Do you think politics turns people into amoral sycophants, or do you think amoral sycophants are drawn to politics?
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" He also called Trump "amoral" and a "pathological liar.
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Steve Buscemi is a hilarious amoral psychopath who loves explosives.
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The Trump administration isn't new to glaring amoral bigoted omissions.
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These are amoral algorithms who aren't crippled by that morality.
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Underwood. The tenure of Spacey's amoral, predatory fictional president, immune
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This amoral neutrality is supposed to make evil regimes better.
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Like him, they view politics in transactional and amoral terms.
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Did their moral obtuseness come from amoral fathers or grandfathers?
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They're amoral and incompetent, which is such a delightful combination.
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This President, because he's an amoral leader, shapes those around him.
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But the presidency is the wrong job for an amoral man.
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To work in this space you have to be weirdly amoral.
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Then there's the amoral, demanding "Audience," always capitalized and often ominous.
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Raise money for it and feel not immoral, but merely amoral.
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There was no amoral approach to science, Mr. Lehrer reminded us.
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But more often, proximity to an amoral leader reveals something depressing.
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Amoral and power-hungry, he's lying with knowledge, calculation and abandon.
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Cruz called Trump "utterly amoral" and a "pathological liar" in response.
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" Ted Cruz said he was "utterly amoral" and "a pathological liar.
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" For his part, Cruz called Trump "totally amoral" and "a pathological liar.
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Ethics, however, for Rich, stood at a remove from amoral sonic pleasure.
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There is something to be said for an amoral approach to business.
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It is amoral to continue with pro-fossil fuel policies in 2017.
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It's not that the league is institutionally or constitutionally immoral, or amoral.
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Like me, he seemed to do it all with such amoral ease.
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This is just such an ugly display of amoral and inhuman behavior.
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Spree also puts forward a bleakly amoral vision of the internet economy.
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By the end, Cruz bitterly labeled his conqueror an "utterly amoral" pathological liar.
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He defended and lied about amoral, monstrous if not criminal policies and actions.
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Instead they wind up identifying with the amoral (if not psychopathic) anti-hero.
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The thing about Hollywood is that it's not immoral, it's amoral, you know?
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Technology is amoral, and exists in a plane quite beyond our moral dramas.
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In this amoral setting, you have to be on top of your game.
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A population made up of amoral, disengaged individuals will yield a venal society.
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What's needed instead is a fundamental break with the amoral peace-process mindset.
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Amoral leaders have a way of revealing the character of those around them.
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The deeply amoral financial sector is a prime target for Murray's rollicking caper.
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This approach may not be surprising given that the whips' job is fundamentally amoral.
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Furthermore, Cruz had described Trump as a bully, "utterly amoral," and a pathological liar.
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Few politicians are willing to be that honest in expressing a completely amoral viewpoint.
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Amoral is when you shoot someone in the head, it doesn't make a difference.
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Is it that he is utterly amoral or that he is such a chump?
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By far the most vivid character is the team director, an uncouth, amoral machiavel.
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Markets are amoral and won't complain about autocratic behavior if it produces economic growth.
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How else to make sense of the enormous evangelical support this amoral president garners?
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They modeled Erickson's covert hypnotic style, but the problem with NLP is it's amoral.
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They're all various shades of amoral—thirty-two profit-driven enablers of horrible behavior.
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Women's sexualities are way more likely to be shamed and dismissed as amoral than men's.
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The moral of the amoral story: Frank and Claire are back to their dirty tricks.
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Before the first act is over, he's established himself as a reckless, greedy, amoral ass.
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A cautionary tale about a brutal, amoral dictator has evidently felt relevant to people lately.
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Historically, it wasn't thought to be a disease, but amoral failing or a character flaw.
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Comey is saying Trump is amoral, that he lacks any basic moral structure at all.
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If he's just an amoral narcissistic lunatic, as he appears to be, that's also bad.
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He's not a ruthless person; he's not an amoral operator the way his father is.
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I tried to make my case, aware of how flimsy and amoral my ambitions sounded.
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"What we have with law firms and consulting firms is that they're amoral," he said.
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They just had the misfortune of working for the government when an amoral asshole was president.
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And yet, perhaps there's reason to be nostalgic for that amoral, tactical coverage of American politics.
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"It was unfair and illegal, amoral and politicised," the RIA news agency quoted him as saying.
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It's possible that there was a time when that kind of amoral assholedom was an advantage.
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"The world will tell you you are amoral, and they will call you evil," he said.
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The movie is actually about how it's too amoral and grisly to stand alongside its peers.
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Cruz labeled Trump a "pathological liar," a "serial philanderer," a bully, "utterly amoral," and a narcissist.
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It's up to Facebook and advertisers to constrain this amoral process in ethical and lawful ways.
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Cruelly amoral and only marginally credible, "Flower" is nevertheless wildly entertaining and at times even touching.
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That book was about a young upper-middle-class couple and assorted amoral doings in Manhattan.
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The amoral Proctor doesn't hesitate, but Waterhouse, plagued with regret, demands that Proctor relinquish his badge.
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Comey has bashed Trump as an stain on American democracy who is too amoral to be President.
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Wade was a reflection of an amoral society that didn't want to take responsibility for its actions.
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But it means 18% less money from any investor following the ethical rather than the amoral index.
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In this case, it's an android "host" that will populate (and embody) the amoral landscape of Westworld.
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The story received widespread media attention as parents grappled with tough questions: Were America's children completely amoral?
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She's the epitome of what all the Suicide Squad lead-ups promised us: she's cheerfully, recklessly amoral.
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"He's an ignorant, amoral, dishonest and manipulative, misogynistic, philandering, hyper-litigious, isolationist, protectionist blowhard," Mr. Vlock said.
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President Trump is "amoral," a "chronic liar," who "eats your soul in small bites," according to Comey.
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Only a man with amoral instincts would mock a reporter's disability, as Trump did during his campaign.
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The young innovators of Silicon Valley were not like the largely amoral barons of industry and finance.
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Implacable, beautiful, cold, selfish, hard, amoral, she lowered the temperature of the stage to near absolute zero.
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Before dropping out of the race, Cruz called Trump an "utterly amoral" pathological liar, narcissist and bully.
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Turns out, an enlightened, socially engaged Facebook has a similar outlook as the amoral, audience-seeking Facebook.
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The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.
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"Unfortunately, Wall Street for the most part is amoral," Ackman said when I asked him about it.
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A.S. ILKSONWoodstock, New York Shareholder primacy is anti-scientific, wrong, immoral (not just amoral) and very damaging.
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An ahistorical, amoral American leader cheering on a British abdication sums up the end of an era.
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"Whatever lie he's telling, at that minute he believes it ... the man is utterly amoral," Cruz told reporters.
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A smug, amoral response from the people at the top of powerful tech companies isn't what we need.
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They tried to warn their voters in the strongest terms possible that Trump is unqualified, untrustworthy, and amoral.
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His character is described as a "brutish amoral killer" who just happens to look like, well, Colin Farrell.
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It is populist entertainment to its core, even as it has always been run by rich, amoral assholes.
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In itself, his fear was amoral, an involuntary reaction—"the terror was undoubtedly upon me"—to overweening power.
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Its foreign policy had to be entirely amoral, prioritizing Wakandan security policy over concerns about human rights abroad.
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And yes, Trump is an amoral opportunist with a business record of failures and dealing with shady individuals.
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"They have indirectly aided and abetted the thuggery of the Nazis, who were completely amoral," Mr. Blumenthal said.
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And because strategy is amoral, the media's preoccupation with gaffes has always been an easy target for critics.
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It's a brazen, ghoulish murder-fest, as twisted and amoral as its heroes, and has no pretensions otherwise.
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Before making his announcement, Cruz called Trump a "pathological liar" and "utterly amoral," The New York Times reports.
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Compared to the serious, perhaps tad morose films from Poland's "cinema of moral concern," Chytilová's are blissfully amoral.
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Because the combination is terrible — a president who is an amoral chump is the worst thing of all.
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Trump is a "pathological liar" who is "utterly amoral" and does not know right from wrong, Cruz said.
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Cruz, for his part, called Trump a "pathological liar," a "sniveling coward," a "serial philanderer" and "utterly amoral."
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The reality is that stupidity, bad judgment, narcissism, lack of integrity and immoral or amoral behaviors aren't crimes.
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Using the actions of a few extremists to justify fear of 1.6 billion people worldwide is irrational and amoral.
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The chart of the Chilean stock exchange under the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship below shows that markets are gruesomely amoral.
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Ford does it with a veneer of artistry, but in the end, the two of them are similarly amoral.
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I doubt it will shock you to hear I've encountered a lot of amoral behavior in tech, thus far.
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He's an amoral crook who suggests there's no real good or bad side in Star Wars' endless interplanetary conflicts.
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Even fewer people, even in this amoral abyss of a historical moment, were willing to go after his baby.
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They hooted and hollered during her speech, as she decried the U.S. "military industrial complex" and its "amoral" economy.
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We would build new companies in new ways, was the thinking, not like the amoral industrial behemoths of old.
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Ramsey teaches that having money is about emotion and contentment, and that building wealth is neither moral or amoral.
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We are in an amoral conundrum where the people left to fight, the youngest, have yet to wake up.
