Word: unself
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...want to embarrass an adult, give him an extended look at himself as an adolescent. When Apted corralled the kids for 7 Plus Seven, they were truer to their age than to their respective classes. At seven most of the children had an unself-conscious boldness; at 14, their eyes hardly met the camera's. At seven they were active; at 14, guarded, at times sullen - as if they were now on to Apted's game, and loath to play it. Some of the kids practically had to be cracked to come out of their shells. Nicholas buries his head...
...spearheaded the revival of her reputation by proclaiming, "There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" The cue for his effusion was George Wilhelm Pabst's 1929 German melodrama Pandora's Box, in which Brooks plays Lulu, an innocent beguiler who radiates sexuality so unself-consciously toxic that it drives men mad - beyond lust, to disgrace and murder...
...dogmas, or because at a particular moment in her life, she experienced a rupture and changed herself entirely. She is a Christian primarily because she acts like one. She loves and forgives; she listens and prays; she contemplates and befriends; her faith and her life fuse into an unself-conscious unity that affirms a tradition of moral life and yet also makes it her own. In that nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love is more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle...
...blame, it's not only his Democratic Party. His title is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)--the "D triple C," as it is known. The national party chairman is Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and Vermont Governor, who has not exactly muted his unself-conscious liberalism in the job, even while Emanuel and his star pupils are trying hard to hug the middle. Emanuel even bought radio ads on Christian radio stations recently, perhaps partly as a stunt but also to remind Reagan Democrats that they used to be Democrats...
...partisan for his political cause, saying, "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." Walter Lee Orange, California, U.S. I am mystified by the ability of liberal Christians to unself-consciously redefine Christianity at will. Sullivan asked how we can know what an "ultimately unknowable" God wants of us. Well, we know that through Scripture, and that is what ultimately defines Christianity. Sullivan is free to hold whatever beliefs he likes, but he shouldn't call himself a Christian unless he believes...