| 单词 | morality |
| 例句 | The degree of morality in my writing depended upon the degree of felt life and truth I could put down upon the printed page. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why, because of a misplaced sense of morality?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve watched Macbeth change from a noble, trusted, dedicated soldier, willing to sacrifice his life for king and country, to a wretched, depraved, corrupt murderer who no longer has feelings of guilt or morality. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither could do without or do with the other; yet the constrictions of conscience and society, morality and ethos dictated a separation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other products of the mind. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a morality to the house, and Emma was the moral center, the bribery notwithstanding. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Farmer listens good-naturedly, interpreting Ti Jean’s words as “a giant morality play, a commentary on social inequality.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It seemed, like some weapon of morality, to be spurring me toward the Quarter, each plastic slap saving, “Take heart. Ignatius. Thou hast a terrible swift sword.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Shigekawa explained, “We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, clergymen, college presidents, and other self-appointed spokesmen for communal standards of morality seized upon the Burr-Hamilton encounter to launch a crusade against dueling throughout most of the northern states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And the failure of Prohibition would provide the nation with a powerful lesson in the pitfalls of attempting to legislate morality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Sedulously, he had once avoided the clusters of boys who haunted the locker rooms with their salient, knowledgeable talk in which his finely honed sense of morality denied him participation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I never thought the Erudite would say anything about pride—that they would even concern themselves with morality. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I stayed wholly off the subject of morality. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Suzuki understood that making good musicians requires investment in developing the whole child – from their morality to their character and ability to be good citizens. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She felt this in her breast and in her emotions, and her natural morality took hold. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If they were right, he observed, “such phenomena as heredity and memory and intelligence, and our ideas of morality and religion ... are explainable in terms of positive and negative electrons and ether.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “To not make them public would be a dereliction of duty and morality.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The heady taste of success had infused him further with morality and fired him with ambition for loftier attainments. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Eugenicists such as Galton had hoped to select complex phenotypes—intelligence, height, beauty, and moral rectitude—as a biological shortcut to enrich genes for intelligence, height, beauty, and morality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Faith and morality, the watchwords of the previous generation, gave way to the Pleasure Principle. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he’s found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a few moralists were disappointed that it was economics and not ethics that triumphed over racist ideology, but clearly economic pressure achieved better results than black appeals to white morality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He doubted that there is any principle of morality which can command universal assent, and he doubted that any of our sophisticated intellectual systems make sense of how the world is. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He soon aspired to construct a new science of morality and politics on geometrical principles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I knew that drugs existed that could reduce or virtually eliminate the potency phase of the Gethenian sexual cycle; they were used when convenience, medicine, or morality dictated abstinence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I had agreed with Raymond to write the letter in order to lure his mistress and submit her to mistreatment by a man “of doubtful morality.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Reverend Van Gogh and Anna felt strongly about bringing up their children with a sense of duty, charity, and morality. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “And they are—when they attempt to masquerade as men. They aren’t capable of right thinking, of human morality. They are meant to be controlled.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He wondered if morality was innate, not learned or taught. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I speak not of the morality of nonviolence, but of the sense that blacks are in especial need of this morality. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The more difficult answer—the more courageous one—is to say yes, yes we should be concerned about the behavior of men trapped in ghettoized communities, but the deep failure of morality is our own. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The intensity had not abated after two years, nor had her awe at his self-assured eccentricities and his fierce moralities. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead, crime reports were sensationalized and offered as further evidence of the breakdown in lawfulness, morality, and social stability in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As though she had temporarily set aside the morality of motherhood and divorcee-hood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Klan portrayed itself as the patriotic defender of law and morality in turbulent times, but the group actually caused much of the lawlessness and terror that gripped the region during those postbellum years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not trying to teach you morality. I’m telling you how it is.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Don’t we have a cheerful, simple morality here in Western Civilization: expect perfection, and revile the missed mark! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But to tell her that it pained me to question the meaning of morality would have, I think, puzzled her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to debate morality with an assassin. You kill people for money, you know.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And Verdi understood that opera was at its most powerful when attempting to impart universal truths through emotionally engaging morality fables. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “None of these creatures are good. Not the way we think of good. None are safe. Much of morality is peculiar to mortality. The best creatures here are merely not evil.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The Conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and family morality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I loved Malcolm because Malcolm never lied, unlike the schools and their facade of morality, unlike the streets and their bravado, unlike the world of dreamers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And to anyone who questioned the morality, he replied that “The Star-Spangled Banner” was the greatest piece of music ever composed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He has no religion, no concept of morality, no civic responsibility, no fear—nothing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we? That’s a nice sort of morality.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When he gave up God, did he also give up the strict morality he learned at home? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They appealed, nearly always in vain, to white morality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He and Pa get into another big fight, ostensibly about Vincent not going to church, and about religion, morality. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The spectacle of Lawrence’s lending his highly developed talent for persuasion to a project of such dubious morality was more painful still. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His operas would rip to shreds the comfortable and suffocating morality of the middle classes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It seemed very strange now to think of morality, or that minister long ago, or the poor runaway black. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Beginning with the family, Communists have undermined the very foundations of morality and faith, and scoff at culture and business, nation and Fatherland, justice and honor." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z One interesting aspect of Greek modes is that different modes were considered to have very different effects, not only on a person's mood, but even on character and morality. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Our position demands a level of morality beyond the rule of law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I feel that America’s past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t worry about what history would say about my personal morality. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. I did what I thought was right.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At intervals Salinas suffered from a mild eructation of morality. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He added, “If I say anything with any sense of morality, it is viewed as religious.” Michele Bachmann and the Making of an Acolyte 2011-09-23T21:25:59Z But conservatism also has dismantled traditional morality so it could fill that void. Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z All booksellers make money out of books featuring terror or violence whether it's Homer's Iliad or JG Ballard's Crash – but virtual booksellers appear to present a new threat to public morality. Why should Amazon be our taste and decency policeman? 2012-06-26T09:56:24Z From the beginning, the Olympics had a chauvinistic streak, but the Cold War raised the stakes and turned them into a quadrennial morality play. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z A generation ago, the coalition of the useless demanded warning labels on records; today, their descendants demand morality in fictional worlds. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z His books have been described as "morality tales for the post-Soviet era." Readers' favorite international mysteries, Part II ? all around the globe 2010-12-29T22:49:04Z Your question, however, touches on something deeper: Don’t ideas of basic morality shift when one lives in a Western democratic society? This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma on Alcoholism and Honor Killings in India 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z In that review, I quoted a couple of scenes that, for me, captured the essence of Thrones' attitude toward fantasy, nobility and morality. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z SAPPRFT, which is directly controlled by China’s Cabinet, is intended to maintain Chinese media's squeaky-clean image of morality, political stability and social harmony. Chinese TV censor's conviction points to 'common' bribery problem 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A Doctor Tied to Her Patients and the Mob The Fox series “The Mob Doctor,” which begins on Monday night, is an odd hybrid, a medical drama merged with a Mafia morality play. Television Review: ‘The Mob Doctor,’ a Drama on Fox 2012-09-16T21:37:58Z Michael recognizes immediately that these are surely ill-gotten goods, but Min is more in a finders-keepers frame of mind, and thus Deevy sketches her theme of how poverty intrudes on morality. Theater Review: Teresa Deevy?s ?Temporal Powers? at Mint Theater - Review 2011-08-30T02:01:00Z It’s about homophobia; it’s about a social situation; it’s about a place and a particular mindset and morality. Annie Proulx Regrets Writing 'Brokeback Mountain' 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z To know Candy Montgomery's case is to recognize the layers of obvious metaphor and subtler ones in this morality play. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The reasons for such shifts of taste and morality are complicated if not completely mysterious. ‘A History of Lingerie,’ at the Fashion Institute Museum 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z You’re the party of morality the same way Don Jr. is the handsome Trump brother. ‘S.N.L.’ and James Franco Tackle Al Franken and Sexual Harassment 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z But in describing morality as an act of witness, she provides a plausible definition of one ethical position for the writer. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z At the heart of his critique of morality is that he thinks creative geniuses like Beethoven, had they really taken morality seriously, wouldn’t have been creative geniuses. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z With his first film as director, 2015’s insidious psycho-thriller The Gift, actor Joel Edgerton showed remarkable deftness on both sides of the camera, infusing a familiarly structured tale with menace and morality. And the nominees aren't: the Oscarbait films that failed in 2019 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z In other words, his personal morality isn’t baked in to the movie’s premise. The Thorny Ethics of the Oscars 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Religiosity is merely a disguise he dons to gull Wiley’s Orgon, a rich old man who, with little morality of his own, is especially susceptible to the appearance of morality in others. Review: When ‘Tartuffe’ Meets Trump, It’s Revolutionary 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z As with many of those westerns, it's a morality tale, rigorously controlling pace and mood to facilitate an examination of savagery, justice and our notions of civilization. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'The Walking Dead's Latest Victim 2012-10-15T04:27:17Z “Terriers” moves from crime to crime episodically, but the big case that threads through to create a running narrative involves the severely tarnished morality of a local land developer. | 'Terriers': In a Golden Land, but Grateful for Brass Rings 2010-09-07T22:05:00Z It touches on almost all Nietzsche’s central concerns – on truth, on the nature of philosophy, on morality, on what’s wrong with morality, will to power. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z There are further tests of the nation's morality. Eye Spy – TV review 2013-06-28T06:00:03Z So it was left to Humphrys to pose more emotional takes on things, mentioning questions of morality in stirring language when Bermingham's focus remained tautly on the financial detail. On the Ropes 2011-03-23T08:00:07Z Neither she nor the show dwell on issues of morality, ethics or purpose. Review: ‘Industry’ Is a Familiar Story, but With More Zeros 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Closely related to ghosting, but more and/or less humane depending on whether your framework of morality would include “playing nicely with a puppy before you drop it down a well”. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z One could not judge the morality of a gay person just on the basis of his or her orientation. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Little Red Riding Hood comes of age Fairytales have always played a vital function, offering strict morality lessons that help to mould each generation of children into well-developed adults. Red Riding Hood trailer: life in the hood ain't so Grimm 2010-11-24T12:02:00Z For a movie about ethics that repeatedly emphasizes “morality,” “The Truth About Lies” doesn’t judge assorted miscreants who tell their tales of being caught lying and facing the consequences. Review: ‘(Dis)Honesty — The Truth About Lies’ Assumes Everyone Tells Them 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The book isn't completely free of notions about religion and morality, but I didn't want to write a 380-page theological argument. Joe Hill: Sympathy for the devil 2010-04-13T12:28:00Z The religious restrictions on public behavior that were codified into Iranian law after the 1980 revolution are enforced by the morality police. Lens Blog: Kiana Hayeri's Photos of Young Women in Iran 2012-05-29T15:12:25Z We often don’t want to admit — modern liberals in particular don’t like to admit — that our contemporary codes of morality are narrower and more blinkered than they appear from within. Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z This morality tale features cross-dressing, pie fights and more; they’re calling it irreverent family theater, and we’re calling it a must for connoisseurs of performance art. The New Season of Theater: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z What Burleigh has produced is a long, brilliant, original, opinionated and scholarly meditation on morality as it appeared, or failed to appear, during the last global conflict. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z A rather simple, arguably reactionary morality tale this, about the perils of living beyond your means, of being happy with your lot, and, of course, faaamily. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-12-20T00:05:02Z No person can be held beyond ethics, morality, and decency. Women Say Richard Meier’s Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z What Finley's getting at, of course, is morality, which has always been at the core of her work. Karen Finley, Banned Books Week and the responsibilities of art 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The saving grace of Warhol’s best art is that a sense of critical morality is always, if almost by accident, operative. Art Review: Warhol Shows Open, on World’s Fair and on Jackie Kennedy 2014-04-24T12:00:01Z Much more also is made of her saintly, old-world sense of morality, as well as the sadness that subtly tinges her sunny disposition. At SCR, the musical 'Once' raises its hopeful voice 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In much the same way, stars such as Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow were faced with morality clauses in their contracts. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The novel juxtaposes traditional ideals of loyalty, service, patriotism and noblesse oblige against the relentless, pathological venality of contemporary Wall Street, where, as Thomas’s narrator observes, “legality is the sole animating principle of morality.” ‘Fixers’: A financial thriller with cameos by Hillary Clinton and Obama 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z But, he says, morality tells him that “I’m obligated to believe the sketchy guy.” Listen Here, Internet Girl: The Newsroom Rapesplains It All 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Norton is the quiet, conflicted center of the story, increasingly worried about the morality of what he’s wrought. ‘RoboCop’: Remake is a blast, with more of a human side 2014-02-11T19:03:12Z It’s a crucial distinction and a mission statement for the modern alpha-male fantasy, of which Raider, a burly federal agent with a rigid morality, is a prime specimen. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z They debated the war’s morality and attended protests. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The morality thing — look, we're certainly not condoning any of this. Simon Rex on playing a washed-up porn star in "Red Rocket": "He's an aging narcissist " 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z That perspective is a morality, and a relief in a world quick to dismiss, quick to divide and quick to believe that American work is now only about collecting data and selling knowledge. From an Artist’s Life in Brooklyn to North Dakota’s Oil Fields 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z “That’s what I do love about Seattle — its giving nature. It will err on the side of morality.” Pearl Jam’s ‘unprecedented’ Home Shows hit Seattle at pivotal time in homeless debate 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Religion, he argued, brainwashes children, oppresses women and gay people, stymies science, distorts thinking, and deforms morality. ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z And our sense that he’s surrendered his integrity for personal gain is, as the critic Daniel Mendelsohn wrote in 2009, contingent on particular assumptions — debatable, at least — about the morality of the bomb. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z But its scope is so wide, ranging across subjects of morality, metaphysics and even marine biology, it can’t help speaking eloquently to our current turmoil. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z "Ban Bardot!" advocated the morality leagues as if she were some kind of illegal drug. Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z A skewwhiff morality tale that calls to mind Warp Films' superb Bunny and the Bull in tone, this is a weird, exciting half-hour break from the norm. TV highlights Christmas Eve 2012-12-21T12:40:28Z In “An Ideal Husband,” accommodation and even forgiveness are pitted against rigid morality in a series of deliciously contrived dramatic conflicts. Deep Dives Into Justice From Shakespeare, Wilde and Atticus Finch 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Despite what the right may believe about Hollywood’s liberal bias, actually the morality of most films just don’t fit onto a left/right or Republican/Democrat axis. The Giver: conservative parable or a Hollywood film like any other? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z However, Syrian actress Dima Al Jundi who plays the morality enforcer says only art can convey the depth of human suffering the group has wrought in a way viewers need to see. Saudi-owned TV drama fights Islamic State propaganda 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Dale Ferguson's design – abstract white houses aggressively dumped on a floor of black earth – perhaps sounded good in principle, a concrete visualisation of the claustrophobic black and white morality of Puritanism. The Crucible – review 2013-06-28T00:38:00Z Still, even that is a flattened description of a novel that is more sophisticated than the leaden morality tale it’s often made out to be. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The human body is more than flesh and blood — it bears cultural values and tales of morality. SAM’s ‘Flesh and Blood’ exhibit depicts desire, violence and more using the artistic vessel of the human body 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z In 1707, Locke’s pupil Anthony Collins dared to publish An Essay Concerning the Use of Reason, which denied religious mysteries and revelations, and argued that all morality rested on logic. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Taking us on a journey of the trials and joys of the human experience, and guiding us through times where the distinction between morality is all too subtle? How ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Changed Their Lives 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Despite his fondness for action, Miike also explores darker themes in the film including the morality of protecting criminals at the expense of victims and how financial desperation breeds violence. Week two of Cannes film festival gets off to explosive start 2013-05-20T13:22:25Z The calories available in plankton, mollusks and people are applied to build gulags, mines and mission schools, which in their turn become beliefs about morality, labor and time. A View of the Bering Strait That’s Anything but Narrow 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z These people are all crooked, all mildly befuddled by Sophie’s inherent morality. ‘The Andalucian Friend’: Stockholm crime and mayhem 2013-06-12T22:37:43Z The word "religion" as it's used today — a vague category that includes certain cultural ideas and practices related to God, the afterlife or morality — arose in Europe around the 16th century. Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z The humor is Rowling’s, as is the tightrope-with-an-umbrella execution of a formidably complicated plot and Rowling’s sturdy, pragmatic morality, where the high cost of doing the right thing is nevertheless worth paying. In the Latest Turn for Harry Potter and Company, Letting All the ‘What Ifs’ Out to Play 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z One is a morality tale about the evil of trapping a living being in a cheap entertainment scheme. Review: ‘King Kong’ Is the Mess That Roared 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z It's also a programme that at its core is a morality play, examining what any of us might be capable of given the right incentives. Breaking Bad: from Mr Chips to Scarface 2012-05-18T23:03:00Z As with "Breaking Bad," morality is a key theme. 'Better Call Saul' creators breaking a sweat about their 'Bad' fans 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z I do have strong feelings about productivity and morality and the value of hard work. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z “He’s trying to get political economy and morality lined up with each other in a way that’s surprising and true and useful,” Mr. Snyder continued. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z That message, in just about every Woody Allen movie a fan can name, is that morality is the most practical, rational way to get through a meaningless, ultimately fatally cruel, existence. ‘You know, I’m never happy’: Woody Allen discusses new ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ Abe chooses to ignore the categorical imperative, making a decision the morality of which is explicitly wrapped up in the specifics of the circumstance—one which, if universalized, would spell disaster. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z This includes the lived experience of religious deconversion, and the construction of irreligious morality, for example. Atheists are no less moral: The sad delusion of the Christian Evangelical movement 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z This bygone edge isn’t about villainy or even morality, really. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Espousing the uncompromising individualist’s motto of “Non serviam” — I will not serve — he rejected Ireland, Catholicism, conventional morality and every form of literary and linguistic constraint. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style More philosophically, the show pokes and prods at empathy and morality, and the ways that othering whole categories of people makes it easy to dehumanize them. Review: ‘Just for Us’ Reaches Across the Chasm 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The practicality and the morality of private shelters were debated publicly. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z If your thirst for strange Santas is still not quenched, this discomforting Mexican morality tale will be the gift that keeps on giving — nightmares, that is. When Santa Slays: Holiday Genre Movies 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z It tends to proceed like a morality play, with a firm resolution signaling a lesson learned. Hollywood Bets Big on the Bad Entrepreneur 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z We should change our morality and ethics to accept looting because it is simply possible to get away with it. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z As these characters spin into the 21st century, their morality is reshaped and redirected by quirks and quarks they couldn’t possibly anticipate. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell In his latest study, Zipes argues that the fairytale, with its atavistic moral architecture, presents the reader with a "counterworld", which in turn offers a perspective on the shoddy morality of their own world. Why 2012 was the year of the fairytale 2012-12-24T08:30:01Z Like two ciphers parachuted in from the future with a shining new morality, Malik's character and a doomed Jewish refugee both spoke a strange, strained language of high platitude. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z The morality of it is fairly neutral, as are the Cenobites. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z In the end, the jury convicts Robinson, choosing to deliberately ignore the evidence and the proper course of justice because it conflicts with their bigoted morality. To Kill a Mockingbird: a book that still raises questions about 'good' justice 2013-07-18T08:33:11Z If you do, implies Ayckbourn, you end up with a family that owes more to the Mafia than morality. Thatcher casts a long shadow 2013-04-08T15:44:23Z The lingering morality of the Victorian age pushed imaginations inward – in those single beds of the aesthetes – to feast on macabre visions of sin. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z It’s a slick, nuanced rebrand, a tightrope walk of morality that can make him seem alternative or conservative, depending on the circumstance. Matthew McConaughey: ‘I’ve never done a film that’s lived up to what I imagined’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Furthermore, stories weren’t written to sell merch but to inculcate morality into children. Studio Ghibli's first TV show is a wondrous world of peril and magic 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It is a morality lesson — the sort that, since adolescence, we have studiously avoided. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z This explains the focus on morality, I suppose, but still I have to wonder: What are the criteria? Literature and the moral question 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Despite how that reads, "P-Valley" is not another morality story that paints these characters as tragic figures. Eyes up here: In "P-Valley," the strippers and their grueling labor are the headliners, not men 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Specialising in low-life morality tales and conjuring, with Hogarthian relish, a socially realistic world, his best work is more complete and less cloyingly sentimental than the vast majority of his better-known American counterparts. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z At no point is there any suggestion of embarrassment in Genesis about the morality of God. The Book of Genesis, part 7: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 2011-01-24T10:00:04Z “Their actions not only broke the law, but also destroyed morality in the society,” the agency said in the directive. China bans stars with drug arrests from film, TV screens 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The three don’t waste time debating morality; they’re beyond wrestling with their consciences, agreeing that, as Harmon says, “God knows that dam wants to come down.” REVIEW: Night Moves: Political Thriller at a Slow Boil 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z "The Crucible," a morality tale about accusations of witchcraft among the Puritans, was written by Miller partly in reaction to director Elia Kazan's controversial testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Meet Ivo van Hove, the most provocatively illuminating theater director right now 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Another young person cited our "traditional Christian morality, and the fact that we're able to use that morality to create the greatest civilization" in the world. Young conservatives at CPAC share what they love most about America 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z All the issues of morality, and education, and body and the relation of the body and politics, and what is permitted and what is not — all these things go together. