Word: meek
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...easy to do God’s will, it is not easy to pray every day, it is not easy to master your own base personal desires, it is not easy to confront death without fear, and it is not easy to care for the poor, meek, and lowly; yet that is what we are called to do. The pieces of advice that Pope John Paul II offered to the world varied wildly in their popularity, yet he never once tried to sugarcoat his beliefs or to craft them in a more popular form. John Paul II saw truth...
...somehow she brings a warmth and humanity to the character—you don’t hate her at the end of the movie. Vega, star of Spanish hits Sex Y Lucia and Talk to Her, stubbornly refuses to make Flor a type character, replacing the ignorant, meek characteristics of the non-English speaking servant with nobility and confidence...
...hand-stretched burek, a slightly dense pastry stuffed with ground beef and potatoes, evokes the Ottoman past of the region despite being somewhat disappointing to anyone who has tasted the authentic article. The meat in this specimen is not crumbly enough, the onions are too meek, it is too thick and lacking in diameter. For any epicure who hasn’t ventured east of Italy or south of Austria, however, this will do the trick, as it apparently does for the seemingly less-picky emigrants who occupied the lounge on our visit...
...Westerners have ever met the most powerful man in Iraq. If they did, they would encounter a thin, bearded figure with little interest in the trappings of office. Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the revered leader of the nation's 15 million Shi'ites, receives visitors, powerful and meek alike, in a plain, bare room in his modest home down a dusty alley in the holy city of Najaf. He sits on the floor with his back to the wall, dressed always in the same simple robe and turban. (An intimate says he hasn't refreshed his wardrobe...
Erskine Bowles looks like the same Southern gentleman he was two years ago when he ran a meek and losing campaign against Elizabeth Dole, but he's no longer acting like one. Instead, President Clinton's former chief of staff is hammering away at U.S. Representative Richard Burr for the 80,000 jobs the state's textile and furniture industries have lost. Both candidates are having to backpedal ferociously to justify their past support for free trade...