And this is why we have to think through our response to that story, noting her omissions, assumptions and blind spots – as well as her courageous insights into the unknowable nature of her son.
Don't squander the opportunity – make the most of it by being real, sharing your authentic self, and helping others learn from your most courageous, outstanding and original insights.
This courageous practice of open-heartedness, insight, and vulnerability is what we call self-compassion.
We were deeply moved by a courageous film that handles, with subtlety and insight, a painfully controversial historical situation – the German occupation and the Holocaust – which continues to resonate".
BFI fellow and film critic Philip French said of Ida that the jury was "deeply moved by a courageous film that handles, with subtlety and insight, a painfully controversial historical situation".
"This Pulitzer is a recognition of decades of dedicated, courageous work by David Wood, and of the great insight and sensitivity he's brought to the plight of severely wounded soldiers and the very human tragedy of modern warfare," O'Brien said.
He added, "The result, I trust, presents more than the story of a ship or a sortie, but offers some insight into the agonizing dilemma of a misguided, courageous people who persisted in continuing a hopeless war".
The Rev. R. Scott Colglazier, a Riverside minister, praised Dr. Coffin for "his eloquence of word, his insight of mind, his joyfulness of spirit and his courageous embrace of life".
The prose is vibrant, and there is a telling insight into each character — William Howe, we learn, is valiant and courageous in battle, lackadaisical and self-indulgent when not.
Patrolling the contested intellectual borders where newness and imitation smudge and shift is hardly a novel academic enterprise, and Macfarlane is courageous to enter such a crowded scholarly field and propose fresh insights.
