Word: moralistic
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...filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what could have been the year's grossest cinematic moment, into something that's as disturbing as it is oddly poetic. But it is not representative of the film as a whole, which mixes elements of film noir and moralist western, with a hint of '50s teen angst. It is one of a few good scenes that connect both visually and emotionally in a convoluted, excessive jumble...
...judge who presided over the trial that blew open Belleville's gambling culture said it had spread like "cancer in the community," and for once this was not the hyperbole of a bench-pounding moralist...
Birmingham says that his Harvard experience was also shaped by his classes in the interdisciplinary Social Studies program, where he enjoyed tutors such as William J. Bennett, the conservative moralist who would later become Education Secretary and head of the Drug Enforcement Administration...
...Bible-thumping moralist or homophobe, but I am appalled at seeing a modestly talented television actress on your cover because of her suddenly avowed sexual preference. Why is a campaign being waged to normalize a behavior considered abnormal since time began? Could it be that the TV show Ellen is desperately trying to hang onto its viewers by this public admission? RICHARD H. VELVART North York, Ontario THE BIBLE AND HOMOSEXUALITY...
...that conservatives aren't vastly better at taking this sort of bitter medicine. Newt Gingrich, as is well known, left his first wife and their two daughters. Bob Dole left his first wife and their daughter. And both men, in classic male fashion, then married younger women. Does Republican moralist-in-chief Bennett think Dole and Gingrich, in this regard, are good? Does he think they're bad? He has never said. But if a take-no-prisoners crusade to restore the American family doesn't involve heaping shame on this sort of behavior, then just what do conservatives plan...