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...mixes ejaculations of piety with postgame Islamic towel snapping and a chillingly cynical amusement at the sucker martyrs. Combine the piety and the thug's mirth, and you get something of that lounging insolence with which Satan, at the opening of the Book of Job, answers God's "Whence comest thou?" with: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." A sneering theological swagger. Evil usually feels comfortable with itself. If it had doubts, it would not be evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awfully Ordinary | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

Evil drops in with that surprising air of nonchalance and swagger that Satan affects at the start of the Book of Job, when the sons of God come to present themselves before the Lord, and the Lord says to Satan, "Whence comest thou," and Satan, with his evasive, insinuating smirk, replies, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy, and Other Evils | 6/21/2001 | See Source »

Although Hausano (27-4) was seeded first, he lost his third match in a tightly fought comest. The tri-captain, who according to Lee has the best chance of placing in the national tournament, then won the consolation match to take third and qualify fog the tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...teams will play a doubleheader Sunday beginning at 1 p.m. If neither team wins both games, the rubber march will be played Monday at 2:30 p.m. All three games will be played at Harvard and each will be a full nine-inning comest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Will Meet UMass Nine For District Title This Weekend | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...English gentleman (or perhaps the perfect butler) on his right and the best blues band in Cambridge down-stage in front of him. Everyman, rich, irreligious, and self-satisfied, is approached by Death while making love to Beauty his mistress (Tommy Lee Jones rattles off his "Death, ye comest when I had ye least in mind" as if the Vice Squad had just caught him with his pants down...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Everyman | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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