Word: moralizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Talk about hyping a book. But Errors is no crude anti-capital-punishment tract. Moral ambiguity is at the heart of Turow's fictional Kindle County, where the truth is never the whole truth and justice is often merely a point of view. The story of how a wrong man is sentenced to death for a triple murder is told through the eyes of four flawed characters: the middle-aged, despairingly single Raven; Muriel Wynn, the cynical prosecutor; Larry Starczek, a hard-boiled cop; and Gillian Sullivan, a judge known for taking bribes. Turow never promised it was pretty...
Many people will die in Iraq, a few of them, perhaps, bad people, but most of them surely innocent. In a war, even if the U.S. can kill 100 Iraqis for every Westerner who dies, the economic, ecological and moral costs are too high. In Britain we have recently suffered catastrophic chaos on the rail network and a frightful foot-and-mouth epidemic that stripped the countryside of animals. In other countries there have been terrifying fires. All these events were disasters that did not need a terrorist to set them off. A single reasonably intelligent person could have caused...
Themes, sometimes of immense moral complexity, thread through the scraps and diaries. There are more than enough glimpses of what might be called the sporting beast--for example, an SS officer's satanically playful execution of a young Jewish mother with a baby on her shoulder, to whom the officer had, a moment before, given a loaf of bread. Or this, recorded by an anonymous woman: "One day a small Jewish boy was killed on Biala Street as he attempted to pull a carrot lying in the gutter on the Aryan side through a hole in the fence. A German...
...there is a good reason for the lack of interest. Often, demanding to discuss the ethics of science is code for trying to restrict its practice. Many scientists, wary of restrictions and firm in their belief that the ends of science (that is, understanding the world) lie outside of moral considerations, just refuse to enter the debate. But an unholy alliance of national security mavens and self-appointed academic ethicists are now threatening to hijack decision-making over the bounds of scientific research. As a result, scientists will more and more be pressed into service to defend their work from...
...pants in Moonlight and Valentino and in his khaki lieutenant uniform in U-571. I especially love him because he was in the thirteenth episode of the second season of “Sex and the City.” And in that, he looked better than good. The moral of the story? Looks are everything...