Word: ragingly
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...extent that we respond to it, it is us too. Liking a Mel Gibson movie (or a T.S. Eliot poem) does not make you an anti-Semite. But it does require that you ask just what you do and don't identify with in it. Apocalypto shows a rage against senseless war and bloodlust, but it also seems to revel in them, and it raises the question of when purity of belief can shade into intolerance. Borat is the funniest movie of the year, but it's reasonable to ask whether our culture has become so anti-p.c. that...
...Road Rage...
...must weigh hard options. Does he seize his new platform, insisting that another great faith has potentially deadly flaws and daring it to discuss them, while exhorting Western audiences to be morally armed? Or does he back away from further confrontation in the hope of tamping down the rage his words have already provoked? Those who know him say he was clearly shocked and appalled by the violent reaction to the Germany speech. Yet it seems unlikely that he will completely drop the topic and the megaphone he has discovered he is holding. "The Pope has the intention...
...triumphant conquest, interrupted only momentarily by the Christian Crusades. The time of conquest lasted until the failed siege of Vienna in 1683. After Vienna, and most dramatically under 19th and 20th century Western colonialism, Islam was sidelined from history--one of the main sources of the rage and resentment of today's jihadists...
...jumps and gratuitous profundity—there are plenty of elements which make this film much more than just another hit-or-miss Sci-Fi drama. For one, the acting by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz is exceptional. Though Jackman’s character is given to spouts of rage, do not expect Wolverine to erupt and tear everything apart. Jackman has a certain subtlety and finesse that show he will have a long post-“X-Men” career. Weisz is charming and perfectly cast in her role as Tommy’s dying wife...