We do have too much division, too much mean- spiritedness.
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"Passion" is one translation; "spirit," as in "spiritedness," is another.
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"Where does that cruelty, that mean-spiritedness, come from?" she said.
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Kelly was struck by Mallory's public-spiritedness, and by his modesty.
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IT IS BECOMING the party of mishaps, if not of mean-spiritedness.
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In photos of Popova, there is a playfulness and spiritedness that is contagious.
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Yet in recompense Mr Buttigieg offers a convincing claim to public-spiritedness and decency.
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It speaks to diversity in a number of ways, as well as free-spiritedness.
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They didn't respect mean-spiritedness, or folks who were always looking for shortcuts in life.
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Delegations from the orchestras were able to visit elected officials and demonstrate their public-spiritedness.
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"We need private investors who must also feel a sense of public spiritedness," she said.
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From my Hopi ancestors, I was blessed to learn about the indigenous concept of Two Spiritedness.
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Money is a poor proxy for public-spiritedness, just as age is an imperfect one for passion.
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The bleeding-heart, bleeding-elbows spiritedness of their latest release, "Holy Ghost," only augmented their rabid fan base.
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A national community of public spiritedness is not about walls but about collective effort and the common good.
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The civic-spiritedness of many citizens who are engaging in electoral politics for the first time is impressive.
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It similarly reassures its users by projecting an image of public- spiritedness—the world's knowledge, provided gratis by Google.
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The other thing that I think has come into play that we never had before was this mean-spiritedness.
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It's not like they are just being motivated by a sort of public spiritedness; they are actually held to account.
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A better answer lies in the combination of government responsiveness and civic spiritedness so splendidly on display this week in Texas.
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Not what will Trump do — his latest pronouncements simply up the ante on mean-spiritedness, with little clarity on a specific policy direction.
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They choose to see Alison's whiplash mania as high-spiritedness, and extend her their friendship—no small thing for this prickly, lonely woman.
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" He immediately acknowledged the mean-spiritedness of the comment and said, "I'm sorry I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.
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The more important demonstration of McCain's spiritedness, however, was his love of what is good about the United States: its principled attachment to liberty.
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If his aim was to prevent scandal, he's essentially failed — this decree's mean-spiritedness deeply undermines respect for Catholic bishops and their teaching authority.
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On top of all that, encouraging comments are the norm, while mean-spiritedness and hate speech is either strongly discouraged or flat out banned.
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The darkness of the plot is easily overridden by the sheer spiritedness of Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond's score and the terrific young cast.
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The Vibe The lively tavern scene on Fairfield Avenue reflects Black Rock's free-spiritedness, but the overarching atmosphere is one of a close-knit community.
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"For me, being a role model has been my free-spiritedness and sometimes my unapologetic attitude for decisions that I feel comfortable with," she told Kimmel.
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There was little if any hint of the mean-spiritedness that marked much of the ballot-stuffing campaign that got him elected in the first place.
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"The administration's mean-spiritedness towards art and entertainment is an expression of their mean-spirited attitude about people who want that art and entertainment," De Niro said.
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Out of public spiritedness — and a desire to reduce tax bills — collectors from an older generation have tended to keep their masterpieces away from the auctioneer's gavel.
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But for all his whimsy and free-spiritedness, Rodeo has a few "no-go's," as he calls them, including ever returning to their hometown, Poplin Springs, Wash.
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Even when the most unusual thing happens, you show a kind of civil-spiritedness by conceding and very publicly kind of acknowledging the importance of democracy, etc. etc.
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"The administration's mean-spiritedness towards our art and entertainment is an expression of their mean-spirited attitude about people who want that art and entertainment," De Niro added.
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Also taking the stand-up class is Carla (Priscilla Lopez), whose free-spiritedness, meant to show up Nancy's primness, is mostly demonstrated by her wearing a garish scarf.
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The investigative articles we print are supported by documentary evidence thanks to the public-spiritedness of citizens who at great risk to themselves pass on this material to us.
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The same spiritedness guided his dauntless effort to preserve and advance it, as well as his almost gleeful embraces across the political aisle that exemplified a politics of moderation.
