Word: waywardness
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...aren't more blacks checking in to Gingrich's Home for Wayward Democrats? Because some G.O.P. politicians have become so dependent on racially coded campaigning that it amounts to political substance abuse. These Republicans seem to believe that without a subtle infusion of bigotry, their core message will fall flat, even with angry white...
...Polish nebbish gets even with the nasty Frenchwoman of his dreams. In this dark comedy (second episode in the wonderful Blue-White-Red trilogy), director Krzysztof Kieslowski cannily observes the flourishing of capitalism and the festering of emotion in his wayward homeland...
That is stern stuff, and an abiding challenge to the wayward flesh. But it's the easy part. The hard part is the social side of the Judeo-Christian ethic, meaning not how you treat the spouse and kids but how you conduct yourself in the world beyond the bedroom and the den. We don't hear about it so much since the word Christian began its oxymoronic partnership with the smug word right, but Scripture demands unstinting charity, if not all out dedication to the poor...
Hare has granted all his characters humanizing histories and eccentricities; his actors, particularly Davies and Kotz, respond with richly wayward performances, and his play transcends its -- as it were -- parochial subject matter. Without resorting to gaseous big-think, Racing Demon is a sharp-edged, metaphorical study of the way confused institutions and their loyalists befuddle and betray one another in the age of ambiguity...
...only thing that could have helped Krein was if Paine had duplicated Roberto Baggio's wayward penalty kick in the shoot-out of the World Cup final...