Word: restraint
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...change in Shi'ite fortunes has been resisted by Sunnis, nowhere more violently than Iraq, where the insurgency that continues to rage unchecked is as anti-American as it is aimed at intimidating Shi'ites who were perceived as U.S. collaborators. For two years Shi'ites showed remarkable restraint in the face of repeated provocations in the form of bloody terror attacks by Sunni insurgents, but the ferocity of those attacks eventually took its toll. And the Shi'ites did not take kindly to the U.S. strategy of wooing reluctant Sunni politicians to join the political process, which they took...
...only party with any real influence over the actions of the erratic Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. But Kim gave his backers in Beijing a rude surprise on October 9, when North Korea announced that it had tested a nuclear device in defiance of China's demand for restraint...
...surprisingly evocative effect.The warriors’ morale, expressed by their clenched fists, is ambiguous: is it fear? Excitement? Anxiety? Anticipation? The exercise is unresolvable, yet gratifyingly engrossing.Admirably, Bubriski and the Peabody staff have refrained from exoticizing either the Dani or Rockefeller’s disappearance. Though this restraint should now be expected of any similar project, it is a remarkable improvement over earlier representations of the New Guinea expedition, such as the cover headline of LIFE magazine’s 1962 feature, “Survivors from the Stone Age: a Savage People That Love...
...Israel acted with restraint, treating the trio of rockets as a few early hiccups in the cease-fire process. Says Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin: "Let's hope that's just the problems of the beginning. But if Israel is attacked, we will respond. If there are Palestinian factions that are not part of the cease-fire, it's hard to see how the cease-fire will hold...
...York Times critic A. O. Scott ’88 put it in a review, “It’s full of gamey details and a kind of sleazy anxious sweaty mood.”Mifune’s performance perfectly balances traditional Japanese restraint and righteous anger at the deplorable morality both of his business partners and of the ransomers.I hesitate to spoil more of the film, but suffice it to say that Kurosawa makes a definitive statement about whether people are inherently compassionate or selfish.Polanski strings equally palpable tension throughout “Knife...