Word: well-meant
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...would have been outraged to read. As an example, we cite the case of one Morris K. Udall, who, on the day before the Massachusetts primary, was accused of having voted for the censure of Rep. Michael J. Harrington. A courageous bottom-of-the-last-page correction of this well-meant slur noted that Udall would have had difficulty participating in a House censure vote that never took place. Finally, the integrity of the Crimson reporter is beyond reproach: this is evidenced by the fact that even when stories are shown to be based upon a framework of total fabrication...
...Chee-Chee, the word is bound, and denies the action. Only Nada feels what she says; and she is done in by a little knowledge. She sees Squatriglia's feeble but well-meant ploy, but not the larger deception that frames it. And Pirandello deprives us of the third and largest dramatic frame: the denouement that turns deception to the service of human compassion...
...more discreet, more cautious about baring my soul." He summed up by insisting: "I don't think the American people got a true picture of my campaign." Of course, the reverse may have been true-that too many Americans got a reasonably clear picture of a well-meant but inept campaign. Or that the majority of Americans understood his message and simply rejected...
...that still governs most photographic responses to the human animal. Everyman is a poor subject. There is compromise in the very act of shooting a person as if he or she were "really the same as me"; it means a flattening of human experience, a generality that amounts to well-meant condescension. In brief, it is sentiment. In her passion for "not evading facts, not evading what it really looks like," Diane Arbus became perhaps the least sentimental photographer who ever caught a face in the view finder. She refused to generalize. There was no family, and the unshared particularity...
...major issues of the play are centered in the complex character of Brutus, a man "with himself at war," an idealist who, as it turns out, can no more foretell the dire outcome of his well-meant acts than can Gregers Werle, the great idealist in Ibsen's The Wild Duck. James Ray gives us a Brutus that is reasonably well spoken, and rather restrained as befits an adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. But he does not reach the deep intellectuality attained by James Mason in the film, and does not sufficiently earn the posthumous tribute paid...