Word: maximalism
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...prison in which man had to earn his daily bread, and his fellow man was a fellow beast, carnivorous and without mercy"), but the setting and characters are commedia dell'arte. Puzo playfully admires the aging Don Dom. "Early on," he writes, "he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot...
...symbolism draws attention to itself through the play's title, but it becomes something of a joke by being pat and trite, like a Victorian maxim. The upstanding Lord Windemere bestows the fan on his chaste wife as a gift, but when jealousy leads her to rendezvous with Lord Darlington late at night, she leaves it lying on his table. She explicitly forgets it, and virtue, in his chambers...
...housing, even ample stipends. DuPont's madness and violent tendencies were clearly worsening--he had threatened wrestlers with guns before the alleged shooting. But they probably wanted to continue to milk his benevolence at least until the summer Olympics. These wrestlers probably put too much stock in the old maxim, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth...
...very important to us." But to others, Gingrich was simply facing reality. "We're drained and we're tired, and we're not moving ahead," said a Republican second-term Congressman. "If the troops don't get a break soon, we will crack." He also noted a favorite Gingrich maxim, not original to him, which says the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result...
There's an old maxim that states "You can't judge a book by its cover." Well, as Woody Allen's latest proves, you can't judge a movie by its title, either...