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For somebody who had to live with the knowing that he would die of cancer, the director urges the audience to stop looking for guilt or even forced happiness and start life from this moment on.
I am unfamiliar with most of Michelle Williams work, but she does an excellent job here displaying a woman dealing with a deep guilt, and remorse over the loss of her son (she doesn't seem to miss her husband much, however- but I digress).
And when powerful forces – ideology, money, envy, or guilt – are activated, there are always those who are willing to betray or censor others.
It was a promise that partly reflected the feeling of guilt that still haunts the Dutch for looking the other way as the Germans rounded up and deported two-thirds of their country’s Jewish population to death camps.
Indeed, it is a firmly established legal principle that crime should be addressed by a determination of individual guilt before a court of law.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s enlightened refugee policies might thus turn out to be the last manifestation of Germany’s politics of guilt.
Similarly, in Austria – which, to be sure, never admitted guilt in the first place – Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s far-right, anti-immigration coalition is poised to end the EU’s politics of “identity annihilation.”
As Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 74, “The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.”
After all, Arpaio’s conduct hardly qualifies as “unfortunate guilt.”
They arise from a kind of blindness, combined with a strange mixture of alienation, guilt, and fear toward both Israel and America.
Ian Buruma, the British writer, claims that this European rage against America and Israel has to do with guilt and fear.
Much of this grows from a subconscious European guilt related to the Holocaust.
The PiS’s wholesale refusal to admit any guilt or own up to mistakes speaks to a deep-seated immaturity.
The PiS is infantilizing Poland through its infatuation with authority, rejection of cooperation, denial of guilt, and refusal to countenance heterodox ideas and those who think them.
These feelings include guilt, shame, outrage, empathy, sympathy, dread, disgust, and a whole cocktail of other sentiments.
Were Russian guilt for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to be established, Putin’s depiction of his country as a bystander in the Ukrainian conflict would be exposed as a lie.
In any case, Russia’s veto in the Security Council is a tacit admission of guilt, opening the door for the Netherlands – which lost the most citizens in the attack – to push for additional sanctions.
But, given the brutality of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, no one can doubt the lengths to which it would go to hide its guilt.
One critic, in the Bucharest review "Luceafarul" saw the essay as part of a huge American conspiracy to obscure the guilt of the US toward Native Americans, blacks, and the Vietnamese by focusing attention on Europe and its great guilt: the Holocaust.
What these companies must recognize is that over time they may not be able to survive a steady stream of privacy gaffes – whether the result of their own mistakes or guilt by association – and constantly changing rules.
Until the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel’s image benefited from living memories of the Shoah and the silent guilt of an entire generation of Europeans.
Chen, as a sitting president, cannot be indicted even though the prosecutor says that he has evidence to prove his guilt.
While there is plenty of blame to go around, the largest share of the guilt belongs squarely on the shoulders of the major drug companies – Big Pharma.
With the rise of political leaders who had not witnessed the terrifying consequences of WWII, it was inevitable that Germany’s emotional bond with its European mission – born of guilt and the quest for redemption – should gradually disappear.
Still, the Fed should not be absolved of all guilt.
Over the last few years, the Western world has been asking itself, with a mixture of guilt and apprehension, “Who lost Turkey”?
After all, guilt is as significant as courage in any human enterprise.
As one commentator put it, Europeans feel a collective guilt about the Holocaust that makes them eager to have Israel stamped as an aggressor contemptuous of Palestinian humanity.
But guilt and anger have deeper roots in Europe's image of the Jew.
Anti-Semites often cite a passage in Matthew in which a Jewish crowd cheers for Christ's execution and voluntarily accepts permanent guilt: "His blood be on us and on our children."
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