Word: passionately
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Schumer spent the bulk of his time working to dispel the Republican notion of Sotomayor as ruled by passion more than the law. He went through some of Sotomayor's most tragic cases to underline instances where she applied the rule of law even when the decision went against those who had clearly suffered. "You heard the case of families of the 213 victims of the tragic TWA crash," Schumer said. "The relatives of the victims sued manufacturers of the airplane, which spontaneously combusted in midair, in order to get some modicum of relief, though, of course, nothing a court...
Most lawyers know well Aristotle's famous phrase: The law is reason free from passion. This is the crux of the debate about what kind of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor would make: that judges should rule not from passion or personal bias but with reason and precedent. As she attempts to be confirmed, Sotomayor's greatest asset has proved to be her methodical demeanor, making the hearings reasonably free of passion, and her future, it would seem, free of much doubt...
...thing that surprised me about this was the level and energy and passion for this mission that I have seen among so many people involved, right after I was told I was going to be sent here. I started getting e-mails and phone calls from people I knew who wanted to come. And these were people who had been here before. Many away from their families for a long time. One of my aides, who had only six months before come back from a tough assignment in Samarra, Iraq - he volunteered to go. And the energy that I found...
...think you have the tools to provide all this? We can always use more tools. The first and foremost is, if they offered me a choice between two more divisions or 1,000 people who spoke Pashto and Dari and had a passion for this place, I would absolutely take the 1,000. Actually, I'd even take 500 over those two divisions. Because that is the leverage here. It's the people who understand the situation. It's not blunt instruments that work. You do need some straight military boots on the ground, numbers to provide...
...this docudrama grit allows for precious little dramatic juice. Given that Dillinger's death was the most famous kill in FBI history, there can be no coil of suspense in this story; its ending is as predictable as a Passion play's. The vitality has to come from whatever fresh insights Mann can find in Dillinger's Stations of the Cross. And these are lacking. Few sparks are struck in the love story; Cotillard, last year's Oscar winner for La Vie en Rose, makes a tepid bedmate for the always sexy Depp. Mostly the film displays gangsters doing their...