And they stick to their side of the moral fence for the duration, almost never suggesting any true human complexity.
"Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish," Shakespeare wrote, never suggesting that a cloud was a dragon.
Phoenix and Witherspoon dig deep into their characters, finding qualities that transcend showbusiness while never suggesting that their commitment to performance is a negligible or unworthy matter.
Continuing his strategy of never suggesting he is satisfied with the economy, Mr. Bush said the good news was only a starting point for his efforts to bring down the unemployment rate.
George does something at a mortgage corporation but makes only a passing reference to the current difficulties, never suggesting that arranging mortgages in South Florida in 2009 is like selling muskets in a nuclear war.
In one particularly odd moment, he allowed that he had "underestimated" the appeal of health care reform "among lower incomes," but did not fault himself for never suggesting an alternative package.