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And whatever their public spiritedness, he says, the most promising way to reduce inequality is through policy and tax changes rather than the good will of people at the top.
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The three-hour epic begins in 1930s Dresden where a young boy's innate artistic talent is spotted by his sensitive aunt, whose own free-spiritedness proves too much for the Nazis.
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It's a mean-spirited way to live your life, and recent events online (of course) have shown that mean-spiritedness runs through a certain sect of Rick and Morty fans' veins.
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Home and Work ON A BUSTLING STREET in Paris's Marais neighborhood, the gay enclave that feels symbolic of the city's free-spiritedness, there's a sober pair of 17th-century wooden doors.
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Another essential virtue is public-spiritedness: In a sprawling republic, those with strong views must recognize that they share the political community with fellow citizens whose competing views are equally intense.
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So I'm more concerned about the tone that is being set in the political debate this year because the last thing our country needs right now is more divisiveness, more mean-spiritedness.
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Team-spiritedness also needs to be balanced out by organizations that have an interest in the next fight: robust party organizations that want to win next time, and believe that they can.
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As for Rose, she may have been done in by the very spiritedness that took her from the highway to the Great White Way and made her, ever so briefly, a star.
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"I'm more concerned about the tone that is being set in the political debate this year because the last thing our country needs right now is more divisiveness, more mean-spiritedness," she said.
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Or think about Ted Cruz, whose mean-spiritedness and self-centered nature evidently stand out even in today's conservative movement, making him a hated figure even among those who should like his message.
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Finally, Alice agrees to marry Teddy—largely to move into a roomier apartment—but he is bewildered by her high-spiritedness and sets about trying to make her behave like a proper wife.
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In Athens, Ga., Dr. J. Kip Matthews, a therapist who sees both conservative and liberal patients, said that the mean-spiritedness, tribalism and uncertainty of the political discussion was causing anxiety on all sides.
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But what is clear is that for all Schultz's public spiritedness, he has not done the work to understand the problems he decries, or to consider where he could do the most good in fighting them.
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And the character with the most prominent wild streak, Jessa Johansson, ended up having some serious issues with self-sabotage and backstabbing, which barely gave viewers time to revel in her dry sense of humor and free-spiritedness.
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And they tend to assume that keeping the American corporation embedded in this communitarian system is a better way to balance productivity and innovation and public-spiritedness than just trying to regulate and micromanage businesses into good behavior.
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If President Trump would "tone down the rhetoric sometimes and lower the temperature," it would "certainly help," says GOP Congressman-Elect Dan Crenshaw, who thinks "the American people could use a break" from mean-spiritedness in comedy, sports, and politics pic.twitter.
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"President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted the public-spiritedness of wealthy Nigerians and organizations for standing up to be counted in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic," reads a statement released Friday by Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity.
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He's fooling around (and undoubtedly, posing for the camera), but it's clear that the games children play in such places are darker than elsewhere, a reflection of their grim lives, but also a welcome reminder that even within bleakness, there are moments of spiritedness and play.
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He is radically clear-eyed about the danger of the North Korean regime improving (and proliferating) the means to deliver nuclear weapons, and he possesses the spiritedness required to see to it that Kim will not be permitted to hold the American people hostage to nuclear attack.
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And his willingness to re-enter public service at a time when other Trump-skeptical Republicans are running for the exits (and when he could be enjoying a very comfortable retirement with his 1,765 grandchildren) shows an old-fashioned spiritedness that his party's hollow men conspicuously lack.
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"He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued," said Perry in 2015 as he called for Trump's defeat in the 2016 primaries.
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The video finds Petty in his most unlikely phase to date, his sardonic-rocker transformed, just temporarily, into a free-spirited, Saturday-morning-ready cartoon (the fact that it accompanied such an urgent, riff-riding bit of let's-hit-the-highway spiritedness made it all the more joyful).
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Driven by the impassioned vocals of Natalie Carol—tones that shiver in all the perfect places—"My Man" is a song that smacks of rolling hills and freeform dancing, a kind of pop imbued with Laurel Canyons vapors and alt country angles and a top down free spiritedness.
