Word: mortall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic, educated in Catholic schools and a Catholic college, and at no time have I ever been advised that kissing is either a venial or mortal sin. I think your article, "The Venial Kiss" [Oct. 8], is utterly ridiculous...
...unhorsing the sophisticated by sheer force of his awkward ardor. He pokes an oil princeling in the snoot, almost drowns the handsome son of the grand vizier. In a final melodramatic bid for Shala's heart. he parachutes into the Sahara Desert to engage a rival in mortal combat. Caught up in his exuberant campaign, he scarcely notices that his love has run off to another...
...where, under the microscope, "an unfamiliar aspect of Palabaud would be revealed: patterns of polygonal cells, sections of vessels appearing as small circles, granular clusters, trusses of tangled fibrils. And that would be the last aspect left to mankind of the timid vagabond of islands and oceans.'' Mortal beauty and even mortal existence, Author Reverzy suggests, are never more than a bright buckler for mortal decay. But a courageous death, a first act of spirit, can give meaning to the most trifling life...
...Mortal sin condemns the unshriven sinner to hell, venial sin "merits only temporal punishment" and, unless expiated on earth, is paid for only by the pains of purgatory...
Kissing that begins venial may turn mortal, warned La Palestra. "The spiritual direction of young adolescents," it summed up, "is delicate and difficult...