The irony is that, all the while, the ethos of exceptionalism and moral righteousness has been vulnerable not to the bluster and swagger of other nations but to the tiniest piercings of conscience and awareness.
If this is the secret of the book, it is also the source of its principal weakness: The blind spots in the conscience and awareness of Shavit in the book are also the weakness of the Israel that once was and has changed unrecognizably.
I also like the idea of incorporating social conscience and charitable awareness into young people's education.
His investigation goes horrifically wrong and his bad conscience, his festering awareness of career mortality and his screwed-up circadian rhythms mean that he is driven slowly mad with sleep deprivation: a kind of fatal familial insomnia of the soul.
The Betsy is a luxury hotel with a conscience and social awareness that's neatly folded into its PACE Program: Philanthropy.
Harrison wrote such novels in the idiom of the politically conservative hack writer, but in reality he had a liberal conscience and a sharp awareness of the lack of literary values in so much of the SF he was parodying.
We're out, we're done, we don't want to be part of this.' " On its own Handle With Care label La Excelencia has released two CDs whose titles give a sense of the group's philosophy: "Salsa con Conciencia," which means salsa with "awareness" or "conscience," and "Mi Tumbao Social," or "My Social Drumbeat".
Jenn Lyon is convincing as Sharon, a bimbo with a conscience and growing social awareness, and Jon DeVries is touching as Frank, irascible toward his wife and ashamed of it, but afraid he is about to die.
"I have kept you in my awareness as someone of conscience and caring, especially about the children of the world," Walker went on.
Where we all meet is in awareness of our own conscience.