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But it implies two different views of morality, psychology, and human nature. Is Heisenberg Dead? Walter White and the Light-Switch Theory of Morality 2013-09-24T16:44:50Z For those who prefer more didactic morality tales, it was probably a pretty troubling depiction. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z My friend Jessica's father was a pastor and was similarly connected to the church, morality and innocence. Why I'm sheltering my kids for as long as I can 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z “No one is thinking about the larger implications, or even the morality,” Professor X says, “of admitting so many students to classes they cannot possibly pass.” Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z The United States was born in the Age of Enlightenment; its founding fathers were determined not to follow the European model of “might makes right” and transactional morality. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z He suggests that too many liberal newspapers are now “hostile to literature, because morality there reigns above literature, and ideology above morality.” Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Essays Struggle With Big Ideas 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Yet to judge by the morality tale he offers in “The Premonition,” his own method is to choose a side and run with it. The Pandemic Gets the Michael Lewis Treatment, Heroic Technocrats and All 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z "Concrete Cowboy," therefore, is a familiar morality play where hard work competes against easy money, and Harp and Smush fight for Cole's soul. Idris Elba drama "Concrete Cowboy" brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z As for the morality of charging money to see artifacts from a death camp, and potentially turning a profit, Mr. Ferreiro said that traveling exhibitions like this one usually generated huge expenses. Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z And the director Mary Zimmerman’s inventive production conveys the right mix of whimsical fairy tale and disturbing morality play through a simple, colorful staging, with sets by Daniel Ostling and costumes by Ana Kuzmanic. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The most critical flaw of faith, he told me, was the notion it offers of an “objective morality” – that is, unquestionable, immutable, heaven-decreed moral absolutes that cannot evolve as our consciousness does. Meet the Fox News atheist — the man Bill O’Reilly calls a fascist and Sean Hannity thinks is evil 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Not for nothing did the concert performance here, instinctively acted behind music stands though it was, take on the morality tale feel of an oratorio. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z He has immersed himself in transhumanism, which advocates the use of technology to alter the mind and body, and has his characters debate the morality of genetics. Dan Brown returns to Europe for 'Inferno' 2013-05-14T04:05:21Z Although wildly different from “The Lifeboat” in size, scope and setting, “Now and Again” explores similar thematic interests: big, ranging questions of morality and justice, in particular. Review: ‘Now and Again’: A vibrant novel about the Iraq War and the homefront 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z That was a morality tale in which Beauty deserves her happy ending—the prince, his riches—because of her modest decency, which just so happens to coexist with her superior intelligence and undeniable good looks. Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z As I got older, I realized that the morality and the virtue of the figures that represented me in society were very, very corrupt, and didn't stand for things that were virtuous. "Better Call Saul" star on playing "the only character breaking good when everybody's breaking bad" 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The radio station conducted its own investigation, and two days after the incident fired Mueller for violating the morality clause of his contract, court documents show. Taylor Swift in federal court over groping allegation 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z If our morality is a natural outgrowth of our evolution as a species, it might be discoverable, arguable by self-aware, intelligent thinkers. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z But he is a snob and an opportunist, skilled in the art of looking out for No. 1, even as he and his classmates debate human nature and the morality of the Hunger Games. A ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Focuses on an Unlikely Character 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z She cut images from photographs of Renaissance paintings, assembling them into little morality plays concerning gender that again use the monochrome grounds, but matte and restrained. Review: ‘Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld’ Studies Perceptions Shaped by Photography 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “I never made a single scene that contradicted my convictions or my morality,” the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel once commented. Review: ‘This Can’t Happen Here,’ the Film Ingmar Bergman Tried to Bury 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Today, though, with morality up for grabs and corruption setting its sights on loftier goals, the notion of taxi dancing, once thought of as illicit, now seems quaint. On paying for it: Ten cents a dance (adjusted for inflation) 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z But when in the grip of addiction, morality and logic take odd shapes. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z At one point, as she struggles to understand her own inconstant impulse to be just, Naomi observes that “morality was nothing more than paying attention to the chain reaction while not causing another one.” Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Equal parts morality play and cautionary parable, the material reads on one level as a corrective memo from its creators about the perils of losing one’s way. Theater Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The book’s “happy” ending reflects its author’s belief, perhaps, in the power of individual morality and will. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Sarsgaard said he thought of Traynor as someone whose morality fit whatever circumstances he found himself in, not a person who set out to do something bad. Peter Sarsgaard plays charming and despicable in 'Lovelace' 2013-08-08T18:21:22Z Growing up in Ireland, the Catholic Church played a large part in Horgan’s life, she said, adding that, historically, people in the church had sometimes performed evil acts under the guise of morality. How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z You have to put away your morality to play it. "My grandmother went through this hell and I am playing it" 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “To men and women of dogmatic morality,” the film’s narrator intones with a discernable condescension toward the ordinary, “this appears the manners of Manhattan — Babylon of the East.” Critic?s Notebook: How We Picked Our Presidents, 1960s Style 2011-07-05T00:23:31Z Along the way it explores questions about good and evil, religion and morality, the relationship of the soul to the body and the nature of consciousness itself. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Stannis’ last mistake was not one of strategy so much as morality and emotional intelligence. In Game of Thrones, Even the Consequences Have Consequences 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z There is conflict – between Watson's empathy and sense of morality, and Holmes's selfish desire for sensation and cerebral challenge – but it makes for a psychological thriller curiously lacking in thrills. The Secret of Sherlock Holmes 2010-07-23T21:00:00Z No bodacious starlets for this cabal, no multimillion-dollar CGI sprees; no high-octane street racing, or talking mammoths, or cheap affirmative morality. Austrian cinema: a province shaped by past masters of pessimism 2013-06-19T09:57:23Z Are laws meant to glorify a subjective concept of godly morality, or to govern actual human people? Perspective | Republicans are digging themselves into a hole on abortion 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z But his entanglement with an idealistic young woman makes him begin to doubt the wisdom and morality of his mission. 5 best movies based on John le Carr? books 2011-12-15T20:59:21Z The first is celebrities who make their morality a mystery. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z Does the morality of the show dictate that there has to be an unhappy ending for him, that in some way he has to atone for all the things he's done? ArtsBeat: Vince Gilligan on 'Breaking Bad' and 'the Plumbing of It All' 2012-09-04T17:51:49Z His batch of new films — a goofy sex farce, an earnest morality tale and a bloody crime thriller — suggest an eagerness not just to keep busy but also to stretch. the new season Film: Ryan Gosling and ?Ides of March? 2011-09-14T12:00:05Z “But I know what it’s like to be a woman. I know what it’s like to want the truth out there. And I care about morality and ethics.” How a writer defied ‘one in a million’ odds to get her first movie made by Steven Spielberg 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But it's Shawn's fearless probing of modern morality that's won him both ardent fans and a few outraged detractors. Playwright-essayist Wallace Shawn ponders plays, politics at Town Hall 2011-01-19T23:18:09Z Frank is the alpha: stern in his morality, steady in his judgment, slow to smile. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z They were also accused of debauchery, harming public morality and other accusations. Egyptian singer jailed over video inciting debauchery 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The action’s consequences are inconsequential, because the morality exists in the act itself. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z We are both convinced that having suffered, going through the crucible of war, drove development of our morality. Love, sex, Iraq: A roadside bomb won’t kill my marriage 2014-02-02T13:00:00Z This isn’t about morality or opinion or advice; it’s about straight up intellectual dishonesty. Controversial nun had a long history of anti-gay remarks 2014-04-08T14:27:00Z Underneath the Victorian cloak of unctuous morality, sex was everywhere—except in the marriage bed, Victoria Woodhull argued. Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z Nevertheless, HIV continues to be at the sharp end of our anxieties about sex and morality. Derrick Burts' brave stand on HIV 2010-12-12T17:00:00Z But as the work progresses, it turns into a morality tale that seems to be preaching to the converted. Review: Bread and Puppet Theater Takes Up the Cause of a Puerto Rican Nationalist 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z His own fantasy writing has always delighted in ambiguity, in contrast to the nursery-school morality of much of the genre. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z What American audiences will see is a 1,000-year-old treasured art form, morality tales dressed up in elaborate costumes, fight scenes, acrobatics and stylized movement and gestures that appear to be pantomime. Zhang Huoding of Peking Opera Takes a Turn in the United States 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Often harrowing, always spectacular, TV’s biggest entertainment is also one of its most thoughtful shows about morality and power. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2015 So Far 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z “Films must reflect the dominant values of the people. Films must promote morality in society.” Kenyan filmmakers rise up against 'archaic' 1960s restrictions 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z For years, I have insisted that Jaws is a classic monster movie “morality tale” in which the watery fate of potential victims is sealed by their on-land behaviour. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Like Raylan, Bullock vibrates with a barely concealed rage but is guided by a sense of duty if not always morality. Why has Timothy Olyphant become TV's go-to lawman? 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z The result is a kind of surreal modern morality tale. A Hospital Odyssey by Gwyneth Lewis 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z When the guys demur, she's outraged on behalf of the viewing public: "You guys are vampires, what's with all the morality?" True Blood 4x9: Love, war and sexy dreams 2011-08-22T12:30:00Z These are core Shakespearean questions, to be sure: How do we decide what is true morality, and what is social convention? “Cymbeline”: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z “Hamilton” consistently finds muted, blurring shades — of feeling, of morality, of character — within its incident-and-fact-packed story without ever sacrificing narrative clarity. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z It is where we exchange and impart themes of morality and personal failure. As much as some might like to, now is not the time to cancel the Duggars 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z But Moore leavens her ironic morality tale with dark humor, including the juxtaposition of a billboard and nearby traffic sign that read “Hospice Care: It’s Never Too Soon to Call.” ‘Bark:’ Lorrie Moore casts her eye on modern relationships 2014-04-10T21:14:38Z Advertisement Advertisement The other Bostonian morality play is “Black Mass,” directed by Scott Cooper and likewise drawn from the real-life annals of evil in Massachusetts. Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Like Little Dorrit, it is a morality tale about the dangers of market speculation. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z Littleworth’s jovial beneficence is similarly apt as the voice of Christian morality, and all three young actors are superb. A provocative 'Kingdom City' at La Jolla Playhouse 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Compared with traditional Western animation, manga and anime tend to reflect a more adult and complicated view of morality, rather than the "good versus evil" paradigm common in children's media. Hayao Miyazaki’s "Spirited Away" continues to delight fans 20 years after its U.S. premiere 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z “Catching the Wind” is presented as something of a parable — “This book,” Gabler states, “is about political morality” — but the concept never quite coheres. The Best of the Kennedys? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Within this constricted matrix of morality, other countries, other cultures, other conversations – even if they are the victims of US wars – usually appear only as witnesses in the main trial. Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z They were dangerous thinkers all, one publication away from exile, imprisonment or worse for their radical views on religion, politics and morality. Seeing the light 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “It’s not just a good thing because of the Platonic beauty of morality. To be moral pays off.” ‘You know, I’m never happy’: Woody Allen discusses new ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ She describes herself as drawn to it because of her "interest in morality", and the moral side of political questions. Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z In October, a major Communist Party meeting asserted the need for strengthening social morality and boosting China's cultural influence abroad - a recognition by the party that it is losing its power to dictate public opinion. China wants to ban several types of movie content 2011-12-15T07:01:04Z I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z All of these lives changed irrevocably because of the strict dictates of a patriarchal society that equates legitimacy with worth and morality. "Tom Jones" finale highlights all the women he did wrong: "Actions have consequences" 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Do you think there’s been a shift in the way scholars have seen Nietzsche’s view of morality over the past 60 or 70 years? Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Combining soap-like story arcs with political intrigue, comedy, psychodrama and cliffhangers, it cast a forensic eye over the French system of law and politics and class and race and sex and morality. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z There's tenderness, too, but Gahan's brooding power is central to possibly his best work since Depeche's 1990 Violator: magnificent songs about demons and failings, morality and mortality, regret, faith and devotion. Soulsavers: The Light the Dead See ? review 2012-05-17T21:15:01Z Margot was silent; I could feel that her special brand of morality was offended by my ridiculous provocation. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Mr. le Carré’s tales always take place in a kind of no man’s land, in the disputed territories of reason, morality and even simple truth. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z He may be benign, but he has a mercurial wit, a cartoonist's eye for the telling gesture, a spiky morality, a gleeful touch of anarchy. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z He asks, “Can a company as intent upon domination as Amazon really understand this perspective — and adapt that morality to the screen?” ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’: The Reviews Are in 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In many ways the tragic case of Walter Scott is a macabre political and social morality play about America, the law, justice, the color line and power. License to kill: Can any amount of evidence convict a white cop who shoots a black man? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z On the other hand, it is absolutely true that Nietzsche has quite shocking views about traditional Christian morality. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Instead, it's a beautifully shot mystery, wrapped in an unpleasant thriller that's also a morality tale, which is in turn woven through with ancient myths and tart observations on feminism. Top Of The Lake: a mystery that's impossible to get a handle on 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z It started when Robertson began to talk about the erosion of morality in American culture in which, “Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong. Sin becomes fine.” Duck Dynasty Star Compares Gay People to “Drunks,” “Terrorists,” and “Prostitutes” 2013-12-18T15:53:41Z It's an entertaining genre, sprinkled with morality plays here and there. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z His mammoth curiosity encompasses questions of war, morality, economics, lifestyle, gender, aesthetics, art and music. Voyage-tales collection blends atypical narrative, history She was an “everyday radical” who challenged “received notions of morality” when she left her husband to live with a lover in Paris, where, cross-dressed, she was able to wander freely in disguise. Take a walk on the Parisian side with Lauren Elkin's 'Flâneuse' 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z For a moment he reached a kind of ideal: skill, generosity, morality, aesthetic beauty and lunch. Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z Cultural expectations around marriage and body size go back to the Protestant obsession with discipline, merit and morality. “Fat Guy” biking across America: Why we believe only thin people deserve to be loved 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z It asks unsettling, important questions: about morality and society, the human mind and our black hearts, and the unbreakable bonds of familial love. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z Weber’s acute sense of morality was also complex; she repudiated simplistic sentimentality and wouldn’t allow a hero to be “a dummy concocted of all the impossible virtues a scenario writer could imagine.” “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z By then, the poet had revolted against his father’s severe morality, yet he felt obligated to pay a debt of honor. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The legality of a thing is entirely distinct from the morality of it,” he said. The Top 10 Coolest Things I Saw at Comic-Con 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Bennett described the programme as "thought-provoking" and said the six-part Accused series is "a set of morality tales". BBC: Accused is 'a piece of fiction' 2010-11-23T13:27:00Z The phenomenon of Donald Trump, whose crassness is alien to Michael’s upbringing, has reinforced this basic premise of his morality. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z This enthusiasm leads to what one might perhaps describe as a sentimental strain in Manguel's writing, though it might also accurately be described as morality, the imaginative extension of oneself and one's sympathies to others. A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z A clergyman in New York called her stunt “offensive and a disgrace against morality.” The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Titles such as X-Men and Black Panther broached civil rights issues and blurred moralities. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The injustices within the justice system are manifold, and Season 2 of “In the Dark” examines a case whose specifics defy both belief and morality. Five Great Podcasts From 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z His superior taste allows him to transcend the common morality of philistines. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z They are players in contemporary morality tales, myth-saturated chronicles about the upset and the restoration of order in the capitalist universe. Critic’s Notebook: Pei-Shen Qian’s Paintings Examined 2013-12-30T22:57:08Z And now, the denouement of his action adventures – The Bourne Legacy, a predictably stylish slice of relentlessly high-octane action that extrapolates on the ideas of identity and morality explored in the original series. At last action hero 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z It’s not entirely a reimagining, though; the themes of hubris, morality and human obsolescence are cobbled together from the Asimovian stock parts of robot stories past. Review: Humans is a Robot Chiller for the Smartphone Era 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z On a mission to bring religion and morality to the town, Magill records his conversations with his neighbours and jots down critical summaries of their characters, like a director giving performance notes to actors. Misterman - review 2011-07-14T16:15:31Z “The hero, the white knight — he’s usually on the right side of morality,” he said. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z He goes on: "It is hard to think how this will happen unless hedge-fund morality becomes the norm and betting on future food prices is not curtailed." Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z The novel follows each generation’s struggle with morality, right and wrong, and the bleak issues caused by sibling rivalry. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But I’m not sure what such a move would say about the family’s fine-tuned sense of morality: Would they whitewash their history and jettison a family friend to ensure the health of the business? Why Ben’s Chili Bowl hasn’t rushed to remove traces of Bill Cosby 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z In our private life, we can have a fight with a friend or a lover about morality issues. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But it’s Hall who expresses the film’s emotional complexity — and its characters’ flimsy morality. ‘Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.’ Review: Resurrecting a Megachurch 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s a stirring morality tale about self-control and self-improvement through concerted effort. Chuck Jones’s Animated Offspring in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The notion that people with addictions suffer from a failure of morality to be indexed and removed is fundamental to Alcoholics Anonymous. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z In every case, faith and morality will outflank reason and science. Hunt's views on abortion only add to David Cameron's woes 2012-10-06T23:06:53Z Yet the plot does show a series of ethical gray areas in the protagonists' lives, avoiding the simple black-and-white view of morality that can sneak into historical storytelling. Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Do happiness and self-esteem lead to goodness and morality? Motherlode: Teaching Children to Do Good 2011-04-11T16:48:18Z This peculiarity that we are now experiencing, the nearest thing to a world war, is the key theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays and Jacobean dramas, of old ballads, apocalyptic paintings and morality tales. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z All that felt less like a dream than a frantic, finger-wagging morality play set to music. Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Thus, the tendency toward “xenophobia and outgroup degradation” within conservative movements “is not a design flaw but an essential feature — it’s a binding and dividing morality.” The moral foundations of fascism: Warring psychological theories struggle to make sense of Hitler, Mussolini and you-know-who 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Hudson may have been a huge star, but studio “morality clauses” kept him in the closet. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z “I was wholly devoid of most human boundaries or morality,” he notes in passing. What It Is Actually Like to Be in the Engine Room of the Start-Up Economy 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s about rock ‘n’ roll and the morality of wiseguys and how they relate to each other. 40 years of Martin Scorsese movies, mashed up as a concert-musical? That's 'American Crime Requiem' 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The play, which questioned the morality of journalists, has never been staged professionally in Britain. Arnold Wesker: food for thought 2012-05-21T18:30:02Z With a wry wit, an amiable mien and a flexible morality, Ames was a natural spy. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Now "everything looked the same as everything else," and all morality is arbitrarily and universally metamorphosed. The Times' 1983 review of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose:' An intriguing detective story 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z But the thread that most captured me was the morality tale woven throughout the book. The man behind “How to Survive a Plague” taught us how to be activists 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Written in the years between O’Neill’s “Iceman Cometh” and Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” this morality tale, which is more interesting to think about than actually to watch, is another play about delusions. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z In the end, “Judge, Jury and Executioner” showed us that the surviving humans can talk about justice and morality till the cows get disemboweled. The Walking Dead Watch: Judge, Jury, Executioner 2012-03-05T13:45:16Z The term encompasses the culture that molded the character of Greek citizens, developed the power of their philosophical thought and cultivated within them a more humane morality. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z So it's good to see them collaborating on this co-production, directed by Hill, which propels Marlowe's 17th-century morality play into the 21st century. This week's new theatre 2013-02-23T06:00:13Z “Every issue facing our world today is encapsulated in deceptively simple morality tales featuring four-color comic book heroes whose histories stretch back to 1939,” he said in a statement. Ka-pow! Marvel Comics heroes get academic treatment at Baltimore college 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Its characters have to be functions of the tract, and have worked best in poems, fables and morality plays created to accommodate such ciphers. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z Her public image weighed heavily in the international community’s imagination, which was decidedly more familiar with the morality play of “The Lady Versus the Generals” than with the longer history of Burma. ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z His life resists posterity’s best efforts to make it resemble a morality play. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z His story could be read as a morality tale. Civilised and civilising 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In more private moments, the spymasters speak about the morality of their actions. 2 Israeli documentaries shortlisted for Oscar 2013-01-03T17:07:08Z “This is a case where the difference between law and morality is important,” says Robin James, a professor of philosophy, gender studies and music at the University of North Carolina. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Bradbury’s series of stories in “The Martian Chronicles” was a Cold War morality tale in which events on another planet served as a commentary on life on this planet. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z But when young men drive through areas where the morality police are known to patrol regularly, they roll up their windows and turn down the stereo a bit. Iranians pump up the volume for banned tunes 2013-05-07T13:46:41Z She called the debacle a "horrific morality tale of the cyber age" and a "tragedy of gigantic proportions." Move over Galliano, Lady Gaga makes debut 2011-03-03T16:17:00Z “Ensuring a nation’s survival sometimes leaves tragically little room for private morality,” he argues. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The philosophical conversations about God, heaven, hell, death and morality were refreshingly plainspoken. After seven seasons, "Rescue Me" ends with a cough and a smile 2011-09-08T02:01:00Z The film is a Manichean morality play, a struggle between good and evil played out in blissful denial of psychological complexity. Dvdsdave Kehr: Rain City Woes and Escape in the Desert 2010-12-03T16:01:00Z He thinks it might be more about competency than morality. ‘Breaking Bad’: I Want Walter White to Survive the Finale 2013-09-27T20:59:52Z Feminism was often tied to a larger movement for equality, morality and social justice. Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears lean in: “Pretty Girls” celebrates a macho, winner-take-all feminism — and not much more 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z She based her story to real life stories, and then launched it into a question of morality and drama. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z But rather than create a black-and-white morality tale, Bahrani focused on the moral ambiguities of fending for oneself and one’s family within a broader system that’s rigged in favor of the big fish. Director Ramin Bahrani on His Housing Drama 99 Homes: It's a 'Thriller With a Humanist Heart' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Given a new name and image, a morality clause to conform to, and publicity stunts including staged romances with studio stablemates, the star’s persona began and ended with the inventions of the front office. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Mindfulness developed as a part of Buddhism, where it's intimately tied up with Buddhist spiritual teachings and morality. Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z As kids mature, Lee suspects that they’re increasingly aware of the morality of lying, even as they become more adept at it. Perspective | All kids lie: How to handle it, and when you should worry 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Some years ago, Jennet Conant wrote an op-ed entitled “My Grandfather and the Bomb,” in which she revealed that “Los Alamos was the chief morality tale of my childhood.” An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z He has a lot of definite ideas on a variety of topics, including morality in art, and his statements are sometimes startling. ‘Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod’ Review: Into the Spotlight 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Instead, Jaeger means for us to reflect on the competing issues — of morality, social progress and self-fulfillment — laid out in her impressive, albeit rather dour scientific romances. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z In this shallow but enjoyable all-American morality play, Carl falls but rises, chastened, to pursue happiness and fulfillment operating a food truck whose specialty is Cuban sandwiches. Movie Review: ‘Chef,’ a Culinary Comedy by Jon Favreau 2014-05-08T19:55:37Z Broadcasters should avoid performers who “violate public order” or have “lost morality,” the regulator said. China bans ‘sissy men’ from TV in new crackdown 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “Miss Fortune,” for which Ms. Weir wrote her own libretto, is lightweight stuff but comes across as a diverting morality tale enriched by inventive music. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z But in order to do the things that he’s done, he must have an incredibly intense sensation of his own morality — an idea of justice, an idea that he’s setting wrongs right. What It’s Like to Play Putin in ‘Patriots’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z That, of course, only confirmed Lawrence's worldview, in which dehumanizing morality and rationality crushed nature, sex, instinct and emotion. Tarquinia: Visit the Painted Tombs of Etruscan Places 2011-01-20T09:30:00Z Bramwell's no rocking vicar, though his songs are sermons of sorts: gritty but pretty symphonies about life on the slopes delivered with morality, humanity, drama and empathy. I Am Kloot – review 2012-11-11T16:21:50Z I wouldn’t call that a culture of poverty, as if there’s something that’s in their mind or spirit or social organization that’s a value system or a sense of morality about poverty. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z I made "Suicide Girl" because to me, that's a modern morality tale. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z In D&D, there are two distinct categories constituting your alignment: morality and ethics. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z Is Ben right, that it isn’t true morality but relative morality that defines that action? Motherlode Blog: Does Philanthropic Peer Pressure or Morality Matter More? 2013-12-31T17:19:25Z “I had to write my own ethics and morality, if you like.” Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Aristotle saw children as essentially moral beings in training, while Kant viewed morality as a simple matter of relationships between free and rational beings. First Person: Whose Picture Is It, Anyway? 2014-04-11T22:48:49Z The legend, morality and style of the Miliband family could hardly be more vivid or ingrained. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z It’s about our relationships to our loved ones and our communities, it’s about morality and greed, it’s about our understanding of and respect for the natural world.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It's right that they were arrested, it's right that the court took that decision, because you can't undermine the foundations of morality, our moral values, destroy the country. Pussy Riot: One defendant freed 2012-10-10T19:24:13Z At a time when sex was taboo in Los Angeles and actors signed morality agreements, Monroe was yet to be the monumental success that would make her a symbol of both Hollywood and sex. Nude images of Marilyn Monroe offer snapshots of taboo Hollywood history 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Bee's commentary is pegged to her sense of morality and justice only. How did Sam Bee’s “Full Frontal” find its brilliant voice? By amplifying the unheard 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z It's a pleasant, light morality tale, full of potential to prompt children to ask questions about growing up, and surely all the whimsical, unexplained elements are allegories or allusions. Comics: 'Return of the Dapper Men,' 'Legends of the Mouse Guard' 2011-01-05T19:43:57Z So, while screen morality campaigners may not like to see an actor clamped between a woman’s thighs, no post-watershed taboo is broken. Flashing the flesh – a history of TV nudity 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Though Coleman is treated sympathetically throughout the novel, he is shadowed by his corrupt morality. A boy caught between love and race 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z And in the framework of contemporary health-related morality, who is the most shocking? Exhibition Review: ‘Body Worlds: Pulse’ at Discovery Times Square 2013-05-09T20:27:43Z But, in fact, the thing that the journalist talks about in that section is a sort of germane point about the morality of language and the structure of language. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Whether this is true, and what this cancer might look like, is one of the many tensions in this moody morality tale. Review: Dan Vyleta’s ‘Smoke’ Is a Supernatural Take on a Victorian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Considered groundbreaking because of a plot that focused on working-class characters, this morality tale remains deliciously tense and dark; Lillo surely read his Shakespeare, for there are faint echoes of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet.” | 'The London Merchant': ?The London Merchant,? an 18th-Century Gem - Review 2012-01-17T22:41:24Z Both Oscar-nominated films explore classic western themes of morality and frontier justice: reward and punishment that sometimes fall outside the letter of the law, yet within a strict code of honor. With ‘Wind River,’ Taylor Sheridan continues to smash western stereotypes 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But really there's no need for these complex dissections to separate head from heart, or morality from art. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z After Michèle unmasks her attacker, he added, “it doesn’t go in the direction of a revenge movie, and I think that was an obstacle from the point of view of politically correct morality.” ‘Elle,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert as a Rape Victim Who Turns the Tables, Rivets Critics 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z As nilpferd points out, in Double Indemnity these rules warp the morality of the characters, and make the viewer complicit in judging their actions. Clip joint: fake noses 2010-12-01T13:54:00Z Both dramas explore themes of guilt, honor and morality as the main characters grapple with situational ethics. With “The Salesman,” Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi creates another spellbinding domestic drama 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Beyond the wider themes of privatisation and morality, RoboCop reminds us that in dark times, even if corporations, criminals and governments screw you, you can still be human and hang on to your principles. Let RoboCop reign over the streets of Detroit 2011-03-29T11:38:05Z Instead it’s a grainy political and cultural rant, a sustained shriek about power and morality in a new global era. Review: When the Digital World Is Judging Your Every Thought 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s a nice bit of irony in a book that reads like a morality tale about unintended consequences. ‘Crime in Progress’ Tells the Story Behind the Steele Dossier 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z But that kinship mistakes cynicism for earnestness, volume for accuracy, popularity for morality. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The film, screening March 7 and 9 at the Miami Film Festival, is a scathing morality tale centering around worker exploitation in Mexico City. In the thrilling "Workforce," an exploited construction worker takes the ultimate revenge 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z This isn’t going to be a verdict piece on Allen’s morality. Woody Allen’s New Memoir Is Sometimes Funny — and Tone Deaf and Banal 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Instead, they are multi-layered individuals, all linked by the sort of indefinite, wonky morality that was once the sole preserve of male characters. With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011-03-05T00:07:26Z We considered very deeply the morality of discussing this issue about someone who was still alive. Thatcher's "Iron Lady" image softened by new movie 2011-12-27T13:06:35Z Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a less effective platform than Twitter to discuss the morality of abortion. Perspective | Twitter is no place to consider abortion — but a novel might be 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z "I certainly don't think I would ever let my ambition override my morality, which is what my character in the show does." Radcliffe meets challenge 2011-03-28T10:13:52Z The brothers appear to share a vision of life as a dark morality play. Brothers Jerome and Joel-Peter Witkin and their 'Twin Visions' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Both defendants were accused of inciting debauchery and producing a video harming public morality. Egyptian singer jailed over video inciting debauchery 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Wodehouse or Damon Runyon — a sweet and timeless bubble with its own morality, language and customs. 'The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party': the welcome return of Precious Ramotswe 2011-03-24T22:24:03Z She wanted it to be a journey exploring how a man who argued so powerfully that science was a force for good could have put his brain to something of questionable morality. TV review: The House That Made Me 2010-12-10T08:00:00Z The larger experiences of comradeship and loss, the ineffable questions of morality and complicity in combat — these issues will resonate with men and women far beyond the special operation’s community. ‘The Knife,’ by Ross Ritchell 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z That support is likely to hinge not on his presumed morality or Christian virtue, but rather on his ability to project rugged strength and masculine power. From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z For Clooney, the film wasn't so much a political movie as a morality tale, exploring the question of whether the ends justify the means. George Clooney rules out political bid in US 2011-08-31T19:46:03Z The story revolves around Carrie’s discussions on morality with a bartender, who often doubles in the role of God. Last Year’s Fringe Festival Successes Look Back 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The morality and effectiveness of torture are topical subjects, and Crystal Skillman’s play takes great pains to connect present-day torture techniques with the barbaric methods of the 16th century by juxtaposing them. | 'The Vigil or the Guided Cradle': Crystal Skillman on the Art of Torture 2010-04-30T23:37:00Z The crimes coincided with the passage of a new parliamentary bill that allows private citizens to enforce "morality" laws. Acid attacks in Iran sharpen row over Islamic dress and vigilantism 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Baum kept the rococo creatures of antique fairy tales — Munchkins and flying monkeys in place of gnomes and talking donkeys — while discarding the medieval morality. Oz Revisited – Part 2: How They Made It Wonderful 2013-09-17T15:44:25Z Any time a small, unregulated platform was acquired by a bigger one, he said, the new company would invoke a “morality clause” and attempt to shake people like him from using it. Tumblr Fans Abandon Ship as Tumblr Bans Porn 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z That said, as an operatic experience – Vaughan Williams called it a "morality" – it is fraught with difficulties. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z These imponderables are consciousness in the sense of sentience or subjective experience, the self, free will, conceptual meaning, knowledge and morality. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z What is clear is that, while Stannis may be a stickler for rules, he’s not a slave to morality. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke Monster 2012-04-23T10:07:39Z All three, for different reasons, welcomed the growing presence of organised religion in the public sphere and turned their wrath on what Blond called "a liberal elite incapable of morality". Rewind Radio: Night Waves; Blond on Britain; Nine Alternative Lessons and Carols; Kirsty MacColl: A Tribute; Desert Island Discs 2010-12-26T00:04:03Z Five seasons, several offshoots and countless imitators later, the beloved and influential anthology series that mixed sci-fi with morality tales has become an indelible part of the cultural lexicon. ‘The Twilight Zone’: Here’s Why We Still Care 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Even if, like Enron shares themselves, you think this show has been over-hyped, nobody can deny that it's a genuinely swaggering and stylish piece of theatre and a morality tale for our times. This week's new theatre 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Though she herself tells the tale, we somehow see her morality’s disastrous consequences. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z She reminds us that these anti-fascists “regarded morality — truth, integrity, honesty, as opposed to fascist venality and bullying — as lying at the heart of their anti-fascism.” Anti-Fascism With a Human Face 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Thomas, however — thanks to a dive into Dante’s “Divine Comedy” — is increasingly drawn to making what one character calls a “medieval morality play.” Review: ‘The Face of an Angel’ Dabbles in Murder and Culpability 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z If a person can ignore suffering like that, then morality need not to be part of equation in judging course of actions. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Of course atheists are right that they’ve often been exiled from American public life, or treated like pariahs on the idiotic assumption that you can’t believe in morality if you don’t believe in God. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z The entertainer was known then for making conservative speeches on what he considers a lack of morality in the black community, and proposing changes that Giovanni took issue with. Watch Poet Nikki Giovanni Rip Bill Cosby to Shreds in 2007 Speech 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “This is a play that has political references and issues about morality and your politics and your reaction to change,” says Meadow. How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z This is morality policing of the kind you'd expect in Iran or Saudi Arabia. Why do our paranoid, anti-fun police seem to think they run the country? | George Monbiot 2010-03-29T20:00:00Z “Johnny & Donna,” from the gospel singer Mali Music’s new album “Mali Is...,” is a classic morality tale for the “Teen Mom” era. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z In a way, minus the rage and confusion, the warped morality, this is less defensible than Tyler et al. New band of the day: Piff Gang (No 1,326) 2012-08-08T15:32:50Z Pinocchio might have the chance to truly become a real boy in this remake based loosely on the original morality tale of the puppet who is brought to life. Here are Disney's Forthcoming Live-Action Movies 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z This book is about the neuroscience of morality. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z The set-ups in the guerrilla-style morality test include tempting passers-by with lost holdalls of cash, and a genuinely disturbing stunt involving a racist waiter hurling abuse at a dining couple. TV highlights 27/06/2013 2013-06-27T06:00:06Z Such concerts are a stark change from when Saudi morality police would raid establishments that played loud music. Hip-hop star Nicki Minaj to perform in Saudi Arabia 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But her novel, like his, dares to ask what becomes of identity and morality in the face of our globe’s radical changes. Lives Other Than His Own 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z "Arbitrage," starring Richard Gere, is among the few movies seen as having commercial appeal with its timely morality tale borne of the financial crisis. Tales of greed, excess meet mild response at Sundance 2012-01-25T20:16:33Z Whatever you think about the morality of file–sharing, it's a fascinating tale of what happens when a vast industry clashes with idealistic nerds. TV highlights 19/02/2013 2013-02-19T06:59:01Z But its most outstanding quality to my eye is the window it offers on the widespread sexual repression that exists in India today, and the murky middle-class morality that rules it. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro ? review 2011-07-29T10:30:01Z The most crucial point: Saying that life and morality and reason and virtue and emotions such as grief are physical processes – this is not the same as saying they are illusions. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z Ethics and aesthetics are particularly intertwined in these films, calling to mind Jean-Luc Godard’s famous pronouncement that tracking shots are a matter of morality. Films on the Tsunami at Yamagata Documentary Film Festival 2012-03-14T13:00:00Z It's a comedy unafraid to mention theology, morality and the purpose of religion in a modern society. Hallelujah for Rev 2010-09-16T16:12:00Z Our morality is flexible, but our collective sweet tooth aches eternal. Tove Lo sings about sex, drugs and more sex. Why aren’t we scandalized? 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In a way he is Disney, mining childhood traumas into animated gold; in another way Hitchcock, preying masterfully on an audience’s expectations; in another way Hergé, weaving adventure-story clichés into morality plays of calculated innocence. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z And when characters are simply reacting to cruel fate, it's not an engaging drama, it's a medieval morality play. Desperate Housewives: getting desperate 2011-08-08T10:24:45Z Neither arrived at a place in which morality was a recurrent theme of his work. Kodak Black Grapples With Tough Questions in His Music, but Nowhere Else 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z We are so, so over people assigning morality to ingredients, recipes, and body types. 11 pandemic food trends we are so over 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Don't have much confidence in the so-called rights of man, Freud seems to say in his New Introductory Lectures; they are no match for the ferocity of inner morality – the super-ego, or "conscience". Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z He had applied this insight to natural sciences and logic, but Professor White extended it to religion, history, art and morality. Morton White, Philosopher of Holistic Pragmatism, Dies at 99 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Opera is a dramatic form, and drama is rooted in public meditation on ethics, morality and civic life. Perspective | Plácido Domingo’s reputation as a performer enabled the opera world to ignore his predatory behavior 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z With the open bar events and late-night parties and studio sessions, there's a different standard of morality, said an industry veteran who works for the video platform Vevo. Why #MeToo has had little effect on the music industry 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z He was the one who held on to his righteousness and morality throughout. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan do a 'Breaking Bad' autopsy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Nicole Kidman nakedness in "Eyes Wide Shut" exemplifies those women who will sacrifice their morality and family for money, power, and success. Review: ‘What We’re Up Against,’ a Sexism Story More Timely Than Ever 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z I do try to invoke ethics and morality in this book, even though some might say that those words don't belong in a conversation about Fox. "It was damning": Brian Stelter excavates Fox News' culture, the Big Lie and Tucker Carlson's exit 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Both defendants were accused of inciting debauchery and producing a video harming public morality. Egyptian singer jailed over video inciting debauchery 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z There are those who would cast it as a problem of morality and excess, but your problem is not something you can easily change. My obsession with sex ruins all my relationships 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Yes, atheists think that life and morality and love and grief are all part of the physical world. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z In a review for The Times, Robert Abele writes, "Unfortunately this 'Story' never finds its footing as either a creepy morality play or a performance-driven two-hander." 'True Story': James Franco-Jonah Hill drama doesn't convince critics 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Likewise, what can you say about the morality and mentality of Ron Ram? "Hard to stomach": "Buoyancy" director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z And then you get old enough, 20, 21 and you start having to make those choices for yourself, find your own morality, integrity, character. Katherine Heigl unfiltered: "I know my value. Beauty ... is the least interesting thing about me" 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z If you accept that, then you accept there’s an element of randomness in our morality. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z And if this is a morality tale, then there’s the question of consequences or repercussions. Sarah Goldberg on the ‘Barry’ Finale and Bad Decisions 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z For Bieber, morality is a binary system -- you’re either a good guy or a bad guy, never both at the same time. Justin Bieber and Kanye West: How their charm offensives differ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z But morality is real and guilt is your character’s gyroscope. Ask Amy: Keeping accidental freebie is unethical Yet these longer movies were unambiguous: simple morality tales of good versus evil. In ‘Coco,’ Death Is the Point 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Furious debates about ends and means, money and morality, capitalism and imperialism. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The government will substitute foreign-based shows with local content, especially educational programming that will “build morality.” China Curbs American TV Shows 2013-10-21T11:58:17Z And we did think about the morality of what we did. How The Word changed TV 2010-08-10T07:00:00Z But the real joy lies in seeing Brecht's timeless debate about scientific morality rendered with such pellucid swiftness. A Life of Galileo – review 2013-02-13T16:52:00Z They were also accused of debauchery, harming public morality and other accusations. Egyptian singer jailed over video inciting debauchery 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z As rational arguments for environmental protection or civil rights show, morality is possible without sentimental appeals to individual suffering. The case for compassion, not empathy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z The variously panicked, evasive, corrupt, craven and honorable characters were players in an ongoing morality play. Lumet, his films embodied grace under fire 2011-04-10T19:29:00Z I am as sickened as the next person, but if Harris’s quest is to show that religion fails to promote morality, why pick on Islam? Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z Fargo looks like a simple crime story, and a wildly engaging one at that, but it’s really about what morality looks like in the modern world. Fargo's all-star second season delivers a bravura study of America in the 1970s 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Myanmar's constitution enshrines freedom of expression if it doesn't harm "community peace" or "public order and morality." Freedom brings new challenges for Myanmar writers 2013-02-05T13:08:12Z Did any of them persuade you that the group is about morality, or whatever, and not racism? “The first day of shooting was the day we went to the cross burning”: W. Kamau Bell on hanging out with the KKK and claiming his space with humor 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z He was speaking in his office this week about the travails, triumphs, noble struggles and sheer folly in the unusually rich stew of morality tales that are this year’s nine best picture nominees. Rabbi Marvin Hier Talks Best Picture Nominees 2012-02-02T22:55:22Z All of these issues about faith, about morality, about fate, about science, they're all there in the first five minutes. Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in "My Zoe" & seeing the last of the "Before" franchise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Shakespeare compares her, sympathetically, to Anna Karenina, and she is indeed the inadvertent protagonist of a morality tale about the dire consequences of a louche upbringing. Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery 2013-12-26T19:35:00Z That pursuit gets more difficult when morality becomes a moving target. Review | Caught between a comic-book tone and Holocaust horrors, ‘Hunters’ struggles to hit the target 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z At issue was the final analysis of Tyreese’s refusal to abandon his morality in the face of the brutish post-apocalyptic world order. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Another Road Trip, Another Surprising Turn 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Though "Double Indemnity" is in essence a period piece, Pichette wants it to strike a modern nerve as a stark, dark morality tale. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z Asked about whether there is a "morality gene" or whether there would be morality without religion, Ouellete said all of these things -- genetics, social influence, environment -- "work together to determine … certain kinds of behavioral patterns." Festival of Books: Science writers debate -- Is there a morality gene? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Unfettered thinking is important, but reapply your morality when you turn your ideas into action. Are you an evil genius? How dishonesty can make you more creative 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z He avoids moralising, "which is to morality what artiness is to art". Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Hemingway’s aesthetic is also a matter of morality, based in the truth of first-person experience, tested by one’s own unsparingly high, self-critical standards. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z And the current BBC3 series Some Girls contains dialogue about teenage sex with a level of physical detail that would have had the late morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse marching on parliament. Sex on television: what is the right amount? 2013-05-08T12:07:58Z It's hardly a simple question, the morality of his career redemption resting on the back of a gruesome tragedy, and it was approached cautiously by those involved with the film. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z But “Holiday,” he said, is “not about the veterans and the people who suffered and died. It’s about the people who survived and were dealing with questions of morality.” Russian Comedy Plays on YouTube, Not in Movie Theaters, to Avoid Censors 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Fans and critics have spent the last week fretting over the morality of his decision and whether concepts of patriotism and solidarity outweigh those of personal gain and perceived greed. Gérard Depardieu's tax move to Belgium divides France 2012-12-22T12:05:39Z It asks how far the state should impinge on individual liberty and whether morality is innate or learned. Review: In ‘Clockwork Orange,’ the Future is Dark and Very Fit 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The desperation of staying alive is intense -- 18 years of your parents building and defining your morality is just gone. Former 'Bachelor' producer gets real on Lifetime's 'unREAL' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z By the 1620s European women were sent to the colonies to restore white “morality,” racial purity and European family life. Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides 2014-03-12T23:00:00Z Phillips wishes to enjoy the notoriety of a button-pusher without taking the heat, to make a movie about morality without discussion of morals, to be provocative without answering the question of what’s being provoked. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The crash turned the whole thing into a morality tale, Greenfield says, only we didn’t learn. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Whether it leaves you debating scientific morality or our continuing dependence on the nuclear threat is something I doubt. The Physicists – review 2012-06-08T11:37:54Z “In the war against terror forget about morality.” The Carpetbagger: A Muted Reaction 2013-01-29T15:10:51Z He's right, of course, because, as the adaptation of Martin Amis's comic novel plays out, there's a surprisingly old-fashioned morality at its core. The National Movie Awards 2010 2010-05-26T06:59:00Z The story focuses on the struggle between passion and morality within the title character, whom Wagner based on a real 13th century singer and poet. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z It’s amazing how predatory men, so lacking in intuition in areas like self-awareness, morality and empathy, manage nevertheless to sensitively identify the most emotionally vulnerable person in their vicinity and to zoom in on them. My partner is boring and I’ve fallen for an older, married guy at work | Dear Mariella 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z I didn't care at all about the morality, or otherwise, of taking brain enhancers. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z “They appeal to a childlike desire to make an easily digestible morality tale of a complicated world.” Perspective | Trump won’t stop coining nasty nicknames for his foes — but the media must stop amplifying them. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The intellectual and cultural milieu of the Scholls is evoked through scenes of theatre within theatre in which Dostoevsky and Goethe are dramatised as part of their discussions of political morality. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z The interesting existential tidbits about agency, morality and artificial intelligence play second string to the straw-man argument about the baseness of consumerism. ‘Free Guy’ Review: Don’t Hate the Player 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z She nevertheless became a voice for ordinary women, recording three-minute morality plays in the 1960s and ’70s — many written by her, some written by others — that spoke to the changing mores of women throughout America. Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience, Dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “Whatever happened to morality?” somebody asks in “Savages.” Books of The Times: New-Wave Drug Dealers in Don Winslow?s ?Savages? 2010-07-07T22:18:00Z Then there are the serious considerations about morality, but it certainly isn’t as heavy as Breaking Bad. You, Me and the Apocalypse: the end of the world is funnier than you'd think 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Mortimer spoke with Salon about race, class, morality, and making “Cargo.” “I remembered as a kid, seeing dead bodies washed up on shore”: A conversation with Kareem Mortimer, writer and directed of “Cargo” 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z And it awakens atavistic beliefs about morality and the body, as if our face, like the painting in Dorian Gray’s old schoolroom, is a physical record of our deeds. Perspective | It’s not enough for Facebook to own your images. It wants to own your mortality, too. