Word: righteous
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...embrace. For two years after Sept. 11, the world became used to the stubborn, arrogant, go-it-alone, kill-the-bastards approach of the United States with regard to its terrorist enemies. Now, however, America has become a paranoid victim again after its lengthy, and ultimately dissatisfying, spree of righteous vengeance...
...Woolrich original had a different twist in mind: the twisting of the woman?s righteous quest into soulless revenge, as, one by one, the suspects die off and our heroine grows callouses on her conscience. The book was a variation on Woolrich?s first novel, ?The Bride Wore Black,? which was also the story of a woman who, having been infected by wrongful death, spreads the contagion around to other innocent people. (The woman may have transferred her husband?s betrayal onto other...
...idea of executing mentally handicapped murderers—when choice isn’t involved, pity is far more warranted than anger. So go ahead, pass judgment on celebrities for their latest relapse or for trading in their aging wives for younger models, but spare me your righteous indignation when it comes to molesting children...
Last weekend, on the other hand, my heart soared to see Hugh Grant’s Prime Minister deal some body blows to the obnoxiously ignorant and gratingly self-righteous American president, and immediately I began to wish that Tony Blair would do something similar in real life. As the movie said, Britain might be small but it shouldn’t cower before America’s myopic bullying. And as soon as Hugh Grant is elected prime minister, it just might...
...indirect manner of striking Arab or Islamic governments that militants condemn as corrupt," says the adviser to Morocco's King. France's Jacquard calls the tactic a new "strategy of rupture." The purpose, he says, is to force Muslims "to finally, fatally decide whether they are for or against righteous jihad." Jacquard says Saudi intelligence officials told him the Riyadh bombers who struck on Nov. 8 picked their target, knowing the apartment complex housed many Arabs, to send the message that all who resist jihad are fair game. To kill fellow Muslims during Ramadan, as terrorists did in Istanbul...