if they were wrong. You just have to trust your own judgment and live with the consequences of that and follow through...
...best ones make it look easy. Acting is a business of a thousand tiny judgments and intuitions, all to make the craft disappear and the character materialize. George Grizzard, who died this week at a much-too-young 79, had that gift. Of course he was Nick in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Of course he was John Adams in the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles. When he played any number of brash young men in TV anthology series, he was those men, as just as easily, or magically, the flinty gents...