Word: belief
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is definitely something to be said for possessing belief in a religion, and if you believe that it’s true in a universal sense it is definitely understandable that you would want to share that with everyone,” says Emily L. Cox ’07, the community officer for Christian Impact. “I just don’t think leafleting is the most effective way to share beliefs, especially Christianity...
...shrink it, change its shape, and over time promote a ?culture of life? that would view abortion less as a right than a tragedy, perhaps eventually a crime. That gradual approach requires a certain level of hypocrisy-or at least a willing suspension of moral belief-because if you truly equate abortion with murder, it?s hard to settle for slowing it down rather than stopping it altogether, right away: the Purist approach...
...with child abuse. (Although practiced by early Mormons, polygamy is banned by the church, the show notes in a disclaimer.) Bill was abandoned by his polygamist family as a boy, only to return to his religious roots in midlife. "He's on a spiritual quest," says Paxton. "His core belief is that we're put on this earth to procreate. He's a healthy apple tree, and it's his job to produce healthy apples...
...first episode opens with an eerie reading, set to music, of a William S. Burroughs prose fragment about the Egyptian belief that we have seven souls: "Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives." The shadows and memories of the dead hover close over the show, as the rubout fallout from the whackings of Adriana (Drea de Matteo) and Tony B. (Steve Buscemi) continues, not to mention Tony's continuing baggage inherited from his late mother Livia. There's a general sense, in this last season, of a deathbed taking-stock, even...
...uncompromisingly dedicated to the belief that the formal body charged with finding a replacement for University President Lawrence H. Summers must include in its composition members of the University faculty and students...