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If you really want to be the decent guy you pretend to be, you'll offer opportunities to talented Negro performers, just as you do to whites".
Yet the television images are the other way around: Mr Dole is the decent guy who fought heroically in the war, Mr Buchanan the pugnacious spokesman for America's meanest resentments.But this sort of insight is not quite enough to douse Mr Lewis's frustration.
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No one wants anyone else to be happy and none of them can even sit still and honor Ed, the one decent guy on the whole series.
Normal motive: You came recommended by the most decent guy in the world, Irving Sandler, so I knew you'd probably have no ax of your own to grind, and that you'd be fair.
Adam Bryant of TV Guide wrote that Baker's character "seems like the only decent guy in the bunch", though PopSugar asserted that Williams' character "proves to be most likable of the new doctors".
Mike's the most decent guy there".
These days it's like the solid, decent guy who has been repairing air conditioners or doing people's taxes or whatever for the last 30 years and then wins the lottery.
The plot is unashamedly formulaic: girl meets dashing, on-the-rise chef; chef breaks girl's heart; chef fails miserably while girl finds happiness with the boring but decent guy who was there all along.
Still, it's clear, to me at least, that his amour propre, his pride, depends on the image of himself projected by the passage above, the image of a decent guy committed to a civil debate in which each side takes the other's good faith for granted.
"He's the most amazing, decent guy," Sheehan says of Price.
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