Word: casuistic
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...offers a subtler challenge. Taken at handsome face value, he is the noble conqueror of a contemptuous nation. Henry is also a bit of a prig: "The cold-bath king," Ralph Richardson called him, "the exaltation of all scoutmasters." Beneath the glamorous raiment one can also glimpse the wily casuist who accepts the flimsiest excuse for invading France and courts his future wife knowing he has already won her as a spoil of war. Perhaps following Olivier's lead, Kline plays Henry as a hero and allows the attentive spectator to listen for the rogue, not between Shakespeare...
...casuist is getting verbose...
...another. It seems to me that they are a little misplac'd, and that the last should have been the first. However, I never made any Difficulty about that, but was always willing to obey them both whenever I had an Opportunity. Pray tell me, my dear Casuist, whether my keeping religiously these two Commandments, may not be accepted in Compensation for my breaking so often one of the Ten, I mean that which forbids Coveting my Neighbor's Wife...
Next to selling refrigerators in Hanover, the casuist job in the world is writing a hockey release on Dartmouth...
...feel only pity," concluded Stimson, "for the casuist who would dismiss the Nazi leaders because 'they were not warned it was a crime.' They were warned and they sneered contempt. Our shame is that their contempt was so nearly justified, not that we have in the end made good our warning...