Word: righteousness
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...artists. With the release of “I am... Sasha Fierce,” Beyoncé Knowles proclaims her personality disorder to the masses in a two-disc format. The first disc is “I am,” while the second is the edgier, self-righteous club-hopper “Sasha Fierce.” Similar to “Dangerously in Love” and “B’Day,” the album is a balance of up-tempo club jams and slow ballads that showcase her vocal ability...
...Reissue, repackage, repackage.” So sang Morrissey on the greatest-hits-mocking “Paint a Vulgar Picture” from The Smiths’ fourth and final studio album, “Strangeways, Here We Come.” Despite these righteous words, the band—who split in 1987—are now releasing their eighth compilation album, “The Sound of the Smiths.” The two disc release includes every one of the classics that have already been included on their myriad greatest hits collections, but it also throws...
...between art and the structures in place to sell it is far from nascent, it is important to note that tinyvices seems not so much above it as beyond it. Though Barber rightly identifies the advantages of being outside of the established systems, he is not self-important or righteous enough to find them below him.Over the past two years, TV (as tinyvices is abbreviated) has had a baker’s dozen of shows in real-life galleries located in slightly fewer cities. What’s perhaps most surprising is that the shows, just as sprawling...
...Where the City Came From Your skimmer item on Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates [Oct. 20] states that the phrase "city on a hill" was coined by John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts. Not so. Winthrop was quoting Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "[The righteous] are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden" (Matthew 5:14). Nathaniel Jewell, Adelaide, South Australia...
...younger selves for their narrowness of vision, for their lack of interest in the world around them, in A Mercy, Morrison is urging her younger self, the tortured soul who fashioned the infernal vision that is Beloved, to look even further--beyond the veil of pain and anger, however righteous, to hope. There was a time before the present misery, Morrison seems to be telling herself. And therefore, maybe, there will be a time after...