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps most humans feel like we are all anti-heroes lacking the right amount of courage, idealism, and morality – wanting to be heroic but struggling through familiar dark places. "I’m the problem, it’s me": Why do musicians revisit their pain and doubt in their art? 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z “He's writing about ethical problems and about morality, but not in an easy way,” he said. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Indeed, such is the speed of his ascent and the depth of his downfall, that Apathy for the Devil reads more like a morality play than a memoir. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z Thucydides was his model historian and Kagan shared the ancient Greek scholar’s dark views of human nature, how among nations power triumphed over morality. Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z At this point a major dramatic and thematic device appears to link the action, the humour and the ironic morality, and it's whisky. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z “The Rouhani administration is clearly on the record as being very, very skeptical of Ansar-e-Hezbollah and enforcing of morality laws by vigilante groups.” Acid attacks in Iran sharpen row over Islamic dress and vigilantism 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Sleepy Teddy riding into Sweetwater on the train — the noble outsider with a rigid sense of morality — ends up being a robot programmed to serve that very purpose. Westworld finale: even with the spot-on fan theories we're still left guessing 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z ACT Theatre continues a long holiday tradition of presenting a limber and ever-appealing version of the Charles Dickens morality tale of Christmas cheer and empathy for the poor. The Week Ahead: Apolo Ohno, 'A Christmas Carol,' Northwest Girlchoir 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z “They do so in foreign films, but in Anglo-Saxon pictures they rarely do. And it seems to me so phony and ridiculous. . . . Why should we subscribe to basically Victorian ideas about morality?” James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z For Lenin, “morality was not to be based on ‘idealistic’ standards of inner feelings, but on the ever-changing dictates of revolutionary expediency,” Billington writes. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Because to really take morality seriously is to take your altruistic obligations seriously – to help others, to weigh and consider the interests of others et cetera. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z In “The Good Place,” morality is not something you have; it’s something you do. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Admittedly, this new licence remains true to the corporation's morality handbooks. TV matters: A Question of Sport ? with the rude bits left in 2010-07-08T07:00:00Z While acknowledging the emptiness of much consumption, Bruckner perceives in the anti-capitalist message a rehashed version of Christian morality, "in which ordinary life is sinful". Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z In addition a number of communities, including African-Americans and Hasidic Jews, see fur as an important part of their cultural heritage, one on which lawmakers should not be permitted to impose their own voter-pandering morality. The California Fur Ban and What It Means for You 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Every time I met them, I felt chastened by a somehow old-fashioned yet relevant bohemian morality and ethical certainty. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z Of course, Whitehead being Whitehead, the book also explores deeper issues of race and class and power and morality, and it cracks a few jokes along the way. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Also an admirer is Newcomer William, a man unlike most of the paying customers in that he possesses some shred of morality. Westworld recap: episode two – do androids dream of electric slaughter? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Inspired by Hogarth's morality tale in eight paintings, the opera has no organic unfolding or reassuring emotional climax. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Part of the conceptual problem was that Ruskin's combination of art and morality was running against the Enlightenment idea that art, morality and truth needed to define themselves in their own terms. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z There is humanity and morality in the story, but not quite enough. Kirk Douglas: why his finest role was as a cynical newspaper hack 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Many of his most famous pictures – The Pawnbroker, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and The Verdict – stand as tense, earthy morality plays. Sidney Lumet dies aged 86 2011-04-09T15:44:58Z She said: "The truth is, it's not about morality, it's about functionality. Does your home work for you? Not some hypothetical house guest that is coming to inspect your closet." How to make dinner while drowning 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Do you think that, for my own morality, I need to sever ties with my family? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Religious differences with family weigh heavily 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z The Reagan era legitimised greed; Anna Nicole's grossness was a logical consequence of this shift in public morality. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z This recognition of the role of moral judgment in politics is an important corrective to the liberal wariness of bringing morality into the public square. Robert B. Reich’s Recipe for a Just Society 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z To a certain type of TV viewer, Joe Friday represented the strict morality of the LAPD, their dedication to their jobs, and their untarnished professionalism. The People v OJ Simpson episode nine – Manna From Heaven 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Dostoevsky revisited morality in his final novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," generally regarded as his major work. Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut! 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s possible that everyone involved in making the show believed that they were creating a modern morality play. Greed, Melodrama and the Unexpected: What Made Dallas TV’s Greatest Happy Accident 2012-06-13T10:00:01Z He was articulating a new morality and a new sense of self, one based on the fragmentation that men like Wildmon would exploit. Review | The Smithsonian censored him in 2010. Now, the Whitney is celebrating his grandeur. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z I think that may be the only time I have ever read the word “morality” in a book about the movie industry. Bingham Ray, Light of October Films and Daring Cinema 2012-02-03T19:51:30Z The contemporary relevance of this devastating final section can’t be ignored, but “The Sympathizer” is too great a novel to feel bound to our current soul-searching about the morality of torture. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z His “Everybody” imagined the 15th-century Everyman morality plays as a kind of cosmic, 21st-century lottery — not just for its characters but for the actors playing them. Review: Partying to End the Patriarchy in a Dionysian ‘Girls’ 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z By “political morality,” the author seems to mean, exclusively, a concern for the “voiceless and powerless,” as Kennedy often put it. The Best of the Kennedys? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “All the Money in the World” is a story of towering greed and the absence of mercy, and an ideal 21st century morality tale. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z “I vote on morality,” she says while texting her friend. ‘American Idol’ made Clay Aiken a star. But he knows it won’t make him a congressman. Only Corinne hears the music — a brilliant way to capture Corinne’s profoundly mixed, quintessentially female feelings about abortion before any question of morality arises. What One Woman Packed and Another Woman Thought 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Usually she’d been drinking, sometimes she was introspective, occasionally she seemed to regret the starring role she’d played in America’s morality play. Perspective | ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. Now what? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Unlike “A Christmas Carol,” a neatly structured, novella-length morality tale frequently adapted for the stage, including in a solo version currently on Broadway starring Jefferson Mays, “Great Expectations” is an unwieldy interpersonal epic. Review: A Solo ‘Great Expectations’ That Calls for Endurance 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It investigates intertwined ideas about beauty, ugliness and morality. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Se7en promised a pulpy police procedural but twisted to become a devastating morality tale. David Fincher on Gone Girl: ‘Bad things happen in this movie…’ 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z The character of Public Opinion demands that Orpheus descend there to rescue Eurydice — not out of love, but merely in the interest of bourgeois morality. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Stark exploration of the human condition and morality. Bigelow? Tarantino? Nolan? You share your picks for a Bond director 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z A secretary brings in a dictionary and Cristi reads and discusses the definitions of "conscience", "morality", "law", "state" and "police", which inevitably ends up in victory for the senior, more powerful, seemingly more logical man. Police, Adjective 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z The film is a self-styled morality tale in which each character represents a vice or a virtue. Roger Ebert obituary 2013-04-04T21:17:32Z Like morality, identity is relative in “Lobby Hero.” Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Tell Lies to Live by in ‘Lobby Hero’ 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Reading the book can feel like watching a morality play about the virtues of being slow to judge. A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z How does the morality of this lion hunt break down for you? The truth about “Cecil the Lion” outrage: Why we’re so angry — and what it says about us 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Nobody seems to remember the words of Albert Camus: "What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man, I owe to sport." Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z What are ways to shatter the harmful mentality that links morality and "goodness" with certain foods, diets, ingredients, etcetera? Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z But when you think deeper, a morality tale emerges about how the whole nation portrays the founding fathers and earliest presidents. The Simpsons: the five greatest episodes in the iconic show's history 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z But what’s between them is greater than resentment: it’s two different views of morality, of the right thing. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do the Right Thing 2011-11-07T13:07:05Z Yet this cynical, near-future crime thriller, with its Hunger Games morality and Mad Max aesthetic, is too busy glamorizing cruelty to allow its central relationship to resonate. ‘Mondocane’ Review: Fractured Friendship, Fractured World 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z This is the third film in the Russell-Lawrence-Cooper cycle of whimsical American morality fables, and by far the least of the three. “Joy”: Another Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper-David O. Russell holiday dramedy, and the sales pitch is getting creaky 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z In “Junk,” Akhtar has written a modern-day morality tale that scrupulously questions the possibility of moral choice in a world where money, the new might, now makes right. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The character has been roughened around the edges — he’s willing to manipulate another analyst who has a crush on him, and he now has a past on Wall Street, a sure sign of questionable morality. Review: Meet the New Jack Ryan, Same as the Old Jack Ryan 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “The cruelty is the point” is that story’s headline, and it became a recurring refrain on social media, accompanying the sharing of stories representing new lows in morality. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In a show that humanizes a wide range of real people, they are figures from a morality tale. Critic?s Notebook: When News Events Are Retold Onstage 2010-12-08T01:00:00Z And so, in the tradition of history and morality plays like “A Man for All Seasons” and last year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Ruined,” Mr. Conroy turned to theater as a means of provocation and catharsis. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z So the next time someone tells you atheists have no morality… tell them about Andrei Sakharov. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z That's the big underlying theme in "Green Lantern," which carries a healthy dose of Spider-Man and Superman morality in its brisk, yet often vapid narrative. 'Green Lantern': Ryan Reynolds lights the way through brisk, vapid narrative 2011-06-16T17:32:04Z You no longer have to think about the morality of what you’re doing. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z It explores notions of witness, storytelling, and authenticity; of art and morality; and of pain—others’ and one’s own. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Obviously there are precedents, but I don’t see any clear-cut morality that speaks to the creative issues here. If Zeppelin did steal “Stairway”: “It would be like finding out the Beatles didn’t write ‘Sgt. Pepper’” 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The show is somewhere between the black-and-white morality of 24 and the the-whole-system-stinks paranoia of Rubicon. Homeland Watch: One of Us 2012-11-26T13:00:52Z I’d love to hear the atheist perspective on what makes for a good religion, or the reason why different religions support different moralities. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z When lots of people in a given society stop being religious of their own accord, such organic secularization does not result in the evaporation of morality in society, nor national decay. The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Secularism doesn't destroy society or moral order 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Isn’t teaching morality about teaching children to be nice even no one is looking? Santa’s little voyeur 2012-12-10T15:37:00Z “The Good Wife,” in this sense, is a show about the doubts that plague all systems of law and morality. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It features a large cast of characters and perspectives; it makes forays into various hot-button topics, such as the press, privacy and morality, and the whole Richard Dawkins God Delusion controversy. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z That does not make me a monster, even if my uptight local morality police thinks so. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Breckinridge’s team, in a preview of his defense in Kentucky newspapers, claimed Pollard was fair game and “utterly depraved where morality is concerned.” A Predatory Congressman, His Jilted Lover and a Gilded Age Lawsuit That Foreshadowed #MeToo 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z We talked about public opinion and the concept of public morality and how fickle it could be, and how easily manipulated. Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The Dutch filmmaker was murdered in 2004 after directing a film written by a Muslim woman who rejects the Prophet Muhammad as a guide for today's morality. Muslim group warns 'South Park' creators of death 2010-04-21T22:40:00Z “Why the dead matter”, says Mr Laqueur, “...is not grounded in knowledge, science, morality, or metaphysics but in deep structures of intuition and feeling.” Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z "However, Chinese entertainment figures are subjected to higher standards of morality than their Western counterparts." China prosecutor approves arrest of Jackie Chan's son on drug charge 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Kelly never aspired to be on the same morality level as Cosby, but he never needed to be. Is time finally up for R. Kelly? "Surviving" series shows why he's been protected for so long 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Strict morality and abiding by social mores was crucial to survival. "Miss Scarlet" and the case of the Victorian outsiders 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z In your book, Washington emerges as a practical thinker who saw religious freedom as a way of avoiding conflict and promoting morality. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z What could be more modern in these days of financial crises and deficit spending than a morality tale about Midas’s fabulous golden touch and Danae’s obsession with his riches? Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z Circling the grounds clockwise were half a dozen frail and elderly Bhutanese, some with hunched backs and canes, chanting the six perfections that lead to enlightenment: generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation and wisdom. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z If powerful artists often defy conventional morality, it is probably just because conventional morality dilutes, in endless obligations and self-corrections, the intensity and conviction, the tunnel vision that is required to create great art. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Once again, the father figure is identified with an aberrant morality that results in the girl’s betrayal of the mother figure. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Cooper often spoke of how her sense of morality derived from her strong Christian faith, and her stories are replete with harsh judgments on the arrogant, greedy and profligate. J. California Cooper, author of tales of African American life, dies at 82 “I don’t believe there is any relationship between art and morality,” Lu asserts glibly during an interview for a teaching position. Three Sparkling Debuts, Joined by New York City 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Sapolsky proposes 10 strategies for reducing violence, all reasonable but none that justify the notion that science is the basis for societal advances toward less violence and higher morality. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Woolf studies the morality we attach to food choices, the influence of affluence, what I'd term the fiction of perfection that permeates the average female life. The Ministry of Thin by Emma Woolf – review 2013-06-01T14:45:03Z Rubbing his hands together and occasionally crouching, he declares his lines unsmilingly, like a villain in a medieval morality play. Theater Review: National Theater of China Offers ‘Richard III’ in Mandarin 2014-03-27T22:00:36Z The comic imagination, then, not only overthrows the morality we are given from on high, it upsets our more intimately held sympathies, our sense of what is fair and right and decent. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Filmed in Lebanon, the more-than-20-part series that started on Saturday follows the widow of an Islamic State commander turned leader of a women's morality police force. Saudi-owned TV drama fights Islamic State propaganda 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z This morality, if you accept Deleuze’s argument in “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” is a more effective means of social control that the traditional modes of discipline associated with normative family values. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z They discussed morality and the Iran nuclear deal. Date Lab: They were so instantly comfortable that our photographer asked if they had met before 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z She’s the very embodiment of our contemporary fears about what we’re doing to our environment and our morality as a culture. Sound of My Voice: You'll Want to Listen to This Cult Leader 2012-04-26T17:42:32Z Do you think the morality of the story is more complicated than it might initially appear? The Doctor Is in Too Deep: Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd on ‘The Shrink Next Door’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Outside a few "gimmicky" liberal enclaves that are beyond the reach of the morality police, ordinary Saudis are encouraged to shop and pray, but not to think. After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies by Christopher M Davidson 2012-12-28T22:55:04Z Joe’s bluntly articulated class resentment notwithstanding, “Room at the Top” is quite conservative in its morality — although its sledgehammer ending still packs an emotional wallop. ‘Room at the Top’: An Affair to Remember 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Though she maintains the flat procedural affect of a just-the-facts public servant, her every utterance is dignified by the struggle to pin down morality in an amoral world. Review: In ‘Bobbie Clearly,’ It’s Crime, Punishment and Then What? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z This is the best part of the movie, partly because Ostlund allows the characters to behave like people, rather than just grotesque ciphers in his cynical morality play. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z But while the hero of “Happy Valley” is a police officer, each character’s morality is appealingly ambiguous. In Its Final Season, ‘Happy Valley’ Grapples With Healing 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z If you enjoyed AD Miller's Snowdrops – another absorbing study in elastic morality – give this a go. Thrillers: review roundup 2012-06-08T21:55:07Z It's a way to take in the characters we've all grown up with, characters that tell classic morality tales. The case for comic books 2011-07-25T22:14:03Z Originally published in McCall's magazine, the story is a powerful morality tale and remains a holiday favorite. 7 fictional Thanksgivings to fill your holiday craving 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z In Bill Cain’s “9 Circles,” a contemporary morality play inspired by Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” the psychic damage of war does not belong to Reeves alone, and neither do the responsibilities of conscience. Review: ‘9 Circles,’ a Soldier’s Story (and the Damage Done) 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z "I felt that it wasn't just a children's book but rather a complex morality tale about good kids and bad kids, good parents and bad parents," he said. Mel Stuart 2012-08-12T16:32:42Z All relationships are transactional in some way, and reducing this to an issue of morality is myopic and neglects the complexity of the human experience. The legacy of Anna Nicole Smith and why we need to retire the term "gold digger" 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z They deal with crises of faith and morality; they consider the conscience of the lonely or the depressed or the evil, and hint at redemption through rational logic. Black Sabbath’s New Album, ‘13’ 2013-06-07T16:18:21Z The film’s most riveting dilemma is that facing Hoffstetler: He’s torn between his morality and his country, which has asked him to kill the amphibian man. It’s Time to Take a Serious Look at Michael Stuhlbarg 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z I agree with our own James Poniewozik, who posits that Breaking Bad‘s morality is much more like a “dimmer knob” than a “light switch.” ‘Breaking Bad’: I Want Walter White to Survive the Finale 2013-09-27T20:59:52Z The stretched out, heavily padded “Inventing Anna” works as a clichéd morality tale but stumbles badly as a piece of storytelling — more invention and incident means less coherence and less consistent characterization. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Julian: “An improved ability to process information will lead to better information: a technology of morality.” Review: ‘Futurity,’ in a Civil War Setting, Wishes for Today’s Technology 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z “There can only be a future by advocating morality and abiding by the law.” Chinese Pianist Is Held on Prostitution Suspicion, State Media Says 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “A Wilderness of Error” tinkers explicitly with larger themes, not merely those of innocence and guilt and morality but also how we arrive at the narratives that undergird our notions of these things. Books of The Times: ‘A Wilderness of Error,’ by Errol Morris, on the MacDonald Trial 2012-09-10T23:33:39Z While the surroundings echo the play's themes of power and morality, director Amy Hodge's stylish, vampy production pares the original down to an intense, fast-paced two hours that tackles the play's problems head-on. Measure for Measure ? review 2010-11-22T21:30:00Z The Sudden Departure scrambled assumptions about morality, but it also wrecked the idea that rationality and logic govern human life. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Laws of Human Nature, Interrupted -- or, The Case of the Disappearing Bagel 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z But what I tried to stage in the film is this conflict between morality and legality, and what is legal and what is not. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “I wanted no explicit morality – just a redneck story of a teenage pregnancy, something relatable, with no effort to solve the racism it shows.” 'I'm indigenizing zombies': behind gory First Nation horror Blood Quantum 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Gaddis concludes with an invaluable warning that true morality embraces neither messianic interventionism nor the quest for utopianism — indeed that is how millions become deluded, endangered or doomed. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Catherine, an extraordinary Japanese morality game, is just as terrifying but finds its power in the fear of commitment. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: A Playwright on the Art of Video Games 2012-12-26T13:00:50Z His belief in his own morality also means that, unlike Axe, he has to worry about what hoi polloi think. Corey Stoll on Becoming the New Face of Fortune in ‘Billions’ 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z “National interest supplanted the medieval notion of a universal morality.” How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s an amusingly harebrained scheme, but there’s nothing in this moviefilm that matches the elegant social experiment of the first, which sought to explore where precisely American civility departs from morality. ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: More Cultural Learnings 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z It's so far beyond good and evil as to make its morality irrelevant, and to undermine any verdicts you might render about its meaning or quality. The twisted, stupid brilliance of "Sucker Punch" 2011-03-25T01:01:00Z Public morality, after all, isn't on their side, and the laws against cross-dressing are still on the books. In 'Casa Valentina,' cross-dressing men show their feminine side 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Has morality made progress? – which read like a sort of brief, epigrammatic poetry. What would the hardest exam question be? 2010-09-24T23:10:00Z When parents around the country are asked how they help develop their kid’s morality, they usually talk about teaching kids right from wrong and core values. Kids Value Success Over Caring Because Parents Do 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z And yet, as a product of the authority of religious morality, this eroticized occult could not, by definition, escape the very moral order it sought to evade, undermine, or destroy. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z “Wolf Totem,” a 3-D nature morality tale based on a popular memoir, pulled in $24.6 million for the week. Jackie Chan's 'Dragon Blade' rules Chinese box office during holiday 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z But suspend our morality and things start to take on a deliriously entertaining and madcap sparkle, with films like "The Master" and "Phantom Thread" playing like nihilistic screwball, cracked comedies. Comedies in serious clothing: an introduction to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Selections from her halting testimony before a grand jury alternate with scenes in which Madoff, in prison, recalls a long night he spent arguing over the nature of man, the Talmud and morality with Galkin. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z Moralism holds that the purpose of art is essentially a question of morality; autonomism, or separatism, holds that aesthetics are entirely autonomous/separate from morality. R. Kelly: Does Liking His Album Mean You’ve Forgotten his Child Porn Charges? 2013-12-17T21:06:10Z She based her story to real life stories, and then launched it into a question of morality and drama. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z Honest morality and ethics only factors in when it serves the needs of those in positions of power. Burning desire: John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Just a few weeks ago, you might recall, Eric declared that this kind of attack stemmed from the fact that “morality is just gone”. Move over Sean Hannity, meet Lara Trump – the president keeps the propaganda in the family 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “Winter’s Bone,” warmly embraced at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, belongs, at least at first glance, to one of that festival’s familiar genres: the regional-realist morality tale. | 'Winter?s Bone': Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik?s Bleak Ozarks Film 2010-06-10T21:59:00Z "It destroys our ability to lean on icons for our morality." Documentary examines Penn State in wake of Sandusky scandal 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Some veterans interviewed on screen recall things they witnessed, or participated in, that walk right up to the line of morality and legality. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Smith’s narrative conveys the system’s unthinking superiority, the lazy morality, the philistinism, the sense of demanded privilege and analyzes it cannily. A Kinder, Gentler Portrait of Prince Charles 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Most were fables passed down through generations, like the one about a tiger who prowls villages at night to devour children, and other thinly veiled morality tales. Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In both these cases, a listener’s sympathies with the dying are guided by morality. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The bronzes, which carry that name even though they were often made from brass, ivory or wood, are not being given back as a matter of law, but, experts say, as a matter of morality. For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Despite Weinman’s claim that “Lolita” converts readers into “moral mincemeat,” Humbert’s morality is not the novel’s, even if the novel profits from what she calls his “silken veneer.” The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The explanation for this, Burleigh argues, was that the perpetrators retained a sense of morality. Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z Has not thinking about others until adulthood skewed the morality of a generation? Only and lonely 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He shares his teacher's desire to restore the city's morality by bringing it down to rubble. The Dark Knight Rises gets off to flyer with US critics 2012-07-16T11:32:03Z In any case, he offers us a reassuring morality tale of virtue if not immediately rewarded, then ultimately redeemed. Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The plot, meanwhile, pares Dee's complicated life to an assimilable morality play. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z The producers of "The Game of Death," set to air Wednesday night, wanted to examine both what they call TV's mind-numbing power to suspend morality, and the striking human willingness to obey orders. French test limits with fake game-show electrocutions 2010-03-17T18:28:00Z Grayling's approach to religion, like his approach to morality, draws on the work of Russell – particularly the method of "logical analysis" that Russell initially expounded before the first world war. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z It's not a morality tale about terrorism, nor even an account of what unfolded on 11 September. Heart of a Soldier: capturing 9/11 in an opera 2011-08-25T22:14:01Z “How much personal morality are you willing to sacrifice to achieve justice? Are you a part of the Boys, or are you a part of the supes?” ‘The Boys’ Is Back, More Relevant Than Ever 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Well, I absolutely agree that sex needs to be freed from morality. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z The Beast Below looks for all the world like a RTD story: a Technicolor morality play light on intricate plotting and heavy on modern moral parallels. Doctor Who: The Beast Below ? series 31, episode two 2010-04-10T18:00:00Z Even more so, in its concern with Britain's middle-class and its morality under pressure, Versailles evokes the Edwardian playwright Harley Granville-Barker. Versailles play not a history lesson 2014-02-28T12:16:20Z It is reminiscent of how his son deconstructs his own documentary as he is making it, unpicking the morality of documentaries such as the one he is making. Stabbed tongues and swallowed eyeballs: was the Amazing Johnathan's terminal diagnosis his greatest trick? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The whole thing is just a wonderful tangle of lost morality and lost purpose, which is pretty much the drug war defined. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z For all its audacity, “Breaking Bad” was a throwback to a more elemental code of morality. The Tv Watch: High Bar Has Been Set for the Finale of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-12T02:00:11Z The sci-fi morality tale lies in the robots’ gradual rebellion, as they become dangerously human only when their programming fails and they begin to experience memory – and with it, psychological trauma. Is Westworld an anti-human fable? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z And it invited us to wonder about the nature of morality: Was Dexter actually a moral person, or just a monster who’d learned a neat trick? ‘Dexter’ and the Shows That Wouldn’t Die 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In the latest production by Washington’s Synetic Theater, an original morality play titled “The Mark of Cain,” the dastardly central character undergoes a series of physical transformations. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z There is no morality gene, because we have "different behaviors in response to social contacts," he said. Festival of Books: Science writers debate -- Is there a morality gene? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z At the last minute, “Glass Onion” pivots from an enjoyable but hollow murder mystery into a contemporary morality tale about the dangers of capitalist ambitions. At the Movies, Bagels, Onions and a Side Dish of Nothing 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The involving part is how he goes about it: getting entangled with some very unsavory characters while trying to preserve a vestige of his morality and remain alive. Review: 'Snitch a well-made yarn about drug world 2013-02-21T23:17:09Z In movies, beauty imposes its own morality; in Perry movies, the male characters are purer than the females, and the men are more gorgeous. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z Chandor, who previously wrote and directed "Margin Call" and "All Is Lost," again investigates questions of masculinity and morality. Oscar Isaac set to simmer in 'A Most Violent Year' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Each part of the night — including the silence — contained stamina and resistance and a kind of morality. Music Review: Honoring Heroes of Jazz, With Words, Silence and Improvisation 2010-06-25T23:44:00Z By the time the main characters rob that bank, the trailer has introduced the film’s complex morality. How Trailers for Oscar Nominees Make Their Cases 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Admittedly, it's an unconventional opera – Vaughan Williams preferred to refer to it as a "morality" – and it needs a careful and thoughtful approach. The Pilgrim's Progress: Vaughan Williams's masterpiece returns at ENO 2012-11-05T17:39:26Z “She doesn’t try to lecture people. She has a very personal take on morality,” she said. Virginie Despentes Makes France Angry, but Things Are Changing 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Part of American Apparel’s appeal is that it can easily prove the relative morality of its manufacturing due to its single, centralized production site in Los Angeles. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z “She embodies, in her way, this novel’s complicated sense of Russian politics and morality.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z We bring him down to earth by deploying everything Nietzsche complained about as being the slave morality. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z So our discussion will now focus more on public policy, and specifically marriage, than on the morality of relationships per se. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z But what happens when those extremists who advocate a bizarre morality that elevates selfishness and deplores altruism commandeer one of our two major political parties? Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z But they also are asked to write stories about their experiences with gun violence in the community and participate in exercises that address morality in certain situations. Saving "All These Sons" from gun violence in Chicago 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps every play ends up being a morality play. Julie Blackmon's absorbing photography of everyday Midwestern life — or is it? 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The decent people don’t automatically triumph because they’re good, in the old model of TV morality. Breaking Good: How Fargo Changed Cable's Antihero Game 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Bruce Graham's play, at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday, is a drama about a blue-collar family facing issues of death and morality. ArtsBeat: In Performance: Michael Learned of 'The Outgoing Tide' 2012-12-13T18:27:50Z In one scene, when her pale face peeks through a black cowl, she could be a figure from Ingmar Bergman’s medieval morality play The Seventh Seal: Death’s kid sister. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z Maybe this character is called upon to pray during particularly trying times, or to provide a morality lesson to other characters. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z What are your thoughts on the film's morality? Simon Rex on playing a washed-up porn star in "Red Rocket": "He's an aging narcissist " 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z An entirely individual morality, in its vision, is a kind of solipsism doomed to fail. ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘The Good Place’ Took Us to Hell and Back 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z “What We Do Next” is a three-person chamber drama that takes the scheming and blackmailing of political thrillers like “House of Cards” and shapes them into something like a morality play. ‘What We Do Next’ Review: A Political Morality Play 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z It is a morality play corrupting to both white and Papuan players cast into these absurd but very funny roles. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z Religion and morality are often given as reasons for denying women access to reproductive health services, but I think these justifications miss half the story. Want to help fight climate change? Start with reproductive rights 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Nietzsche's philosophy, positing ideas of the "transvaluation of values" and a new morality "beyond good and evil", formed the ideological subtext of modernist experimentation across the arts. LPO/Jurowski – review 2013-01-20T16:36:36Z The playwright Antonin Artaud accused it of lowering his "mental water level", causing a "diminution of my morality and my intellect". Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z It is colored by emotions, shaped by biology and underscored by morality. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 9: Blinding Privilege 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The Outer Limits offers monsters and adventure, but its stories are more like mysteries than morality plays. The Outer Limits: box set review 2013-03-08T08:00:02Z But if fiction is a break from reality, couldn’t it also be a break from morality? ‘Breaking Bad’: I Want Walter White to Survive the Finale 2013-09-27T20:59:52Z It's a story that has the shape and texture of a morality tale; we just don't know what the moral might be. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z A morality tale that is weirdly calming and pacifying. Comfort films to watch while self-isolating – ranked! 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z In the last few years, writers started receiving contracts that contained morality clauses that allowed termination for “public disrepute, contempt, complaints or scandal.” The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z The morality expressed by these films may be strictly that of the village priest: prayer, sacrifice and maternal devotion will conquer all evil. DVD: The Italian Potboiler?s Master Chef 2011-06-24T16:42:02Z You and Vince spoke at the begining of the season about the question of moralily — a character's struggle with morality and whether being good really pays off. 'Better Call Saul' finale: Message of that smoke on the water 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z A study of what happens when stringent morality is brought to bear on a decadent society, “Measure for Measure” doesn’t have a single character whom modern audiences are likely to feel like rooting for. Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices 2014-03-02T23:23:31Z Rice-Davies contended that Ward was offered up as a scapegoat by the police, the establishment and the media to appease public morality. Sex, spies and society scandal in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical 2013-09-30T19:53:03Z "I never questioned the morality of my character," he went on. Strauss-Kahn story 'like a tragedy' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Dobson was also a vocal opponent of President Bill Clinton, writing in 1998 that his affairs undermined the morality of the nation. The Clintons’ Christian marriage: The staggering Evangelical hypocrisy over Hillary’s refusal to divorce Bill 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z “Jewish people were not the origin of Hollywood, but they took it over,” he said, blaming the entertainment industry for degrading the country’s morality. Farrakhan: Racial hatred could lead to attempts to assassinate Obama 2012-02-27T14:45:00Z The work develops slowly to reveal the effects of time and is, in part, a wordless morality tale, which balances the formality and the serpentine theatricality that grace all of Ms. Stuart’s work. Dance: Meg Stuart Choreographs ?Blessed? at New York Live Arts 2012-01-06T20:40:21Z Rather than assuming ethics, politics and morality are in conflict with fashion’s goals, she’s curious about how they might enrich one another. Is Denim in an Identity Crisis? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z In Fountain's work, occupation and morality are tightly bound. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain – review 2013-06-29T08:00:19Z This is unusual territory for American moviegoers habituated to an industry that preaches simplified morality even as it turns torture into entertainment. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z “I don’t love people enough to put my faith in men,” he confesses on “PRIDE.,” a song addressing morality, mortality, God and craft. Review | Is Kendrick Lamar the greatest of all time? (Don’t ask. Listen.) 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The story lines are ambiguous, the moralities unclear. Video Game Review: Gears of War 3 - Review 2011-09-19T17:12:57Z Of course, the lives of artists have long been of interest - the Victorians were obsessed with the morality of writers and painters. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s not that they don’t have morality, it just might be different than ours. Actor John Bradley From ‘Game of Thrones’ on Whether White Walkers Have Feelings, Too 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z In the interview, DeRogatis draws a fine line in discussing when it’s okay to leave morality out of music criticism. R. Kelly: Does Liking His Album Mean You’ve Forgotten his Child Porn Charges? 2013-12-17T21:06:10Z All are participants within a criminal justice system with a responsibility to the truth, but who choose to ignore it in order to achieve what they consider the "right" result, based on their personal morality. To Kill a Mockingbird: a book that still raises questions about 'good' justice 2013-07-18T08:33:11Z Karen is still a wide-eyed bunny and the show’s self-appointed morality lieutenant. 'Daredevil' review: 'Path of the Righteous' is one meandering path 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The main problem, as Djama sees it, lies in the interstices between legal and social morality in her country. New Africa: the film-maker exploring feminism in Algeria 2012-08-24T23:05:17Z I’d say it was his steadfast determination to keep his religion out of his duty as an elected official, to keep separate personal morality and public policy. Mario Cuomo: Catholicism’s best defender of choice 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Colbert left his trademarked unbiased reporting behind when he weighed in on the morality of the conflict: “I do not condone this kind of violence,” he admitted, “because Bloom missed Bieber’s face.” Stephen Colbert analyzes the latest international dispute: the Bieber-Bloom altercation 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It may imperil something far more fundamental: our children’s basic morality. Motherlode: Teaching Children to Do Good 2011-04-11T16:48:18Z The first one I think you'd say is a morality tale and I think this one is too. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z When Oscar Wilde published his ironic morality tale about decadence and disillusion, the press — and, eventually, the courts — had a sanctimonious field day. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Each protagonist is wrestling with the morality of romance, but the calculus of seduction is different in every time frame. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z It examines social institutions, morality, class and religion as reflected in the battle between two families, one affluent, the other struggling. The Week Ahead: Dec. 25 ? 31 2011-12-25T00:22:25Z What you're really talking about here is, in academic, feminist terms, women's morality. Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in "My Zoe" & seeing the last of the "Before" franchise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Jonah's visible struggle with whether the team's means of dispensing justice is right, and his internal struggles with the morality of vigilantism, is about as profound as the plot gets. Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon's "Hunters" is the show for you 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The book deals with the two absolutely central questions for Nietzsche, namely what’s wrong with our morality and the problem of suffering. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z I’ve never accepted the simplistic idea that TV dictates morality or brainwashes us politically–like all powerful art’s, its influence isn’t easily predictable, and our relationship with it is complicated and two-way. What I Learned Watching 16 Years of Television for TIME 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s a measure of Ms. Teitler’s glum view of human nature — or at least the ethics of the young and yearning for love — that in “Engagements,” a tick emerges as a symbol of upright morality. Review: In ‘Engagements,’ Meet Me in the Gazebo for Spite and Hauteur 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z A morality that included both pacifism and a veneration of the natural world. Studio Ghibli's first TV show is a wondrous world of peril and magic 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z After animals turn out to be the best confidantes — including the neighbor’s dog — Herschel decides to go vegan, setting up a darkly funny morality play. 24 Works of Fiction to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z He thought he was making something closer to a morality play; he didn’t count on the public’s thirst for arterial spray. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z “The Shadow of a Doubt” reveals that Wharton had been thinking for some time prior about the ethics and morality of assisted suicide. A Lost Edith Wharton Play Emerges from Scholarly Sleuthing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The others are slaves; Southern morality says that they do. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z Instead it is an examination of power, morality and manners, of social mores and individual inclinations. TV Picks: 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,' 'Deutschland 83,' 'Game of Thrones' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In a typical Noh play two actors take on several roles to relay myths, ghost stories or morality tales, with instrumental accompaniment and interjections from a chorus. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z But what happens when you add politics and morality to the mix? The Branding of Julian Assange 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Jews, like others, were challenging social norms in the name of morality and freedom, but maintaining their identity as Jews required stability. How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Photograph: Matt Crossick/PA More from acute awareness of Instant Karma's immediate sting than morality, I have learned to treat people apparently lacking power with cordiality. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z Instead it is an examination of power, morality and manners, of social mores and individualism. 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' conjures literate magic world 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The essays in this series hold that American literature is imprinted by belief: freighted by ideas about morality, justice and standards for living that are derived from the nation’s Christian underpinnings. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Was it a risk to play Black Adam, whose morality is not so easily defined? Dwayne Johnson Is Ready to Embrace the Heel Again in ‘Black Adam’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times and author of “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement,” will talk about genius, God and morality. Spare Times for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:40:03Z Scott called the couple’s legend “a morality tale in which the wild energies of youth defeat the stale certainties of age, and freedom triumphs over repression.” What’s on TV This Week: Macy’s Fireworks and ‘America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston’ 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Samuel loves the thrill of discovery, and while he admires his braggart professor father, he does not want to inherit the man’s volatility and flexible morality. Y.A. Crossover 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z These works are morality plays about courage and determination. One of the Men Who ‘Set Europe Ablaze’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The songs on “Learning Faith” are about trust and morality, not dogma. New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Dawkins confronts the common – and altogether wrongheaded – belief that without religion there can be no morality, asking whether science can indeed provide a basis for an ethical life. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z She has to have what it takes to get herself and her family through this new world order and that means changing morality and personal sacrifice. Fear the Walking Dead: Season one, episode two – So Close, Yet So Far 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Stone made “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” as a morality tale, pitting Good against Gekko. Arts & Leisure: ?Margin Call,? From J. C. Chandor, Looks at Wall Street 2011-10-12T11:01:11Z “That’s the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality.” Ladies, Uncle Sam needs your uterus! 2012-12-03T18:30:00Z I have a strong reaction to morality and judging people according to their moral criteria. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Did you have a morality in mind regarding who gets hurt, how, and why? In comedy-thriller "12 Hour Shift," blood and chaos reigns as a murderer terrorizes a hospital 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z "The problem is that to live in a world which is self-continuing we need morality," Irons said. Kevin Spacey bank movie asks "are we all greedy?" 2011-02-11T12:29:23Z Loyalty and morality are all just shades of bald. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z But the book’s most distracting flaw is that morality itself seems tangential to its thesis. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Then there is illegal streaming to consider, which should be ruled out on the lines of basic morality. Does Sky Atlantic push two-tier TV? 2012-06-26T17:32:00Z This logic by no means approaches the morality of Christ’s dictum to be as “wise as serpents and harmless as doves,” but it belies the general notion that Machiavelli was a one-dimensional schemer. Review | Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ is looking pretty good in the Trump era 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z When you’re in New York City, you can have the luxury of debating the morality of a war in the Middle East. Producer of ‘Bourne’ series turns his hand to a low-budget, psychological thriller. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Noisy, overstuffed with special effects and embellished with pretentious visual quotations from “Apocalypse Now,” “Predators” might be taken as a karmic morality tale whose human predators finally get their comeuppance. | 'Predators': Adrien Brody as a Hunted Earthling 2010-07-08T23:31:00Z But you have a certain kind of morality to your films too, especially in "Suicide Girl," which looks like it was about the Megan Meier case. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z If someone’s going to question the morality of football, we need that voice on the other side to defend it. Football, brain injuries and right-wing denial: The paranoid he-man propaganda that insists the game is safer than ever 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Such reasoning transforms scary movies into morality tales. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z But why does this “voice of morality”, this narratively necessary fun vacuum, always have to be a woman? Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s not just a matter of abstract principle or journalism-school morality. This American Life?s Apple Retraction: The Danger of Truthiness 2012-03-16T19:32:44Z Lee was a centrist Democrat and occupied himself with legislation related mainly to budget matters and morality. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z You always want there to be some kind of suspense in regard to what will happen next, or even in regard to understanding the motives or morality of the characters. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato on the Short Story as a Fling 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Shot in vivid colors, “Wild Tales,” or “Relatos Selvajes,” is a film of short stories, some of them surrealistic morality tales, all of them deploying dark humor to reveal a simmering frustration in society. Cannes Film Festival: The Bride, the Groom and His Lover 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z I'm hanging my hat on reality and humanity, not morality. Matthew McConaughey: from himbo to psycho 2012-06-28T19:00:03Z “Power,” as one character observes, “is underwritten by morality.” Review: Dan Vyleta’s ‘Smoke’ Is a Supernatural Take on a Victorian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Buñuel extolled Surrealism partly for its “aggressive morality based on the complete rejection of all existing values”. | 'Jackass 3D': Maximum Gross Outs in Sleazy, Queasy Stunts 2010-10-14T23:46:00Z Joan of Arc, Ford reminds us, was tried and burned for heresy, in part because she violated religious morality by wearing men’s clothing. We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z A long-anaesthetized sense of morality emerges among some of the young members of the clan. The Story of the Lehman Brothers, from Bavaria to Alabama, and From the Heights to the Crash 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas is a dark morality tale about "capitalism, greed and individualism", said Featherstone, who will direct. Iron Lady writer to make her debut at Royal Court theatre 2013-07-08T15:21:15Z With the mother, the whole lost world of order, nurture, and morality is invoked. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “Writing comic book morality is embarrassingly easy,” he wrote. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Besides these dark intimations, the other major kind of assassination film has the roughed-out morality of a cartoon. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z The message seems to be that a wounded ego is a more powerful motivator than morality, creativity and the desire for happiness put together. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The life not lived' 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z That would be the first thing I would say even before we get to questions of morality and philosophy and theology. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z A tireless worker and consummate professional, a morality clause would just be superfluous for any contract you might want to strike with him. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z “The motion picture contains various scenes wherein Mr. Greene’s character is portrayed as a criminal, drug user, degenerate, depraved and/or devoid of any morality or ethics,” says the lawsuit. Wolf of Wall Street Studio Sued Over Portrayal of Executive 2014-02-19T18:55:37Z He’s our narrator, taking us through his bizarre adventures after moving to New York after his parents died — an orphan with a loose hold on reality and an even looser hold on morality. Billy Crudup in 'Harry Clarke': A deviously brilliant performance is reborn as an audiobook 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z "The truth is, it's not about morality, it's about functionality. Does your home work for you? Not some hypothetical house guest that is coming to inspect your closet." How to make dinner while drowning 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z “I really wanted to undo my morality around certain kinds of esthetics.” Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey?s ?Tool Is Loot? 2011-09-21T22:23:13Z The official reason for the closures was that places like Night Lovers were "dens of criminals… likely to deprave the public morality". Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro ? review 2011-07-29T10:30:01Z They’re all telling stories often built upon the morality, the values of these small American communities, which is often a source of annoyance to the protagonist in the story. Nick Offerman on 'great scam artist' Tom Sawyer and his favorite writers 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The stories, left to their own devices, would deny morality. Why the Iranian film industry is like Hollywood before 1969 2013-02-08T15:16:10Z The second, a term introduced with sinister Orwellian overtones by William H. Whyte in a 1952 article for Fortune magazine, describes how creativity and even morality can be stifled by consensus. ‘American Urbanist,’ a Well-Timed Biography of a Man Who Reshaped City Life 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z He “loved the Bible & had a keen sense of morality & class,” Prince writes. Review | ‘The Beautiful Ones’ isn’t the memoir Prince envisioned, but it’s a moving look at the singer’s life 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Reich became the scapegoat for the new morality because, as the guru of the "new cult of sex and anarchy", he seemed to give a philosophical purpose to the data identified by Kinsey. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z But I find that his personal life and behind the camera activity is reflected in the morality, the themes and the motifs — and all facets of his persona — in his films. Chris Kyle is a stand-in for Clint: The author of Eastwood’s controversial biography on his new edition, including “American Sniper” and more 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Above all else, "Rome, Open City" is concerned with the survival of morality in an immoral world, a theme expressed by Don Pietro. 70 years on, 'Rome, Open City' still has the power to surprise, shock 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z When a brutal regime erases all sense of morality, even the fools and the con men become heroes. New & Noteworthy, From Angels to American Cuisine 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Rapture was built on the ocean floor in the 1950s by a tycoon named Andrew Ryan as a hyper-libertarian escape from the strictures of government, religion and morality on the surface. Video Game Review | BioShock 2: Making Another Dive Into Evils of the Deep 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z Dean said there are a few enduring lessons learned from Watergate: For about a decade, there was something called post-Watergate morality that scrutinized even the appearance of impropriety. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z If religion was at the heart of morality, Shermer asked, why did religious texts leave out key rules? Festival of Books: Science writers debate -- Is there a morality gene? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z This translates as: our happiness depends on the distance between who we are and who we should be according to the dictates of our internalised morality. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z The inhabitants, a querulous black family, become hostages and the film becomes a volatile but claustrophobic morality play that the cinematographer, Rodney Taylor, fights valiantly to inject with light and air. ‘Supremacy,’ With Danny Glover 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z If morality forbids all partiality and self-cultivation, any special attachment to friends and family, even to yourself—then people may well question whether it is good to be moral. The lives of moral saints 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z “But these institutions have made a pretense of observing the rules of morality.” Senate Bill Would Help Recover Art Stolen by Nazis 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z And if consistency matters, should we now be parsing the morality of every dollar that built every opera house and museum a century ago? Perspective | Two major museums are turning down Sackler donations. Will others follow? