Word: fearlessly
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...faith in the doctor's example when he finds that there is no way to save people from dying. So he teams up for a while with a stouthearted nun and works mightily, washing and laying out corpses. But this, too, fails him when he realizes that the fearless nun does not really care whether people stay alive; she only wants them to look "clean and decent" at the Resurrection. "He's tricked us!" she shouts furiously when one of the "corpses" sits up. "He's alive, and I washed his backside...
Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...
Barzini winds up in a significant self-contradiction: he tells the U.S. to be tough, fearless, self-assured and Europe's leader; at the same time, he wants the U.S. to follow Europe's advice and do things Europe's way. His ideal America would be a kind of super-Europe, the successful, functioning substance of centuries ago, but equipped with all modern conveniences, its diplomats so many Metternichs riding to peace conferences in helicopters, taking its philosophy and manners (as Rome took Greece's) from older and wiser heads, via teletypewriter. That is the sentimental...
...even if there were thousands, nay, whole cities who were going along with this (choke) disgusting trend, those of us who remain red blooded American youths should denounce Sidney the parrot for the crooked bird he is, and stand by Fearless Fosdick...
...mire of wishful thinking, Dean Inge lifts the whole field of religion. He is a fearless seeker after spiritual truth...