Word: compassionate
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He tilts his angle so that he is nearly straight up in the chair. He looks as if he is about to step forward. "If all the people who are around to help me were mad at me or in a lousy mood or whatever," he says, "and they went...
Dumbstruck, the crowd stood mute. Afterward, Kemp slumped in a folding chair. For the first time in 25 years, I saw an incredible force depressed. "This isn't my party anymore," he brooded. "You saw it. They rejected the message. Without compassion, the party will have no future. And I...
His critics and rivals have already composed his requiem, claiming from the start that he was the symbol of the G.O.P.'s blind faith in primogeniture, a front runner who cannot win; that he's a mid-20th century man at the lip of the 21st century; that there is...
Manny and Lo carries a huge potential for sentiment. These are, after all, three lost and lonely souls, and the possibility of blubbering breakdowns and bondings hovers constantly over the movie. But its young writer-director, Lisa Krueger, making her first feature, will have none of that. Her compassion is...
Thus, in the name of electoral politics, the misuse of the term reform continues. Few care enough to really understand what reform means; the rest throw the term around because it is the issue du jour. The term becomes yet another casualty in the increasingly long list of words debased...