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z In the past, Ireland's strict Catholic morality made it deeply shameful to become pregnant before marriage, and women would be rejected by their families and society as sinful. Relatives seek truth about Irish babies 'discarded like litter' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Julia Raeside The ritual of the disgraced figure falling, or failing to fall, on their sword has become a staple of the morality show that is modern public life. TV highlights 03/08/2011 2011-08-02T20:59:00Z In “Listening to Prozac,” Kramer had coined two terms that got absorbed into conversations about the morality of medicating depression: “better than well” and “cosmetic psychopharmacology.” Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In 1964 he was credited as production associate on The Best Man, Gore Vidal's sharp look at morality in politics. Tom Mankiewicz obituary 2010-08-04T17:43:00Z In the boat scene, it’s: How people perceive morality, coupled with an impossible trick. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z What happens when your morality is at stake? "I feel like politicians are born in fraternities": "The Line" director on Greek life mindset 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z But in promoting such morality—by which I mean calling out other people’s immorality— Westboro members often deploy extremely profane, totally un-churchy language. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z It's a nauseating tale of morality and justice, with violent turns that will drop your jaw right to the floor. Kanae Minato's 'Confessions' hits its mark with a vengeance 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z His political morality is unmoored from empathy and from identity, and is linked to history only in the personal sense of knowledge gained and experience cultivated. Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”: A Heroic Pilot’s Existential Burden 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z As for the dilemma facing Mr. Butz’s character in “Dead Accounts” — big-city life warping your morality — both he and Ms. Holmes said that their upbringings still served them well. Katie Holmes and Norbert Leo Butz in ‘Dead Accounts’ 2012-11-07T13:00:00Z Ms. Nottage said in an interview that writers working on history and morality plays have to make careful choices, to construct powerful narratives that audiences in any country or city can relate to. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z We're all taught growing up that there are very basic notions of "good" and "bad," these fairy tales about morality and codes of morality, yet the real world is completely not like that. Comics writer Ed Brubaker on how his art form conquered the entertainment industry 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z It's also important to remember that simply looking to television for morality lessons does not absolve us of our own responsibilities. Who lives and who dies? What TV has taught us about who's lucky enough to survive 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z In the past few years, he has become a touchstone for political morality, an imperfect figure in uncertain times. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z When I read the title Flexible morality of user engagement and user behaviour, I thought it was referring to Guardian commenters. SXSW 2011: Dan Ariely on what makes people cheat 2011-03-16T18:45:00Z Similarly, Mr. Joseph’s play to its credit does not aspire to make overarching and obvious statements about the morality of warfare. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z If there is a shift, and I can only base this on the single episode provided for review, it may be in how we're meant to interpret justice and morality. Why "Law & Order" has returned, even if you didn't ask for it 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Lee is revealed to be a deeply complicated figure, both ahead of and sorely behind the times as issues of race and morality unsettle white America in the 1960s. New & Noteworthy, From Narco Fiction to Governing California 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z They appealed to me as boy because there's a pleasing lack of morality to them and lots of fighting. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z Modern films might be lacking in stories or morality, but at least the bulk of them have actual production values. The Billy Bob Thornton question: is this really cinema's darkest age? 2010-12-03T12:11:00Z Here is a 33-year-old musical in which a middle-aged gay couple, one of whom is a drag performer, have the morality of their relationship challenged by a pompous bigot of a politician. At Signature, ‘La Cage’ transcends time 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z "They want to generate discussion about false morality and provoke debate and we firmly believe and support the freedom of expression of the artists." Gallery removes Chapmans sculpture 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z “Dawson’s Fall” asks what truth means in an era when conviction matters more, and Roxana Robinson’s answer — that morality is friable — should make us sit up and tremble. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Jane Russell, the dark-haired siren whose sensational debut in the 1943 film “The Outlaw” inspired producer Howard Hughes to challenge the power and strict morality of Hollywood's production code, has died. Screen siren Jane Russell dies at 89 2011-03-01T04:30:00Z Or to use a Home Depot analogy, is morality a light switch–on/off–or a dimmer knob? Is Heisenberg Dead? Walter White and the Light-Switch Theory of Morality 2013-09-24T16:44:50Z Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday that “The Passenger,” a long-rumored novel about “morality and science” and “the legacy of sin” that McCarthy reportedly began decades ago, would come out Oct. Cormac McCarthy has 2 novels coming out in the fall 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Dom Juan Molière's ladies' man, based on the legendary figure of Don Juan, scorns religion and morality and celebrates only "variety" in the pursuit of love. Ten of the best lotharios in literature 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z That’s a stark change from when Saudi morality police would raid establishments that played loud music. AP Exclusive: Nicki Minaj pulls out of Saudi Arabia concert 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z And so if we value happiness we can't help but wonder what morality it entails, what kind of morality it might involve us in. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Jesse, who isn’t able to retrofit his morality so conveniently, isn’t buying it; still haunted by Drew Sharp’s murder, he’s trying to get rid of his money as if it were cursed. Breaking Bad Watch: I Am the One Who Gets Knocked Out 2013-08-12T02:05:24Z That there is no definitive answer is, of course, the answer, for morality, Saunders means to tell us, is always relative, in the sense that it must respond to the complexities of the world. George Saunders' novel 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is remarkable 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z What can you say about the morality in the film? "Black Box" filmmaker on making a plane crash thriller that requires you to listen closely 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The speech also appealed to reason, abstraction and logic, framed by binary oppositions: conflict and harmony; morality and power. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z One of the week's big openings was in Stratford-upon-Avon, a major revival of Brecht's Life of Galileo that Michael Billington called "a timeless debate about scientific morality rendered with … pellucid swiftness". Reader reviews: your take on Sarah Silverman, Bull, and A Life of Galileo 2013-02-15T17:25:10Z “There’s a kind of total virtual reality and virtual morality” in the West, he said. ‘Ida’ and ‘The German Doctor’ Reframe a Familiar Narrative 2014-04-25T18:55:18Z I quote: The new atheists proclaim their gospel with the fervour of believers: God is dead, man is free, free from the destructive illusions of religion and morality, of reason and virtue. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z McGrath makes a strong case that it is the kind of religious belief that Lewis describes – "transdenominational", non-clerical, rooted in a practical morality rather than dogma – that explains his enduring appeal. CS Lewis: A Life – review 2013-04-14T07:00:01Z Q: And yet the character of Juba interrogates the morality of U.S. conduct in Iraq. Producer of ‘Bourne’ series turns his hand to a low-budget, psychological thriller. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z And it's Cooper who, again and again, brings an utterly fearless morality to the pressing topics of the day. Could Anderson Cooper be the new Oprah? 2010-10-01T15:02:00Z And most electric of them all, Carmela Soprano, the don's wife constantly in turmoil over her high morality and her love of jewellery and wanting the best for her children. The Wire re-up: season five, episode seven ? The Wire v The Sopranos 2010-03-29T23:15:00Z Where we differ isn't in our morality or our intelligence or even our conclusions about most basic issues. Motherlode Blog: When Parents Disagree About Politics, Will Children Learn to See Both Sides? 2012-11-03T21:41:01Z Most remarkable among those late pieces are five song cycles with texts by major American poets who wrote during Carter's lifetime, unflinching texts that deal with morality. Southwest Chamber Music celebrates Elliott Carter's late career surge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris, who has written extensively on morality and its inextricable link to the well-being of conscious creatures, recently addressed the fact that he eats meat. New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Philosopher Joshua Knobe, who teaches at Yale University, looks at the relationship between morality and intention. The truth about “Cecil the Lion” outrage: Why we’re so angry — and what it says about us 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z You likely will not leave the Met arguing about the morality of state killing. Review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ Opens a Met Season Heavy on the New 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z One purpose of the exhibit, she said during a recent walk-through of the show, is to present "a morality tale about the vagaries of taste and the dangers of de-accessioning." Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z “People don’t get their morality from their reading matter; they bring their morality to it,” he wrote. Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s strange that the word “morality” keeps coming up when one is talking about this laureate of decadent ennui. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z But some might worry that once we start demanding reasons for established moral claims, morality has already lost its essential majesty and force. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z It echoes some of contemporary China's own problems, such as corruption, money, ambiguity and morality. Mystery (Fucheng mishi) - review 2012-11-20T14:02:30Z Given the circumstances, you'd hardly expect a debate about the morality of the air offensive: what the play provides, with Rattigan's characteristic flair for understatement, is a deeply moving portrait of people at war. Flare Path ? review 2011-03-13T14:33:52Z Baraka wrote that Dumas’s work was made up of magical “morality tales” that were “constructed in weirdness”. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z They toured the Soviet sphere, and even further, and they projected a certain clean-cut morality and proper decorum, patriotism. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The book may ostensibly seem to be about your average Wild West drama, but impressively, DeWitt also plays with the concepts of morality and its relations to the infamous Greed and Gambling. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt - review 2012-11-29T15:00:00Z Step by step, Schenkkan gets us to see the way the collapse of institutions leads to the collapse of morality and the rule of law. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The humour of the Victorian music hall bridled against church-imposed morality. Radio: Esther Waters, a gripping play about a Victorian girl's fight for survival 2013-03-09T06:00:06Z That fact makes it trickier and more ambitious — a morality play, with top notes of Greek tragedy, which remains purposefully coy about its morality. 'The Slap' may challenge notions of fault, but abuse is abuse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Topics: , Science, ethics, Psychology, Research, morality, Want to be a better person? Does studying science make you a better person? 2013-03-23T20:00:00Z The casting is strong all around, which helps pull the series through its weaker stretches, when it does start to drift into a morality play or an overwrought junkie melodrama. Review: American Crime Is a Mystery With Meaning 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Patrols of so-called "morality police" regularly enforce standards of Islamic dress on Iran's streets. Iran 'releases' Happy video dancers 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Through the ages, novelists, dramatists and screenwriters have had the freedom to explore these moral questions, and to show how the law and human morality are sometimes aligned and sometimes in direct conflict. Louise Doughty: rereading the best courtroom dramas 2013-06-21T18:00:01Z The final story, “Through the Flash,” is an intense and harrowing Groundhog Day journey through the possibilities of infinite time, and its potential implications for morality and redemption. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Apparently thinking he needs to shoehorn everything into his bipolar analysis of markets and morality, Selbourne also periodically stretches things. Three Authors Consider Contemporary Politics, Anxiously 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z With the grown-ups in danger of selling their souls, “Wild” is partly a morality play, gesturing in the direction of Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” — and also toward Brecht, Dr. Seuss and “Urinetown.” Review: ‘Wild: A Musical Becoming’ Is Finding Its Footing 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The morality and politics of that premise are more immediate in the earlier plays of the “Metabiological Pentateuch,” as Shaw termed the cycle. Review | George Bernard Shaw’s science fiction ‘Methuselah’ reaches its final frontier 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z By contemplating the perspectives of both torturer and victim, they dig into questions of morality, revenge, forgiveness and human dignity. Tales of Torture on movie screens in Toronto 2013-09-10T13:02:03Z Epstein paid off his alleged indiscretions with the casual assurance of someone who’s accustomed to money having a one-to-one ratio with morality. Perspective | Jeffrey Epstein had many enablers. The most egregious was his wealth. 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z His followers are reluctant to give up their Satan and their hell in fear that morality will collapse if punishment and fear are removed from the equation. In the laudable 'The Christians,' characterizations are a saving grace 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z The radio station conducted its own investigation, and two days after the incident fired Mueller for violating the morality clause of his contract, court documents show. Taylor Swift in federal court over groping allegation 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s savage morality tale about the perfidy of men under the spell of gold is rife with references to man as inferior to the animal sometimes called his best friend. | 'Timon of Athens': A Dinner of Water and Stones for Those Friends Who Don?t Come Through 2011-03-02T03:01:04Z For all the cynicism and profanity of his stand-up act, there's a strong sense of personal morality that comes through, too. Offensive charm 2011-03-19T00:04:00Z The core of “Love & Friendship” is set into motion by the necessity of distinguishing mores from morality and the effort that the distinction involves. Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship”: Subverting the Social Order with Style 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z He looked at the roots of morality and examined a number of religious stances, which he found suspect. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z The track is a morality play of sorts about the dangers of drunk dialing your ex, something Drake does painfully well over a slow, woozy beat that mirrors his desperate state. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z Some fundamental Christians, like Robertson, believe that morality is dependent on the existence of God and by rejecting God, atheists also reject morals. 'Duck Dynasty' Star Finds New Controversy in Anti-Atheist Speech 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z It is a modern morality — or amorality — play, which means it traffics in button-pushing archetypes. Theater Review: Mike Bartlett’s ‘Bull,’ at 59E59 Theaters 2013-05-03T02:00:01Z Season 2 appears to go deeper into their morality, the hard decisions they have to make and the harder consequences. "Winning Time," HBO's show about the rise of the Lakers, has advice for fathers 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z But first we travel backward to see the childhood buddies claim their spots on the morality spectrum during a botched robbery before drifting apart. Movie Review: ‘Mission Park,’ Directed by Bryan Anthony Ramirez 2013-09-06T01:05:48Z In 1987, after nearly 20,000 Americans had died, he quipped: “When it comes to preventing AIDS, don’t medicine and morality teach the same lessons?” The AIDS crisis in America... 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Aaron Glantz knows that he’s living the dream — the good guy who does well in the morality play of American real estate. Two Histories of Financiers Profiting From Real Estate While Homeowners Go Belly Up 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It's hard not to root for artists when they're pitted against rabid morality police. Review: A static 'Desert Dancer' lands flat footed 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z That sentiment is shared more frankly by an under-achieving character in Obie Award-winning playwright Baker's touching new comedy about friendship, morality, and loyalty. Review: Annie Baker's 'The Flick' slow but funny 2013-03-13T00:10:10Z With “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris,” McCarthy is more directly investigating questions about the intersection of science and morality and the limits of human knowledge. Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z "I wanted to create this total upheaval in the morality of the main character," Kore-eda told journalists. Agonizing family choice in Japanese film at Cannes festival 2013-05-18T14:00:57Z That’s the strong psychological claim he makes – that you can’t really be a creative genius like Beethoven and take morality seriously. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z He is one of the most slyly affecting lyricists in hip-hop, and one who sometimes raps about the heavy weight of morality in an amoral world. Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The morality of the characters might seem like they are doing something good but self-interest overtakes everything else. “In the world of squatter settlements, there has been quite a bit of violence over the past decades”: Director Sebastian Cordero talks about “Such is Life in the Tropics” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s tough to uncouple your want/work/have system from everyone and everything except your own morality, purpose and mental health. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to be happy for friends when you want what they have 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z They touched the inner tensions of American morality. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z All this according to an anti-abortion Ohio pastor, who would like to see his state outlaw any and all public nudity for the sake of morality and godliness. Ohio anti-abortion activist wants to outlaw public nudity (including breastfeeding) 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The morality of this show is not the morality of most shows. 'Good Wife' creators talk about going behind bars for Season 6 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But it wouldn’t have actually been a digestible morality play. Perspective | The point we’re missing about ‘BBQ Becky’ and her sisters 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Yes, atheists think that morality and virtue, love and friendship, reason and grief, are physical phenomena with no supernatural component. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z Organizers from Ovation Productions said they respect the beliefs of critics but promised that the performances "will not pose a threat to their sense of morality and conduct." Lady Gaga arrives in Philippines amid protests 2012-05-19T17:46:05Z Another good call is getting Miss America 2008 as the morality expert on this panel. Fox News: "Sesame Street" pushing liberal gay agenda? 2011-06-02T19:03:00Z Those two titles revolve around the tension surrounding and clashes resulting from governed authority versus the innate morality, of litigating what is right and just. Amazon's "The Boys": In this rowdy exploration of superhero backlash, anger is also a superpower 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Using both professional performers and local dancers, Bourne's adaption of Golding's classic morality tale transfers the action from a desert island to a deserted theatre. The best dance in 2011 2011-01-03T11:42:33Z The concept on morality and reason, introduced in 1785, states that one must “Act only according to that maxim by which you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.” A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The life and morality of the bishop, who died in 1925, seems to have new resonance for Chappelle, who first visited his namesake building at Allen University three years ago and gave a speech. Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special: Three Key References to Know 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z There is no morality test to decide who gets to write Superman. Orson Scott Card isn't the right man to write Superman 2013-02-14T14:15:00Z Geordie Greig, who chaired the judging panel, on Tuesday praised the book's "vivid rendition" of pre-Revolutionary France, calling it a "memorable gothic tale of morality and mortality." Novelist Andrew Miller wins UK Costa Book Award 2012-01-24T22:19:10Z Infamous: Second Son is far from the only game to include a morality system with all the subtlety of an after-school “G.I. Joe” cartoon from the 1980s. Video Game Review: Infamous: Second Son Keeps Its Morality Black and White 2014-03-30T21:19:33Z This is a rumination on morality and responsibility: what it means to take care of one another, and to look after oneself. Two Tales of Disconnection, With One Cicada Cameo 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z It could be because, with only two episodes left, the writers wanted to fit in one last extended debate about post-apocalyptic morality before letting the s— fly. The Walking Dead Watch: Judge, Jury, Executioner 2012-03-05T13:45:16Z But both protagonists are, finally, allegorical figures, and the films work most powerfully as morality tales. Film: Drive and Determination of Zuckerberg and Gekko 2010-10-02T00:56:00Z And it requires some effort on the viewer’s part to parse the curatorial essay on art, ethnology and morality they are part of. Documenta Kassel: Using Art as Their Witness 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z A woman who was struggling with her morality? The sacrilegious love affair I couldn’t resist 2014-02-02T00:00:00Z Goldman put the morality back in, along with the charm, allowing Newman and Redford to play, essentially, themselves. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Jessica Farris, a young theatrical makeup artist living on peanuts, sneaks into a high-paying “morality and ethics research project” being conducted by Lydia Shields, a psychology professor at New York University. Beware Strange Psychologists: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But in front of that off-Broadway play is a messy, semi-relevant Hollywood movie with famous actresses playing famous anchorwomen in a morality tale whose stakes are not altogether clear. “Bombshell” is a muddled, soapy mess that doesn’t do Fox News nor #MeToo any favors 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z As a result, X-Men became, as Howe put it, “the soapiest soap saga ever put forth by the House of Ideas, filled with agonized romances, self-confidence crises, lectures on morality, psychic scars, and worrying.” How an "X-Men" writer inspired binge-worthy, character-driven TV from "Buffy" to "Game of Thrones" 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z He said, “I never questioned the morality of my character,” adding, “I do understand passions and impulses.” Cannes Film Festival: Strauss-Kahn Film Under Fire 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z The Republican presidential candidates were in a Las Vegas casino Tuesday night for a twin-bill CNN debate slate that bent the fabric of morality into bold new shapes. This question is CNN and Hugh Hewitt’s shame: “Could you order air strikes that would kill innocent children by not the scores, but the hundreds and the thousands?” 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z I don’t think I rate characters by their morality. Kate Atkinson: By the Book 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Baudelaire once wrote that "literature and the arts pursue an aim independent of morality" and, for better or worse, this has clearly become France's official artistic credo. C?line: great author and 'absolute bastard' 2011-01-31T11:33:28Z In telling her own story and the country’s, Wang has achieved a work of investigation, personal revelation, historical reckoning, and overarching political morality. “One Child Nation,” Reviewed: A Powerful Investigation of a Chinese Policy’s Personal Toll 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z With each episode, Sud and her writers demonstrate a sharpened skill for pace and revelation, along with gracefully subtle ruminations on corruption, racial profiling and — more profoundly — the very nature of morality. Review | It’s hard to stop watching ‘Seven Seconds’ — and that’s still the surest sign of a good TV show 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The season’s first show will be MacArthur fellow Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Everybody,” a retelling of the Christian morality play “Everyman,” which was written by an unknown author. Shakespeare Theatre’s new head announces his first season, from ‘Much Ado’ to a James Baldwin play 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The character of Michèle is a cipher for sexual freedom, gratified with disregard for morality. The Phony Sexual Transgressions of Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z They saw a manic, infantile regression that broke through the blandness of public life, the ingenuous democratic fantasy that shattered the hypocrisy of earnest public morality. Childlike Stars 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson praised her “fire and skill” in the powerful Miller morality play that many have read as an allegory against the McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunts of the day. Madeleine Sherwood, actress in ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ dies at 93 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Mechanic questions the morality of a society that allows individuals to accumulate billions of dollars for themselves. ‘Jackpot’ Looks at How Inequality Is Experienced by the Very, Very Rich 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Goldthwait points out the main difference is that those series, appropriate to the era in which they aired, were morality tales where the central character received some kind of comeuppance. It’s Bobcat Goldthwait’s moment: With “Misfits & Monsters,” he’s not hiding anymore 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z March 10 Paris: McQueen Was Here The final collection of the designer, who committed suicide on February 11, saw him returning to the historical past, in particular medieval symbols of faith and morality. Paris: A Rounder Season 2010-03-11T15:29:00Z The play, which opened Monday night at the Atlantic Theater Company in a vividly acted production directed by Mr. Shanley, sometimes bogs down in windy debates about faith, justice and morality. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z The “no faith” high school graduation also included “no ethics” morality. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z There are obvious similarities between Jesus and Apollonius: the raising of the dead, a contrary attitude to conventional morality, miraculous works and miracle births. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z There are living tree-people with root-like appendages, and a dance that teeters on the edge of "I am a tree" new age nonsense but also casts itself as a morality play. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z It is a thoughtful, heartfelt film and, like Hard Candy, it is smart on the grey morality of those who are most certain in their actions. 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z These columns steered readers toward a modern, more secular morality, one that stressed women’s equality. The Transgressive Power of Alba de Céspedes 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z This conflation of the high and the low — biblical morality juxtaposed with the mundane details of domesticity — is key to Smith’s frisky and irreverent comic attack. Review: ‘White Teeth,’ by Zadie Smith 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Only 2 percent felt they were valued for their honesty and morality. Beyond Battles, Boogers and Pranks 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It is often at its most powerful when in revolt against what bohemians and Marxists alike call “bourgeois morality.” Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z He has now cut back about 14 minutes to finally arrive at his ideal, which he argues is the strongest elucidation yet of the film’s examination of human morality. Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z So, when under-educated voters base decisions on issues like “personal morality” rather than perceived economic self-interest, we should probably start talking about the powerful outside interests that are funding this ideology. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z The legacy of The Big Reunion will probably not be a re-evaluation of the music; instead it serves as a modern music-industry morality tale. The Big Reunion: from broken dreams to reality stars 2013-02-26T15:46:23Z Observing director Michael Bogdanov's interpretation at the National theatre premiere, a representative of the morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse believed that he had seen something obscene, and initiated a criminal prosecution later withdrawn in court. