Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Paul brought the Vatican to parts of the world that were beginning to doubt its interest in them, he nevertheless brought a Vatican whose terms remain strict and its own. It is a Catholicism that stands, on the ideological spectrum, far to the right of what many of even its devotees would like it to be, and thanks to John Paul?s appointees it is not likely to budge. In answer to the forces of liberalism, John Paul II has stacked the deck...
Then again, maybe not. In separate reports last week, scientists cast doubt on the ability of either substance to perform as advertised. As if that were not bad enough, they also found evidence that using androstenedione might actually make men's breasts bigger and increase their risk of heart disease. Though the studies are not conclusive, they remind us how little is known about many of the most popular dietary supplements...
...sense a strain of self-contempt these days in English satire? Not self-doubt, of course, and certainly not humility, just a weary roll of the eyes that follows a glance in the mirror? So it seems with Barnes' very funny, very sour new novel, which re-creates England as a theme park on the Isle of Wight. The park is the brainstorm of Sir Jack Pitman, an overweening press lord, and his staff members, one of whom has doubts: "How do we advertise the English...a people widely perceived...as cold, snobbish, emotionally retarded, and xenophobic? As well...
...this has made her more "useful," in her terms, as a recognizable human being. She was not simply born blessed with generosity; she struggled toward it by way of self-doubt, impatience, rage, ennui--all things that test the value of a mind. Readers enjoy quoting the diary's sweetest line--"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart"--but the passage that follows is more revealing: "I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being turned into...
...lead happy lives together." After Gertrude died in 1946, Alice lived on, serving Stein's reputation as always and, in the end, choosing to find religion because, as their friend the composer Virgil Thompson said, she wanted a ticket into the afterlife, "since Gertrude, she could not doubt, was immortal...