Lowell does not so much condemn as commemorate her afflicted mother and the alcoholism — "the family problem," she calls it — that plagued them both.
Or one might make the case that those who study the past in medicine are not so much condemned to repeat it as, occasionally, privileged to do so.
So next time, instead of wasting so much energy condemning some guy's side-chick, let's take a step back and leave it all alone.
American support of the Shah's brutal dictatorship led many Iranians to turn against the West and toward the repressive Islamic government its leaders spend so much rhetoric condemning.
Benn's initial reaction to Powell's "rivers of blood" speech in 1968, as recorded in his diaries, was not so much to condemn as to observe that Powell was of "working-class origins" and had "never been accepted in the Tory Party".
But the point was not so much to condemn the inaction but to urge Congress to work rapidly to raise its grade from F to A+.
"We should be doing so much more to be condemning hatred and to be calling toward life and live and unity in our country".
What we need, what the world needs is for the Church to stop spending so much of our time condemning and excluding and start spending more of our time loving, serving, and welcoming the people we'd rather ridicule and belittle for not being and believing exactly like us.
Wrestling with the way that her religion "condemned so much of what I loved," she makes a persuasive case that "we all must learn to live with mystery, however clever we are, however much of it we dispel".
But how is it that Hamas, a terrorist organization that refused to extend the truce and fired rockets at civilians on a daily basis, gets so much sympathy, with Israel condemned for defending itself?
