Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quibble on what actually constitutes a luxury (Voltaire holding that it is anything above a necessity), or a rare defense: "Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with its necessities" (John Lothrop Motley). Still, history's high livers have been accused of every imaginable sin: active, cardinal, political, cosmic, original...
...glowing scene. Recognizing that a pretend-affair requires some corroborative evidence, Carrie asks Oliver what she is to tell Peter about how it all began. The pair decides that a cozy lunch in one of Manhattan's Upper East Side French restaurants provides the right backdrop for incipient sin...
...attempt at melodramatic action that points up the universal failure to act at the heart of the play. These are Chekhov's weariest and most resigned characters, and they are dying before our eyes. Watching them it is easy to understand why indolence is such an insidious and devastating sin, for it is this combination of inertia, inactivity and self-delusion, along with the larger failing of society and its moral codes, that quietly but firmly crushes the spirit of most of the characters. And much of this is revealed through monologues, often masquerading as dialogue, through intimate confessions...
Because it has neither dogma nor Pope, and lacks both the promise of immortality and the threat implied in sin, Buddhism is often dismissed as a weak religion. In reality it offers one of the few elements of cohesion in the ethnographic jigsaw that is Southeast Asia. On the plains, the Buddha's concepts of the "flood" (travail in the material world) and "further shore" (the search for nirvana) are apt metaphors for peasant lives constantly subjected to natural disasters. In mountain societies, which are often driven by a lust for Lebensraum, Buddhism's "middle way" tempers excesses...
Sinatra still knows how to seize the screen simply by being around and being himself. But most of those behind the screen settled for hackwork. Catechists will recall that pride is the first deadly sin. Would that Director Hutton had taken some pride in honest craftsmanship...