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Frustratingly absent is any hint of what turned Saviano's antihero, the gang leader Nicolas Fiorillo, into an amoral killer.
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Didion's notes are overwhelmingly focused on her own aesthetic sensibility, just as Harrison charged, but they are not amoral.
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The script traces the fragmentation of the wealthy, wretched, amoral Essenbeck family during the Nazi party's rise to power.
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From the beginning, I saw Donald Trump as a con man of the highest order: manipulative, dishonest, unprincipled, amoral.
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A scene in which Peer celebrates the amoral attitudes that earned him a fortune feels queasily pertinent, if overlong.
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It's more about corruption, betrayal, and clashing agendas between amoral characters who are all doggedly chasing the same payout.
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They refused billions in federal aid, leaving the welfare of their constituents to market forces that are, literally, amoral.
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It's an amoral calculator of short-term corporate profits and dividends over the next few years, nothing more or less.
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No, she is not from the anti-war wing of the Democratic Party, but neither is she an amoral warmonger.
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Living proof that the Targaryen ideals of incest were a bad idea, Joffrey was sadistic, amoral, spoiled, and power-hungry.
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And Mr Trump's preferred form of candour—an amoral, might-makes-right cynicism—may be the least help of all.
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A seductively amoral film, it attempts to reconstruct a murder from the point of view of the victim's investigating sister.
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As a result, Republicans, whether or not they think Trump is a narcissistic, amoral pathological liar, are stuck with him.
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The story follows the exploits of Ryunosuke Tsukue (Tatsuya Nakadai), an amoral, emotionless master swordsman, and his descent into madness.
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But a shared cynicism about the world unites their governments—and survives the complicating factor of an amoral American president.
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Sure, Trump's a misogynist, but he's also nakedly amoral, which in certain ways is less scary than zealous gender complementarianism.
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It's not just that the characters in the film are almost all amoral, but that they are so relentlessly stupid.
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Alexia is the glittering-eyed, amoral big sister from hell: Justine is the young ingénue who chafes against her dominance.
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The Texan hit out at Trump as "utterly amoral" and a "pathological liar," but it was all to no avail.
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I'm too noble to eat here, but not too noble to walk by taking pictures and judging you amoral carnivores.
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He's destroying the fabric of our country, its heritage and its future, and enabling the amoral G.O.P. to do likewise.
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The narcissistic, amoral, vulgar reality-TV president and the modest, principled, classy, old-world president could not be more different.
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Marvel describes the character as a man "struggling with multiple personalities and amoral inclinations" who acts like a cloaked avenger.
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The old guard claims that they're missing the point of literature, thrusting morality upon an amoral pursuit, sullying the experience.
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It is not that people on Wall Street themselves are amoral or aren't often appalled by the excesses of autocrats.
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He was amoral, sure, but that was part and parcel of his craftiness, which could do the country some good.
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A Jacobean tragedy at its goriest and most amoral, this 27555 John Webster play is revived by Red Bull Theater.
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A Jacobean tragedy at its goriest and most amoral, this 71900 John Webster play is revived by Red Bull Theater.
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It's hard to know, for instance, whether we should blame Paladin's amoral violence on the generally likable robot or the IPC.
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It was originally, and somewhat reasonably, used to describe amoral pseudo-news sites that fabricated stories for viral social media appeal.
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This response is breathtakingly amoral, as well as regressive, terrible decision-making — for Twitter, for the internet, for all of us.
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" The op-ed blasted Trump as "amoral" and "anti-democratic" and detailed Trump staffers' efforts to contain the president's "misguided impulses.
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" Cruz called him an "amoral pathological liar" and said if he is elected "this country could well plunge into the abyss.
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And then you meet everyone else: Atlas, crusading everyman; Sander Cohen, amoral artist; Tennenbaum, repentant super scientist; Suchong, unrepentant super scientist.
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Considering that I come from an era when homosexuals were decried as hedonistic, amoral culture-destroyers, I am awfully old-fashioned.
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What could have come across as lascivious or amoral doesn't; Pearl's married, and Mortensen, as Walker Jerome, surrenders to her desire.
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What's fascinating is how this official, who describes the president as amoral, anti-democratic and reckless, rationalizes working for him regardless.
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Once again, human misery is converted to currency by players canny and amoral enough to see the play and make it.
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Early sequences paint a cunning—and not unrealistic—portrait of a community of cheerful, amoral scavengers, justifying every theft with theory.
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It would be a profound mistake, though, to caricature the tech industry as amoral or tech policymakers in government as ignorant.
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But the Engineer now comes across less as the show's all-pervading, appallingly amoral essence than as a piquant supporting player.
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How do you turn violent religious extremists into amoral gangsters, while simultaneously making people who get high look like terrorist funders?
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The document dismisses the argument, much loved by some economists, that amoral market mechanisms will somehow do the necessary ethical work automatically.
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After every mass shooting, the NRA stokes a run on gun sales, these companies buy more stock—it's a disgusting, amoral cycle.
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Meanwhile, some are growing tired of the frequently cited notion that technology is amoral, and that people make it bad or good.
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Insurance markets are amoral, and they won't provide much comfort to the responsible party, whether it's the sponsors of ObamaCare or TrumpCare.
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S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE an "utterly amoral" bully, narcissist, pathological liar. Day-umm!
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Earlier this month, Conway retweeted a controversial anonymous New York Times op-ed warning that Trump is a dangerous and amoral leader.
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" On Tuesday, Cruz shot back against Trump after the front-runner made the claims, calling Trump "utterly amoral" and a "pathological liar.
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Amoral commerce can be engaged in by people from many cultures and backgrounds; recent hyperglobalisation would not have been possible without it.
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Gussie was "simply a tough girl," but not an amoral one, although her career choice would continue to make her mother apoplectic.
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Mr. Trump, he said then, was a "pathological liar" and a "serial philanderer," an "utterly amoral" conspiracy-monger and a peerless narcissist.
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The problems stem from the same amoral instinct to extract as much value from as many people as possible, consequences be damned.
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His most admired film was "Alfie," a dark comedy-drama that gave Mr. Caine his breakthrough role, as an amoral cockney womanizer.
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"Pure trolls are amoral"—they post swastikas, he suggested, not out of an allegiance to Nazism but because they enjoy riling people.
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He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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More than other cannibal movies, it makes a vegetarian case for meat as the gateway drug between ethical eating and amoral primalism.
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And though they gave their presidential nomination to a ludicrous and offensive candidate — an amoral showman — they won the White House nonetheless.
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Under Trump, however, we're learning that an American approach to the world that is completely amoral and transactional creates its own dangers.
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The failure mode of a poisonous system is a death-spiral feedback loop that quickly infects your employees, until they become amoral bureaucrats.
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Luck, like war, is fundamentally amoral; it does not know whether it is good or bad, and if it did, it wouldn't care.
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For all those who think Hollywood is an amoral, power-hungry, cash-starved nightmare world, UnReal has a message for you: It's true.
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The question of finding extraterrestrials, if they even exist, is "pretty amoral…it can lead to great things and terrifying things," Reese added.
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He co-wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which is one of the most amoral movies of all time, but it's stylized.
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It was rude, by and large, to people who deserved it: amoral and venal team owners, predatory sports media personalities, bandwagon Warriors fans.
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Not only was this resistance amoral and born of stigma, it had cost us talented service members and wasted millions of taxpayer dollars.
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Considering the context of America's position in the world on children and family rights, this only further solidifies an amoral point of view.
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And so are the amoral show-business types who don't care what they put on TV as long as the ratings are good.
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In short, the amoral economy envisioned by free market theory is a fantasy, a theoretical construct that has never really existed in practice.
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But the problems stem from the same amoral instinct to extract as much value from as many people as possible, consequences be damned.
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When they next see each other at work, Agnes reveals her disillusionment with Peter and his "educated," amoral crowd, meandering through unearned lives.
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It's about young, amoral Italian hipsters in Manhattan and Brooklyn circa 2010, and it's plainly the work of a forceful and ambitious writer.
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Even though it's been over 30 years, Veidt is still the same man with the same extreme, amoral utilitarianism he had years ago.
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Human beings are moral animals, and suddenly American moral animals found themselves in an amoral economic system, which felt increasingly alienating and gross.
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That said, Jocasta has been an amoral force who isn't bidding for our sympathy, and putting her with Murtagh is definitely a bid.
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Not an America that has reduced itself to just one more player, scrapping its way through an amoral worldwide scrum for narrow advantage.
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I think amoral sycophants are pretty clearly attracted to politics, but I'm not sure I want to say politics turns people into sycophants.
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Mr. Romney, who in 2016 excoriated Mr. Trump as an amoral con man, graciously accepted the president's Twitter-born endorsement on Monday night.
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Amoral, deeply disturbed bisexual characters have become so common that GLAAD has repeatedly noted the trope in its "Where We Are on TV" surveys.
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The experience puts a handful of people into the role of quality assurance testers at Mechlife, your average amoral manufacturer of eerily humanlike androids.
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Its culture is less amoral than it was in its youth, when it aspired to "move fast and break things"—but only a bit.
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Unlike conservative evangelicals, who have stuck with an amoral sexual predator who covets teenage girls, Mormons appear to be putting their faith above politics.
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This situation — a patina of genteel progressivism atop a churning engine of amoral meritocracy — is inherently unstable and was bound to produce a counterreaction.
