Somehow, the moral high ground becomes more lofty -- the rules become tougher -- but every so often, and ever more rarely, a movie can transcend the 'entertainment' we filmmakers are ordered to provide by our financial masters.
He wrote about sex and murder with a candor that shocked his contemporaries, and he structured his plays with a lofty disregard for the rules of naturalism, of genre, of conventional dramaturgy.
That is the unwritten rule in lofty social circles, and it also applies, apparently, in the lowly muck of Norwegian fjords.
In many ways it is a strange subject for a popular vote: 2,135 pages of dense legal text covering lofty hopes on the rule of law and human rights, to the humdrum business of trade tariffs on apricots to uranium ore.
The leaders of the G20 group of rich and emerging economies who were meeting in London on April 2nd as The Economist went to press came with lofty aspirations to rewrite the rules of global finance and reshape the world's financial institutions.
Senior army officers, who have lofty status in a country ruled by them for half its history, have been among the dead.
But its goals are lofty: defending human rights, the rule of law and democracy.There are, of course, other bodies such as the EU and NATO which aspire to promote democracy in Europe.
We must keep in mind that a military empire will be ruled not by lofty ideals of equality and justice but by the power of the sword.
An ambitious ruler with a lofty conception of the royal office, he was deposed by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke Henry IVV) because of his arbitrary and factional rule.
When the place has lofty ambitions, as Atelier does, the general rule becomes an iron law.
