Bellini and his librettists most often Felice Romani preferred intensely amorous or otherwise emotion-packed dramas, featuring ethical confrontations and usually tragic involvements.
The field manual illustrated its themes with case-study vignettes whose titles suggested the authors' ethical ambitions: "Defusing a Confrontation," "Lose Moral Legitimacy, Lose the War".
Goodnight, and Good Luck, Clooney's movie about ethical communications and the confrontation in 1953 between liberal broadcaster Ed Murrow and witch-hunting cold warrior Joe McCarthy, is his equivalent of Quiz Show, Redford's movie on burgeoning corruption in the media in the 1950s.
Nothing, of course, turns out as it should or as we quite expect, and there is a sudden, spectacularly handled outburst of violence worthy of Sam Peckinpah, whose first important movie, Ride the High Country, dealt with similar themes of coming of age, moral growth, ethical tutelage and a climactic confrontation between men of honour and representatives of brute force.
But more forthright collegial confrontation of the ethical problems of colleagues would go a long way toward improving the reputation of government in D.C.
Since her interest is religion, she sees every daily confrontation as some great ethical parable.
Williams's "relativism of distance" says ethical appraisals are appropriate in real confrontations, but not in notional ones.
Both sides emerged from this confrontation agreeing upon a critical role for ethical principles and maxims, and upon a constructive role for case judgments in the development and refinement of principles.
The practice raised serious ethical concerns in the wake of a near-lethal confrontation between police and an Iraq war veteran who suffered a psychotic episode while taking the controversial anti-smoking drug Chantix.
McLachlan and Gardner (2004) are among the first to explicitly include engagement, confrontation and inclusion as possible investment strategies in their survey among conventional and ethical Australian investors.