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z Instead of connecting us with a single protagonist like "24"'s Jack Bauer or Carrie Mathison's CIA operative on "Homeland," "Accused" offers a new traveler in the gray areas of morality every week. Marlee Matlin and Billy Porter help viewers understand the "Accused" in Fox's new crime series 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z His long list of great, good, and otherwise notable films focuses mainly on personal morality within the context of social institutions: police departments, courts, media empires, the American economy and government: "Dog Day Afternoon." Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011: He made movies for grownups 2011-04-09T22:45:00Z For modernists like Frutiger, there was a morality to design: every function had a perfect form, and to exceed that with some expression of ego was to stray into decadence. Design for knife: can cutlery cure disability? 2012-06-18T15:10:06Z Plot synopses of “Carmen” traditionally depicted a young man reduced to despair and driven to violence by the charms of a wild woman who works in a cigarette factory and disdains conventional morality. Books to Kindle Children’s Curiosity About Classical Music 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “Only morons are nice on Christmas,” scowls Billy Bob Thornton in this noir-tinged hybrid of a heist thriller and a black comedy, which plays like a seasonal twist on the heartland morality of Fargo. Hidden presents: 10 Christmas movies you might not have seen 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Englander tackles large questions of morality and history in a masterly collection that manages to be both insightful and uproarious. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z In the first scene, for example, the text’s discourse on the morality of conflict is reflected, dreamscape-like, in the opera’s action, as Gandhi confronts his fears regarding direct political action. A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “These findings,” the paper explains, “suggest that fearlessness in preschool constitutes a clear risk factor for developmental pathways that lead to problems in morality, conscience development, and severe antisocial behaviors.” Studied: Fearless Preschoolers Lack Empathy? 2010-11-19T23:35:00Z On both shows, the laws of physics are used to reframe the idea of morality. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Overall, I much prefer Stone in his debauched libertarian pop-entertainer mode to his self-assigned role as dispenser of morality, political wisdom and conspiracy theory. “Savages”: Oliver Stone, back on drugs at last 2012-07-05T21:15:00Z “I say without fear of contradiction,” he said, “that the average citizen in the rural district is superior in intelligence, superior in morality, superior in self-government, to the average citizen in the great cities.” When SCOTUS still fixed things: What America looked like before the Warren Court 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Steiner’s time around Oppenheimer and other scientists added to his ambivalence about the morality of art and the humanities. Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Placed opposite Roman in a stand-off and with Kendall between them, she thinks that reminding Ken that giving Mencken the presidency will be disastrous for democracy will be enough to appeal to his morality. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “It’s seen as undermining religion, morality and the dignity of Afghan tradition. Anything that undermines that dignity is unacceptable, and must be eradicated,” she added. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “They are important artifacts in the histories of law and art, which intersect here in a compelling story about culture, morality, and psychology,” Nikas said. Joining Plastic, Glass and Metal on the Recycle List: Fake Art 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Only once does the exhibition explicitly evoke morality—and in chilling fashion. ‘The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility’ Review: Future Imperfect 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z His aim, he wrote to his muse, Katy Katsoyanis, in 1947, was “to surpass the material, to annihilate it, reduce it to nothing, so that the spiritual achievement becomes an absolute morality.” A Monkish Conductor Who Expressed His Faith Through Music 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z We had no inherent sense of morality back in the day! Richard Dawkins doesn’t get to define sex abuse 2013-09-11T19:00:00Z He names her Chava, which means “life,” finds her a job in a bakery and tries to teach her self-control and morality. Books of The Times: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ a Novel by Helene Wecker 2013-05-06T19:57:43Z Like many earlier Westerns, the Cowboys & Aliens novel is a political morality play on horseback. Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie 2011-07-28T22:05:00Z And so the fate of becomes a morality tale of theatrical hubris. Rosie's Bum Rap: In Defense of Taboo 2010-05-11T16:35:00Z Yet this once powerful alliance of beauty and morality, so persuasive to many of the great socially conscious Victorians, has been almost entirely lost from view. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z I began doing research on morality and how we make moral judgments. You know it feels good to dance. These scientists reveal why. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The film is rived with dark humor, though its deeper themes of forgiveness and morality have prompted viewers to present Mr. McDonagh with philosophical struggles of their own. John Michael McDonagh Carves His Own Niche With ‘Calvary’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z What are the ways that Christianity shaped my morality? A Choreographer Dances Out His Feelings About Race and Religion 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z She passionately tries to convince Gould to pitch the radiation movie to the studio head, rather than the iffy-sounding blockbuster, playing on his sense of morality and his attraction to her in the process. Lindsay Lohan Doesn't Make or Break the London Production of Speed-The-Plow 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Even if she seemed like a cheerleader at first, her morality has become more layered as everyone else around her becomes increasingly amoral. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: The Season Finale 2013-06-24T14:38:01Z It ends by addressing the question of “ethical dining” with a perfect note about morality and humility. Food Writer Joshua Ozersky Dies at Age 47 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z As the eternal soul ceded more ground to the fallible mind, conceptions of everyday morality also began to shift. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s a little less of the heart-pounding tension and little more of the search for morality. What Should I Watch After I’ve Binged ‘Dead to Me’? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Those years ushered in a heady era when, faced with the possibility of being killed, many young women cast aside what remained of their parents’s puritan morality and lived for the moment. Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z This morality tale appears to have the enormous ambition, the brave and culturally groundbreaking aim, of building bridges between religious extremists of east and west. Sex and the City 2: What happened to good old Sex?| Victoria Coren 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z Could it be that religion and culture interact to the point that there is no universal morality? Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z What follows is part morality tale examining what is more important - friends, family or fame - and part satire on reality television, including a callous producer bearing an uncanny resemblance to X-Factor's Simon Cowell. Critics pan "charmless" Spice Girls musical 2012-12-12T16:10:56Z Advertisement Advertisement In its narrative simplicity — its good versus evil morality, its cheerfully blank hero and bang-bang action — “Star Wars” became the ultimate toy, one that fans could spin in all sorts of directions. ‘Star Wars’ Doesn’t Belong to George Lucas. It Belongs to the Fans. 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In a documentary about her work screened here, Ms. Greenfield wonders how America lost its “Protestant ethic” and “frugality,” and she describes her photography as a “morality tale.” Lauren Greenfield Tries to Capture the Meaning of Money 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z We are mercifully too self-aware to ignore the ramifications of political and cultural complicity; even the morality of revenge became suspect. Forget Halloween. TV shows have thrills and chills all year-round 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The tone and substance toggle abruptly among satire, melodrama and morality play. Review: ‘Trust’ Is Flashy but Ephemeral 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z I think he has a very specific view of relationships and morality. Kumail Nanjiani Didn’t Know He Was Playing the Bad Guy 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “Was this freedom? Was it a new kind of morality? Would the morality empower me to survive life?” Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z If morality compels censuring the retrograde beliefs and conduct of lovers, friends and family, how should that be done? Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Repeatedly, characters tell us, “There’s no such thing as morality” and “There’s no such thing as fair,” and “Right and wrong’s so far from this place, I don’t think it factors in at all.” This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z This emphatic articulation of purpose, sung by and for other humans, seems to be reaching beyond environmentalism and toward morality at large. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z All else being equal, there’s a good reason to favor “tried and true” practices, and it would be impractical, even foolhardy, for each generation to invent morality from scratch. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z The musical, a modern morality tale, is divided into two acts. Stripped-down staging brings clever moments in this long, long journey 'Into the Woods' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Frost knew that reading the poem as a straight morality tale ought to pose a number of difficulties. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z It’s Kissinger’s embrace of “whatever means” and his facile dismissal of the “medieval notion” of universal morality that give critics ammunition. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Like horror films, disaster movies often work as modern morality tales; reminding us of the natural order of things by terrifying us with visions of chaos and apocalypse. Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema – from Oscar-winning strategies to 007’s debt to Hitchcock 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z These examinations are happening even as cases of domestic violence increased during the pandemic and women continued to face arrest for violating public morality laws. A Book Has Women in Africa Talking About Sex 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Fishing both allows for and often demands this bespoke morality, called upon as frequently as pliers and variable even among anglers on the same trip. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “These categorical terms are unhelpful and insert morality into eating. For individuals with orthorexia, trying to follow ever-expansive rules of what is healthy — or good for them — is debilitating.” Could social media’s ‘healthy food’ focus be contributing to a little-known eating disorder? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Once the executives of state make nonsense of language, they can make nonsense of morality, and then anything goes. Review | A fierce masterpiece by Albania’s most eminent novelist, Ismail Kadare 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Is personal morality a reasonable litmus for leadership fitness? Would you vote for a candidate who’s unfaithful? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Fairy tales, as the controversial psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim explained in “The Uses of Enchantment,” are typically either stories about morality, like “Cinderella,” or amoral tales of aspiration, like “Jack and the Bean Stalk.” Royal Rumble: 7 Meghan and Harry Specials Face Off, and We All Lose 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Boo blends the clear-eyed candour of a journalist with a novelist's sense of drama in a modern morality tale. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z We also saw her tabulating her kills — she’s at 18 or 20, she said Sunday — and perhaps reconsidering her hostility toward Morgan, who’s unyielding sense of morality has been a counterpoint and source of friction. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Well, that depends on personal morality — and let’s not get into that now. Exorbitant tuition and youth unemployment lead more college students into sex work 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Other, more wrenching stories etch characters whose ideas of traditional morality lead them astray. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z It's not to cynically say that nice guys finish last—I don't think Thrones is making an argument against morality—but rather that being single-mindedly rigid and tied to formal codes is an encumbrance. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z And then there’s the opportunity to showcase your praiseworthy morality. Why the most hated person on the Internet today is someone you’ve never heard of 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The story of the medieval knight who won't reveal his name becomes, in Neuenfels's hands, a high-voltage examination of the morality of truth. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z This scene exemplifies the sort of sentimental morality play that has — unexpectedly — become one of the hallmarks of C.K.’s work. How Louis C.K. became the Oprah of comedy 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z That, I want to say, is the true morality of writing, the willingness to expose ourselves, to open our strange and idiosyncratic centers to the world. Literature and the moral question 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral,” spinning Eliot’s observation about morality into a squall of questions about ethics and motives. ‘A Hero’ Review: Debts No Honest Man Can Pay 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The first season juxtaposed the concept of celebrity and power with morality while also tackling fascism and corrupt politics. Season 2 of Amazon hit ‘The Boys’ finds team on run from law 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z And it says that if you’ve got men who lie and cheat, there’s a “morality problem.” The Raiders’ unbelievably sexist cheerleader handbook 2014-01-28T15:56:00Z Even if Alex’s music has never felt especially spiritual, there has long been a recurring sense of morality in it. Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Ascribing political beliefs to personal histories is a notoriously suspect activity; remedies for cruelty and inequality can require no more than an alert morality. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z This is not an aesthetic treatise but, first and foremost, a morality tale about fame and family, “the long, loud effect of fathers.” Portrait of the Artist as a Complete Jerk 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z But for Bostonians, the Bulger story is about more than three boys from south Boston who valued loyalty over morality. Black Mass: the glamorization of Whitey Bulger muddles an already murky story 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z There is a morality at work, or at play, here, with Mina and Lucy questioning — and perhaps judging — Hap about his guilt, or his needing validation. Neil LaBute talks "House of Darkness," his modern take on "Dracula" that flips the power dynamic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z His book was perceived as an all-out attack on Puritan morality, and they didn't take kindly to it. What was the first banned book in history? 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Interwoven are themes of honor, justice, revenge and redemption layered between issues of ethics, morality and familial bonds. Can "Game of Thrones" teach us about the meaning of life? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But we prefer a clean arc in our morality play: in the end, we like scammers most when they fail. The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z That TV world where no self–promotion is too tawdry, and morality is for wimps? Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z She applied this conception of morality to John Paul, who sees himself as a soldier against sin, however hypocritical that may be. How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z As the Islamic dress code became obligatory, Ms. Fathi and her sister, Goli, faced the tyranny of a “morality” teacher at school who tried to mold them into ideal Muslim girls. Nazila Fathi’s ‘The Lonely War’ Is a Memoir of Iran 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z “Great Britain” portrays the Free Press’s editors as detached from any sort of recognizable sense of morality. In London, a play satirizing British tabloids can make you feel George Clooney’s pain Horrorcore is already somewhat political — a genre that uses exaggeration to confront grim inner-city realities and spit blood in the face of white American morality. 2020 Is Chaotic. Clipping’s New Horror-Rap Album Captures It. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z That line winks at the beautiful speech Frances McDormand gives at the end of the movie “Fargo,” asserting the basic morality of a place that’s never known such pointless violence. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 3: Small-Timers and City-Slickers 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Is House of Cards a morality play, or an amorality play? How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z But the point of “La Civil” — the bitter irony of its title — is that law, morality and basic human decency have no place in the world Cielo must now inhabit. ‘La Civil’ Review: A Mother’s Desperation 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The film is a romantic comedy, a fish-out-of-water story, and a carpe-diem morality tale reminiscent of “Our Town” and “A Christmas Carol.” The Tao of “Groundhog Day,” Onstage 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The definition of laughter is physiological: laughter, if it’s authentic, is involuntary, and therefore outside the bounds of morality. The Fascinating Failures of “The Happytime Murders” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Chike is a serious man with “a rigid morality underlying his mildness”; despite his self-proclaimed agnosticism, he finds solace in the Bible. Going AWOL in Africa’s Largest City 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z I don’t think she equates herself with Britney, but she has enough morality to know when something has gone wrong. What it feels like to be a bestseller: Stephanie Danler and 'Sweetbitter' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z And though there is a strong religiosity to the earlier works, when Death carries scales to weigh our souls, this eventually turns to secular morality. Death: A Self-Portrait – review 2012-11-11T00:05:30Z I believe America's gun laws lack morality, sense and reason, yet I consume my fair share of gun violence, electronic division. Seduced by film mayhem 2011-01-14T22:02:00Z After losing Will, Baranski says, she for the first time in her life “almost doesn’t have time to examine the morality” that’s always been at her core. Christine Baranski on Diane Lockhart’s emerging presence in ‘The Good Wife’ In addition to morality and taste, theatres sometimes had to fend off political controversy. Review | A rare look at 60 years of newspaper advertising for motion pictures 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z That filmmakers would have their eye on Wall Street and the morality of unfettered capitalism is hardly a shock. ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z After serving a tour of duty in Iraq, Tillman returned home with grave doubts about the morality and efficacy of that conflict, and began to make contact with people who opposed the war. "The Tillman Story": The surprising saga of a football star at war 2010-08-20T21:50:00Z Along with these perils, “The Dark Road” dissects the morality of desperation in today’s China. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z Inspired by a true story, Ms. Ben Hania leans hard and heavy on official corruption, oppressive morality codes and a Tunisian bureaucracy dominated by male power. Review: Seeking Justice After a Rape in ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Once derided as formulaic urban morality tales aimed at black audiences and featuring big helpings of white villainy, several of Ms. Grier’s blaxploitation films are now considered groundbreaking for their depictions of powerful black women. Pam Grier Tells What She?s Learned in Her Memoir, ?Foxy? 2010-05-04T23:15:00Z In films like "99 Homes" or "Chop Shop," the struggles with identity and morality come out of economic necessity. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Instead, they’re identified by their stations in the protagonist’s life, as if this were a medieval morality play, or amorality play. Review: As She Was Saying, Brilliantly, in a New ‘Fleabag’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “This is not an aesthetic treatise but, first and foremost, a morality tale about fame and family.” New in Paperback: ‘See What Can Be Done,’ ‘The Gunners’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z You lose the conventional institutions that keep morality or meaning in place, but are given the ability to decide for yourself where to belong. “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “For the most part, we have pretty big pieces that deal with interesting questions of morality,” Zambello says. Kennedy Center announces notable 2017-2018 classical season 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z The camera has its own morality; when it films some things, they are changed for ever. Shock of the new: cinema's fascination with indigenous peoples 2012-06-27T08:57:10Z Wrestling, however, operates on a binary morality system, with franchises built around fictionalized rivalries pitting good against evil, faces versus heels. “GLOW”: The real good girls revolt 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z If the blank slates of Stormtrooper armor signaled blind obedience to authority, the flowing white dresses of the beautiful, heroic Princess Leia Organa signified morality and truth. A Long Time Ago in Drawings Far Far Away … 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Deontological ethics is concerned with the morality of one’s actions, with the various schools of thought each seeking to establish sets of rules which, if obeyed, will produce ethical behaviour. The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z How do you process the story's themes of love, jealousy, betrayal, and morality? "Cyrano" director on what Peter Dinklage brings to this enchanting retelling of a classic 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z While some artists treat art as an opportunity for moralizing, morality belongs on Kulendran Thomas’s list of humanist fictions, along with democracy, creativity and individuality. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Almost 400 years old, “Poppea” is startlingly contemporary in the gray zone of morality it occupies. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Both Jackson and Kellogg were early Seventh-day Adventists, further tying a sense of religious morality into their ideas around the importance of healthy eating. Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z What happens on The Handmaid’s Tale is different, as violence against women plays out as a kind of morality tale. The future isn't female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid's Tale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s a morality tale for the whole science. Possessed: There?s No Quiet Without Noise 2011-07-08T19:39:07Z Some readers will be shocked at Rowling's departure from wizardry and magic, but The Casual Vacancy is a highly readable morality tale for our times. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z A growing appetite for protecting public morality ensured that these laws were enforced. Dirty words 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z "The best moments of Jenkins's ambitious and hefty sequel, WW1984, engages with Wonder Woman's very human problem. Diana is a goddess — in appearance, morality, strength, invulnerability — living among mortals, but she is otherwise alone." "Wonder Woman 1984" is "chaotic" and "delightfully cheesy": Reviews of this year's superhero sequel 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z But the performances outraged both critics and public alike when first seen, and were condemned as crimes against public morality, good art and common sense. V&A to unveil glories of Ballets Russes 2010-03-29T16:06:00Z Even a supposedly “neutral” approach is, by default, taking a political stand about the morality and immorality of war itself. "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Though other detectives and lead characters twist and shuffle through addiction, attraction, corruption and a generally fluid morality, Christopher Foyle doggedly remains a fixed point in an uncertain universe. Lamenting the end of 'Foyle's War,' a TV masterpiece 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z “I think there is a morality to using children to explore parts of ourselves. My children are not me. They are separate.” ‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z She is wry and unflinching, stating the songs so boldly that their male chauvinism, untenable romanticism or high morality start to form a genre of dark humor. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z He argued the exile of young boys was a myth and that Utah was trying to enforce morality. 'Sister Wives' lawsuit back in Utah courtroom 2013-01-18T01:28:07Z These are not the preoccupations of escapist entertainment; they're the foundations of a morality play. Braaaains! The 10 essential zombie films 2010-05-30T18:01:00Z If you enjoy worst-case scenarios involving technology and morality gone wrong, this novel gives you plenty to sink your teeth into. What Happens to People Who Support a Corrupt Government? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z “Unreal” is, historically, at its worst when it constructs desperate situations just to illustrate how bereft of morality its main, manipulative characters are. “Money. D*ck. Power.”: “Unreal” deconstructs fantasies — and asks what TV looks like with women in charge 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Love and family loyalty transcend morality and the law, and young Joshua, who acts as not so much an unreliable narrator as an uninformative one, is inducted into a world his mother was clearly fleeing. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:24Z “Such Good Work” and “The Altruists” are alive to the contradictions between morality and comfort that exist everywhere under global structures of capitalism and politics. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z But it’s also about duty and the ambiguous morality of staying the course in a tough situation. Reed Hastings, the Founder of Netflix, Keeps His Library in His Pocket 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Joyce has no reverence for organized religion, for conventional morality, for literary style or form. Review: ‘Ulysses,’ by James Joyce 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Racine said that the French authorities did not consider Casanova’s personal morality in their decision to buy the works, adding that they must be placed in their historical context. Casanova at the National Library in France 2011-11-28T23:30:08Z White's story of how Wilbur the pig is saved from the slaughterhouse by a spider named Charlotte is irresistible, as much for the rhythm of its prose as for its warm-hearted morality tale. Lauren St John's top 10 animal adventures 2011-07-21T09:20:04Z What I think is fascinating about these stories that tap into this theme of survival and morality is how our characters evolve and grow and what they will learn and how they will cope. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Cast Discuss Their Character's Survival Odds 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z In this way, Big Mouth’s insistence that young people can grapple with morality and kindness, even when trying to keep their unruly hormone monsters at bay, is as affecting as it is hopeful. Big Mouth: how Netflix's sex education comedy remains vital 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s an incredibly complicated problem of law, morality, and public policy of course. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z Its leader, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, had no interest in literature: he was the incarnation of upper-middle-class morality, obsessed with the book's danger to social order. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z “He really focuses on a legislative opportunity, but he also thinks there’s a morality in government that should be part of the conversation,” Porter said. 'We've made too much progress to slow down': tracking John Lewis's long fight 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z We follow him from childhood, when his instinct to perform at school leads to cautionary messages from his mother about government “morality police.” Review: ‘Desert Dancer’ Tells the Story of the Afshin Ghaffarian 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Such discussions defy the black-and-white morality tales spun as entertainment in the ’90s. The New Menendez Defenders 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z And those fans have shown themselves perfectly willing to use whatever means necessary – legal or not, as if we were all in our own Walter White-inspired morality play – to get at those shows. Is Breaking Bad the show that finally breaks how we watch television? 2012-07-16T16:23:25Z And so Chinese morality was added to the film's Arab dress code and Iranian accent, leaving little that was recognisably Afghan. Arabic dress and Iranian accents ? Hollywood's take on Afghan women 2011-02-12T10:59:00Z There was morality before the church, trade before the state, exchange before money, social contracts before Hobbes, welfare before the rights of man, culture before Babylon, self-interest before Adam Smith, and greed before capitalism. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z There are themes of rebirth, discussions about morality, manifestos of radical nihilism, and ideas about coping with trauma, both individually and collectively, that resonate. Natalie Portman is a force of nature in intense and stunning “Vox Lux” 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z But it’s also down to how Morgan, who scripted the entire season, writes episodes as self-contained morality tales, emphasizing the construction of complicated metaphors over the mundane business of building characters. