Word: devouting
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...some of this achievement seems fortuitous or fortunate, that, to devout King George, is nonetheless satisfactory and perfectly explainable as a righteous working of God's will. A word which rises often and with perfect sincerity to the King's lips is the short word...
...sharing a Kabul jail cell with a hungry rat. A burly figure with black locks and a black beard, Mujahed prays in a corner, oblivious to the progress of the rat as it tunnels under a gray blanket toward a bag of dates. Rising from prayer, the devout Taliban says through the bars of the cell, "When I was on jihad, the holy Prophet Muhammad talked to me in my dreams...
...scientist at the University of Sydney, they are also "almost an anti-Christian party." An election scorecard compiled by the ACL and other Christian groups gave the Greens 0 out of 26. Labor did little better, with 4. (The Coalition rated 16.) Shadow foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd, a devout Christian, has expressed outrage at the notion that "God has somehow become some wholly owned subsidiary of political conservatism in this country." Labor needs, he said, to connect with voters "who are searching for some form of certainty in an age of great uncertainty." Social conservatives often lean left...
...away, and he later went to college with money chipped in by Henderson townsfolk. Once an amateur boxer, he worked nights as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay for law school at George Washington University. As chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, Reid, a devout Mormon, battled organized crime's control of Vegas casinos and contended with threats as well as a bomb placed in his wife's car that police defused...
Gilead is an unshowy but potently contemplative book. The apparently exemplary Ames is plagued by the feeling that he has failed to live up to his calling. Robinson, who is a devout Congregationalist, describes the struggle with compassion and knowingness, reflecting what she says is a tendency to become deeply absorbed in the lives of her characters. In considering when she will write her third novel, she says, "I hope it's not another 23 years." But even if it is, she's not explaining herself to anyone. --By Michele Orecklin