Word: devoutely
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...Joan of Arc, a religious figure incarnating her people's hopes as she led them to freedom; to others she was a Cinderella, with one glass slipper instead of Imelda's 3,000 pairs of shoes. Indeed, as startling as it may seem in the secular West, millions of devout Filipinos viewed Aquino as a sort of Blessed Mother, a redeemer who came to resolve the passion play that had begun with her husband's death...
Behind the one-liners, however, is the surprisingly thoughtful voice of a still-devout man, who, though always adapting to the audience, does not sacrifice his intergrity to popular demand. "I've been selling out my shows, but I'm not going to sell out morally," he states...
...past that she confides to her barfly acquaintance one snowy Friday night. The teller of this tale takes his time getting around to it, but it is a scorcher when it arrives: how Rose and a construction worker fell in love long ago, married and, being devout Roman Catholics, had three children in as many years. How, further, romance soured into a nightmarish descent into impoverishment and brutality. After years of dulled acquiescence to the growing horror around her, Rose musters the energy to strike back. She saves her children from disaster and, in the process, loses them...
...screw fuses into Chinese-made rockets and slide them into the barrels. Another guerrilla commander, the bearded and burly Sher Mohammed, scans the horizon with a brand-new pair of West German military binoculars. Mahmad Alam confers via walkie-talkie with his forward artillery observer. "God is Great!" the devout guerrillas shout, almost in prayer. "Long live Islam! Long live Afghanistan! Death to Communism...
...final ten; and Miss New York, Dawen McPeak, had blasted the judges for being biased. Were that not enough to make one's mascara run, Pesce also observed that it had not hurt Miss Tennessee that her great-uncle happens to be Singer Johnny Cash. Meanwhile, Cash, 21, a devout Southern Baptist who aspires to be a talk-show host, was turning the other cheek and explaining her victory in terms of positive thinking. "I thought I was going to win, because I don't think you can win if you don't think you can win," she said last...