Word: impiously
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...hand. And he exercised a mysterious power over juries. They instinctively liked his warmth and kindliness, were awed and charmed by his patrician bearing. They were also amazed by a memory artist who could quote whole pages of law he had not seen for years, and delighted by an impious wit who, in defense of a teen-aged boy accused of raping a woman in her late 30s, could indignantly protest that the charge should be not rape but "felonious gallantry...
...codified in 1614, the priest called upon ex-pagans to "hold idols in horror, reject images," ex-Jews to "hold in horror and reject Hebrew superstition," ex-Moslems to "reject the wicked sect of infidelity," and ex-Protestants to "hold in horror wicked heresy, reject the nefarious sect of impious [name of denomination]." To make things easier for converts, much of this language may soon be toned down...
...Other impious tales current in the nation last week...
Rivalry with God. Many a devout reader may find this note jarringly impious and pessimistic. Kazantzakis is neither. Like Zorba, Odysseus exults in life, and even during his lowest moments he is seldom without gusto. There are times when he thinks he is better than God, times when he thinks that man ought to help God rather than the other way around. He never accepts defeat...
There was much to be done: prayers, lustrations, holy meals-and the sacred scrolls must be taken to the nearby caves and hidden from the impious enemy. Then the Romans came, and in that summer A.D. 68 the Community of the New Covenant at Qumran sank beneath the surging tide of history that laid waste Jerusalem and began the great dispersion of the Jews. For nearly 19 centuries nothing remained of the covenanters but a dim tradition and a ruin in the desert like an enormous graveyard. Christianity spread from Palestine, Rome fell, Mohammed's conquering armies passed within...