Word: righteousness
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...makes only one friend—in fact, he makes her his friend by refusing to allow her to withdraw from him as she did from all of her other fellow classmates. While one can relate to her sensitive and perceptive mind, her extreme and, at times, self-righteous reticence proves frustrating. After 9/11, she perceives only her desire for solitude as true:the wants of other students are frivolous: “students who lived with me met to talk about what had happened, but I did not join them, because that would have accomplished nothing. I wanted...
...with footage from the Congressional debates over the war in October 2002. While Young learns to deal with life in a wheelchair, senators pontificate on war and the constitutional implications of granting greater executive power to the President. Unsurprisingly, the film doesn’t just adopt a self-righteous tone but positively revels in it. The exchanges between Young’s anti-war mother and pro-war father could hardly be more simplistic, with the loyalties of the film clearly placed well on the maternal side. At Young’s wedding, his new mother-in-law tells...
There's another new phase at issue here, isn't there? The idea that Zimbabwe, and Africa, is entering a new era where it is no longer ruled by liberation leaders who see government as the righteous reward for their independence struggle, but where government is more accountable and judged on delivery? It's a new phase, yes. The nationalists fought for our independence, and they played that part gallantly. But today we need a new phase of democratic leadership. We do recognize the role the independence fighters played in winning our land from the colonialists - but they have...
...debut, and longer than any Stripes album to date.There are redemptive exceptions here that save “Consolers of the Lonely” from true failure. “These Stones Will Shout” makes a successful transition from airy, melodic folk song to righteous stadium-rock workout, enough to get the heart racing leading up to the strangely hypnotic blues-ballad “Carolina Drama.” “Salute Your Solution,” the album’s first single, is a chunky, supercharged freefall that takes full advantage of the quartet...
...Zanu-PF's contempt for democracy, paired with a simultaneous need for a veneer of respectability, is symptomatic of Mugabe's leadership style: dictatorial but self-righteous. Johannesburg-based Heidi Holland is one of the few journalists to have met Mugabe more than once. In her book, Dinner With Mugabe, she tries to explain the mystery of Mugabe's mind. "Like the seemingly respectable married man who makes his living as a drug lord, Mugabe holds parallel positions," she writes. "The two are not coordinated in his divided self. While he was indeed the enlightened leader who wanted to develop...