Word: noblest
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...noblest solution might have been to stop using his fame. The smartest was to use his fame differently. Benjamin asked his agents to cold-call directors he respected to find out whether they would be willing to have lunch. More often than not, they were. "You just sit down at Starbucks or the Chateau Marmont--a lot of directors like to meet there--and start talking," says Benjamin. "Paul Thomas Anderson and I were tripping for hours," he says, recalling his meeting with the director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia. The informal conversations covered a lot of different ground...
...expression, political action, and social networking. Such revelations led me to attend meetings, participate in their constant discourse, and even work for some of their causes. Whites fight to give their children wealth, while minorities fight to give their children rights. Is not their choice to separate of the noblest quality? That same line of thinking brought me to realize that whites themselves, consciously or not, make the same choice as these organizations all the time. Except in the case of the dominant the choice of separation is one to keep power, or even to take it from others, entirely...
When the threat was proven to be a figment of the Bush administration’s imagination, the purpose of the enterprise was switched to the pursuit of “freedom.” While normally among the noblest of aims, that glorious ideal has here been turned into little more than a fallback plan for the occupation’s public relations division. This gives us good reason to doubt the sincerity of our government’s commitment to Iraqi freedom...
...story is simple enough. An innocent soldier, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), has been exiled to no-man's-land by his superiors and is presumed dead. His fianc--lovely, crippled Mathilde (Amlie's Audrey Tautou)--does all she can to find him. It's a fable of the noblest obsession, reflected in Tautou's poignant brown eyes. But it's just a part of Jeunet's grand, sad and comic panorama, which wants you to know everything about every character...
That may elicit groans from the stadium seats, but it probably gets sustained applause in the Knightley household. Knightley portrays her parents--playwright Sharman Macdonald and stage actor Will Knightley--as the noblest and humblest of theater folks. One of her favorite stories about how they suffered for their art has to do with her conception: "I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream...