Word: waywardness
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...without directorial comment or commitment. He's no more than a technician, fearful, it seems, of intruding too heavily on Keillor's territory. But that territory is, in this case, essentially undefended by its founder-proprietor. It is waiting for someone, something, to grant its people felt and wayward lives. If A Prairie Home Companion functions at all it is as a performance film - some of the songs, though not particularly well shot, are at least lively. But that's not enough. Streep's work aside, you can pretty much get all that's worth having out of the film...
...Here is another wayward film with huge ambitions and, as yet, no notion of taming them...
...days earlier, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), which is fighting for a separate Tamil state, had killed 17 Sri Lankan navymen in a suicide attack. So the murder of the Ketheeswarans, who were ethnic Tamils living near a naval base, was viewed by some as revenge by wayward sailors. Others saw it differently: some supporters of the Tigers blamed rival Tamils; an aide to President Mahinda Rajapakse spoke of unspecified forces "trying to discredit the President"; and Sinhalese nationalists even suggested the Tigers had killed their own to justify future attacks. To make sense of the latest fighting...
This may come as a surprise, but I and many of my teacher colleagues don't believe in compulsory education. We'd much rather spend our precious time and resources on students who want to be in the classroom. We cannot afford to be surrogate parents to the wayward. I observed that the parent factor was noticeably absent from your article. When parents start acting like grownups and force their children to be accountable, perhaps then things will change...
Luke’s wife Sasha, a glittering socialite of ageless beauty, immerses herself in the “benefit scene”—indiscriminately partaking in drugs, affairs, and social soirées—and his wayward teenage daughter is in imminent danger of following irredeemably in her mother’s footsteps...