Which is why all this guff about "therapy" and "wake-up calls" and the half-baked, halfhearted apologias are all just more masking.
|
|
With forensic prose, she cut through complacent apologias for war photography and set photojournalistic images of violence squarely in the context of viewers' voyeurism.
|
|
In newspaper columns, and on social media, the usual right-wing apologias — the incantations about self-reliance and trickle-down economics — have temporarily fallen silent.
|
|
As a result of these ungainly movement dynamics, conservative intellectuals could offer their benedictions and apologias but have been less easily able to excommunicate heretics.
|
|
Just as John Cheever's epiphanies and apologias were stamped by drink and Paul Bowles's hallucinatory quietude by hashish, so "Atlanta" 's vibe is molded by weed.
|
|
The party remains anathema to large parts of the French electorate, in view of its history of anti-Semitism, racism, and apologias for France's collaborators with the Nazis.
|
|
Frum and Rubin do have a more systematic critique of Trumpism, but it's also the case that National Review continues to publish strong critiques of the president in addition to apologias.
|
|
We've read scores of self-serving Facebook apologias over the years and can confirm Facebook's founder has made a very tedious art of selling abject failure as some kind of heroic lack of perfection.
|
|
Despite the occasional warning that progress is "hard-won" and "perfect order" isn't "the natural state of affairs," Pinker's book is filled with such fulsome apologias, which inadvertently suggest that the gains of the Enlightenment are so delicate that they require the historical gloss he compulsively provides.
|
|
The lack of courage in so many quarters — journalism, in which the ambitious assiduously avoid writing about topics that might get them canceled; the Republican Party, which has been reduced to Trump sycophancy and apologias for white nationalism; the Democratic Party, which sometimes seems to be taking its talking points from red rose Twitter — continues to blow my mind.
|
|
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and "The revolution is not a dinner party," Mao's apologias for mass killing, may not be admirable sentiments, but they are memorable aphorisms—far more memorable than the contrasting truth that some political power grows out of the barrels of some guns some of the time, depending on what you mean by "power" and "political," and whom you're pointing the gun at.
|
|
And while the last grown-up was unable to restrain Trump from imprisoning asylum-seeking children, abusing his pardon power for Joe Arpaio, abusing declassification power, undertaking a partisan purge of the FBI, cheering the French far right, or issuing apologias for neo-Nazis, he finally decided to take his stand over Trump making the perfectly defensible decision to withdraw US forces from a hazily defined open-ended mission in Syria that lacked any legal authorization.
|
|
Raman has been a frequent guest on the PBS television series Closer to Truth. Scholarly reception of his work has been mixed, with some criticizing his apologias for the metaphysical claims of Hinduism, and others commending his contributions to the conversation on these issues.
|
|
5, as preserved by Aulus Gellius 17.21.24, in contrast to the version given by Livy 6.20.12. See also Wiseman, pp. 48–49. Roman narrative traditions regarding the Gallic siege are complex, "a hopeless jumble of aetiological tales, family apologias, doublets, and transferences from Greek history",Horsfall, "From History to Legend," p. 298.
|
|
In 1901 Ament became embroiled in a controversy regarding his activities (and those of other Christian missionaries, including the Roman Catholic Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier) subsequent to the Boxer Rebellion. "In the war's aftermath came a war of words. Missionary triumphalism clashed with the sarcastic sallies of Mark Twain, who lampooned the apologias for looting given by American missionary William Scott Ament."Bickers & Tiedemann, Boxers, xv.
|
|
The feuds between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy were ruining France. The king's brother Louis I, Duke of Orléans, had been murdered by followers of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. This had been publicly justified by a theologian, Jean Petit (c. 1360-1411). Gerson had Petit's "eight verities" — apologias for the murder — condemned by the University of Paris, the archbishop, and the grand inquisitor, and the book was publicly burned before Notre Dame.
|
|
Dr. William Scott Ament, who had served in China since 1877, became embroiled in a controversy regarding his activities (and those of other Christian missionaries, including Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of North Chihli) subsequent to the Boxer Uprising. "In the war's aftermath came a war of words. Missionary triumphalism clashed with the sarcastic sallies of Mark Twain, who lampooned the apologias for looting given by American missionary William Scott Ament."Bickers & Tiedemann, Boxers, xv.
|
|
The German- Canadian historian Holger Herwig has commented that Barnes's work on the origins of World War I, together with others of a similar bent, did immense scholarly damage, as generations of university students accepted Barnes' "apologias" for Germany as the truth. In 1969, the British historian A. J. P. Taylor called The Genesis of the World War "the most preposterously pro- German" account of the outbreak of war in 1914.Taylor, A. J. P. War by Time- Table, MacDonald Press: London, 1969, p. 126. In 1926, the American historian Bernadotte Schmitt wrote about The Genesis of the World War that: > It must be said that Mr. Barnes' book falls short of being the objective and > scientific analysis of the great problems which is so urgently needed.
|
|
Flavorwires Elisabeth Donnely said that literary criticism "needs a poptimist revolution" in order to understand current literary phenomena such as Fifty Shades of Grey and better connect with the reading audience. In 2015, Salon published an article subtitled "Book criticism needs a poptimist revolution to take down the genre snobs", in which Rachel Kramer Bussell argued that book critics ignore often very good work and alienate readers by focusing only on genres considered "literary". Writing for Salon in 2016, Scott Timberg commented on critics giving increasing amounts of respect to celebrity chef Guy Fieri, saying "Love or hate what is called poptimism, the impulse seems to be coming to food and restaurant criticism". Timberg likened food critics' "'in defense of [Fieri]' movement" to rock critics who "began writing apologias for Billy Joel and composed learned deconstructions of Britney Spears".
|
|
Rosensaft noted an assertion by the late Nehemiah Robinson, the Director of the Institute of Jewish Affairs of the World Jewish Congress, and a leading authority on the UN Genocide Convention, who said that the term genocide "applies even if victims constitute only part of a group either within a country or within a region or within a single community, provided the number is substantial… It will be up to the courts to decide in each case whether the number was sufficiently large". To this, Rosenssaft added that "the courts have spoken clearly and unambiguously". Salman Rushdie, in the Globe and Mail article, from 7 May 1999, described Handke's apologias for Serbian Milošević's regime and denial of genocide, as idiocy. After Handke's play "Voyage by Dugout" was staged, Susan Sontag declared him "finished" in New York.
|
|