Word: moralizes
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...cautionary note on the perils of directing films in China. "You start off with all 10 fingers," he lectures, holding his hands in front of his face, "and you may wind up at the end with only one." He wraps a fist around his pinky, and delivers the moral: "Then you just have to hold on to that one finger and protect it as much as you can. That's the only way you can keep a little bit of yourself in the film...
...plot is a series of tales told by the warrior Nameless (Jet Li) to the Qin King (Chen Daoming). Any or none of the stories may be true; this is Rashomon with a Mandarin accent. But the moral, or rather the ethic, is as clear as it is bleak: man must make war to secure the peace...
Here, Law encountered a problem. By virtue of his both moral and practical representation of his archdiocese and of Rome, Law has a dual responsibility. It seems to many that the obvious and reflexive response to learning that a priest was abusive to children would be to inform the police. Yet I am unconvinced that those priests who have made confession with the cardinal, or other priests within court documents, deserve any fewer religious entitlements than do the laity who repent immoral acts that happen to be criminal. Ordinarily, any ordained Catholic would be defrocked for breaking the seal...
...time when prominent Catholic figures should be reaching out to their communities, Law has done the opposite, retreating behind legal briefs, heading toward bankruptcy to eschew moral obligations and withdrawing into the overwhelming internal secrecy of the Catholic Church itself. Indeed, in a world where the Catholic Church has come to mean a tightly-knit, spiritual community and not a priesthood divorced from the congregation, the Boston Archdiocese has become increasingly reactionary. Instead of opening its doors to abuse victims, Church officials have withdrawn. And Cardinal Law’s overarching entanglement between matters of finance and morality seems like...
...suggest that all energy use should be morally stigmatized is to be promiscuous with moral stigmatization,” Summers said...