Word: moralisms
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...pleasant ending, however, and audiences are all able to take away the very important moral: It doesn’t matter what we’ve done wrong, and as long as we are either legitimately sorry or at least do a good job of pretending to be, we will be forgiven. And if that’s not something to live by, I don’t know what...
...product of combustion of fossil fuels is carbon dioxide, which has the potential to alter global climate with implications for temperature, rainfall, and even for sea level. Warmer temperatures and uncertain supplies of precipitation can exacerbate the problems for those least equipped to cope. We have a moral imperative, I believe, to anticipate these problems and to do what we can to mitigate their consequences...
Springsteen has never made a bad record, and Devils has enough strong moments to avoid being his first. Long Time Comin', Maria's Bed and Leah edge toward brightness; Matamoros Banks works back from death to become a wonderfully wounded love song, and the title track gets at the moral drama of war without being overwrought. With the E Street Band on hiatus, Springsteen plays a majority of the instruments himself, and producer Brendan O'Brien highlights the intimacy by granting most songs a verse of acoustic guitar before carefully adding keyboards, fiddle, feathery drums and occasional background vocals...
Imagine: the realpolitick savvy of a Henry Kissinger combined with the moral code of a Mother Teresa. John Paul II's worldliness combined with his faith in the other world made him a remarkably effective global leader...
...Pope embodied true leadership and moral courage. He called evil by its name and fought it tooth and nail. He was a symbol of democracy and the pro-life movement. The world is in debt to this great man. The Pope was the moral compass of our generation...