Word: priestly
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...majestic wings once cast large shadows all over North America. The bird was a survivor. When saber-toothed cats and other big animals died off about 10,000 years ago, the California condor retreated to the carrion-rich Pacific coast and survived. A Spanish priest recorded seeing one in 1602; Lewis and Clark spotted another...
Twenty-four years have passed since Father Michael Doyle first came to serve the people of Camden, N.J., yet this Irish pastor still cannot bear returning to his adopted home in daylight. One would think a quarter-century would be time enough to harden even a priest to the visual brutality of a city so broken that its people, like many of its buildings, have buckled and collapsed. But each time he goes away, Doyle finds he must slip back in darkness, like a burglar in his own home. "I have to come back at nighttime and start gently with...
...Jesuit priest goes into the 17th century Canadian wilderness to convert the savages and is himself converted, after terrifying adventures, to cultural relativism. Bruce Beresford's dark dance with the wolves of the spirit is an intelligent, perfectly controlled epic...
...Jesuit priest goes into the 17th century Canadian wilderness to convert the savages and is himself converted, after terrifying adventures, to cultural relativism. Bruce Beresford's dark dance with the wolves of the spirit is an intelligent, perfectly controlled epic...
...priest and natives can do no more than grant one another their mutual irredeemability, the dignity of their otherness. Screenwriter Brian Moore, adapting his novel, avoids anachronistic political correctness, and director Bruce Beresford refuses melodramatic imposition -- no dancing with wolves for them. This magnificently austere epic makes us too feel (and taste and smell) that otherness, the discomfiting strangeness of these lives, the authentic tragedy of their collision...