Word: devoutely
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Erudite, self-assured and sometimes petulant, Hailsham, a devout Tory of the "For Queen and Country" tradition, does not suffer fools gladly-and he includes as fools a wider group than do more prudent politicos. Outspoken to the point of bluster, courageous to the point of rashness, he sounded off from the Lords against nationalized industry, Socialism ("imposed equality"), in favor of capital punishment, against lowbrow radio and TV programs, and above all, for a "firm" British line in foreign affairs. After Suez he came into his own as the party's favorite orator, blurting openly what many Conservatives...
...Minister. Most likely to be chosen by the federal House of Representatives when it convenes next month is a leader from the more populous but less advanced Northern Region, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, currently federal Minister of Transport. Nigeria's north is Moslem, and so conservatively Moslem that its devout regard Egyptians, Turks and Pakistanis as irreverent backsliders and only Saudi Arabians as sufficiently pure in faith...
...striking virtue of the work is the absolute honesty of the author. He tackles thorny questions and presents in dramatic form some of the mental wrestling he must have gone through himself. We have a militant author of atheistic books; a devout Catholic housekeeper; a Catholic priest who says, "It's a difficult thing, though, practicing a faith, day in, day out, when you don't believe one jot of it"; a woman who believes in God "on Sundays if the music's good"; a man who exclaims, "I don't want God. I don't love...
Crisis of Hate. At this crisis point, Robert falls in with his religious neighbors, the Gornacs. Widowed Elisabeth Gornac emerges from a cocoon of pale respectability to mother Robert and even to further his love affair with Paula. Her grown son, Pierre, a devout Roman Catholic of a gloomy Jansenite cast, hates all that Robert stands for. Though he is pietistically given to "searching his heart, calling God to witness," and laboriously examining his motives, he nonetheless tattles to Paula about Robert's past...
...Protestants (and I do not in this reference include the Episcopal Church) have been speaking of retreats for some time. But they are not retreats in the historic sense of Christian devotional life. The Episcopal Church, with its monks and sisters (as well as devout parish priests), conducts retreats in the only manner in which historic Christianity has known them-in silence...