Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That Americans of all faiths have come to revere the Pope because of his moral presence says as much about the state of American society as the magnetism of the Pope's personality. So starved are Americans for a moral message that smacks of authenticity that we will heed the call from wherever it comes...
While the issue at hand is of vital importance, Mr. Farrakhan has left us little choice but to think that Monday's rally is ultimately more about his own self-aggrandizement than about collective soul-searching and moral responsibility...
Farrakhan needs to be reminded that the presence of such respected African-American figures as Harvard Professor Cornel West '74 and Maya Angelou does not make up for his own moral deficit. The American public knows the difference between men of moral integrity and men of moral pretense...
...events take an unexpected turn, separating Wentworth from Louisa and bringing him, through a thicket of obstacles, back to Anne. "Persuasion" is certainly a tale of romance, in which the heroine ends up happy against all odds. But what makes it distinctively a Jane Austen story is the moral dimension of the romance; the real agony of Anne's plight is not just her lack of a husband, but her total isolation among people who neither understand nor value her character and virtue...
Unfortunately, it is this moral dimension of the story which Michell's film is least able to convey. In Amanda Root's Anne, for example, the sense of an active critical mind is often missing. Anne seems so afflicted, so desperate, that we rarely feel that she is her family's superior, always judging them; rather, she seems to be a mere victim of their mistreatment. And that mistreatment is portrayed so luridly-Nicholls' Elizabeth, especially, is a snickering ghoul-that Walter and Elizabeth Elliot seem closer to the wicked step-family of Cinderella than the conceited fools of Austen...