As is, The Dictator only leaves its audiences with an image of continued oppression, for which there can't be many laughs, even as audiences often giggled (and often cringed) at some of Baron Cohen's genuinely funny antics.
We crave the pleasure they supply -- the spectacle, the vicarious emotion, the sheer sensory overload -- even as we often regard it with puritanical suspicion.
The protests, he said, are entwined with a rising patriotism among many young Bangladeshis, who are proud of their country's progress even as they often distrust the established political parties.
As Chouinard steered us through the sublime vistas of Montana, enumerating extinctions and threats, one felt not depressed or even, as one often is, in the presence of ecological jeremiads, exasperated but, rather, almost inexplicably exhilarated.
Mr. Noah writes: [Richard] Nixon himself was not at heart an Eisenhower Republican so much as a calculating practitioner of realpolitik, and as he increasingly honed his message to appeal to conservative Southern Democrats (aided by his ex-moderate vice president, Spiro Agnew) he grew estranged from moderate Republicans — even as he often pursued liberal policies.
I find myself admiring Ikaruga even as it often leaves me exclaiming "Oh, come on".
And so-called moralists like Lindsey Graham and John McCain side with Trump almost every occasion, even as they often scold him.
"All the forensic evidence, everything you see with this attack, we had with previous attacks," said Rogers, who receives regular intelligence briefings and works closely with the administration even as he often criticizes it.
Many who've crafted the declarations published here claim to be advancing the principles of our own Founding Fathers and Mothers, even as they often disagree about what those principles amount to, and how they are best applied.