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Power and resistance, right and wrong: Saar eradicates these binaries by exploring the edges and corners of his characters’ morality. Debut Novels by Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Krauze and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z That doesn’t happen, partly because the filmmakers have a morality lesson to finish selling. Review: In ‘Our Brand Is Crisis,’ the War Room Goes to Bolivia 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In the seventh episode, Ling talks to a kindly widower whose partner died in 1979, in police custody, after he was arrested by “morality officers” in the men’s room of a gay bar. “Uncover: The Village”: A Serial Killer, Toronto’s Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z When man’s desire to survive overrides his morality, is the empire he constructs worth saving? Video Games: Video Games — Metro, Rymdkapsel, Quell Memento and Tetris Blitz 2013-06-04T22:02:43Z There are countless other problems with this book; with its blustering, Daily Express morality, its one-dimensional view of the poor, of the police, of politicians. Light Shining in the Forest by Paul Torday – review 2013-02-02T14:59:01Z Trump, Wehner writes in “The Death of Politics,” his lament for the state of our civic discourse, “embodies a Nietzschean morality rather than a Christian one.” A Man of Faith Wonders at How Evangelicals Can Support Trump 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Downs commissioned new retablos for each song on the album, and as part of the physical package, they often illuminate the songs; thoughts about morality and survival underlie the album’s many musical exploits. Playlist : New Releases: Atlas Sound, Lila Downs and Michael Jackson 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z This may sound like the plot summary of a boringly pragmatic morality tale, but all of the action just described takes place in the first thirty pages. Eduardo Sacheri's 'Papers in the Wind' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Over the years, so many of le Carré’s intel-service characters have been torn as they’re called to perform immoral acts for ends sometimes involving a sliding scale of morality. Review | John le Carré’s new thriller takes aim at Trump, Brexit and the Russia mess 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It skewers not only those who preach morality while practicing alternatives, but also the toadies and dupes who keep people like that in power. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Scripts would merge sex and swearing with weighty musings on mortality and morality, and on-the-money pop culture references. Was the BBC right to kill off Being Human? 2013-03-08T13:02:15Z Digging for the genesis and workings of morality in humans, he turns in this adventurous book to tribal life and animal behaviour, as well as the ancients and American politics. Best psychology books of 2012 2012-11-30T13:00:01Z Ultimately, however, "When Women Were Birds" is fable/memoir/morality tale sans proscriptions. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z But the play maintains its momentum in the second half, and the idea of Rome as a city of thuggery and superstition is balanced by the cerebral debate about the morality of murder. Julius Caesar ? review 2011-01-11T21:30:00Z Their discussion, held in Robinson’s adopted state of Iowa, covered faith, morality and humanism–the “Christian thought,” as President Obama put it, driving Robinson’s new work. Meet Marilynne Robinson, Humanist in Chief 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “The only morality that exists is the one right in front of him in how he protects his family, his ranch and the people that work on that.” Kevin Costner Revisits the American West, Now by Helicopter 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z This book, then, is a morality tale as well as a stark warning. Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2010-08-16T14:31:00Z Plato has Glaucon speculate that a person endowed with this ring—which would render its wearer invisible—would fulfill his wildest and basest desires without regard to morality because he’d fear no punishment. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z After all, American Psycho tackles Big Themes like life, death, capitalism and morality. American Psycho idea: the serious novel as musical 2010-12-23T10:03:29Z What’s not fine is if Republicans, in a winning-is-a-virtue strategy, protect themselves with morality exceptions that they would not permit for others, while binding others by morals that they do not apply to themselves. Perspective | The baffling defense of Herschel Walker 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z McCorvey’s conversion was a cinematic story, a morality play, and who you thought was good or bad depended entirely on what you thought of abortion. Perspective | ‘Jane Roe,’ from Roe v. Wade, made a stunning deathbed confession. Now what? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Nietzsche thinks there’s a profound tension between the values that traditional morality holds up and the conditions necessary for creative genius. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Rice-Davies contended that Ward was offered up as a scapegoat by the police, the establishment and the media to appease public morality. Sex, spies and society scandal in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical 2013-09-30T19:53:03Z Principles and morality were Mitford's bywords but she never denied where she came from and she always knew she was, in the purest sense, a Mitford sister. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z Tastes are changing, a new morality bites and cinema’s underground beasts find they have fewer places to hide. Does Lars von Trier’s ‘vomitive’ new film spell the end for provocative cinema? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In tracing the comic pathway by which a schlub becomes more self-assured, it tells a morality tale about the value of persistence. Review: Going From Schlub to Slick in ‘The Other Josh Cohen’ 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Power shifts, with religion and morality thick in the mix. Review | ‘Invisible Hand’ a taut political thriller worthy of ‘Homeland’ watchers 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z “I know there’s a morality cause in his contract ... They have the discretion to suspend or discipline. I think they should at least conduct an investigation.” Derrick Rose rape case: alleged victim's lawyers call for NBA to investigate 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z These characters don't exactly succeed and so the message of the movie is more nuanced, and I would say it's a good morality tale. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The case’s lurid details fed public fascination, and the coverage sparked a further debate about the nature and morality of journalism itself. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z Trust, originality and morality rank among this trickster's quarry, in projects that unpick what goes on behind the scenes in art. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-15T00:06:09Z There’s nothing by the numbers about “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally,” which follows neither the rules of dramaturgy nor morality. In 'Aunt Sally,' a lonely teen, a teacher who crosses a line and the phone that witnesses everything 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s less interested in rendering a verdict on the morality of abortion than it is in tracing the increasing politicization of the issue. Review: ‘Reversing Roe’ Shows How Abortion Became Political 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In one sense, then, morality is a form of self-hatred; it is a wound one assuages by wounding others in precisely the same way. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Most of all, matters of morality and faith tumbled around in his mind. theater: A Little Good, a Little Evil, a Lot of Ritual 2010-12-30T23:56:50Z Blackout, says Eccleston, is more a morality tale than a political one, however. Christopher Eccleston: from superheroes to Sophocles 2012-06-27T16:58:42Z Your approach, arguably, could come to harm your relationship with your sons, as they accumulate distance between themselves and their childhoods and lose patience accordingly for morality policing and rules. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Any harm in ‘my house, my rules’ as the last word on unmarrieds sharing rooms? 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z So she is appropriately wary of preachy morality tales. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Along the ‘morality’ spectrum, you have good, neutral, and evil. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z “I grew up with the message that we should try to understand that the aim of all politics, art and morality was to try to prevent these things ever happening again to anyone.” Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z "It's a Wonderful Life" is a deeply Christian morality tale about George Bailey's life of unrewarded sacrifice, and the older I get, the less patience I have for it. The harmful messaging of "It's a Wonderful Life" 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z But mostly, “Cry Macho” is written as a morality tale about two characters who help each other through tough transitions. Schwarzenegger?s Next Film May Have a Familiar Plot 2011-05-18T22:30:11Z On Friday, in a statement clearly directed at Berlusconi, the Vatican demanded "a more robust morality and sense of legality" from Italy's rulers. Silvio Berlusconi defended by Italian porn star 2011-01-22T23:43:03Z CA: One might have morality on one’s side and all the best intentions, but it doesn’t solve the practical problem of making people work together and function as a collective. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z Like a “Breaking Bad” or “The Sopranos,” his presidency invited fans to compartmentalize their own morality from the dishonesty, racism and bullying of the protagonist whose exploits mesmerized them. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “It’s a dance between morality and justice, and sometimes that line tends to blur,” Alonso said. ‘The Boys’ Is Back, More Relevant Than Ever 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Front Runner’ and ‘The Emoji Movie’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Put another way: the Sons, as constructed, are a criminal organization, and Clay—though the show’s morality is complicated—is essentially its villain. The Morning After: Sons of Anarchy Chooses Sides 2011-11-09T15:15:53Z When people step outside that authority and begin crafting their own morality, everything falls apart. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do the Right Thing 2011-11-07T13:07:05Z As it turns out, Shilts — and those who bought into the moral calculus of HIV infection — was wrong: about Gaetan Dugas, about the morality of pleasure, and about where blame needed to be placed. On World AIDS Day: Coming to terms with the fallout of the judgements about the morality of pleasure made from within 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The classical purity of his dancing here becomes the embodiment of his character’s morality: he is noble through and through, if torn between his desire to please and his desire for freedom. Dance Review: Ballet Theater?s ?Swan Lake? Shows Freedom and Its Cost 2010-06-23T22:09:00Z But it does fall in line with the general theme that old rules of morality don’t always apply. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Oscar Wilde, you will recall, argued for the separation of art and morality. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Artists have been trying to provoke audiences ever since, elevating shock to an artistic value, a sign that they are fighting the good fight against oppressive tradition and bourgeois morality. Shock Me if You Can 2012-09-14T22:36:46Z Unlike many other modern dramas in which a mixed wash of dark and light results in universal gray, "Daredevil" cleaves to a more straightforward morality and plays instead with form. Bare-knuckle, old-school tack in 'Daredevil' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In “Killings,” Frank, the main character’s beloved son, knows that his love for another man’s wife is dangerous, but love easily trumps both his reason and his morality. Learning to Love the Stories of Andre Dubus 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “He began to talk about the soul and morality, and he prevented the Epicureans from searching the nature of man.” Irene Papas, Actress in ‘Zorba the Greek’ and Greek Tragedies, Dies at 96 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s also the rare movie about abortion rights that doesn’t litigate their morality, choosing instead to focus on the social and structural forces that would subvert a young woman’s will. Seeing Abortion Laws From a Teenager’s Point of View 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The righteously perverse individual appreciates the value of rationality, morality, and the good life—and then, chafing against them, chooses another path. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Mozart's next-to-last stage work, a mixture of fairy tale and Masonic morality play, is a miraculous creation whose music has a sublime simplicity. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z This allowed us to survive for millennia, but as our safety is no longer directly threatened, it’s possible our inability to honestly love our enemies dampens our morality. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z His credibility as a judge of other people’s morality is forever destroyed, and that’s fine. Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison account: Celebrity infidelity doesn’t justify the outing of hacked clients 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “The morality questions around Wall Street, about money and greed, have been dealt with numerous times,” says Fox, who cites Wall Street as one of her favorite films. 'Equity' Forges a New Model for Women in the Workplace 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But The Girl on the Train is less a thriller than a morality tale reminding us never to make snap judgments. Emily Blunt Makes a Droopy 'Girl on a Train' Worth Watching 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z When one of the Union's own superheroes breaks the "do not kill" Code, these new recruits find themselves at odds with the old-fashioned ethics and morality guiding the old guard. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z And we think social experiences, such as morality, virtue, love, grief, are emotions and mental constructs, which evolved in us to help us survive and flourish as a social species. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z The two-volume novel “The Yeshiva” explores a headmaster’s painful struggles with faith and morality. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z She sacrificed everything — family, friends and morality — for a dream built on lies. The Housewife Who Was a Spy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z And so I hope that this in a way reawakens that 19th-century morality that opera served.” Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z That is, I see my own advocacy for science, critical thought and basic morality as standing in direct opposition to their positions. From the Enlightenment to the Dark Ages: How “new atheism” slid into the alt-right 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Karl Johnson is memorable as the blind old man who teaches him to read, write, quote Milton and debate morality. Danny Boyle's 'Frankenstein' should be monster hit 2011-02-24T14:36:34Z The legality of a thing is entirely distinct from the morality of it,” Snowden said. Oliver Stone Has Directed Edward Snowden and Donald Trump 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z They care far more about jobs and the economy than godliness and debates over morality. Romney averts disaster with Michigan win 2012-02-29T12:55:00Z The issue is thornier, however, because of the morality and optics involved. Is This the End of the Red Carpet? 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z It described the movie as “a coldly intellectual morality drama tinged with a cynicism” that hinges on its “provocative contemplation of the age-old conflict between the soul and the flesh.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Sam Now’ and ‘Jeopardy! Masters’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z “What’s the morality inside this monster for separating children from their parents?” he asked of Trump, adding that it was “immoral” and he was “horrified”. 'People talk about Sicario as if it's a documentary:' Benicio Del Toro on his new thriller 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Of course, once you accept this worldview, it renders everything conditional, even good and evil, morality. The implications of Banned Books Week 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z These were standalone morality plays – literal time capsules – that interrogated what it meant to live, work and love in the US during the turbulence of the late 20th century. When good TV goes bad: how Quantum Leap made one leap too far 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Contrary to Barr’s perspective, morality did not start with the Bible. The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Secularism doesn't destroy society or moral order 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Pain, torment and morality were all themes Vonnegut worked with, too. Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut! 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Many of these works are morality tales stressing loyalty to family and friends; some are simply gangster stories. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z You set yourselves down as a lot of carping hypocrites; in fact, you cry aloud for the virtue of your women, while you seek to destroy the morality of ours. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The film needs to leave its morality with its corpses. Nicole Kidman is gunning for an Oscar in "Destroyer" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z He objected to the idealists, because in their self-righteousness and absolutism they were ready to disrupt peace for their particular sense of morality. The Book That Shaped Foreign Policy for a Generation Has More to Say 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Reading these striking stories, one wonders about the Israelis who lock their doors against external evil, but never stop to question their own morality. Three Floors, Three Different Israeli Stories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z As good as "Gold" is, however, in setting up its scenario about greed and morality, Hayes' film feels a bit shallow. Zac Efron is worth his weight in "Gold," a harrowing thriller about greed and survival 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z His writing is lean and relentless, a brutal evocation of a world in which conventional morality is just another lie we tell ourselves. Jean-Patrick Manchette's 'neo-polar' noir 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z There’s a lifetime of truth and morality, after all, already contained in this work. NYFF: Revisiting Indonesian acts of killing in 'Look of Silence' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Bush, lambasted the unmarried Murphy’s pregnancy as a mockery of fatherhood and a Hollywood raspberry to American morality. ‘Murphy Brown’ is ‘back to make some noise’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In the pivotal fifth episode, in which Nadia begins to question her own goodness and morality, the song doesn’t appear at all. This Is That Song From ‘Russian Doll’ 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Such morality melds with and blurs the sentimental streak of this play, which has a tight structure and exactly echoing imagery that Ibsen might appreciate. In Philip Ridley’s ‘Mercury Fur,’ It’s the World’s End, and the Party’s Here 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The novel’s heavyweight themes — Manifest Destiny, nihilism’s triumph over morality — are complemented by indelible imagery and sentences as expansive as desert skies. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Tasmania is in a state of war between what Billy calls “white fella” and “black fella,” a conflict waged without mercy or morality. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Wonder where that kernel of morality came from? 'Once Upon a Time': A villain returns, a hero is born in 'Heart of Gold' 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z At its best, though, “The Feral Detective” is a worthy morality play about our warring impulses for conflict and comfort. Take a Very Dark Trip Through the California Desert With ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It is a book about morality and about the amorality intrinsic to the medium, as one of the core functions of television is to stimulate shameless desire. A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Here, then, is an indictment of morality, at least as it is lived by Anne. Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The pastor is a tenacious embodiment of the hypocritical morality Mrs. Alving believes she has put behind her. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z "Democrats see getting high as a lifestyle choice, whereas Republicans are more likely to understand it through the prism of morality and social deviance," Jenkins said. Poll: US split on legal pot, against online bets 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z It is a film that required coldness, that was the only morality that had to be upheld — coldness, including my own coldness as an actress. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z His son inherited much of his morality and determination, and a taste for show business from his mother, who was a musical-comedy performer. Charles Jarrott obituary 2011-03-06T18:49:41Z “It is clear to see America has a desperate need to go back to the old paths of ethics, morality and respect for religion,” he said. Michele Bachmann and the Making of an Acolyte 2011-09-23T21:25:59Z But like 17th-century anatomical drawings doubling as allegories, these bodies are also posed to teach contemporary morality lessons, which tend to focus on health. Exhibition Review: ‘Body Worlds: Pulse’ at Discovery Times Square 2013-05-09T20:27:43Z But scripts about cheating and its consequences continued to flourish, in hues frivolous, somber and — modern morality being muddy — somewhere in between. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z All of them are more or less groping to find the boundaries of morality, the show’s most consistent theme. The Walking Dead 'Crossed' Recap: Hot'n'Melty 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z They all advance a particular moral view of the universe and operate in the Dickensian tradition of morality tales and social critiques dressed in the guise of realism. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z By focussing on these conflicts about private and public morality and the place of sex and race in society, the Williams affair will have a lasting impact. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z I could write a feisty paper about Nietzsche’s theories of morality, but I couldn’t sit in a room with a truly suffering person for one second. Someone to hold me 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z What are the ethics and morality of "Serial"? How do you want to impact the audience? True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z While Growing Seeds was influenced by the painful end of a relationship, Perfect View took inspiration from morality and a fable based on King Herod ordering the murder of his second wife. Lust for Youth – Breaking Silence: New music 2013-05-08T06:00:00Z In the lives of these thoughtful people, Cohen locates the painful inflection point of their morality. Review | The perfect summer novel: ‘Strangers and Cousins’ is an unusually substantive comedy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z "You're Nothing" rails against excess, manufactured pressure and the general decimation of morality. Review: Iceage prove their worth on sophomore CD 2013-02-19T18:56:08Z Throughout the novel each of the major characters suffer crises of faith and of morality. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Michael Douglas' character, financier Gordon Gekko, returns to the high-finance morality tale, 23 years after his proclamation that "greed ... is good" became a metaphor for the downside of the financial boom of the 1980s. "Wall Street" sequel tops North America box office 2010-09-26T16:36:00Z Torture and drone strikes are the most debated topics of the film, and the discussions on their morality and legality is absorbing, if not especially enlightening. Spymasters: CIA documentary sheds little light on drones, 9/11 or torture 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Shows like “Weeds” are gothic morality tales about the high price of messing up, at a time when messing up amounts to little more than the failure to build a decent résumé. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Music does not deal in general ideas of morality or salvation. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It must be those awful middle-class suckers and politicians, those lily-white lawyers with their hypocritical standards, hiding behind white middle-class morality while doing their own kind of sanctified, government-approved grifting. Her dad was a con man 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z Using clear precedent, poetic language, and appeals to morality, Francis Scott Key argued that the hundreds of African captives found aboard the Antelope should be returned to Africa and freedom. “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z So I just had to be, like, can I throw away all my morality? Henry Rollins calls U.S. men "the dumbest creatures" & Trump "wrongest possible" leader for pandemic 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s what the piano teacher tells her young student: Coldness speaks to you, because there is a morality in coldness. Isabelle Huppert Doesn’t Watch Her Past Films, but She Will Discuss Them 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z I'm just annoyed that this whole limp story boils down to a Judeo-Christian morality play between good and evil. How can the "Lost" finale not suck? 2010-05-21T20:42:00Z Migrants from southern Italy brought their own moralities and dialects, which Pasolini documented with ethnographic exactitude. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z It’s about poverty and bureaucracy and sex and morality and music. He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z "There's a morality… I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and the other begins…" So what is he? David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z His picaresque novel “The Tin Drum,” in which he created a diabolical dwarf to symbolize his country’s stunted morality during and after Nazism, brought him near-universal literary acclaim after its publication in 1959. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In a decision with national implications for the role of personal morality in the workplace, U.S. Judge strikes down law mandating sale of contraception 2012-02-23T05:35:08Z Spies, amiably sung by Timur Bekbosunov, a tenor, paints and indulges until he is arrested on morality charges by a Dutch policeman. Music Review: Moved by Music of the Tropics, A Composer Moves to Them 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z Do people think typing 140-character morality lectures is pushing society forward? Review: When the Digital World Is Judging Your Every Thought 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z I was on board with all the brutishness — it’s more fun when “The Walking Dead” complicates its heroes’ morality. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: The Dangers of Creature Comforts 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z From the Greeks to Shakespeare and Brecht the theater has a long if irregular history of morality plays. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z They are depicted as strange, of dubious sense and morality, violent, to be approached with caution, and with the kind of curiosity that dehumanizes, intentionally or not. After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z He attacks, for example, the philosophical presumption mentioned earlier, that morality is a matter of reasoning—that we reason our way “up” to moral action or decision. Do primates practice religion? 2013-06-04T15:43:00Z He explains a series of mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation and morality. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z What bothers me is that there’s no conscience, no morality to what they’ve done. Mary and MoMa: The Case of the (Still) Missing Film Stills 2012-01-11T19:14:15Z In the words of one restaurant critic, Ramsay's culinary reputation is in "slow-motion decline", the victim of "a morality tale of the perils of greed and egomania". Gordon Ramsay: appetite for destruction 2012-06-08T22:01:04Z The only disappointments are a suspect frame rate, and an underwhelming conclusion, which suggests it is a morality tale conspicuously lacking a moral. The Cave – review 2013-01-27T00:06:04Z In both these ways, for all his failings, he was “deeply attractive during a time of shifting, murky moralities.” The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “There is also no doubt that sovereignty cannot be a reason for casting legality and morality aside,” she said. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z The question at the heart of this pointed morality play is ultimately not whether you’ll sell your soul, but how much it’s really worth. ‘99 Homes,’ ‘Paddleton’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Many of her characters find themselves in situations where personal and political morality become intertwined. Hari Kunzru: my hero, Nayantara Saghal 2012-07-20T21:55:13Z But he managed to separate the motif from its attendant morality. Art Review: Workers at Rest: Smoking and Playing Cards 2011-02-10T21:40:34Z My instinct is just that much of the power of art comes from artists’ ability to address truth and reality from outside the framework of conventional morality. Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Moving elliptically from Chicago in the long-ago past, to a trip Brik takes with a photographer friend, the novel circles the idea of memory and morality. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z In the parallel universe of my own imaginary morality, every ‘freak’ had signed on the Free-Love dotted line. Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z When she is reading Jane Austen, her notes are all about education, morality, self-deception, openness; sometimes she sounds rather like her predecessor. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Instead, he uses its exaggerated morality, its absurd plot twists and its memorable one-liners as jumping off points for discourses about Buddhist teachings. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z About six years ago, Ms. Markey started earning notice for frequently combustible interpretations of bubble gum songs that turned, say, the Taylor Swift hit “You Belong With Me” into a satanic morality tale. A ‘Barbie From Outer Space’ Touches Down on a New Stage 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z "It's about being humane, being humanitarian, about morality." Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z In states that rejected the Medicaid expansion, we are witnessing a victory of politics over compassion and morality. The state of senior health: It depends on your state 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Yearwood is more transparently concerned with morality than Mr. Brooks, who is instead motivated by passion. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z There’s a pretty well-defined morality to the characters: the good, the bad ... not a lot of gray area. Sam Elliott: 'My security comes from the fact I've never done a job for money' 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z David Attenborough avoided clumsy anthropomorphism or the tendency to attribute morality or consciousness to creatures such as Franzi and I, who are essentially automatons driven by need and instinct. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z |
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