Word: patriotes
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...directors. The raid, disguised in the Gospels as a one-man assault on the profane money changers, quickly led to Jesus' denunciation by the high priests and then to his Roman trial. Far from dying ignominiously as a Jew rejected by his nation, Jesus in effect died a patriot's death, a rebel-martyr for his people...
...Through the bay windows of the salon, Madame Binh looks out on a small lake with its own island and six elegant white swans. Most of the petit bourgeois neighborhood took the Viet Cong's arrival in stride, but when the N.L.F. hung out its flag, a French patriot across the street indignantly hung one French tricolor from his roof and another from his front gate...
...against fascism, he preferred a patriot like Churchill to the antifascist pacifists, whom he skewered on a couplet: Which will sound better in the days to come...
...Profession), Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author), Arthur Miller (A View From the Bridge) and Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). The most notable modern playwright to run afoul of the Lord Chamberlain is John Osborne. One of his plays dealing with homosexuality, A Patriot For Me, was banned entirely;* almost every one of his scripts has had to be heavily laundered before the censor would give his approval...
...that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing but are also typical of other attitudes that pervade his work and his life: he is profoundly attached to all things traditionally Russian, is indeed a patriot of an old-fashioned kind, an instinctive Slavophile who distrusts all things Western...