Word: uplifting
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...poor cousin to the movies, show them Hotel Rwanda, then this harrowing, complex story of the same genocide--if they can stand it. Don Cheadle's performance notwithstanding, Hotel Rwanda ultimately fell back on the Schindler's-List template of one-good-man-against-the-world Hollywood uplift. April was unsparing, without being gratuitous, in showing how horrific yet casual the violence was, and Idris Elba (The Wire) was stunning as a Rwandan officer who came to see the light too late to save his mixed-ethnicity family. Equally important, this movie explored the important -- if sometimes impossible -- process...
...fantasy has certainly pleased its fans. But Bochco's shows--from Hill Street Blues through Over There, the FX Iraq-war drama--are better known for gritty realism than uplift. Bochco wouldn't comment on his plans, and ABC president Stephen McPherson insists that Bochco is "going to be doing the same show that Rod created." But shortly after taking over, Bochco fired five of CiC's nine writers. He has a reputation for boldness, if not lately for success: he has had a string of recent network failures (Blind Justice, City of Angels, Brooklyn South...
There's been a substantial uplift in U.S. aid to Africa, and the Administration is prepared to do more, provided it's tied to tough obligations of good governance. Our whole approach is that it's not a something-for-nothing deal. African countries and their leaders have to recognize their responsibility...
...heart of the community, no one objects now when a loudspeaker on a police wagon addresses those who have stayed behind as if they were refuse: "All right, clean off that corner. Now." On the streets of the neighborhood, one sees only an occasional sign of social or spiritual uplift. One, outside a church, inquires, HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST? The other, a billboard, says, DARE TO BE MORE. It is an ad for cigarettes...
...Feininger, the symbolism of the German romantics, especially of Caspar David Friedrich, is passed through an illustrative language based on cubism. It is legible cubism, shorn of its ambiguities. Under the modern surface, there is always a hint of the sublime, the transcendental, perilously near to kitsch--Crystal Cathedral uplift, the fount of much hotel-lobby art and many a "serious" get-well card...