Word: self-control
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...butler takes no notice of the slight. His stillness may mask sexual fear: when Miss Kenton amiably approaches him, he freezes like a bruised virgin. The rest of the film Hopkins carries with a small gnomic smile that means a dozen things in a dozen scenes: gratitude, impatience, self-control. "I can say it's simple now," the actor acknowledges, "but it's taken years to distill my work to a more economic form. I suppose I'm pretty adept now at playing these rather still parts...
Sexual desire can be a problem. The self-control and character-development crucial to a healthy and happy life benefit from social support, such as the inducements to stability that flow from the institution of marriage. Extending marriage to gays and lesbians is a way of allowing that the natural lawyers are not all wrong: promiscuous gay sex may well have the distracting and valueless character that the natural lawyers describe...
...past hour, the attention of a group of wheelchair-bound teenagers in a Seattle auditorium has been completely focused on the man seated in front of them. Such self-control would be unusual for teens in any case; it's even more impressive considering that the speaker is a theoretical astrophysicist. Stephen Hawking has a few advantages, though. For one, the 51-year-old Cambridge University professor is probably the best-known scientist in the world. For another, Hawking is in a wheelchair too, the victim of a degenerative nerve disease that has left him as paralyzed as his youthful...
...Best I" is a very coherent and well-chosen collection; the selected songs merge together and support each other very well. The album starts with the warbling navel-gazing of "This Charming Man" and then spirals upwards into increasingly light-headed images of crumbling self-control and bitter amusement...
Dorothy Bush was of another era, and her sense of propriety and modesty and self-control was cast in iron. Never trendy. It was forever. That armored her second son for the rough reaches of politics. Hindered him too, in a fuzzy and formless era of national debate...