Word: polarity
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Though Frailty is Paxton’s debut, he has experienced vicarious tutelage under the likes of director James Cameron and ventures on a polar opposite from his frequent employers. Where Cameron frequently descends into overblown melodrama and explicit sentimentality, Paxton exhibits an oddly compelling restraint. He pulls fewer emotional punches than might be expected in this, a tale of questionable morality, and leaves almost all the gore offscreen. Using sounds suggestive of the violence that the father inflicts on his demons, the camera pans to the reaction shots of his children, and in those moments, the images truly chill...
Popular history is like a polar ice shelf. It encases a certain figure, event or phenomenon in its deep freeze for ages; then, inexplicably, the surface cracks, and the glacier heaves it up: the presidency of John Adams! The invention of longitude! The history...
...Endurance--and a crew, selling them on their chances despite the encroachment of World War I and a thickening ice pack. And after the ship gets trapped in the ice, he uses his dogged charisma to lead 27 freezing men as they trudge and paddle for months through the polar wastes toward rescue...
MALEVOLENT: (while clearing rain forests, enlarging the hole in the ozone layer and melting polar icecaps) No! No pennies...
...polar opposite of Daniel Pearl's intellectual curiosity was the sort of dogmatism that took his life. An ideologue with a closed mind killed a splendid young man with an open mind. Not the first time that the desire to know has been murdered by the need not to know. Half the world belongs to candlesnuffers--to people who have no curiosity to find out, so to speak, how to take off or land...