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Being hypnotized by a white male doctor who manipulates you while you are unconscious and then falls in love with your lost 18th-century self may seem to be a choice exhibit of the unacceptable — right up there with the spirited woman in "Kiss Me, Kate" being spanked for her spiritedness.
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Ultimately, for these books and show to come to a satisfying end, someone needs to become a Robert the Bruce or a William the Conqueror, a medieval politician who understands the right balance of genuine public spiritedness, utter ruthlessness, general competence, coalition-building, loyalty-maintenance, and charismatic leadership to win as both of those men did.
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"I am very confident, not just hopeful, I am confident that if we start working together again, if we remembered we are the United States of America, if we reject the demagoguery, the prejudice, the paranoia, the mean spiritedness we hear in our public political discourse ... America's best days can still be ahead of us," Clinton added.
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In both Aristotle and Plato, spiritedness (thumos) is distinguished from the other passions ().Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics I & VI; Plato, Republic IV. The proper function of the "rational" was to rule the other parts of the soul, helped by spiritedness. By this account, using one's reason is the best way to live, and philosophers are the highest types of humans.
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Etymologically, the word mood derives from the Old English which denoted military courage, but could also refer to a person's humor, temper, or disposition at a particular time. The cognate Gothic translates both "mood, spiritedness" and "anger".
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Gordon, Dan. "Winter League Escapades: Dispatches from Ballparks in the Dominican Republic". University of Nebraska Press, 2001 Like their American counterparts, these "latinized" games exude free-spiritedness, social cohesion, and festivity from the fans and players alike.Klein, Alan.
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He held the position until 1818. He lacked some physical requirements for teaching: he spoke monotonously, and with a weak voice. But his genuine spiritedness and outrage bound his listeners to him, and left behind ideal conceptions of how things should be arranged.
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The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane describe The Large Rope as an "excellent thriller", adding that it has "an arresting narrative premise and an unsentimental view of the potential mean-spiritedness of village life".Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, p. 139.
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Thumos (also commonly spelled 'thymos'; ) is a Greek word expressing the concept of "spiritedness" (as in "spirited stallion" or "spirited debate"). The word indicates a physical association with breath or blood and is also used to express the human desire for recognition. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and giddiness are.
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Thomas Fielding Johnson (24 December 1828 – 18 March 1921) was a prominent Victorian businessman and philanthropist in Leicester, England. Among his many acts of public spiritedness and generosity was the donation in 1919 of a site and buildings for the establishment of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College which finally became the University of Leicester.Halford (1984), p.76.
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Choe Jun (1884-1970) was a businessman and philanthropist in early 20th- century Korea. He was born in Gyeongju, in present-day South Korea. His family, known as the "Choe Bujatjip," had been known since the 17th century for their wealth and public-spiritedness. After the liberation of Korea in 1945, he gave much of his fortune to the Yeungnam University Foundation.
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The Singapore Police Force in celebration of the Home Team National Day Observance Ceremony on 6 August 2012 awarded Akbar with a Public Spiritedness Award from Minister in Prime Minister's Office and 2nd Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry Mr. S. Iswaran. This award was presented for his assistance rendered to a patrol officer in stopping an offender who attempted to escape.
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She wrote that the episode "falls flatter than the chemical pancakes used to anesthetize the victims of this episode" due to its "collection of situations and observances that bear little relation to each other." Vitaris also criticized the scene wherein various characters are compared to animals, and commented, "the mean spiritedness of [the plot] is mind-boggling". Finally, she called the episode's conclusion a "false ending".
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Variations of the scene occur throughout Roman funerary art.Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics, pp. 219–220. Gregory Nagy sees horses and chariots, and particularly the chariot of Achilles, as embodying the concept of ménos, which he defines as "conscious life, power, consciousness, awareness," associated in the Homeric epics with thūmós, "spiritedness," and ', "soul," all of which depart the body in death.Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics, pp 87–89. 219.
