pacifist
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Nimbly, it manages to be both a pacifist film and a subversive one with no faith in the system as it stands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
They have also unnerved survivors of the 1945 bombings, who have long helped shape Japan's post-war pacifist political culture.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Miyazaki is a noted pacifist, but “Princess Mononoke” is his most humanist work.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
“While hardly a pacifist country,” America has, Mr. Mandelbaum writes, tried to establish peace and nonbelligerency as “a permanent condition of international affairs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
I didn’t want to tell you this, Dad, but since we’re baring our souls to each other, I feel I ought to tell you he’s also a pacifist.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Criticized by Yankee pacifists for resorting to violence, Clay replied, “how then can you ask me to go unarmed and yet manfully vindicate those doctrines which every where have been denounced with death?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
The league specifically targeted suspected German sympathizers, socialists, labor activists and pacifists.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2024
Both are pacifists who raised their children at the kibbutz, where everybody knows their neighbors.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
"These people are not pacifists; they have intentionally or otherwise become pawns of the aggressor," Wang wrote.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2023
What standing could such dedicated pacifists enjoy among veterans of the Revolution, who, as Jackson put it, “at the risk of their lives and fortunes, secured to the community their liberty and property?”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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