Word: pious
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...severe judge; Jonathan Edwards and others emphasized sinful man's utter helplessness before him. In the 19th century revivals of Charles G. Finney and Dwight L. Moody, however, the Lord had become more sympathetic: he began to help those who helped themselves by responding to his grace. Pious white Sunday-school art has since made Jesus into an effete Aryan rather than a rugged Jewish carpenter, but that image is hardly more subjective than the contemporary Black Jesus in a dashiki. No more biblically authentic is a recent Presbyterian-Methodist TV spot: Jesus fends off the accusers of the Bible...
...increasing the number of women on the faculty. Its purpose shall be to create a climate in which prejudice against women, or apathy toward their presence and future at Harvard, will be hard to maintain; it shall serve as a "watchdog" to make sure that the uttering of pious generalities is not substituted for serious efforts to hire on the basis of excellence rather than...
...Hooray for Ti-Grace. The Catholic Church doesn't worship Mary the enlightened, wise mother-person, but Mary the submissive, pious, baby maker-the receptacle for the great...
...hurt the defense case rather than helped it. Attempts to depict Krenwinkel and Van Houten as good girls from wholesome backgrounds only indicated to the jury that they had less reason to rebel than Atkins, who had suffered through a troubled adolescence. The death sentences bothered some, like the pious John Baer, who had to do some delicate rationalizing: "In the trial the defense lawyers said that the Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth had gone out of effect nearly 2,000 years ago. I believe that although Jesus Christ came...
Farragan's main misfortune is his family, a pious, prejudiced, patriotic Philadelphia clan, grown rich in trucking. Sister Anna keeps her pistol-carried as protection against black rapists-wrapped in a rosary. Brother Jim echoes her thundering rage through his favorite weapon, the telephone. Behind them looms the memory of Mother-who railroaded one son into the priesthood and choreographed the death of another because he showed homosexual leanings...