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Manafort is portrayed as an amoral, manipulative, elitist jerk whose very existence runs in opposition to the grassroots, populist campaign that Lewandowski helped build.
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In that story, an obese and amoral lawyer is cursed after running down a gypsy woman, gradually losing his mass until he becomes emaciated.
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But Trump lives in an alternative, amoral Howard Stern universe where he cannot enjoy the sweetness that altruism and community service can occasionally bring.
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" Reid, who served in the Senate from 1987 to 2017, has previously called Trump "amoral" and "without question the worst president we've ever had.
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The smug look on the crown prince's face conveys the understanding that all will be well in the amoral relationship between our two countries.
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But Jessica's mother Lynn Kessling suspects the truth: that Skylar is a dangerous, amoral psychopath, who's dark secrets may be too frightening to believe!
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"People talk about bankers being amoral," said Charlie Beckett, the director of the Truth, Trust and Technology Commission at the London School of Economics.
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The reality of Donald Trump — an amoral narcissist with no capacity for reflection or personal growth — is evident from his decades in public life.
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The op-ed, written by a senior Trump administration official, bashed the President as amoral and claimed there is a "resistance" within the administration.
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Its jewel box interiors and outré styling do not make the business of being a scheming and amoral millionaire or billionaire appear particularly unappealing.
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Murdoch started with a few newspapers; Logan got where he is because he's a cunning businessman, an amoral jerk, and a cold-hearted bastard.
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It's about young, wealthy, amoral Italian hipsters in Manhattan and Brooklyn circa 21993, and it is the work of a forceful and ambitious writer.
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Spanning the late 1930s to late 1950s, the story follows Jim McNeely (a flavorless Lane Garrison), from penniless store clerk to amoral oil tycoon.
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From then on, my eyes were open to the kind of person Trump was — an amoral bully like his base that supported and elected him.
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But this story shows that the porn people and the sex workers are supportive, kindhearted, lovely people, whereas the tech people are amoral, ruthless people.
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The end result is a crisis of moral authority, and even of amoral authority; this is a society that cannot even produce a proper strongman.
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At the end of the day, when Trump takes the lipstick off his expressive, puckery lips, he's still an amoral liar, bigot and con man.
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They were drawn to Donald's brashness and bluster and bullying, his harsh words, even the amoral ease with which untruths slid out of his mouth.
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As I gleefully claimed my second-place trivia tournament prize, for a brief moment, I lapped up the dull, amoral wickedness of the Cillizza-verse.
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Lee and Jack can be gleefully amoral, and will go to great lengths to justify their actions, but they don't entirely lack conscience or decency.
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Its amoral view of capital is increasingly clashing with the reality that it matters a whole heck of a lot where that capital comes from.
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Yes, he seems to have surrounded himself with a cadre of amoral clowns, but Trump has also created the conditions for others to abase themselves.
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But in the genre's modern incarnation, the rules of home invasion horror were pretty much codified by Michael Haneke's anarchistic, amoral Funny Games in 1997.
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Hollywood's fictional female journalists often tend to be ruthless, amoral cutthroats who'll do anything for a story, and/or are sexually available to their sources.
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Uber is a poster child of this Silicon Valley era: As long as the business is growing, companies can be amoral at best, immoral at worst.
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The official wrote that the root of the problem was that Trump is amoral and not moored to any discernible principles that guide his decision-making.
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They believe a clear victory would give him a mandate, make it easier to push his policies, and encourage amoral cadres to align with his camp.
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He was, in the best sense of the word (truly the best to an interviewer anxious to learn the innermost secrets of political maneuverings), totally amoral.
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The first, also known as "The Death Wheelers," stars Nicky Henson as Tom, the amoral leader of a gang of motorcyclists who terrorize unsuspecting English townsfolk.
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Morally as well as practically, limiting this unfit, amoral, unsteady man's time in the presidency takes precedence over any small cluster of sentences written centuries ago.
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Its anti-hero is Gordon Frohman: a hapless, amoral everyman who keeps getting accidentally mistaken for the scientist who might save humanity from the alien Combine.
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There were stories that the front office culture Luhnow had created in Houston was not just cutthroat and paranoid, but increasingly high-handed and stridently amoral.
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He is all-knowing, amoral, obnoxious—here to mock, chide, explicate, stir up trouble, and get out while he can with his own however-gotten gains.
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While Tony Soprano bullied his way through The Sopranos, his mob wife, Carmela (Edie Falco), was given the rare opportunity to be both amoral and likable.
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Half-elf and half-human, he's torn between his two heritages — and between his love for amoral, exciting, human Kitiara and virtuous, noble elf maiden Laurana.
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You have to care passionately about something to be truly evil, which makes Trump less strictly evil than thoroughly amoral, though he can certainly DO evil things.
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By cozying up with Saudi Arabia, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is sending a clear signal that he intends to run Uber as an amoral profit-maximizing machine.
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It's bought and sold through a political merchandising class whose amoral, purely mercenary priorities overran Washington—and whatever principles the Clintons may have once possessed—long ago.
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In a perverse and amoral way, the logic of the political suicide mission is self-reinforcing, even if it ultimately fails to meet all of its objectives.
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Then, spectacularly last week, one anonymous "senior official" went full monty in a New York Times opinion about inside efforts to control an erratic and amoral president.
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Trump, who once bleated "Where's my Roy Cohn?" in his anger about Jeff Sessions recusing himself, wanted a lawyer who was whip-smart, amoral, ruthless and predatory.
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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.
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Mr. Manafort, in other words, embodies the sort of amoral, self-dealing denizen of the swamp that Mr. Trump pledged to drain when he got to Washington.
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As her quest for selfhood continues, Ada becomes an amoral monster of longing, pushing to cure Samson while sociopathically disregarding anyone who would stand in her way.
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At what point do the well-intentioned Steady Staters become so mired in the amoral filth of the White House that they cannot be distinguished from it?
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In his answer, Buttigieg took the assumptions the evangelical right often makes about gay people — that we're conniving, amoral perverts — and deftly redirected them toward Pence himself.
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Opinion Columnist Omarosa Manigault Newman, the reality show villain who campaigned for Donald Trump and followed him into the White House, is an amoral, dishonest, mercenary grifter.
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Westbrook simply turns himself over to it, and that amoral and unreasonable and uncompromising and engulfing thing then finds various dazzling expressions through his channeling of it.
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Here, he plays Wade Wilson, a breezily amoral hired gun who, after some story filler, turns into Deadpool, an antihero who likes to address the camera between kills.
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I don't give a damn about them—but they should be punished with derision and loss of reputation for their amoral destruction of the next generation of scholars.
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But then Cersei's amoral ex-maester, Qyburn, brings the Mountain back as a giant Franken-zombie who does the queen's bidding — you know, like torturing the Shame Nun.
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One by one, Republican leaders who had criticized Trump decided to forget all the things they said about Trump being a con artist, utterly amoral, a pathological liar.
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Rather, we must maintain the cognitive equipoise that refuses to revile members of a worldwide religion because of the actions of a small band of amoral true believers.
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"Many countries are legitimately freaked out about the ruthless amoral Facebook vampire squid having its tentacles jammed into their countries' control of currency and banking systems," he said.
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It's complex and inequitable; it doesn't cover everyone; it turns people into customers in an amoral and unpopular market, rather than into users of a simple public utility.
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That fantasy offers us the hope that we no longer have to be supporting characters in the story of rich and powerful white men acting depraved and amoral.
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"You can't have fans imagining you changing diapers," said Saori Mine, a veteran Takarazuka actress who plays the amoral lawyer Billy in "Chicago," explaining the injunction against marriage.
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Like Black Flag before it, Odyssey puts you in the shoes of an amoral mercenary who is out to make a quick buck and a name for themselves.
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It tracks the turbulent and sometimes amoral world of New York high finance, with two rivals (played by Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti) angling for the upper hand.
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In addition, by-and-large, each individual had a unique, personal combination of reasons for arriving at that decision, logical or illogical, rational or irrational, moral or amoral.
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Part of this is the amoral tradecraft of a New York real estate developer, but a lot of it springs from the appetites of a voracious attention-getter.
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Esposito, as the suavely amoral Powell, and D'Onofrio, as the unapologetically racist Gigante, don't have such constraints, and their performances are correspondingly both more relaxed and more nuanced.
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He was a recognizable caricature of a successful CEO placed in a situation where his vanity, vindictiveness, and amoral ambition could be taken to bizarre yet conceivable extremes.
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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called President Trump "amoral" and "the worst president we've ever had" in a profile by Mark Leibovich for The New York Times Magazine.
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His 1994 novel Thank You For Smoking, about an amoral PR man who works to downplay the dangers of cigarettes, was adapted into a 2005 film starring Aaron Eckhart.
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It's clear that a murderer with a "misanthropic personality" or an "amoral character" has no cause to claim an exemption from execution, while someone with a "psychotic disorder" does.
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" The Times op-ed from September 2018 described a president the author viewed as amoral, opposed to many conservative values such as freedom, and "impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
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But with an amoral president — and Trump certainly fills that bill — a moral framework is necessary to remind citizens of how craven some actions of this president truly are.
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A less than grief-stricken widow, Susan has the kind of amoral poise that might make her a suitable alpha on "Real Housewives of the Home Counties" circa 1800.
