I am a Black Gay Man in my early 30s who was born and raised in the suburbs of a major metropolitan city and for as long as I can remember I've received constant reminders that I am not "man enough" to be considered desirable, deserve respect, or to warrant love.
As Stella's three children, Ms. Fuller, Mr. McRaney and Ms. Foote are excellent, a mixture of reciprocal censure and guilt, of envy and a familial connectedness that might not quite warrant the word love.
"All I'm trying to do is love people," he has said.Mr Bakker's cynicism is warranted.
In a film steamy enough to start a sonnet craze, her Viola De Lesseps really does seem to warrant the most timeless love poems, and to speak Shakespeare's own elegant language with astonishing ease.
Like Robeson, her unapologetic love for Black people and rebellious performances cost her the career that her talents warranted, forcing her into exile for more than twenty years.
So is the throwaway culmination of the book's big love affair: one paragraph mentions that two characters have married, and no further discussion is warranted.
This type of self-love, which warrants comparison with, but is not the same as, Rousseau's amour de soi, encompasses love of one's fellow human beings, apart from whom one cannot either cultivate or satisfy the ethical, intellectual and aesthetic impulses and capacities in which one's essential humanity consists, and to whose well-being one's own is thus inextricably linked.
Skepticism was warranted.
Their pessimism seemed warranted.
