Although ordinary life demands courage, sometimes in exceptional amounts, there is yet another kind of courage required for the task of being human: the courage to meet the new and to accept the different in the chances of experience.
Typically the type of courage required in organizations isn't one that requires harm to one's physical safety.
Laches' tangle requires someone to specify the kind of wisdom that courage requires, and Nicias is prepared to do that.
Whether through extramarital affairs, sexual assault, insubordination in the face of the president, or the failure of the moral courage required to disagree with civilian leadership or abstain from condoning torture, they have dishonored themselves and their profession.
Partly it's a colossal, bipartisan lack of the political courage required to tell people what they sort of know but don't want to hear.
I referred to "a colossal, bipartisan lack of the political courage required to tell people what they sort of know but don't want to hear".
"From 10 ordinary lives he crafts an indelibly hallucinatory portrait of a decaying New York City, and offers through his generosity of spirit and lyrical gifts an ecstatic vision of the human courage required to stay aloft above the ever-yawning abyss," they said.
Consider the courage required of all of us in our daily lives, whether it's returning to the field after striking out in a baseball game; apologizing to someone we've hurt; continuing to apply after losing a job; undertaking the painful daily regimen of rehab or recovery; rebuilding life after the loss of a precious person; or speaking up when we witness bias, bullying, or disrespect.
And yet the equal dramatic weight given to the outcome of a flower show and the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk works to reinforce the sense of everyday heroism, the courage required just to maintain a superficial normality, that is the film's deepest theme.
Had there been more courage here — the same courage required of the soldiers Berg vaunts so much — the film could have addressed the complexities of war that he seems so interested in depicting.