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It's not an amoral story — even if the series loves building up sadistic villains — but its general philosophy is, being good is useless unless you can also do good.
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" He went on to call Mr. Trump "a pathological liar"; "utterly amoral"; "a serial philanderer"; and "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country has ever seen.
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When dealing with Putin, President Trump's vaunted deal-making ability will be of little use, as he will be attempting to come to terms with a fundamentally amoral man.
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Later, while Pleasants was enjoying the amoral perks of the British Free Corps, his reputation as a boxer saw him selected to fight for the SS pioneer boxing team.
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It's an early prelude to the Dark Willow arc of season six; a less amoral, more cathartic version, but one that lays the groundwork for the flayings to come.
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" "The man is utterly amoral," Cruz went on, comparing him to the fictional bully character in Back to the Future, "We are looking, potentially, at the Biff Tannen presidency.
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Mr. Owens lends weary, granitic power, but the moral — that is to say, amoral — center is provided by Christopher Purves, who plays the bitter, grasping Alberich as chillingly human.
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" Warning the students that she would "be blunt," Ms. Yovanovitch said that "an amoral, 'keep them guessing' foreign policy that substitutes threats, fear and confusion for trust cannot work.
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A "bro co." has a "bro" C.E.O., or C.E.-Bro, usually a young man who has little work experience but is good-looking, cocky and slightly amoral — a hustler.
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Hiding the pill that spills from Hector's hands during that coughing fit suggests that perhaps everyone's favorite amoral Mexican uncle will wind up in a wheelchair through pharmacological means.
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Chuck Bass was originally a minor background character, a villain who epitomized the amoral privilege of the Upper East Side against which Serena struggled and which Dan staunchly opposed.
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But it's clear that after years of privacy scandals, accusations of complicity in spreading propaganda and enabling genocide, and amoral advertising tactics, the situation at Facebook is still getting worse.
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Considering that GoT is built on the premise that we're all amoral flesh-sacks destined to become rotted worm food, it's almost shocking that it became such an international phenomenon.
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Tiresome romantic-lead exec Leandra (Adria Arjona) verbally pushes for an amoral everyone-for-themselves attitude, but spends most of the film urging others on instead of taking action herself.
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It's the latest step taken by Las Vegas to bring the Raiders to the city and create an amoral bacchanal eight Sundays a year like Nevada has never seen before.
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In 1977 LA, private investigator Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and low-rent hired muscle Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) are both bottom-feeding, amoral hustlers at low points in their lives.
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If Facebook has a social mission to serve the greater good, why is it so slow and ineffective in responding to the unethical, amoral, and violent uses of its technology?
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But in blaming God for Trump, Sanders echoed a widespread Republican belief that the most outwardly amoral man ever to occupy the White House is an instrument of divine power.
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Cruz finally blew his top at Trump before bowing out of the primary, calling him an "utterly amoral" narcissist and a "pathological liar" who has bragged about battling venereal disease.
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A new player also includes the always-welcome addition of Michael Sheen as a positively bonkers and amoral defense attorney, who clashes with the firm's Maia, played by Rose Leslie.
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Cruz's return to the Senate, where he has not cast a vote since February, came one week after he ripped Trump as an "utterly amoral" pathological liar, narcissist and bully.
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Newly released documents in one of many opioid epidemic lawsuits filed against Purdue Pharma—and the Sackler family that owns the company—suggest a corporation as amoral as it is greedy.
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All of the exploring, scavenging, tinkering, clutter, and heroic individualism of the Elder Scrolls series meant that the Bethesda framework was primed for an amoral wasteland wanderer to come strolling through.
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Netflix's The End Of The F***ing World, released in January, took us on a journey with two amoral teenagers who go on a crime spree after running away from home.
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But as time went on, and the Doctor transitioned from an amoral trickster whose gender didn't particularly matter to a hero, he took on the traits of specifically male heroic archetypes.
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Seeing the all-powerful, amoral (he had many illegitimate children) superman at the mercy of unsophisticated doctors and the forces of disease and death far beyond his comprehension is darkly funny.
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True, genocide did not start with Hitler but with the Ottoman Turks and their mass murder of Armenians during World War I, a genocide that the amoral world still barely recognizes.
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Stone has Richard Nixon's face tattooed on his back and Nixon's values imprinted on his soul; the amoral ruthlessness of the thirty-seventh President passed, through Stone, to the forty-fifth.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, what they tried to do, and/or claimed to do, was super shady and amoral and would have been ruinous to reasonable informed democracy if successful.
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It's the constant push and pull between behaving in a way that the audience may find amoral but justifying the behavior with an emotional undercurrent that makes the character seem credible.
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He loses his composure and erupts with a lifetime of resentments against Jimmy — the younger brother who always skates through life, despite choices that are amoral, callous or just plain stupid.
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Paul Ryan has said that not buying health insurance is a choice, which is not only shockingly amoral toward patients, but displays an incredible level of dickishness to medical professionals as well.
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Suddenly Kiera gets swept back to 2012 along with key members of the anti-corporate terrorist group Liber8, a surprisingly likable bunch of violently temperamental super soldiers, amoral scientists, and con artists.
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With supporting detail from Guardian reporter Carole Cadwalladr and former company executive Julian Wheatland, among others, The Great Hack pieces together the story of a company undone by its own amoral hubris.
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Distinctively American, Sternberg's figures radiate energy even as they are dramatically constrained by larger forces — amoral capitalism or perhaps just the godless universe — within which human beings create, and surrender, their fates.
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"It is time for a generation of Americans to rise up again for an amoral economic system has turned short-term profits for huge multinational corporations into a false god," she said.
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If Democrats campaign and win on an anti-corruption message, it will be a powerful sign that yes, Americans still reject the kind of amoral looting practiced by Trump and his ilk.
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Within three minutes of our arrival and shortly after letting go of his suspicions that I might be a member of the amoral, all-powerful media, Joe casually hands us a flyer.
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It doesn't just come from right-wing fanatics, either—I see plenty of hatred from gay men, who call me greedy and selfish, amoral, a danger to the fight for gay equality.
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Story follows character, as the Greeks knew, and what we're seeing now with the Bonfire of Republican Vanities is the predictable outcome of those who enabled the amoral presidency of Donald Trump.
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They have called him Judas, accusing him of enlisting in a disinformation campaign by painting Russia as a dirty, bleak, unsavory place inhabited solely by the unscrupulous and the amoral, often drunk.
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" Like "Mad Men"'s Don Draper, Havrilesky's father was a serial dater (at one point juggling three women named Debbie) and amoral indulger, "beholden only to the laws of supply and demand.
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With the exception of national security professionals sticking around to stop Trump from blowing up the world, there are two kinds of people in the president's orbit — the immoral and the amoral.
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A lot has changed since 2005 when the darkly comic series debuted, but while the narcissistic, amoral characters have remained mostly the same, the performers behind them have evolved alongside the culture.
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" She painted a grim picture of the US, depicting it as a country plagued by an amoral economic system and systematic racism, with millions of children living in "chronic despair and trauma.
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The famously amoral Rita Skeeter of Harry Potter is not only punished for her manipulative attempts at getting stories — she's turned into a beetle and kept in a jar for years. Years!
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"We have to disrupt our lives so we can disrupt the amoral accretion of power by those who would betray our values," Romero said, speaking at the TED conference in Vancouver on Tuesday.
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Not only are they amoral but they arrogantly prescribe different sets of rules for themselves — think of Frank Underwood justifying puppy murder to the camera in the first scene of House of Cards.
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And now it is time for a generation of Americans to rise up again, for an amoral economic system has turned short-term profits for huge multi-national corporations into a false god.
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In Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Lou Bloom, is a deeply amoral monster person who trolls the backstreets of Los Angeles, looking to film raw footage that he can sell to local TV stations.
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The only way to solve the problem of amoral family separations, in truth, is through a bipartisan congressional compromise in the form of increased border security in exchange for a pathway to citizenship.
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And the Texas Senator -- who last week called a "bully," a "narcissist" and "utterly amoral" after the billionaire tried to tie Cruz's father to John F. Kennedy's assassination -- conspicuously avoided endorsing Trump today.
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Jimmy's older brother (Michael McKean) spent three seasons locked in battle with both his kid brother, whom he viewed as dangerously amoral, and with his mental illness, a psychosomatic "allergy" to electromagnetic fields.
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In the TV show, Reverend Smith, ailing from a brain tumor, is tenderly euthanized, in a moving scene, by the otherwise amoral Swearengen, whose Gem saloon, I'm pretty sure, never offered hollandaise sauce.
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Nor do we gain many new insights from Stern's reports of her exchanges with Karadzic, which provide little sense of the intelligent, charismatic, yet amoral personality who was able to instigate mass atrocities.
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What's more, there's something in Trump's bullying, patriarchal, grossly amoral entitlement that appeals to a movement that is willing to violate letter and spirit of the Constitution in its own pursuit of power.
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Apparently, even in 2016, once we have seen a woman naked, she is deemed unintelligent, amoral, and, worst of all, "unclassy" — qualities that we view as incompatible with the position of the First Lady.
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The Momo Challenge is a particular moral tale about parents leaving their children to be baby-sat by the same amoral algorithms that are fueling so many of the world's present-day horror shows.
