Word: devout
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There was one profound and devout difference between the Africans and modern sculptors: the former believed implicitly in the ends of their art; they made their carvings for a definite purpose. Like the Navajo sand painters (TIME, Feb. 23), the African sculptors were magicians, who carved figures and masks of tribal gods for magic uses...
...City to bury the Mufti's general. Crying "Hayyouh! Hayyouh!" (Greet him), the crowds followed his coffin, draped in the green, red, white and black of the Palestinian Arabs' flag, to the Dome of the Rock Mosque. "Shaheed, Shaheed" (He is a martyr) muttered devout Moslems. More Arabs were enlisting. Others were joining "Learn How to Shoot" clubs...
...perhaps this avid desire for "a universal church" which caused the Webbs to be swept off their feet by the devout fervor of the founders of the Soviet Union. But in 1911, when this diary ends, the Webbs did not yet suspect the revolutionary upheavals that were to come. From her retreat in the "delightful countryside," Beatrice could look back over the furious past, and nostalgically recapture old memories of committees, boards, councils, intrigues and, above all, "the river Thames sweeping through the splendor and squalor of the birthplace of the 19th Century capitalist dictatorship...
...indeed fitting that the country which gave humanity two of its greatest philosophical vegetarians, the poet Shelley and the great visionary Sir Thomas More/'"*should now bestow upon you the forthcoming role of a British Moses. ... On behalf of three million peace-loving vegetarians, I convey their devout prayers that you will not falter [in your support of] the fundamental precepts of world-embracing vegetarianism...
Bored and restless, he cannot give his energies wholeheartedly to anything, to his mother's devout faith in the old traditions, though its rituals move him deeply, or to the independence movement, though he is aware that he is consequently left out of much of the life of the people around...