Word: passionate
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Darnielle went on to play two songs that make no mistake of his passion for the Homeric simile, “Mole” from We Shall All, and “International Small Arms Traffic Blues” off Tallahassee. He prefaced the former with the first of many contextual asides, describing himself years ago stuck in a coma while his then-wife attempted communication, a state which he renders in the song as that of a “mole, peeking his head out from under the earth.” His delivery of “International?...
...took two years of the rat race and some good advice from his girlfriend before Thurston decided to chase his true passion and once again confront the hilarious struggle of American existence...
This skewing of the narrative has led critics to label The Passion anti-Semitic, and Aitken concurs. As the passion narratives were written during the Christian church’s nascent stages, she explains, they were in part an attempt to “unify a given community and define one group against another.” Thus, it is impossible to “put modern labels” on the complicated racial and ethnic makeup of first century Jerusalem, she says...
...points out that Gibson took Jesus’s famous “I am the way, the truth and the life” quotation—which is not in the passion narrative—and juxtaposed it with the spectacle of the moments just before Jesus’s death on the cross. “In doing so, there’s no religious openness. There’s simply a sense of ‘believe in me,’ or be wrong...
...dialogue created in the press and around the water coolers nationwide has been “full of sound scriptural and religious education.” Yet, Aitken and some of her Harvard Divinity School colleagues question the effect the film may have. Cox says, “The Passion not only has a questionable and destructive view of Jews, it fundamentally distorts the Christian message as well...