Word: moralizes
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...feel duty-bound to speak up for my poor vehicle--and for myself, since I feel beaten up too. Nothing takes the pleasure out of driving like the suspicion that at every four-way stop, someone in a fuel-efficient compact is sneering at my moral deficiencies. I might as well be wearing a scarlet letter (three of them, actually). I want to scream, "But I live on a dirt road! I have a farm! See all the mud on my fenders! I need this...
...British journalist MARTIN BASHIR. (Bashir reportedly praises Jackson's parenting skills: "Your relationship with your kids is spectacular.") Meanwhile, on Monday night ABC will rerun the show that started it all, and NBC will show a special two-hour all-Jackson Dateline. Only CBS will stick to the relative moral high ground with such wholesome fare as 48 Hours Investigates, which will bring you an interview with a cosmetics heir who is on trial for date rape...
There are plenty of thoughtful, angst-ridden Evangelicals, of course; the President's simple swagger isn't merely a consequence of his religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect...
There's an old chestnut that says Japanese society is based on shame while Western society is grounded in guilt. Japanese people do the right thing, the theory goes, out of fear of social censure; Westerners navigate by a moral compass guided by absolute standards. The Thirteen Steps, a thoughtful new film by director Masahiko Nagasawa, shows that Japan is not so easily pigeonholed. Based on an award-winning detective novel by Kazuaki Takano, The Thirteen Steps wrestles with the thorny issues of capital punishment, personal redemption and the value of human life. Its heroes are driven by the quandary...
...fear of ceding sensitive legal issues to foreign TV executives. News Corp. has tried to add a sense of the unexpected by using nonprofessional actors and basing the episodes on actual Chinese court cases, but compared with Judge Judy, whose apoplectic reactions to evidence give her show a fierce moral compass, TV Court seems heavily scripted. "Look, she shed a tear!" says a producer as a character suing her sister over an inheritance grows lachrymose...