Word: righteously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There's that much evil in the world? And Clint, thinking more about storytelling craft than about Oscar nominations, would say, Sure. But there are heroes too. And this time, the righteous gunslinger is a mom with no weapon but her inexhaustible love...
...clear that John McCain understands this reality, too: with his characterization of Obama as “dangerous,” in Governor Sarah Palin’s comment that he was “pallin’ around with terrorists,” and in the blind and righteous fury of supporters at campaign rallies: “Kill him!”These are not appeals to sense, but to fear. And to them, the Obama campaign’s strategy of keeping the race issue quiet is, in many ways, exactly wrong. True, he?...
...idea that government should do this carefully - McCain's best moment was when he described how he'd cut waste. But McCain always looked as if he were a kernel of corn about to pop. He blinked, he spluttered. He interrupted Obama constantly. At times, McCain's outrage seemed righteous, as when he thundered that he was not Bush. (The focus group punished Obama when he mentioned the "failed policies of the past eight years.") But even righteous outrage seemed much too hot this year. In his anger, McCain confirmed a sad truth about his campaign: that the prime source...
...extended eloquence of the California ruling from earlier this year. The Connecticut justices didn't take the opportunity - as the California justices did - to dismantle the various arguments that social conservatives have used over the years to oppose marriage equality. There is only one brief moment of righteous clarity in the Connecticut ruling - the part where the court explains why civil unions do not suffice: "Although marriage and civil unions do embody the same legal rights under our law, they are by no means 'equal.' As we have explained, the former is an institution of transcendent historical, cultural and social...
...realism among Israeli rightists, akin to what Palestinian and Arab nationalists started going through three decades ago, when Israel was in the prime of its strategic strength. The shift is evident not only in Olmert's prescription for a peace settlement, but also in his severe critique of a righteous Israeli mind-set that has turned out to be self-destructive...