Word: mortalities
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...those necessary things that the people could not do for themselves. That notion now seems hopelessly quaint. Today's generations take it for granted that the U.S. Government is simply bursting with good deeds to perform for the individual, whether strictly necessary or not. But no man of mortal mind can know of everything that Washington is ready and willing...
...long since reached the terrestrial top of his profession and, in a skeptical age, out lived Olympus. As Father Divine, the pyknic, cherub-faced leader of countless thousands who believed that he was God Himself and Dean of the Universe had, in a sense, shuffled off the mortal coil some 50 years earlier...
...same as religion, only its handmaiden. As the Libri Carolini put it in the late 8th century: "The sacrament is nourishment for the soul. Pictures are food only for the eyes." So the Carolingian renaissance opened the way for the later, greater Renaissance to depict the deeds of mortal man without fear...
...Roman Catholic Church urges its faithful to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year, and insists that they do so before receiving Communion if they have committed a mortal sin. In theory, confession should be a cleansing encounter between the believer and God, during which the priest, acting in God's name, forgives a penitent his sins and advises him on how to lead a more holy life. In crowded urban churches-or even outside them, as at the outdoor confessionals sometimes seen in such traditionally Catholic countries as Poland-confession is often a mechanical...
...successful in part because it was almost the exact antithesis of James Bond. Alec Leamas is more than a spy. He is aging and tired, skilled but fallible. Le Carré took infinite literary pains to limn him as an ordinary mortal, susceptible to mundane pressures, capable of cynicism about his craft, who in the end elects to rejoin the society that he never quite left...