Word: moralizes
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...this is no comedy from the look on the actor?s face. It is a glower of implacable rage before Wong is captured, and of sub- or post-human perseverance afterward, when he is taunted and tortured in jail. Giggle at your peril; you mock the chained beast of moral anarchy inside you, the sexual terrorist in your sleeping cell...
...said understanding the moral failings and tragic consequences of the past would lead to “a future which will be better, where there will be less call for memorial churches...
Granted, tight deadlines and a huge quantity of incoming photos mean that there is little that can be done beyond reinforcing the traditional moral imperative of journalistic integrity. But images like Keating’s are robbed of none of their affecting punch by the knowledge that their creators fabricated them, and they should not go unpublished...
...this highlighted how “A good name is rather to be chosen/than great riches/and loving favour/rather than silver and gold” is somewhat ambiguous. This quote could mean that morality and love are inherently in conflict with wealth and that one cannot avoid choosing sides. Or it could be saying that one needs to choose morality and love over wealth if and only if and a choice presents itself. If the latter is (dubiously) the case, then the evidence of riches all throughout the Thompson Room does not disprove their donors’ having chosen...
Sound crazy? Of course it does. Yet two months ago a European public official made a request that was virtually identical in its absurdity and moral bankruptcy. On September 13, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov called for restoring the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, which is currently lying in a park next to other Communist-era sculptures, to its former place in the city’s Lubyanka Square. This immediately set off a wave of protests from outraged citizens, the Russian Orthodox Church, various human rights organizations and members of Russia’s parliament. Dzerzhinsky, you see, was to Soviet...