Word: savioring
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Bill McCann, as Macduff, starts weakly--see if his "Horror, horror, horror!" doesn't make you giggle--but gives a fine sympathetic portrait of this confused man. He is both savior and fool, diehard and blowhard, and when informed of the murder of his wife and children must "feel like a man." But he can't in public, so he just stands there, horrified, perplexed by this mad order which forces one to substitute country for family and torn by the guilt of leaving home. For once, words fail him, and the effect is illuminating...
Pope John Paul II should be held accountable for the misery he spawns, rather than being lauded as a savior or an enlightened religious leader as he makes his tours. In these dangerously overpopulated and anxious times, any leader who does not advocate family planning has no business pontificating about world hunger and misery...
Rosenberg fits the Andersonite stereotype far better than the matronly Beebe. Wide-eyed and inexperienced, Rosenberg sees Anderson not only as an alternative to two retread candidates, but also as a savior for the entire American political system...
With this vow, they formally become part of one of their country's most important institutions. The role played in World War II by what was then called the Red Army as savior of the motherland is still vividly remembered and celebrated. Military themes pervade Soviet literature, cinema and television. Beyond that, the might of the Kremlin's military juggernaut alone gives the Soviet Union legitimate claim to superpower rank. There is much pride but little exaggeration in the statement by Moscow's Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov that "the Soviet military has everything it needs to fulfill worthily its sacred...
Today even atheistic philosophers agree that Ayer's rigid rule is inadequate to deal with human experience. Meanwhile, science, his model for learning, has become less presumptuous and ambitious, its theorizing about cosmic astronomy closer to theology, its promise as savior and absolute explainer of the world somewhat tarnished. In the era of quarks, black holes, physics can seem as baffling as foreign policy in the age of the Ayatullah. Philosophers of science, such as Thomas Kuhn of Princeton, have applied relativism, formerly employed against religion, to scientific knowledge. Cornell President Frank Rhodes, a geologist, once observed that...