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John Tunstall lived in Lincoln for about 18 months before being killed by Morton, Hill, and Evans. During this period, he regularly corresponded with his family in London. Frederick Nolan collected these letters and published them as The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall, a basic work in the historiography of the Lincoln County War. Tunstall's letters reflect his ambition, biases, and youthful arrogance and high-spiritedness.
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The attack emotionally fractures Fancy, and, for two or three months, she is a shadow of herself, constantly self-conscious and afraid that her attacker will come back and rape her again, which he eventually does a month later. Both the rapes and Luis's subsequent arrest and near-execution for her attacks and the murder of two other people are highly traumatizing events for Fancy, and she loses some of the free-spiritedness that she once possessed as a result. In later episodes, Fancy has largely shed her vanity and selfishness, though she is still extremely stubborn, and still possesses a bit of the free-spiritedness and love of fun that she did when she was younger; overall, though, Fancy is ashamed or embarrassed by her behavior in her youth. Fancy is deeply compassionate and loving, willing to do anything for her loved ones, and, when not being forced to act against her will, behaves somewhat maternally towards Luis's son, Marty.
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The one thing "Bobbie's Girl" does have going for its subdued treatment of the lesbian relationship --- these characters don't need to be lesbians for any plot point, they just are."Oxman, Steven. "Review. 'Bobbie's Girl' " Daily Variety, June 6, 2002, p. 14 The Houston Chronicle noted this is "An Irish co- production, Bobbie's Girl was filmed in Ireland, a fine and proper setting for the whimsical free-spiritedness it aims to project.
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The film was panned by critics. According to Rotten Tomatoes, only 5% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 114 reviews. The site's consensus states: "A shortage of laughs and an undercurrent of mean-spiritedness undermine Good Luck Chuck, squandering a decent premise on gross-out humor and shopworn slapstick." On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 19 out of 100, based on 23 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike".
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Derrett, p.598 Such as if a man is able to repay a creditor but does not do so out of mean-spiritedness, the king should make him pay the money and take five percent for himself.Lariviere, p.67 The judicial duty of the king was deciding any disputes that arose in his kingdom and any conflicts that arose between dharmasastra and practices at the time or between dharmasastra and any secular transactions.
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They were paid $10,000 in gold to help finance the first year of their settlement. During the four weeks it took them to travel to New Braunfels, the trek took on the ambiance of a collegiate party, with beer and singing and youthful high spiritedness filling the journey. Spiess and Meusebach scouted the area of the Llano River and chose the location for Bettina. Member Louis Reinhardt described the Llano River as so pure and crystal clear they named it the Silvery Llano.
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It is a roman à clef about the first few months of his married life in Dublin. It is also an unflattering picture of the drabness and mean-spiritedness of lower middle class Irish life in the mid-1940s. Two further novels about South Africa followed and their unvarnished descriptions of the reality of life for the native population probably contributed to Cleeve's eventual expulsion from the country. In the mid-1950s, Cleeve began to concentrate on the short story form.
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The club has always promoted clean government and public-spiritedness. Many of its early members, notably cartoonist Thomas Nast, were instrumental in breaking "Boss" Tweed's political organization. (A future club president, Elihu Root, served as one of Tweed's defense counsels.) Manhattan District Attorney and club member Charles S. Whitman used the privacy afforded by the club to secretly interview witnesses during his investigation of the case that sent NYPD Lt. Charles Becker to the electric chair in 1915. Whitman was elected New York Governor as a result.
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He describes the Demon moniker as coming from the Greek word "Daimôn", meaning "good-spiritedness". While X-Treme Chinese is a combination of fusion cuisine and molecular gastronomy, and is meant to show that the food he creates is pushing the limits. His dishes at Bo Innovation include one called "Sex on a Beach" which involves an edible condom made out of a konjac and kappa on a beach made of mushroom. The condom itself is filled with a mixture of honey and ham.
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" The book, he said, was one that "decent people would be ashamed of having written." The tone of these reviews led James Atlas in The New York Times Magazine to conclude "the responses to Bloom's book have been charged with a hostility that transcends the usual mean-spiritedness of reviewers." William Greider wrote for Rolling Stone that there were two main reasons for the roaring commercial success of Bloom's work. The first, he says, is purely due to the "impassioned quality of Bloom's prose.
