Word: virtuous
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...begins his quest immediately after arriving in Warsaw. He ogles a group of young women sitting alone at a cafe. He makes eyes at a middle-aged married grandmother. He also begins to seduce the beautiful and impressionable Tsirele, daughter of the neighborhood's virtuous rabbi, telling her that his wife is dead and giving her money with the secret hope that he'll "be able to come to an understanding with...
Americans almost unconsciously regard the victory as a kind of moral cleansing: the right thing. But reality and horror have not been rescinded. All killing is unclean. It has upon it a stain that technology cannot annul or override. Americans are not omnipotent, not all virtuous, they should remind themselves, they do not bestride the world. Vainglory is one of the sillier postures: it invariably precedes the rude awakening. It is the sort of whooping glee that, in Daffy Duck cartoons, goeth before the fall...
...widespread appeal of blaming Saddam for everything is partly explained by its one-size-fits-all quality. But it also has other attributes prized by veteran excuse makers: it's simple, requiring no complicated, tongue-tying explanation, universally understood, vaguely virtuous and hard to check. War, as the talking heads point out, has unintended consequences, and having to pay almost twice as much since late January to fly from Chicago to Miami may be one of them. What corporation worth its public relations department would want to be heard temporizing with an old saw like "The check...
Granted, lights should be turned off. But such efforts should not be regarded as major actions of resource conservation. Turning off the lights is fine. Dumping an armload of newspapers into a box in the hallway in fine. But such virtuous actions are simply not enough...
...class. The characters are not the flat stereotypes who populate bad teen films, but realistic characters with a painful sense of the past and their responsibility to it. They discuss French social theorists and Jane Austen, changing social mores and downward socially mobility. They still fancy virginity as something virtuous, and date in groups...