Word: moralizations
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...criteria for making the list were complicated, according to Mccammon. Power was chosen “because her brand of moral pragmatism is helping reshape American foreign policy for the 21st century...
...doctor infected by the plague, and she bravely joins her husband in the quarantine building. Unnamed like the rest of the cast, the eye doctor’s wife is the only character in the movie who can see—in both a physical and moral sense—and as a result becomes the movie’s heroine. But as both the physical and social conditions of the building quickly deteriorate, anarchy ensues, and the criminals who take control force the others to commit sickening acts of physical and sexual violence for food. Throughout the second half...
...Brockovich,” Julia Roberts plays a single mom who takes a power company to task for contaminating water supplies. In “The Insider,” Russell Crowe resolves to use his inside knowledge to bring down Big Tobacco. But both these films deal with moral issues of a more urgent nature and have heroes who are more engaging and three-dimensional. Kearns’ defining trait is his doggish grip on one idea: that he deserves the credit and the profit for his invention. But while his earnest demeanor and sense of right and wrong...
Amidst a shower of paper airplanes, a man dressed in a navy lamé suit with a matching top hat honored a group of distinguished scientists for their research relating to the fertility cycle of lap dancers, the moral consideration of plants, and the spontaneous knotting of string. Last night in Sanders Theatre, the unusual met with the academic at the “Eighteenth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.” The ceremony—hosted by the scientific humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research”—bestowed awards...
...Iraqi capital last week). But big or small, the effect on traffic is the same: huge jams, boiling frustrations and growing chunks of the city off limits to ordinary citizens. The most visible no-go area in Islamabad today is the high end of Constitution Avenue (there's a moral in that somewhere), but security forces are also closing off smaller roads, remaking traffic flows...