Word: moralisms
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...aided this resistance force was a wealthy Saudi named Osama bin Laden. Our CIA supported the mujahideen as well. Russian troop strength was eventually increased up to 108,000, and vigorous offensive actions were launched in the countryside, but control could never be established. The effort became a moral and political calamity. Over a decade 13,000 Soviet troops were lost, more than 1 million Afghans were killed, and roughly 5 million Afghans fled to Pakistan or Iran. Afghanistan came to be known as “Russia’s Vietnam.” In 1989 the last Soviet...
...Jesus's occupation); the fact that its success helped initiate what amounted to a new and potent movie genre - sci-fi - and, above all, the way it keeps faith with its roots in parable, telling a simple story in powerful terms, stressing a firm, easy-to-read moral and keeping the special effects to an almost homemade level. It is, in my opinion, one of the most lovable and watchable movies of the postwar era. (See the Top 10 1950s sci-fi movies...
...years later, someone has had the not inherently bad idea of remaking the movie. The nukes continue to proliferate and we've added the potential for ecological suicide to our arsenals of self-destructiveness, so why not redraw Day's moral for a new generation? Unfortunately, the new director is a dope named Scott Derrickson, who has teamed with a morally deaf screenwriter named David Scarpa, and they have made what must be the worst major release in what may be the most disastrous year in recent Hollywood history...
...attributes and turning him into a zombie-like figure, awash in ambiguity; once he gets to meet a few humans he see that they're really not such bad sorts after all. The guy was never a ton of fun, but formerly he was at least a figure of moral weight and - especially rare in popular entertainments - a believably brainy one, a kind of public intellectual before that egregious term was invented. Now he's pretty much a drip...
Shokane said that she believed student movements, participation, and initiatives like the charity can bring a lot to Africa, including both the physical and moral support...