Word: romanticized
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In his approach to domestic issues, individual rights and the liberties of colonial subjects, Churchill turned out to be a romantic refugee from a previous era who ended up on the wrong side of history. He did not become Prime Minister, he incorrectly proclaimed in 1942, "to preside over the...
The film's most distracting element, Jewel, playing the sweet widow Sue Lee Shelley, appears later in the film when Roedel, Chiles, and Holt move to a dugout to wait away the winter. Jewel is surprisingly good at engaging in dialogue, yet she visibly shies away from the camera when...
"I'm going to be in Chicago. That's where my family is from and that's where my boyfriend is. We met in Union Station in Chicago the day I got back from Harvard this summer. It was very romantic. He's 29 and he's in real estate...
It was not reason that led to Hitler's Romantic philosophy of "blood and fatherland." It's not reason that feeds myriad contending nationalisms. It's not reason that justifies the visceral greed of the world's exploiters. It's not reason that leads a people to idolize and deify...
But Chechnya's experience with autonomy dashes this romantic longing for independence. After Russia was badly mauled in the first Chechen war earlier this decade, the peace settlement gave Chechnya five years of autonomy before a referendum on independence. Despite the election of a moderate president, the country quickly descended...