Word: mistrust
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...attempts, assures her that Christianity is a mumbo-jumbo. To test Megan Davis's sincerity, he offers to accept her as a hostage for the loyalty of his ex-mistress. Miss Davis's Christian faith in the ex-mistress proves to be unjustified. So does her mistrust of General Yen. Having lost his province and his army in giving Miss Davis a chance to prove the efficacy of Christian kindness, he humiliates her for her suspicions of him by the gallantry with which, instead of assaulting her, he sips a cup of poisoned...
...recent interview. "It tends to put the student on a firm moral basis as an individual, and so far as it does this, it reflects a growing tendency which has colored every phase of modern life in the world of today. This tendency is characterized by a growing mistrust by people in the theory of competition...
Even some educators have a persistent mistrust of academic work as a main college pursuit, as a sufficient and dominating undergraduate discipline. They are, perhaps not always consciously, afraid that "the native hue of resolution" will be "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Such an attitude in the world at large is unfortunate; among educators it is inexcusable...
...tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...
...Sergeant Leonard did his job well. . . . Yet there is something more precious than freedom from sedition and that is freedom from mistrust in human relationships...