It's about Harry's green hypocrisy - his "do as I say, not as I do"
preachiness and eco-warrior posturing.
It's about Harry's green hypocrisy -- his "do as I say, not as I do"
preachiness and eco-warrior posturing.
She drew on "Why Diversity Programs Fail," a contemporaneous Harvard Business Review article by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, and a slew of peer-reviewed source materials to compile a solutions-oriented seminar that avoids the perceived
preachiness of some diversity trainings.
Swain deftly handles this multitude without
preachiness within a fast-moving plot.
One critic noted that there was "much more of Anna and May, unfortunately, than of Wong in the lady's voice, which imparts an uncomfortable dissonance, a plaintive monotone of New England
preachiness, to the chinoiserie" (47)
Telling a story of war, class divisions, sexuality, religious doctrine, executions, and fascist rule from the point of view of a young boy is, perhaps, one of the best ways to deliver a litany of existential questions without a hint of
preachiness. It unfolds flawlessly, through honest characters, scenes, and descriptions of rural Spain.
But rather than veer toward
preachiness, the show observes how unprepared law enforcement is for online threats--how difficult it is for our political system to govern the privately owned sandbox of free speech and user profiles.
Humanity, not treacle or
preachiness, was also what had to come out in these moments in the film.
Then again, Jamie -- for all his bonhomie -- is also the lecturing type, the line between food education and just plain
preachiness being quite a thin one.
The second trilogy was a child of the post-Cold War Clinton era, when "
preachiness" was an unforgivable sin in the entertainment media, when sexual transgressions were recast as trivial "lifestyle choices," and when the bright-line certainties of the Cold War were replaced by the muddled values of a culture no longer secure in its sense of manifest destiny as defender of the "free world." As Russia and China discovered capitalism, in what sense could the United States still lay claim to the aura of moral rightness as a "shining city on a hill" that it had enjoyed since the colonial era?