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Noun
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The actress has also been honored for her altruism at previous Global Gift Galas.—
Hannah Malach, WWD, 24 Feb. 2025
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The series takes the indelible line about the great responsibility that comes with great power and uses it to compare Spider-Man’s idealistic Boy Scout altruism to the goals of other characters who are good guys in their own minds, if not within the moral rubric of the show.—
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For both writers — and this is true for Renaissance humanism at large — there is no contemplative life without the active life — the two modes necessarily co-exist.—
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Adams is the ideal vessel for that discovery: The character is more clueless about reality than her elders, and yet her idealism is rooted in a humanism that Streep’s reactionary matron lacks.—
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Whether philanthropy playing catches on more broadly or puts people off remains to be seen.—
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Traditional philanthropy often follows a one-time-gift model, wherein, a billionaire donates a million dollars, and the charity spends it on a worthy cause.—
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“Do-goodism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/do-goodism. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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