Word: devout
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...home, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, the country went on "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." People laughed a lot but without bitterness. Underneath I its frivolity the country remained devout about the American verities. The American system was hardly questioned, and the phrase "God's country" could still be used unblushingly...
...power of celebrity in the modern age is sometimes astonishing to behold. But miraculous? In Europe rumors have circulated that a devout tourist had her prayers answered last spring and a doctor recorded the inexplicable recovery of a patient; both attributed the developments to the intervention of Princess Grace of Monaco. So now a handful of the Roman Catholic faithful are proposing Grace for beatification, a step along the road to sainthood. Committees to aid the cause are forming in Italy and reportedly in Philadelphia, her home town, and Hollywood as well. During a memorial service for the Princess...
...readers of Dubus' three earlier collections of short fiction. Yet there is something new here: a religious sense, largely implicit in previous stories, that is now explicitly Roman Catholic. The narrator of A Father's Story, the last and best piece in this volume, is a devout believer whose wife has left and divorced him, making it impossible for him to marry again with the church's blessing. And he will not do so without it: "For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue...
...apartment in Foggy Bottom that Bill Clark finds confining because there is no open air for his beloved barbecue grill. The apartment is modestly furnished, dominated by a contemporary wall tapestry of St. Francis of Assisi and pictures of their five children, ages 20 to 27. The couple are devout Roman Catholics who attend church regularly and prefer Latin Mass...
...that the incident has died down, we can't help thinking that Watt's biggest blunder was not that he purged the Beach Boys, devout though their following appears to be in the Reagan White House. The more significant faux pas, we feel, was to place them with the most unbearably fatuous entertainer this nation is currently enduring. Wayne Newton. Surely the public outcry would have been diminished if Watt had not selected, out of all the singers in the United States of America, a man whose performances are the musical equivalent of toxic waste...