Word: judgments
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...observe others with the absolute certainty that they themselves would not be observed in turn--if not by the actors themselves, then at least by the characters they were meant to represent. It is an almost God-like position to be in. And in this position, rather than passing judgment on characters as we might in everyday life, we often find ourselves more accepting of other people's faults. Characters whom we might find repulsive were we to meet them on the street--Chekov's Trigorin or Mamet's Don in American Buffalo--take on a surprising pathos...
...while we are part of an audience rarely carries over into our everyday lives. The darkness of a theater may allow us to feel compassion for a Trigorin or a Don on stage, but when daylight returns and we meet similar people in our lives we revert back to judgment and condemnation. We have to. We are no longer unobservable. We exist, and so long as we choose to exist we have to defend that existence. Judgment and condemnation are means of self-defense...
...purchase. But at a time when the British government is embroiled in a debate over banning fox hunts, the move did not sit well. One newspaper suggested she is beginning to resemble the scorned Sarah Ferguson more than the saintly Princess Diana. Rhys-Jones apologized for her "error in judgment." In the future, perhaps, she should stick to tiaras...
...They have very good judgment," he said...
John Deutch made a fantastically poor judgment call when he inadvertently exposed classified national security information to the world of Internet users via his home computer. But, say members of the Justice Department and former colleagues at the CIA, his negligence was not criminal; he simply should have known better. That's the line on Capitol Hill Thursday, as former CIA director Deutch faces the Senate Armed Services Committee and their probing line of questioning. Did he understand what was at stake when he decided to write classifed documents on his personal computer? CIA insiders, including George Tenet, the agency...