Their words are thoughtful, well meaning and maddeningly abstract, and the film shares their aloof, morally complacent detachment from the complexities of real politics.
It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people.
He had a reputation, and still does, as a brilliant political tactician, but also as someone thoughtful about the meaning and purposes of politics.
I believe that the legacy of Mr. Obama will be less like that of the first President Bush and more like that of the thoughtful and well-meaning but ultimately hapless Jimmy Carter.
It's an important, well-meaning, thoughtful piece that Americans who care about these issues should read.
"The Disappeared," by Thomas Lynch (Op-Ed, Nov. 5), was a fine, clear and thoughtful expression of the meaning of death to those left behind.
Many of the products he developed for them were best sellers, including the Arco lamp for Flos and Spirale ashtray for Alessi, but his work was also unusually thoughtful and rich in meaning, witty, elegant and technically ingenious.
Notwithstanding how simplistic it is – how, for example, it collapses a deeply complex and, particularly in these times, urgent question, into a binary choice (as though such things are ever a choice) – I nonetheless welcomed her intervention as I hoped it might provoke a more thoughtful conversation about the meaning of citizenship in the 21st century.
But once he hits his stride, Anthony Doerr takes these loud parts and builds a beautiful, expansive tale, woven with thoughtful reflections on the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
Everyone with whom I dealt was well-meaning and thoughtful, and the judges were left alone, which seems to me the only way to get a decent result, assuming you've picked good judges in the first place.
