Word: pious
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...senior thesis, written on a thirteenth century Jewish poet who lived in Spain, explored competing interpretations of poetic oeuvre that was at once sexually "shocking" and religiously "pious...
Both documents will be adopted at Rio, but neither bears much resemblance to the original conception. After weeks of debate, the Earth Charter was abandoned and replaced by a woodenly written declaration filled with the kind of pious promises ("eradicating poverty," "eliminat((ing)) unsustainable patterns of production and consumption") that world leaders often make but never keep. In what is perhaps the worst example of bureaucratic obfuscation, ^ the text at one point endorses the promotion of "appropriate demographic policies" -- the nearest negotiators could come to confronting the explosive issue of population control...
Valmont encounters and subdues several women, from the naive Cecile Volanges (Bina Martin) to the promiscuous courtesan, Emilie (Danielle Kwatinetz). His primary goal, though, is to make the pious and virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jeanne Simpson) "betray everything she believes in." And achieve this goal he does, but he falls in love with Tourvel along the way. The forbidden "Lword," which he once shared with the Marquise, has become so alien to him that when he does feel it once again, he shuns it. He is so afraid of exposing his Achilles heel--his real personality--that he alienates...
...What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...
...What have you got? A soggy echo of The Ed Sullivan Show. Now mention the homeless to customers who paid $60 a ticket and add a row of chorines waving flags in the aftermath of a war. What have you got? A Tony Award. And a pious fraud...