Word: compassionate
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Spielberg has essentially taken a subject imbued with sympathy and compassion and recreated it as a kind of redemptive entertainment. He uses costly special effects and tricks of the camera to place viewers in the midst of battle, making them feel the pain and acknowledge the pointlessness. A recent report...
Why: Serious drama has a hard time getting much attention these days, but one sure way, it turns out, is to have some religious conservatives make a stink about it beforehand. McNally's new play concerns a gay Christlike figure who has sex with his apostles. The plot outline alone...
My answer is simple. We must remain the party of investment, of compassion, of working men and women and of choice.
The speech did not elicit sympathy because he was not tough on himself. He was, instead, tough on the independent prosecutor. His demeanor was not that of a strong man in a moment of contrition but that of a defensive man in a moment of aggression. There was no trust...
In less than a week he has taken the public's emotions on a ride from a noble and heartbreaking ceremony for those killed in the African embassy bombings to "I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong." So it has...