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Pulling straight from the brutal war between the Japanese and Chinese in the 1930s, Kuang crafts a world based on our own but populated by shamans, and amoral gods intent on working through them.
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The technology just helps capture and loop the tones of acoustic guitars, keyboards, percussion and voices, whether or not they're fed through analog distortion gadgets; it's as amoral as a microphone or an amplifier.
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In life, Eleanor was not only not a saint, but actively amoral, a self-professed "trash bag" who lied, manipulated, and once sold thousands of dollars' worth of T-shirts that mocked her roommate.
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More often, I learned, if the Kremlin wants you dead, they send someone like Oleg Smorodinov, an amoral hired gun willing to kill in exchange for a few thousand dollars and a Mercedes van.
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Opinion Columnist In amoral political terms, Senate Republicans have been skillful in handling Christine Blasey Ford's allegations that the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school.
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Her narrator, Linda, may be a bit perverse and amoral; or she may be just your averagely narcissistic teenager, prone to casual brutality and blind to the hardships and hurts of those around her.
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Washington (CNN)Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called President Donald Trump an "amoral" person and said he's "the worst President we've ever had" in an interview with The New York Times Magazine published Wednesday.
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Once, someone told me I was proving every right-wing religious conservative's wildest fears about gay people true—that we were all amoral sluts, incapable of monogamy or serious relationships, who couldn't take marriage seriously.
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Mr. Holonics, a young Leipzig-born actor, gives a savage, volatile performance as Martin, the amoral, borderline-psychotic scion of the von Essenbeck clan, whose bloody ascent to the top also involves pedophilia and incest.
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"Chinatown"'s murky and amoral plot — involving a corrupt web of stolen water rights and sleazy land development, behind which lurk the even darker sins of murder and incest — resonated with demoralized Watergate-era audiences.
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"Serious consequences are the only way to curb Facebook's predatory behavior and change the industry's amoral pursuit of growth at the public's expense," Free Press, a media and technology advocacy group, said in a statement today.
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Cho, meanwhile, is a drunk with a seemingly amoral sexual fetish who can magically do all things Chinese people from the 18th century were known to do — acrobatics, acupuncture, bird fishing, just to name a few.
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And Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE made it very difficult when she said that a wall is amoral.
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That reflexive and amoral avarice is one of the ignoble truths of Trump, but it's subsidiary to the most important and elemental fact about the man, which is that he never does or says anything new.
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But corporations currently seem to be the sharp and amoral edge of this particular wedge, and we have no real understanding of how to mitigate or eliminate the manifold and growing dangers of their surveillance capitalism.
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The tunnel vision that took over the investigators is rendered solely as amoral ambition, but the reality of error in the Central Park case, as in most everything, is more interesting and nuanced than cartoon villainy.
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Despite being positioned as the heroes of the story, with anti-vigilante forces portrayed as villainous and corrupt, the story's costumed crime-fighters are a brutal, dysfunctional bunch whose actions are often amoral and always unconstitutional.
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Ted Cruz called President Trump "utterly amoral" and a "pathological liar" and was booed loudly at the Republican National Convention when he refused to endorse Trump in his speech, though he eventually backed the GOP nominee.
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" The op-ed, which the Times published Wednesday afternoon, describes a coordinated effort within the administration to undermine Trump, who he or she described as "amoral," and "frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
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But I think there's certainly an argument that making them more able to live in these conditions is creating lives of such suffering that there's an immoral, or at least amoral, dimension to it as well.
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So is it any real surprise if amoral American oligarchs look at Russia's racist oligarchy and think, "Hey, those are my kind of people," closely followed by, "Jeez, that kind of government seems pretty good to me"?
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For search engines, which are responsible for creating these conditions, the question is larger: can Google provide the information people want from news sources without encouraging publications' narcotic, amoral dependency on its algorithms in the first place?
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In time, "Wolf Warrior 2" might seem benignly kitschy, though its core ideas about how only the Chinese military can save a nameless African country from bloodthirsty native rebels and amoral European mercenaries, will always be gross.
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Over the past 22018 hours, people have tried to figure out which one of Trump's chums described the president as amoral and impulsive, claiming staffers are doing what they can to stop him from messing things up.
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Social media is increasingly being seen as a source for great social evil, a vast collection of negative externalities with shrinkingly few benefits where nearly every company running such a platform is controlled by amoral capitalist vampires.
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Moshfegh's characters tend to be amoral, frank, bleakly funny, very smart, and perverse in their motivations, in ways that destabilize the reader's assumptions about what is ugly, what is desirable, what is permissible, and what is real.
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Throughout, Ms. Margolin pits a concentration-camp survivor who somehow remains almost naïvely hopeful against an amoral, greedy cynic with a fundamentally materialist view, and uses that contrast to explore issues of morality, trust, faith and guilt.
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So well before The Times's blockbuster story on Wednesday about how Facebook deals with its critics, we knew it was a socially toxic force, a globe-bestriding company whose veneer of social progressivism hides amoral corporate ruthlessness.
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And the Vatican issued a major document last week on economic ethics that insisted that profit for profits' sake was "illegitimate" and an "amoral culture of waste," reflecting Francis' fierce criticism of the inequality caused by capitalism.
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Like the politicians and operatives guiding the ship of state in "Veep," the crew members of the Avenue 5 are an often amoral, small-minded and quarrelsome bunch whose constant sniping provides the bulk of the humor.
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The core of the tale is a parallel of colonialism, in which indigenous vampires of Mexico — once partnered with the Aztecs — are threatened by amoral, disease-carrying European vampires encroaching on their drug trade and feeding territory.
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"I am extremely angry about and opposed to the cavalier attitude that an amoral multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporation has taken to this tiny residential zoned portion of Tillamook County," Oregon resident Carol J. Griffith wrote.
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Now, by supporting the president's declaration of a national emergency to build the wall, he tries to hold onto political power by lashing the fate of the Republican Party even tighter to an amoral and incompetent president.
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Our canine companions are meant to be our best friends, and yet they are increasingly dominating in an array of disparate, un-dog like fields; killing it as skateboarders, surfers and even distinctly amoral (yet undeniably cute) thieves.
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Ambitious, self-centered and seemingly amoral, Trump made himself into one of the most famous people in the world, a billionaire many times over, and now, one of two major party candidates for president of the United States.
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We know what she's like by the time that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Tree takes place; instead, we'll see her slow descent into moral ambiguity, and finally, into an amoral being who inflicts terror on her charges.
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But unlike the cold, nihilistic weirdness of H.P. Lovecraft's amoral alien gods, VanderMeer's fiction is pulled from our own strange, complex, and bizarre planet, as well as the organizations and systems that we humans have enclosed ourselves in.
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Kevin Spacey's ruthless Frank Underwood is dead under so-far unrevealed circumstances, infamously written out of the script in the wake of the actor's 2017 sexual assault allegations, but the show is just as gleefully amoral as ever.
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Max is a thoroughly amoral character, predatory and dishonest, and one of the movie's flaws is that Philippe Lemaire, the actor who plays him (and who was briefly married to Ms. Gréco), can't quite summon the necessary charm.
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But Angela does turn out to be amoral, manipulative and dishonest, traits that make her both a caricature of feminine guile and a promising fiction writer — perhaps more fully committed to the art than her vain, bumbling teacher.
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"I think it's really about an immoral or amoral agenda to promote lifestyles, relativism, compromise and shades of gray with no black and white," pastor and faith-based film producer Michael Catt told the evangelical Decision magazine in 2014.
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But they certainly did not create the political system in which an unqualified ignoramus like Trump, surrounded by an entourage of amoral mediocrities, could rise to the head of the Republican Party, and from there to the White House.
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The book, in which MacLane proudly proclaims herself an amoral genius devoted to the devil, scandalized the US for its surprisingly self-assured teen girl ego, so uncommon for girls of MacLane's time, or any time for that matter.
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You would think that Trump, as a person of increased girth, might get it that representing people with fat bodies as slovenly, unmotivated, disgusting, unruly and amoral is a product of bias, but in this case no such luck.
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While it might be tempting to make a connection between the maddening money of modern football and amoral behaviour in the beautiful game, the truth of the matter is that talented players have been acting unscrupulously since football began.
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I did have "howl" for ROAR, "joke" for JOSH and "amoral" for IMPURE; also, OHOHOH and "ooh ooh" always get the same or similar clues, so you're going to need crosses or luck for these when you see them.
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In the predominant view held in Silicon Valley today, capital is amoral — cash is cash, and regardless of where it comes from, once it leaves the hand of its investor or donor, it no longer has that individual's taint.
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"I am extremely angry about and opposed to the cavalier attitude that an amoral multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporation has taken to this tiny residentially zoned portion of Tillamook County," resident Carol J. Griffith said in written comments.
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Series regular Emma Roberts is back once again, and in a switch from her usual amoral blonde goth, this time she's playing the sweater-wearing virgin who usually doubles as the final girl of the classic teen slasher movie.
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In Britain, he and Laing experimented with LSD and, while dabbling in what he described as "an amoral Dostoyevskian world almost beyond suicide," they formed the Philadelphia Association, a charity dedicated to the humane treatment of the mentally ill.
