The first important documentary about American troops in Iraq, Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's "Gunner Palace" — filmed in 2003, at the beginning of the insurgency that dominates "The Hurt Locker" — was similarly forceful in favoring immediate experience over ideological debate.
When, in July, a reporter on a flight from Brazil to Rome asked him about gay priests, his reply included the question, "Who am I to judge?" Here is the video of the encounter: Carroll writes: His break from his immediate predecessors … is less ideological than intuitive, an inclusive vision of the Church centered on an identification with the poor.
Although satire frequently outraged its specific targets, its immediate topicality also limited its ideological range and its capacity to explore broad cultural issues.
Awareness of history permits recognition of ideological traps and generates scepticism about demands for immediate action because everything has suddenly changed.
PCCC has raised and spent millions on behalf of congressional candidates that toe the ideological line, even, on occasion, when there is no immediate or apparent political point.
They have tended to focus on characteristics of individuals and their immediate milieu, rather then reframing the problem within broader environmental and ideological factors that examine the collective dimensions and structural influences of the concept.
Certainly, simply taking an ideological stance against welfare, rather than an empirical one, when the immediate needs of many people appear to be at stake, seems to be callous.
Martin Amis said that McEwan was attracted to Allen's ideological stance: "Ian was saying things in the mid-seventies like the immediate future of the novel was to deal with the emancipation of women".
Israeli officials may be resigned to losing some immediate Turkish government contracts, but they remain confident that pragmatic interests will win out over ideological differences.
We often think of textbook stories as being immediate and consequential when it comes to political and social outcomes, particularly in an openly ideological school system.