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Furthermore, he concluded that Goodman's argument on how education squandered what it intended to promote was "strong [and] circumstantial". Nat Hentoff (The Reporter) struggled to disagree with Goodman's claim that schools provided little room for "spontaneity" and free spiritedness. However, he felt that Goodman inadequately explained how primary schools could be improved in content and staffing. Hentoff said that the book's key flaw was its position in a "political vacuum", offering no means for society to acknowledge Goodman's expressed unviability of their schooling model.
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His major sociological work was interested in differentiating Avrupalılık ("Europeanism", the mimicking of Western societies) and Modernlik ("Modernity", taking initiative); he was interested in Japan as a model in this, for what he perceived to be its having modernized without abandoning its innate cultural identity. Gökalp suggested that to subordinate "culture" (non- utilitarianism, altruism, public-spiritedness) to "civilization" (utilitarianism, egoism, individualism) was to doom a state to decline: "civilization destroyed societal solidarity and morality".Parla, Taha. The Social and Political Thought of Ziya Gökalp. 1980, page 31.
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The National Park Service said that 51 Madison Avenue was "an excellently maintained example of Cass Gilbert's work" whose plans "best represents the large, well-structured organization of the New York Life Insurance Company" in its heyday. This was contrasted with the former Broadway headquarters, which were described as not being among the best work of its respective designer, McKim, Mead & White. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission called the structure "a powerful symbol" of New York Life's "public spiritedness, lasting stability, and financial success." Not all critics appraised the building positively.
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Cherry blossoms are a symbol of isagiyosa in the sense of embracing the transience of the world In Japanese society, particularly in historical feudal Japan, isagiyosa (, "purity") is a virtue, translated with "resolute composure" or "manliness". Isagiyosa is the capability of accepting death with composure and equanimity. It stands besides other central virtues such as public-spiritedness (kō no seishin), loyalty (seijitsusa), diligence (kinbensa) and steadiness (jimichisa). Cherry blossoms, because of their ephemeral nature, are a symbol of isagiyosa in the sense of embracing the transience of the world.
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Dare is a well decorated professional with numerous award to his name. He has been honoured both locally and internationally, including being recognised as one of the fifty Leading Nigerians during the Nigeria's Golden Jubilee anniversary celebration in North America.. He also emerged the winner of the Voice of America Meritorious Honour Award 2009 in recognition of his sterling leadership and professional contributions in Africa and diaspora. Additionally, Dare was listed as a member of International Committee to Protect Journalists Citation in 2000 in New York, USA in recognition of his spiritedness as a journalist.
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Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 60%, with an average rating of 5.56/10, based on 47 reviews from critics. The website's "Critics Consensus" for the film reads, "Murtaugh and Riggs remain an appealing partnership, but Lethal Weapon 3 struggles to give them a worthy new adventure as it cranks up the camp along with the mean-spiritedness". Metacritic gives a weighted average rating of 40/100 from 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.
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Because of this, the Grinch cut his face while attempting to shave, to which his classmates—except Martha—laughed at him and caused the Grinch to lose his temper and declare that he hates Christmas. He fled to the top of Mount Crumpit, north of Whoville, where he then took up residence. Years later, nobody likes the Grinch because of his mean-spiritedness, especially at Christmastime. But six-year-old Cindy Lou Who believes that everyone is missing the point about Christmas by focusing too much on the gifts and festivities and too little on the personal relationships.
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Instead, the character was supposed to be motivated only by enjoyment and free from mean spiritedness. He is very friendly, caring, well-mannered, and several of his plots involve helping someone out. He tries to please his sister Candace, carving her face into Mount Rushmore for her birthday in one episode and helping her retrieve a tape detailing his summer adventures even though she intended on using the footage as evidence to "bust" him and Ferb. Another episode has him throwing an extravaganza for his mother's birthday, and yet another has him (along with Ferb and Candace) recreating their parent's most romantic moment for their wedding anniversary.