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Christian and BNN anchor Karen James (Toni Trucks) kiss after a season-long flirtation, because it's only natural for the two most amoral people in Corporate's universe to have a romance built entirely atop their lack of caring about anybody else.
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The journey she goes on throughout this book is going to test her ability to continue forward that way, but going from amoral to, hmm, let's say, chaotic good, isn't a straightforward process, especially when what's "good" is so unclear.
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The extraordinary support for Mr Putin (82%) as a head of state who stands up to this American aggression contrasts starkly with the deep contempt people feel for the power elite generally, whom they see as corrupt, amoral and callous.
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But, Trump's outrageous words are only slightly more crass than everything we've already known about the amoral magnate — everything that so many congressional Republicans have chosen to look past as they lined up to kiss his ring and endorse his candidacy.
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Seen terrorizing the guests of the El Royale through a sadistic game of casino roulette and training runaways to be his amoral attack dogs, Billy Lee rips through the film as a terrifying tour de force that should repulse you.
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It released two web ads, one using the words of his former Republican rivals against him (sample: "utterly amoral"), the other including a comment that he would be willing to use nuclear weapons against the Islamic State, even in Europe.
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In the factless and amoral era that President Trump has ushered in, it seemed certain last night that Roy Moore, the evolution denier who is haunted by pedophilia allegations, would sail into the Senate decrying that "fake news" had lost again.
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Sure. But the stock market is less a means for diagnosing the health of a business than it is an enormous confidence game run almost exclusively by rich, amoral lunatics who have the power to destroy the livelihood of millions.
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Labor's response throughout Mr. Joyce's travails has been studiously amoral, focused on questions of whether his relationship had led him to abuse public funds, or whether the prime minister approved the transfer of Mr. Joyce's former employee to other ministerial offices.
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To the Editor: Re "The Government Had to Approve This" (Op-Ed, April 3): Mark Fallon's article is a clarion call to a country that inches closer to giving away its hard-fought freedoms to an amoral, power-hungry bureaucracy.
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Donald Trump barely won the White House, under circumstances — a tainted opponent, three million fewer votes than she received, James Comey's moral vanity and Russia's amoral exertions — that raise serious questions about how many Americans yearned to see him there.
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The American people have the right to elect a president who is crude, cruel and amoral, but Congress has the power and the duty to remove one who has corrupted his office by using it to serve his private ambitions.
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The timing of the piece, coming a day after excerpts were released from Bob Woodward's new investigative tome, "Fear: Trump in the White House," deepened the portrait of an ignorant and amoral President whose escalator isn't stopping at every floor.
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Protectionism, neo-isolationism and ambivalence over long-standing alliances that America has forged since the Second World War, are all part of a piece, and signal a retreat into amoral geopolitics, rather than a continued engagement in the battle of ideals.
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McNamee saves his most conspicuous outrage for Facebook's amoral leadership at the hands of not just Zuckerberg but also his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, whom McNamee recommended Zuck hire before she could take a job at The Washington Post.
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And she knows that when characters like those of "Shipwreck" are faced with what seems inexplicable to them, their so-called enlightened minds may find themselves wandering into primal, mythic realms — where there be dragons and demons and amoral Dionysiac gods.
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I really love exploring this madhouse of a space station, with its believable cast of characters—full of mostly Alien-style working stiffs just trying to get by in a terrible situation, brought on by amoral scientists and shitty, invisible corporate overlords.
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Perhaps more angering to a leader who detests weakness -- but doesn't necessarily mind an amoral reputation -- were the number of underlings shown ignoring his commands, privately scoffing at the "crazy sh**" he was requesting and working around him to avoid self-implication.
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Alisha at first thinks she can turn the power to her advantage, only to find that it is inherently corrosive, and her slow progression from amoral glee at her own irresistibleness to horror at the things her power does is profoundly compelling.
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He also knows that at some point in the next several weeks, he will have to choose between his conservative values and his partisan obligation to help someone he just called "amoral" and a "pathological liar" become the president of the United States.
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The mirror image of the golden rule is that what you do unto others, they will surely do unto you, which is certainly the case in this age of amoral, extremely partisan, anything goes, tit for tat weaponization of our legal system.
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"Far from romanticizing creativity and the artistic process, Mr. Baumbach's films portray the world of painters, filmmakers and literati as an overcrowded, amoral jungle of viperish entitled narcissists stealing from one another for fame and profit," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
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"Belgravia" is an unashamed homage to the Victorian serial novel: There are echoes of Anthony Trollope's Lizzie Eustace from "The Eustace Diamonds" in the amoral Susan Trenchard, and of Sir Felix Carbury, from "The Way We Live Now," in the villain John Bellasis.
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HBO, which also has operations in Los Angeles, is a creature of its coastal milieu and creates shows like "Game of Thrones" and "Westworld," the kind of envelope-pushing entertainment that appeals to viewers with a tolerance for amoral protagonists and graphic violence.
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However, anti-vaxxers' motives seem understandable in light of the vast social and environmental harm caused by large entities misusing science to their own profit-driven, amoral ends, while spreading disinformation and corrupting willing legislators, regulatory agencies and parts of the media.
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Mr. Pompeo, please look in the mirror and ask yourself, What has become of me, an evangelical Christian, serving and covering for an amoral and lying president and screaming and cursing at a well-respected reporter who is simply doing her job?
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I also intended to do research for my novel "Loner," about a Harvard freshman not prone to checking his privilege, who, in his ruthlessly amoral, Tom Ripley-like desire to ascend the college's social ladder, develops an infatuation with a rich female classmate.
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Never before have we had a president so utterly lacking in personal integrity, so able to lie and abuse his powers with such impunity and so blindly backed by an amoral party, an unscrupulous attorney general and a media-fund-raising juggernaut.
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Were months of lying to start a war that killed hundreds of thousands, displaced millions, destroyed a country, and helped to create today's situation only "muddled" and "a lack of US leadership," but a childish threat to target historic monuments is amoral?
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" While Buttigieg told NBC News that he had no regrets about his time at McKinsey, he said Friday that the reports of McKinsey's dealings with ICE were "disgusting" and a sign of the "amoral turn of mind that increasingly dominates corporate America.
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That would give the Democrats the opportunity to frame the GOP as an amoral entity that supports even the most despicable of candidates, as long as they vote for an agenda of tax cuts for the wealthy and no healthcare for the poor.
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It's never been a personal favorite of mine: It's an oddly dark and didactic book, in which the characters who are endowed with that sparkling Austen charm all turn out to be wicked or amoral and the morally upright characters are pinched and humorless.
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But Tierney, who speaks highly of Google and its leadership, said he doesn't spend much time thinking about tech's negative impact on society, adding "technology is amoral" and that "it's really the people who use it and how it's built" that can compromise users.
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While their critics would argue the religious right represented a cultural and political establishment that had denied other people their rightful place in American society, conservative white evangelicals lashed back that they were the nation's real outsiders, the authentic counterculture to an amoral secular culture.
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That includes marquee names Tilda Swinton as the ruthless Lucy Mirando, whose company is looking to turn all that sausage into green; and Jake Gyllenhaal as Dr. Johnny Wilcox, an equally amoral Steve Irwin-like TV personality who she turns into her corporate mascot.
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"Monstars" are a wonderful metaphor for an unstoppable, but still faintly absurd, enemy that undergoes an amoral process to press their superiority into you; it was just sitting there for baseball's steroid era and the Bush Administration to come, and if anything, we underutilized it.
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Other obstructions to his advancement include his dissipated colleague Waters (a fine James Corden, light-years from his talk-show persona) and Parker Hall (a steady Tom Riley), a hotshot executive on to Stelfox's amoral tactics and blocking his path to control of Unigram.
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Nakamura has described "The Kingdom" as a sister novel to "The Thief," whose porcelain-egg exterior similarly cracks open to reveal a marshmallow center, once more in the form of a needy child who offers a redemptive outlet for the main character's amoral livelihood.
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Watch: The Riding Club Helping Disadvantaged Teens Aim Higher The common perception of dogs as man's best friend and cats as amoral predators beholden only to naked self-interest means that most people assume that a cat definitely would your face if a dog would.
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It said profit for the sake of profit and not for the greater good was "illegitimate" and condemned a "reckless and amoral culture of waste" that has created oligarchies in some countries while leaving great masses of impoverished people "without any means of escape".
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Here you were, a silent avatar of rage, but held under lock and key by an amoral energy company and forced to fight demons, not just for the joy of fighting demons, but to combat an invasion caused by someone else's incompetence and greed.
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But it was Schmitt's combination of careerism as well his amoral theory of politics that drew him into the Nazi movement, which allowed him to broadcast his anti-Semitic views more widely; politics, for Schmitt, is largely the pursuit of war by other means.
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President Trump's career, consisting of putting up big buildings, flaunting brashness, cutting moral corners, using an outsize ego to squash mere mortals, is typical of the unregulated and amoral capitalism that Rand celebrated, and Mr. Trump is the ultimate Rand hero brought to life.
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The typical woman of the erotic thriller—Sharon Stone's icy Catherine Trammell in Basic Instinct or Linda Fiorentino's brusque Bridget in The Last Seduction—is manipulative and brilliant, enjoys casual sex but uses it as a tool to get what she wants, and is utterly amoral.
