"If it's insisted that we go early, earlier than we're prepared, so that we can truly ask the questions that we think the country would need us to ask," said the Senator, "then I think we'll have a difficult time ever moving that nomination and that should not be the case".
The most we can truly ask for is that she be portrayed not as a one-dimensional stereotype, as so many characters in films are today, but as an interesting and complex human being with the capacity to display both a good side and a dark side, to love and to hate, to express happiness as well as sadness.
That, after all, is what we can truly ask of our leaders, to make this world a better place.
In order to inhabit our full culpability and truly ask for forgiveness, we have to see our own pain and hold our own broken hearts.
The question is: Can we, like Kirk, recognize and reject the barbarity around us, even as we resist the temptation to interfere in the lives of others, unless they well and truly ask for, and really need, our help?
After yet another story of tons of ivory being seized from illegal poachers, I decided to make that a real question and truly ask myself, "What CAN I do about it?" I started by asking the experts questions, studying the issue and talking to my mother-in-law, Cicely.
To those who "may ask whether we truly need diversity in authorship," she explains that this trend has important scientific and clinical implications.
"We stayed in bed.… It's the best thing in the world when somebody's truly asked forgiveness".
But Mr. Lazar truly asks for such treatment by exploiting even his own uncertainty over whether he can say anything worthwhile.
Handsome, well spoken, and I could have kissed him (but his fiancée may not have liked it) when I was telling a story and mentioned John McCain and he truly asked who he was.
