Word: moralisms
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...million in assistance to the rebel forces. Reagan compared the disparate guerrilla factions, whom he calls freedom fighters, to America's Founding Fathers, and took to picturing their cause in terms little short of apocalyptic. Said Reagan: "We cannot have the U.S. walk away from one of the greatest moral challenges in postwar history...
...Society and the parents tap, and sometimes smash, the Gaos back into their assigned roles. But the moral shading in Peacock is as rich as the cinematography, and moments of great poignancy?the mother's efforts to persuade the prettiest girl in town to have dinner with her retarded son, the lengths to which the sister goes to defend her brothers from bullies?temper the hardness the Gao children sometimes display. Gu packs his film with vivid period details: boys play hacky-sack with a flaming chestnut, a couple preserves eggs in handfuls of sticky mud, a family's supply...
...He’s levelheaded, and he is one of those rare birds who has a strong moral compass,” Kellerman said...
...These damn economists,” said Nelson, who concentrated in economics while at Harvard. “Always makes you wonder about the moral foundation of that profession...
...nuanced understanding of race in L.A. is more than once sacrificed for no-punches-pulled melodrama or a hackneyed moral lesson. Where it does well, it does pretty damn well, but mostly, its idealized ambition is too big for its britches...