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And it implies something even darker: in America, the best way to get ahead — maybe the only way, for people not coincidentally born into power — is to be amoral, ruthless, and absolutely willing to steal and even kill in defense of whatever luxuries we can get.
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Viewers in 210 are simultaneously flocking to see Tarantino's new movie and making more serious demands of a filmmaker who's always treated cinema as an amoral, larger-than-life escape from those demands — and if he is not going away (yet), then neither is this debate.
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This is why a painting of Trump astride a tacky golden tank can appeal to a Trump-obsessed alleged bomber, even while it's sort of making fun of the president: Trump's brand is amoral power, and pointing out that he's playing the villain just makes it stronger.
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Robert is the quintessential vindictive office nerd, but also a representation of the real dangers presented by powerful, intelligent, amoral tech-industry titans like Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos, who have both become rich beyond their wildest dreams while peddling a nebulous concept of technological advancement.
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Let's set aside ethics, morality and how I personally advise clients, usually public companies with stringent disclosure obligations, and examine crisis management as it works in amoral reality, not on talk shows and in B-school simulations where anyone who invokes transparency immediately gets a valentine.
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What is remarkable about these texts — and what foretells the complex and enigmatic artist Holzer would become — is that their extremities of idealism and abhorrence, compassion and vengeance, analysis and absurdity consolidate into a moral directive within their own amoral universe, aka the realm of art.
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The show has barbed dialogue and a blind-item documentary interest in the lives of the ultra-wealthy, but at heart it's a pleasingly amoral caper series, a Wall Street fever dream, scored to ironic pop songs—more pulp than grit, with a streak of camp.
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When Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" was about to be published in 1991, word of its portrait of a monster — an amoral young Wall Street serial killer named Patrick Bateman, who nail-gunned women to the floor before doing vastly worse to them — was met with outrage.
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" Projected from above as a series of animated graphics on a circular platform, the phrases spoken by the commanding voice are amoral — at once using motivational language from life coaches like "Fuck original, be genuine" to more capitalist notions like "Get paid big money (even if you suck).
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It was a very sensational trial, and they were described as these two all-American teenagers who had become murderers, and I thought it would be fun to combine the Archie characters and their comic book morality with Leopold and Loeb, who were totally amoral and see what happened.
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Suddenly it becomes one of a charismatic strongman who was always amoral, the heelish backrakes Hogan trucked in even at the height of his babyface popularity transform into foreshadowing, angles like Hogan rescuing Elizabeth from ringside while leaving Randy Savage behind become the sinister, divisive acts of a sociopath.
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The story of Abraham and Isaac, of obedience to God in terrible conflict with parental love, is, as Morson and Schapiro argue, difficult to file under the heading of "child services," and, of course, there is no moral dimension to this economic analysis: utility is a fundamentally amoral concept.
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Huh.) Here's how clocks work: As a GM, you give a lot of the elements of your world—that amoral mega corporation, this duo of assassins, an ancient mechanical embodiment of capitalism—"clocks" that count down as the players do things (or fail to do things) in the world.
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It's like the endorphin rush you can get from taking a good photo and posting it to Instagram or Twitter, but without having to worry about someone trying to dox you, or harass you, or possibly supporting an amoral company bent on controlling all the world's personal data.
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" While Buttigieg told NBC News that he had no regrets about his time at McKinsey, he said on New Hampshire Public Radio on Friday that the reports of McKinsey's dealings with ICE were "disgusting" and a sign of the "amoral turn of mind that increasingly dominates corporate America.
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It made him a compelling character to watch, even when he was growing more and more amoral, but it was also a lot of work for the show's writers, who had to make his schemes seem completely unexpected yet also completely inevitable once you knew what they were.
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Similarly, Chuck outmaneuvered his former protégé Bryan (Toby Leonard Moore), in the process neutralizing not only him but his boss, the Attorney General (Clancy Brown), in an elaborate deception that Chuck hatched with his father (Jeffrey DeMunn), who might be the show's most utterly amoral character, which is saying something.
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When Billions, the creation of Brian Koppelman and David Levien, premiered in 2016, it was a show that — much like its wilder cinematic sibling The Wolf of Wall Street — felt unwilling to commit to being either a critique or a celebration of the excesses and amoral schemes it was putting onscreen.
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It's not too hard to see why audiences might not have taken to this one the way they took to Platoon: Its hero is a sleazy, borderline amoral hustler — a "weasel," as he calls himself at one point — whose commitment to journalism is as much about personal advancement as truth-telling.
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Hartnell's First Doctor was an amoral, grumpy, capricious figure whose main role was to incompetently ferry his companions — although at that point, they didn't have an official title; eventually they would become assistants, and later companions — to various times and planets, and then stand back while they got things done.
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"Color pages and Bendel's window displays gave Smith, fresh from the pinched dampness and grayness of England in the '50s, much the same sense of abundant, amoral pleasure as reflections on water and glowing fruit on a table gave the Impressionists," the critic Robert Hughes wrote in Time magazine in 1975.
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All we really learn from Shafer's review is, alas, as revealing as if he were a specimen under the motel owner Gerald Foos's roof: He appears to be a man with a moralistic hammer who sees only nails while the astonishing, amoral mess that is our humanity passes him by.
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" The piece describes the contempt many within the White House apparently harbor for their boss, going as far as to call the president amoral and say that "many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
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Anne MartinMcLean, Va. To the Editor: Beyond assuring the members of the resistance outside of the White House that they are not alone, perhaps the author wrote this piece in an attempt to address the alienation felt inside an absolute amoral presidency — what a terribly lonely, desperate place to be.
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With volumes published every two years, what gives "Dance" its saga quality is that many of the same characters, starting with several fellow Etonians, keep reappearing over the decades, with many readers' favorite — the unpleasant, ambitious and amoral Kenneth Widmerpool — featuring in the first and last volume and most in between.
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"Dallas" was more "Peyton Place" than "Holiday," and the clothes weren't as fine, but it did have an ingeniously original, amoral central character in J. R. Ewing (a shrewd performance by Larry Hagman) and a delicious mix of earnestness (Bobby and Pam Ewing) and bitchiness (Sue Ellen Ewing and Lucy Ewing).
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There's no excuse for this, not given how long the Iowa Democratic Party had to prepare, not given the privilege of the state's first-in-the-nation status, not given how deeply invested tens of millions of distraught Americans are in the effort to get rid of an unfit, amoral president.
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Just over a decade later, the Coens' portrait of grasping fools and self-important Beltway nitwits trying to behave like characters in a John le Carré novel seems less like misanthropy and more like prophecy — a vision of amoral political buffoonery that's arguably the most realistic depiction of Trumpiness to date.
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Air and iron — desire and whalebone stays — govern the story, whose most intriguing moments don't occur between the standard-issue characters: the constrained lovers; the spoiled rich kids Cait is chaperoning on their world tour; Émile's jealous, wicked demimondaine mistress; the amoral aristocrat who seduces and discards virgins; and so on.
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Presidential candidate and author Marianne WilliamsonMarianne WilliamsonMarianne Williamson calls for impeachment inquiry Gabbard qualifies for fourth presidential debate The Hill's 22019:30 Report: Trump defends call as Ukraine controversy deepens MORE described climate change as one symptom of an "amoral" economic system at MSNBC's climate forum at Georgetown University on Thursday.
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Indeed, some of the season's best material stems from Claire's apparent belief that other women will get in line behind her simply because she's a woman, when many of those women can see that Claire is duplicitous and amoral and perhaps not someone they want to sell their souls to.
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Matheson and Reith, the DG, had already been at odds for a long time because Matheson would bring in speakers from the Bloomsbury Group—the social group made up of writers, artists, and intellectuals who all lived and worked near Bloomsbury, London—who were considered amoral to a man like Sir John Reith.
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Since the early 2000s, Meese, who is based in Hamburg and Berlin, has cultivated a persona as a propagandist for what he calls the Dictatorship of Art — his philosophy of art as a self-generated and amoral libidinal flow independent of ideological structures — mounting performances like the one at Bortolami throughout the world.
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" It was common during 2016 for Republican senators to be sharply critical of Trump — Marco Rubio (R-FL) called him a "con artist," and Ted Cruz (R-TX) called him "totally amoral," while according to Lindsey Graham (R-SC), "if we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed [...] and we will deserve it.
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With Ray having plied his trade in Hollywood, the show seems comfortable adapting those skills to the equally unsavory spheres of New York media and politics, where more money tends to breed bigger problems -- and the prospect of amoral, bordering-on-criminal schemes to advance and protect those in positions of power.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The most significant message I take from Labyrinth Theater Company's production of Dolphins and Sharks is that a certain kind of economic ecosystem compels us to make limiting choices: to take on the role of amoral, mercenary predator or pro-social, nurturing, even protective community member.
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That's not apolitical, and is in fact evidence that Cook knows exactly how to grease the wheels in DC.But these are the kinds of amoral corporate machinations that would make it very difficult for Cook to run for the kind of office that would be a promotion, like president, as a Democrat anytime soon.
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What you see as a viewer is a battle between an open-ended ecological system that is amoral—there is no good or bad, things just happen as they do in nature—and a highly scripted character who is trying to negotiate this world with a sense of purpose, with a sense of morality.