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It has been argued that Machiavelli's promotion of innovation led directly to the argument for progress as an aim of politics and civilization. But while a belief that humanity can control its own future, control nature, and "progress" has been long-lasting, Machiavelli's followers, starting with his own friend Guicciardini, have tended to prefer peaceful progress through economic development, and not warlike progress. As Harvey wrote: "In attempting other, more regular and scientific modes of overcoming fortune, Machiavelli's successors formalized and emasculated his notion of virtue." Machiavelli however, along with some of his classical predecessors, saw ambition and spiritedness, and therefore war, as inevitable and part of human nature.
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The Evening Telegram was a success from the start and Robertson was soon a wealthy man. Eventually these columns were published in a book called Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto which consists of six volumes. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Toronto East in the 1896 federal election defeating the incumbent Conservative MP, Emerson Coatsworth. An Independent Conservative, he did not run for re-election in 1900. The world of sports was also a focus for Robertson’s public-spiritedness. A fervent advocate of amateur sport, he served as president of the Ontario Hockey Association from 1899 to 1905, which was a critical time period in the history of the sport.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic and Louise Bruton of The Irish Times particularly praised "My Own Dance" and Kesha's lyrical duplicity. In a more mixed evaluation, Megan Buerger of Pitchfork summarized High Road as a setback following Rainbow, affirming that it "feels strained, scattershot, and loaded with tension, like someone trying to portray freedom and free-spiritedness—even a recovered sense of identity—who isn't quite there yet". She also criticized the album's premise, commenting that "it doesn’t feel like moving on, it feels like running away". Similarly, PopMatters Nick Malone discredited Kesha's attempts to unite the diverse sounds with which she has worked throughout her career and even devalued the investment to return to Kesha's partying identity.
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Reason was considered of higher stature than other characteristics of human nature, such as sociability, because it is something humans share with nature itself, linking an apparently immortal part of the human mind with the divine order of the cosmos itself. Within the human mind or soul (psyche), reason was described by Plato as being the natural monarch which should rule over the other parts, such as spiritedness (thumos) and the passions. Aristotle, Plato's student, defined human beings as rational animals, emphasizing reason as a characteristic of human nature. He defined the highest human happiness or well being (eudaimonia) as a life which is lived consistently, excellently and completely in accordance with reason.
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A unique aspect of Ho Chi Minh thought is the emphasis on personal morality and ethics. The personal values of Ho Chi Minh are regularly upheld by the Party, and party members are taught to exemplify Ho Chi Minh's personal values: practicing the standard of industriousness, thrift, integrity, uprightness, public-spiritedness and selflessness in serving the country and the people. Central to Ho Chi Minh morality is living a modest and immaterial lifestyle, and devoting oneself to the collective good and the advancement of socialism and self-determination. Ho Chi Minh wrote about morality throughout his entire life, and often criticized individualism, such as in his short essay Raise up Revolutionary Ethics, Eliminate Individuals.
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Also important to the conception of Filth was the blues genre, which helped Kane define the "crawling" and "brutal" swing of the music. Because Gira wanted a more rigid, stiff percussion style, Kane left after recording Filth, though some of his swinging style persisted through the second drummer, Roli Mosimann. Filth saw the introduction of Norman Westberg to Swans, who would remain a primary contributor throughout much of the band's career. Gira described Westberg's playing as "a vast, sustaining chordal sound", and the latter's addition to the band helped solidify it as a serious musical venture; previously, Swans had been fueled by "constant bickering, haranguing, and pervasive mean-spiritedness", according to Kane.
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On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected use of the matrix in favor of the firm's actual billing rate, thus restricting fee awards to small firms, such as the counsel in Laffey, to their own reduced billing rates. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, supra, 746 F.2d at 24–25. Four years later, in Save Our Cumberland Mountains, the D.C. Circuit sitting en banc overruled the Laffey decision (857 F.2d at 1524) stating: > Congress did not intend the private but public-spirited rate-cutting > attorney to be penalized for his public spiritedness by being paid on a > lower scale than either his higher priced fellow barrister from a more > established firm or his salaried neighbor at a legal services clinic.
