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* [[Courtroom Antic]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hornbeck, as an [[Expy]] of H. L. Mencken, the famously sarcastic "Sage of Baltimore"

* [[Eureka Moment]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Brady maybe a self grandizing religious opportunist, but he is still the one who publicly tells Rachel's hateful pastor father to back off from condemning his own daughter

* [[Wanting Is Better Than Having]]: Attorney Henry Drummond tells a story about a rocking horse he wanted when he was a child. It was far too expensive for his family to get for him, but his father scrimped and saved and managed to purchase the rocking horse for Drummond as a Christmas present. And the first time Drummond got on it to ride, it fell apart from dry rot. The Horse looked shiny, new and wonderful on the outside, but was really rotten to the core. This is a metaphor for his view on the fundamentalist literal interpretation of the Bible. The scrimping and saving, and the depressingness of the realization, might also be part of the analogy, respectively standing for the hardship and hopes stored up in the struggle for salvation, and the possible overwhelming sadness that comes from realizing that work was wasted and those hopes false if it turns out they were.

* [[Welcome to Hell]]

 

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