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Right. But listen anyway: Journalists are neither as heroic as they were once seen in the mid-1970s glow of post-Watergate glory nor as unscrupulous as they're often depicted on network TV crime dramas where "nosy reporters" come across as amoral creeps ruining the day of a public servant or, worse, a glamorous celebrity.
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The cow (identified in the end credits as Evie) may be the only bovine in the territory, but she is part of a nonhuman cast that includes at least one owl, an assortment of very good dogs, an apparently tame crow and a typically amoral cat whose mischief kicks the plot toward its climax.
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The New York Times publicó ayer un artículo de opinión anónimo de un alto funcionario del gobierno estadounidense, que detalla por qué hay un grupo interno de empleados (algunos designados por el mismo Trump) que buscan boicotear las decisiones más sombrías de un presidente "amoral", que tiene un estilo "impetuoso, conflictivo, mezquino e ineficaz".
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Tim RyanTimothy (Tim) John RyanThe Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump defends call as Ukraine controversy deepens The Hill's Campaign Report: De Blasio drops out | Warren gains support from black voters | Sanders retools campaign team | Warning signs for Tillis in NC Williamson: Climate change result of an 'amoral' economic system MORE (D-Ohio), former Rep.
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As Downsizing sets out to teach the well-meaning, oblivious Paul some tough lessons about the world and his place in it (with assists from Christoph Waltz as an amoral, hard-partying European exporter and Hong Chau as a selfless Vietnamese refugee and all-around magical Asian), it begins to demonstrate the same myopic limitations of Suburbicon.
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Just as Chow Yun Fat's noble contract killer must team up with a cop to shoot, punch, and otherwise destroy seemingly every amoral soul on both sides of the law, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah transcend the rivalry of their neighborhoods to move align in the hopes of doing a job so huge that neither has to sell drugs again.
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In late 20023, when Clinton's presidency was on the ropes, he turned to the political consultant he had hired to run his very first campaign for governor of Arkansas: Dick Morris, a bizarre and amoral operative from New York known for his work on behalf of some of the worst dreck that the Reagan Revolution dragged in.
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After all, while those games are able to linger in their chosen tonality, Far Cry 5 spins wildly between didactic, yet contradictory sermons and a relentless, mediocre style of comedy that never rises above an echo of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' 14 year old sketch of rural American culture, down to the UFO expert and amoral CIA agent.
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Sheela indisputably turned out to be the most tyrannical, amoral, and ruthless of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's executive assistants so far, both in her conduct toward those outside the commune whom she perceived to be enemies of the Bhagwan and in her treatment of those inside the commune whom she perceived to be threatening to her own power and standing.
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The fact that Clinton has been credibly accused of one rape and multiple acts of harassment probably didn't occur to anyone when he was invited: Not because the National Book Foundation is amoral, but because Bill Clinton has been very, very good at isolating those facts and detaching them from his public image since he left office.
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In fact this week's episode, "Chickentown," takes its name from a bowdlerized version of the famous "Forget it, Jake …" conclusion to "Chinatown," referenced when Bobby Axelrod and Wags Wagner stop their mad-dog lieutenant Bill Stearn, known as Dollar Bill (Kelly AuCoin, delightfully amoral), from salvaging an insider-trading scheme by wiping out a poultry farm.
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Yanagi, whose work she introduced me to, describes such design not only as ugly but as amoral; Nakashima, in his own life, witnessed the short distance between a culture that uses slapdash construction techniques to support an elegant facade and one that uses a righteous wartime effort to mask the human rot that made a place like Minidoka possible.
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In an unusual bit of programming synchronicity, IFC Center will show "High Plains Drifter" — one of Clint Eastwood's earliest directorial efforts, in which he casts himself as an amoral stranger who agrees to defend a hapless town from outlaws — the same week that Film Forum screens a 25th-anniversary restoration of "Unforgiven," Mr. Eastwood's landmark revisionist western from 1992.
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As the institutions of journalism gear up for another presidential campaign, we face an audience that isn't just bored by tactical, amoral, insidery, and mostly male-dominated political reporting: Americans of all political stripes now actually hate it, and the sports metaphors that used to be a great way to go viral are now the quickest path to a Twitter ratio.
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Season one, set in 2006 and 2007, takes place on the verge of the collapse of the housing market, as an otherwise standard murder investigation in a small town is sidetracked by the presence of Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton), an amoral contract killer who works for a faceless organization that seems to permeate everything, even if no one realizes it's there.
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Free-market advocates hold fast to justifications that amount to variations on the "invisible hand" theory of Adam Smith — that the economy is not a moral space, but one that relies on a free and fair market, self-interested (as opposed to selfish) actors and amoral (as opposed to immoral) calculation to arrive at the most efficient and innovative outcomes.
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And he's another piece of amoral work: a dubiously gifted lawyer who secretly taped clients; a profane guardian of Trump's image who threatened detractors with intense pain and utter destruction; a smarmy fixer who used hush money to cover Trump's erotic tracks; an indefatigable scammer who sought to sell his access to the president to the highest bidders, domestic and foreign.
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Nonetheless I agree with several of the profiles' anti-YouTube premises: Education-by-algorithm is a bad idea; Silicon Valley has monetized amoral slippery slopes in all kinds of arenas (with pedophilia being the latest grim example); and the stew of racism and conspiracy theory at the far-right edges of social media is an example of where one such slope can lead.
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The harsh reality is that markets are amoral, instinctively neutral barometers of economic performance, and they will at times ignore the brutality and excesses of strongmen for a simple reason: Facing little or no resistance from legislatures, courts or independent watchdogs, strongmen can push through sweeping reforms — particularly in emerging economies, where political institutions and the rule of law are relatively weak.
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Enter Robert Harris, a writer who has made the study of power, with all its potential for corruption and intrigue, his subject of choice, from power in Western democracies ("The Ghost," a thriller about an amoral, easily manipulated former prime minister, whom many reviewers saw as a thinly described doppelgänger of Tony Blair) to power in ancient Rome (the Cicero trilogy).
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Tim RyanTimothy (Tim) John RyanThe Hill's 85033:30 Report: Trump defends call as Ukraine controversy deepens The Hill's Campaign Report: De Blasio drops out | Warren gains support from black voters | Sanders retools campaign team | Warning signs for Tillis in NC Williamson: Climate change result of an 'amoral' economic system MORE (D-Ohio), former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and former Rep.
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It's a battle of pig versus prig at Axe Cap, as the gleefully macho and amoral Dollar Bill Stearn clashes with the company's compliance officer, Ari Spyros — Chuck Rhoades's one-time frenemy at the Securities and Exchange Commission, now working for the full-on enemy — over the kind of insider trading he used to be able to get away with as a matter of course.
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Fittingly, the films completely switch major human casts with each new chapter, going from the friendly, loving affection of James Franco and John Lithgow (who raise baby Caesar) in the first film to the cautious optimism of Jason Clarke and Keri Russell (who try to broker peace with him) in the second to the almost completely amoral Woody Harrelson (who wants to exterminate Caesar) in the third film.
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You could tell the history of Western culture with such instances of skeptical rationalism and imaginative empathy, from Aeschylus' Clytemnestra and Euripides' Medea, to Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth and Richard III, Milton's Lucifer, Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, Balzac's master-criminal Vautrin, Dostoyevsky's amoral superman Raskolnikov, Joseph Conrad's terrorists, Thomas Mann's con man Felix Krull, Andre Gide's coldblooded murderer, Albert Camus's helpless murderer — to take a relative handful of examples.
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Image: imgur via RedditIn his month as President, Donald J. Trump has been portrayed by his many detractors as either an authoritarian with no respect for the rule of law surrounding himself with yes-men, paid crowds, and a cabal of wealthy, amoral cronies intent on bringing down democracy as we understand it—or as a child-like incompetent, metaphorically and literally stumbling in the dark, sickeningly ignorant of the expectations of his station.
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" (Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror in 22017 for publishing fabricated photos of British soldiers torturing an Iraqi prisoner.) After Morgan wrote that the "superior, dismissive arrogance of rabid Remain/Clinton supporters like [Rowling] is, of course, precisely why both campaigns lost," the author shot back: "The fact-free, amoral, bigotry-apologism of celebrity toady Piers Morgan is, of course, why it's so delicious to see him told to f— off.
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Apparently Trump is just as unhinged behind closed doors as he is in public, with the writer calling the president an "amoral" man who has "anti-democratic" impulses and a leadership style that is "impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective": All that tracks with previous reporting about Trump's White House, including Woodward's book, which describes cabinet officials literally stealing papers off of Trump's desk so he can't sign particularly extreme orders (the president apparently doesn't notice).
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But just to hypothesize, the Congress could take lessons from FDR's New Deal as an working example of a successful regulation on the financial industry that not only protected the market economy, capitalism, and individuals, but it also helped growth (though some skeptics claim it was in fact WWII that saved America from The Depression, not FDR's policies), it maximized the societal benefits of capitalist institutions while mitigating the amoral side effects.
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And if you're not interested in watching feet twitching under the sheets or Camilla apply the same wretched pair of false eyelashes for the 75th day in a row, watch Love Island for the dazzling fashion (I'm talking about Chris and Kem's eye-wateringly tight white jeggings, Olivia's crochet body con and Tyne-Lexy's gold lamé), to boo and hiss every time amoral Jonny and Tyla come on screen, or for the scintillating conversation that will make you feel like you belong in Mensa.
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