Word: righteousness
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...reputation "must inevitably suffer in consequence." As for Sir Martin, his complaints were "silly and ignorant." Buckshot for Royalty. Sir Martin got little support for his censure petition in Parliament; and Fleet Street's other newspapers, while crowing at the Beaverbrook predicament, could ill afford to be too righteous in their condemnations-especially after the peevish chorus they had sung when Antony Armstrong-Jones took a job with the Sunday Times. The unwritten rule that the royal family should be treated only with reverence and respect in print has long vanished, and the British press has recently enjoyed peppering...
...never to use profanity. One evening the group started singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. I continued with the phrase, 'What the hell do we care.' Well, I can tell you, it didn't sit well with Johnny. He came up to me, white-faced and righteous, and told me to stop. I think he was ready to knock my block...
...once a movie has been able to handle mental illness and sexual aberration from a perspective that is as natural as it is sensitive. Too frequently such movies depend entirely on the theme for their success. And too many also lapse into a slightly righteous indignation at the brutal misunderstanding of the so-called healthy world without ever sympathetically coming to grips with the tension implicit in the vague difference between normality and abnormality. Others have simply over dramatized the sensational aspects of the problem. The Mark manages to avoid these pitfalls. With a great deal of insight and considerable...
...army commission and fought instead as a sergeant in World War I, later spurned a peerage, lived as a gentle, absent-minded professor. He left his intellectual mark on hundreds of workers, whom he ardently taught in night classes, condemning the ethics of capitalism while setting out in righteous contrast the moral principles of a cooperative order...
Inspired to plot a righteous world. Charles Hosmer...