Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is a shame, since Wilder and Kane handle their scenes together delicately. As the Midwestern couple encountering Hollywood for the first time, they display the proper amount of naivete and wonder. Kane is convincingly sweet and supportive and when he declares his true love for her at the end of the film, Wilder does his best acting...
...years, residents of Vulcan (pop. 200), W. Va., pleaded with state and federal officials for money to rebuild a 70-year-old bridge across the Big Sandy River that had collapsed from old age. Finally, to shame the bureaucrats into action, John Robinette, honorary mayor of the isolated mountain town, melodramatically applied to the Soviet Union for foreign...
Shaw finally asks when mankind will be capable of accepting its saints. Here, his logic falters. Saints exist not to redeem men but to shame them...
Once convinced that in Jesus Christ "myth became fact," Lewis turned to convincing others. Two of his books as amateur theologian put many professionals to shame: The Problem of Pain (1940), an explanation of how a benevolent God can permit evil to exist; and Miracles (1947), a case for the plausibility of the supernatural. In The Screwtape Letters (1942), his witty little classic, Lewis has a veteran devil advise on how to ensnare souls for "Our Father below." Small sins were often best. Quoth Screwtape: "Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest...
...speculating on what elder statesman role Nixon may be able to play in the future, and it is clear that Price believes media rehabilitation of Nixon must precede a public role for the 37th president. "Obviously, I think Nixon's a tremendous national resource and it's a shame he can't be used. I don't think it's realistic to expect him to be used at this point," Price says. Price seems uncomfortable when conjecturing about what type of elder statesman role might suit Nixon, if any. "He ain't running for president again," Price says, nervously stating...