Sentences with phrase «much as a badge of honor»

And not as a perpetual temptation or sparring partner so much as a badge of honor, proof that we're intellectually rigorous, honest, and thoughtful — not the mindless automatons the world thinks we are.

Not exact matches

Stone gives himself much credit of «telling the truth» about Alexander's bisexuality as if it's some progressive badge of honor, but at the same time he can't get away from the cruelest, least imaginative stereotyping: His Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.
The ten - hour production follows three soldiers — PFC Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale, now the star of AMC's Rubison), PFC Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and medal of honor winner Sgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda)-- from Pearl Harbor and the first battles on Guadalcanal across the Pacific (and back home for Bond drives) to Okinawa and V - J Day and finally homecoming, which is filled with just as much anxiety as some of the battles, though for very different reasons.
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