Word: stalwartism
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...white knight: a fearless district attorney, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who's determined to nab malefactors through the law with the same gusto that Batman, the dark knight, applies using his gadgets and charisma. The Mob (led by Eric Roberts) they can handle, with the help of stalwart police lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman). But the Joker - this guy is nuts. He does deals with the Mob, then crosses them up. He makes a point with his pencil by ramming it into a gangster's head. "This town," he says, "deserves a better class of criminals." So do action movies...
...fashioned intellectual stalwart, Donald H. Fleming will be remembered for his productive mind and traditional etiquette, making him a much demanded dinner guest in Cambridge, friends and colleagues said...
...Less a sequel to the murky Ang Lee Hulk than an atonement for it, this muscular saga has Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) morphing into a more plausible 10-ft. green guy. The rooftop chases owe much to the Bourne movies, while the creature's romance-mismatch with stalwart Betty (Liv Tyler) suggests a pretty good remake of King Kong...
...long, hopes Tory Leader David Cameron, who traveled four times to the Crewe constituency in the course of the short campaign triggered by the death of a long-time Labour stalwart, Gwyneth Dunwoody. Cameron praised the win of his party colleague, Edward Timpson, as evidence that Britain wants an end to "big, top-down, bossy, interfering government...
...shatter barriers in politics that had long held women back, he was using phrases that were very close to those that had been suggested by several Clinton-camp followers. One measure of Obama's desire for peace will be whether he ignores objections from some of his most stalwart backers and helps Clinton pay off her $20 million-plus campaign debt, either by headlining events on her behalf or by appealing to his donors to help her. There is an urgency to this task: she has only until late August to raise the cash from donors to repay herself more...