Sentences with phrase «code of honor among»

At least, it posits a human morality, where there is a code of honor among thieves, but thievery is not in itself wrong if the victim is a greedy person.

Like so many directors of his generation, Sautet is seduced by the romantic codes of honor among thieves and glamorizes the doom inevitable doom that such a life entails.

Not exact matches

American expatriate Jules Dassin's tale of honor among thieves, patient professionalism, friendship, responsibility, and the romantic code of the «good» crooks and the merciless toll it exacts established the tone and style of French crime films for years to come.

Among his recent books are Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006, W. W. Norton), Experiments in Ethics (2008, Harvard University Press), The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2010, W. W. Norton), Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014, Harvard University Press), and A Decent Respect: Honor in the Lives of People and of Nations (2015, University of Hong Kong Law School).

Perhaps a piece of objective evidence speaks louder: Ramsay was among those bestowed with the «Attorney of the Year» honor in 2011 for his work on the Source Code Defense Litigation Team, which helped coordinate a massive attack on the government's proof regarding breath tests in thousands of DWI and implied consent cases across the state.