Word: doubter
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Antonietta's husband, a farm laborer and Communist sympathizer, was skeptical. For four days crowds flooded into Syracuse while, according to many accounts, the Madonna continued to weep. Said a doubter: "I took the statue from the wall and found the wall behind it dry. I unscrewed the statue from its base and thoroughly dried it. Then two tears, like pearls, began to appear in the eyes of the Madonna." The Syracuse police force added its weight to the evidence. When the figure was removed to headquarters, its tears were said to have wet the tunic of the policeman...
...factness that makes the transition from natural to supernatural almost disappear. The hard Spanish land and the bare Spanish sky clamp the mystical theme between them, as in a vise of physical reality. And the musical score has an earthy beat and heat that might almost warm the coldest doubter to that spiritual ignition point at which miracles come to pass, and the soul knows them for what they...
...turn of the century, Paul Claudel and André Gide were beginning literary careers, Claudel as poet-playwright, Gide as novelist. In temperament and opinion, they were opposites: Claudel a zealous Roman Catholic, Gide a tormented doubter who could neither accept nor dismiss the Christian faith. The two men became cautious friends, and in 1899 began a correspondence which sputtered and stormed until 1926. Their letters, now published in English for the first time, give a fascinating picture of two first-rate minds locked in a long quarrel about ultimate realities...
...Doubter. Sometimes the doctor's anxiety is vented in hostility. When he says ". . . Damn neurotic-nothing wrong with him," Dr. Ebaugh believes that it can be translated as: "This patient is emotionally disturbed . . . I am doubtful of my own capabilities. By denying that the patient is sick, and depreciating him as being not worthwhile, I feel less threatened...
...early this year a doubter...