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In these communities, lesbian women built communes where they grew their own food and created societies away from men. They believed that living and working in nature allowed them to embrace their inherent connection with nature. Gay men also partook in similar activities; Bell and Valentine note how the Edward Carpenter Community in England hosts Gay Men's Weeks where they conduct events related to free-spiritedness and the embracement of one's sexuality. For rural men, on the other hand, “publicly disrupting normative gender expectations arguably remains as, if not more, contentious than homoerotic desires.” In many places, as long as a gay man subscribes to masculine representations and activities, such as wearing traditionally masculine attire and working in manual labor, acceptance comes much more easily.
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The work has sometimes been interpreted as representing a deep disillusionment with the emperor Justinian, the empress, and even his patron Belisarius. Justinian is depicted as cruel, venal, prodigal and incompetent; as for Theodora, the reader is given a detailed portrayal of vulgarity and underage sex, combined with shrewish and calculating mean-spiritedness; Procopius even claims both are demons whose heads were seen to leave their bodies and roam the palace at night. Alternatively, scholars versed in political rhetoric of the era have viewed these statements from the Secret History as formulaic expressions within the tradition of invective. Procopius' Buildings of Justinian, written about the same time as the Secret History, is a panegyric which paints Justinian and Theodora as a pious couple and presents particularly flattering portrayals of them.
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Thus while social evolution according to Marx is governed > chiefly by economic conditions, to Sarkar this dynamic is propelled by > forces varying with time and space: sometimes physical prowess and high- > spiritedness, sometimes intellect applied to dogmas and sometimes intellect > applied to the accumulation of capital (p. 38). [...] The main line of > defence of the Sarkarian hypothesis is that unlike the dogmas now in > disrepute, it does not emphasise one particular point to the exclusion of > all others: it is based on the sum total of human experience – the totality > of human nature. Whenever a single factor, however important and > fundamental, is called upon to illuminate the entire past and by implication > the future, it simply invites disbelief, and after closer inspection, > rejection. Marx committed that folly, and to some extent so did Toynbee.
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Shaheen Irani of Deccan Chronicle wrote, "Sriram has done a fab job in keeping dark humour intact with several quirky and surprise elements that will make you cover your face too". Shilajit Mitra of The New Indian Express said in a review that "Raghavan creates a world interchangeably familiar and pulpy" in which he "strings together ingenious set-pieces and populates them with wryly- written characters". Troy Ribeiro of Indo-Asian News Service called the film a "taut, skillful and surgically effective murder mystery" and said; "For most of its length, Andhadhun functions so efficiently that we put the cause and its effects on hold and go with the action". Manjusha Radhakrishnan of Gulf News described the film as an "unapologetic celebration of vitriol, darkness and mean-spiritedness".
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Usigni is a village in Umbria, a frazione of the comune of Poggiodomo in the Province of Perugia a few hundred metres downstream from the source of the Tissino River. It is located at 1,001 m (3,284 ft) above sea‑level. The once- fortified village is now insignificant, with only 13 inhabitants according to the 2001 census, but was the home town of Fausto Cardinal Poli, private secretary to Pope Urban VIII, and benefited from his public-spiritedness: the church of S. Salvatore built by Poli in around 1640 was richly decorated with stuccos and frescos by Guidobaldo Abatini and Salvi Castellucci. Usigni is also very proud of an elegant well-head of the same period, attributed by some to Bernini, which it has adopted as its symbol.
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Machiavelli is generally seen as being critical of Christianity as it existed in his time, specifically its effect upon politics, and also everyday life. In his opinion, Christianity, along with the teleological Aristotelianism that the church had come to accept, allowed practical decisions to be guided too much by imaginary ideals and encouraged people to lazily leave events up to providence or, as he would put it, chance, luck or fortune. While Christianity sees modesty as a virtue and pride as sinful, Machiavelli took a more classical position, seeing ambition, spiritedness, and the pursuit of glory as good and natural things, and part of the virtue and prudence that good princes should have. Therefore, while it was traditional to say that leaders should have virtues, especially prudence, Machiavelli's use of the words virtù and prudenza was unusual for his time, implying a spirited and immodest ambition.
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