Word: devout
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...shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...
...utterly impossible to jest about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky as I have occasionally done in a novel about the egotistic child of a lucky star, Goethe, and in an essay about the colossal loutishness of Tolstoy's moralism. It follows that my reverence for the intimates of Hell, the devout and the diseased, is fundamentally much deeper-and only therefore less vocal-than my reverence for the sons of light...
Like most of the 27, basket maker Luterio Alcaraz had been no Sinarquista, only a devout Catholic. With his wife he had gone to the square to shout a protest. The pro-Catholic Civic Union was demonstrating against what it considered the fraudulent election of the Government's official P.R.M. (Mexican Revolutionary Party) candidate for mayor. Soldiers, on hand to guarantee the P.R.M. mayor's tenancy in office, opened fire. Luterio fell: So did the young daughter of Pedro Ramirez (see cut) and 25 others...
...lover. ... On the rough water ... I was made free of her narrow loins."). Those who believe that Author Waugh makes real sense only when he is writing apparent nonsense are likely to be dismayed by the book's religious implications-just as Waugh's more devout co-religionists may be troubled by some of its ripe frivolity...
...food is precious. Housing is short. Shanghai's 200,000 Jewish refugees are still in the Hongkew quarter and a few have to live in refugee camps. Of all Shanghailanders, Jews face the most uncertain future. They dream of America in the same way as devout Americans dream of paradise...