Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anecdotes are compelling. For instance, his account of the Nguyens, a Vietnamese family of refugees who worked many long hours to improve their economic standing, sounds very familiar. It's reminiscent of the stories told to any second or third-generation Americans by their immigrant parents or grandparents. The moral: Hard work and the opportunity to make a new start are what makes America great...
...Commencement address delivered at Harvard on June 8th, Ms. Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, set a high moral tone by pleading the case for freedom, liberty and human rights worldwide. These are universal values which every nation must uphold, argued Ms. Bhutto, and she paid glowing tribute to the peoples of Argentina, Brazil, Panama, the Phillipines and her native Pakistan who stood up in defense of these values...
...make any mention of the courage and sacrifice of the young Chinese students who champion the very values Ms. Bhutto so passionately pleaded for. While such a glaring omission could be viewed as political expedience designed not to offend current Chinese leadership, such discretionary judgement seriously diminishes the moral imperative of her call to fight for the preservation and spread of democracy and liberty...
...awards dinner where he received an award for excellence from the London-based Sunday Times, Heaney said that the British media and government had maintained a feeling of moral superiority to the Irish...
...redress all grievances, we have a new Batman movie. Director Tim Burton has chosen to make a deadly solemn film about a superhero whose mental state is just this side of psychotic. This Batman does not battle crime out of any sense of moral righteousness. He does it because he is obsessed. He likes to scare the hell out of crooks by dangling them off the edge of skyscrapers. He enjoys slinking around in the dark, vanishing and reappearing without warning in the thick mist that envelops Gotham...