The international media loves characterizing Miami's residential market as being dominated by foreign owners, many of whom will never set foot in their investment properties - let alone reside there.
How else, today, to explain "Manhattan," a film that presents, and almost gleefully fails to condemn, a love affair characterized by unsettling imbalances in age and power?
The Theory and Regulation of Love, a piece characterizing love as the summons of God, was published in 1688, and the first text in which Norris clearly adopted Malebranchean arguments.
Even his early novel "Giovanni's Room" — a pioneering depiction of a gay love affair — is characterized by impossible love and even more impossible plot coincidences.
But they are also rich in the humor, indelible identity and civic love that characterize the inhabitants of America's most battered city.
These grace-favored cases of human dominium do not replicate the authority of God's dominium, but can exhibit the love that characterizes it.
"An attitude of openness in truth and in love must characterize the dialogue with the followers of non-Christian religions, in spite of various obstacles and difficulties, especially forms of fundamentalism on both sides," the pope wrote.
In Nicomachean Ethics IX.8, Aristotle takes pains to distinguish true self-love, which characterizes the virtuous person, from vulgar self-love, which characterizes morally defective types.
As the editor of Kyle Smith's novel, "Love Monkey," I would like to respond to Laura Miller's essay "Oh Lad, Poor Lad" (May 23), in which she characterized "Love Monkey" as the poster child of a reverse-gender chick lit.
Instead, let us rediscover the radical life of peace, grace and love that was characterized by Christ and seek to live it.
