Word: monsterous
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...kill? If it were allowed to take over Iraq, Iran would be the most powerful nation in the region and fearless in confronting the West. Iran is a big dog penned up in its yard. But if we withdraw troops from Iraq, Iran will become a monster that no yard can hold. Adam J. Cooney, Coventry, England...
...kill? If it were allowed to take over Iraq, Iran would be the most powerful nation in the region and would fearlessly confront the West. Iran is a big dog penned up in its yard. But if we withdraw troops from Iraq, Iran will become a monster that no yard can hold...
...poor Park family seems farcically overmatched by the monster. The sharpshooter dad runs out of bullets; the girl archery expert can't shoot straight. Actually, you won't want them to kill the monster, not right away, since it has lots of its own eccentricities. The creature is less vicious than playful, a showboating athlete that does high-bar 360s on a bridge rail and backflips into the river. When it hits land, it lopes like Marmaduke next to its ostensible victims; it treats any human in its mouth more as a chew toy than as lunch. If the movie...
...talking about? If God would not allow Abraham [in the Hebrew Bible] to offer his son Isaac as a human sacrifice, but told him to offer a ram instead, would God then sacrifice his son Jesus? Doesn't this suggest that God is some kind of monster, instead of the loving God of whom Jesus spoke? Would God refuse to forgive human sin apart from human sacrifice...
...grasps more greedily-and cruelly-the need for agency in death as does the greatest moral monster of our time: the suicide bomber. By choosing not only the time and place but the blood-soaked story that will accompany his death, he seeks to transcend and redeem an otherwise meaningless life. One day you are the alienated and insignificant Mohamed Atta; the next day, Sept. 11, 2001, you join the annals of infamy with all the glory that brings in the darker precincts of humanity. It is the ultimate perversion of the "good death," done for the worst of motives...