It should encapsulate how a mom like me is trying to stuff tough love, compassion, and consistency into baggage that is already well over the weight limit with the neglect and abandonment of my own childhood.
To watch the film is to experience the sort of mature intelligence and tough-minded compassion that makes you long to believe hope is still possible.
(And in the end, does it matter?) "The Battle of Algiers" offers no reassuring answers to these questions, but to watch the film, with its startlingly evenhanded treatment of both sides, is to experience the sort of mature intelligence and tough-minded compassion that makes you long to believe hope is still possible.
The outpouring of compassion and kindness I was shown in that tough time was more than I could have ever dreamed of.
But in Tough Love: Sexuality, Compassion, and the Christian Right, I show that the theme of compassion does, in fact, run throughout Rand's major works.
In a year-end address to the Senate about his first year in office (http://bit.ly/vWN5L5), Rubio articulated a conservative road map that is equal parts tough love and compassion and that combines the conservatism of Ronald Reagan with the conciliatory charm of Bill Clinton.
The film, as such, builds to a moment when Derek, at his lowest, receives tough love and compassion from his high school English teacher Sweeney (played by Avery Brooks), who is black.
Failing that they are likely, as Arundhati Roy cautions, to "unwittingly reinforce racist stereotypes and re-affirm the achievements, the comforts, and the compassion (the tough love) of western civilisation", acting as "secular missionaries of the modern world".
Rather, he combined hard-core common sense with a mixture of tough-love confrontation and compassion.
