«The Magic of Finding Neverland» is a 16 - minute making - of featurette which mainly focuses on the actors (mostly Depp) and doesn't
talk about the liberties taken with Barrie's story.
I believe that there is certainly a sense in which we fail to understand some features of our contemporary situation through not having a grasp on the neo-Roman way of
thinking about liberty.
One answer is that we are perhaps too willing at the moment to allow questions about security to outweigh
questions about liberty.
Noticed @waynelapierrejr that when you mentioned the Declaration of Independence, you talked a
lot about liberties and the pursuit of happiness - but never about Life.
The present dean of the Louisville seminary, Danny Aiken, told the news service that he agrees with the books» general theology, but is
concerned about liberties the authors take with scripture.
Now seems to be an appropriate time to reassess some of our long - held
credos about our liberties, the functions of the sovereign and the limits of control.
Prior to modern times,
discussions about liberty, what it was, and who it was for had troubled the finest minds of successive generations.
«What marks us out from the past is our failure, in a revolutionary time, to think
afresh about liberty, drawing upon ideas from the past and applying them to the challenges we face,» he warns.
Characters repeat
poetry about liberty as if they're chanting spells, explore their traumatic, incest - filled childhoods, carelessly stop taking their meds and make snarky, occasionally hilarious comments about the biz.
Despite complaints from comic book
purists about the liberties this film takes with the source material, it manages to present both Xavier and Magneto as fresh and rich characters who are both worth exploring.
For the entire film I sat poised, waiting for it to devolve into some Kevin Costner - style courtroom bash, with bold
proclamations about liberty accompanied by a sweeping orchestral theme.
Shows of American patriotism, like a particular
monologue about liberty and freedom, feel misguided after flashbacks that show the rampant racism in the America of BJ's childhood.
From its founding, the United States has fostered these sorts of family feuds — dissent among patriots united by common
ideals about liberty and happiness but fighting over how to achieve them.
The black man or woman in the poem dreams and sings about an «America» («My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing») just like white people do; but just singing
words about liberty does not necessarily make it so.
There are, for instance, the basic questions applicable to all voucher and voucher - like policies concerning outcomes for students offered vouchers, competition effects, constitutional establishment clause (separate of church and state) issues, philosophical
issues about liberty and choice, and societal issues about Balkanization and the role of public schooling in a democracy.
Is it not disturbing (as I point out in installment 4), that rather than leading the free - speech charge, cultural icons such as Margaret Atwood and David Suzuki seem utterly laissez -
faire about liberty?
When the Founding Fathers
talked about liberty, they never even imagined how idiotic and evil some Americans would be by becoming atheists and Sodomites.
After reading an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, students form a circle to engage in
conversation about liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The historian Quentin Skinner and the philosopher Philip Pettit have in recent years revived a distinctively republican tradition of
thought about liberty.
Easy talk
about liberty and «British values» while Britain repeatedly ratchets up the criminal justice system, repeatedly encroaches on civil liberties, undermines legal aid and spends like there is no tomorrow on police and prisons.
«It talks
about liberty and freedom and justice — all tenets that are American, not African - American, so actually giving the entire body the opportunity to partake in something that's really an American standard.»