Word: pious
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...displays a richness of imagination. Some of the programs produced by the churches' own television divisions and syndicated to stations individually are almost as cliche-ridden as a Hollywood comedy series. The Missouri Synod's This Is the Life, which is shown on 375 stations, frequently features pious family dramas with all too obvious moral points. One recent slice of Life told of a critically ill boy who asked to see his father. The plot focused on the search for the man, a stevedore who had walked out on his family the year before, and ended with...
...first article I've ever read in a Harvard Review that is just plain fun reading, even if you aren't interested in the topic. For example: "Within the court itself, Justice Harlan looks on his colleagues' handiwork with all the enthusiasm of a nun who has caught less pious sisters smuggling men into the convent." And Frank's comment on Frankfurter's Baker v. Carr dissent...
...fourth session of the Second Vatican Council, a number of bishops and theologians suggested that it was high time to reform or even abolish the church's ancient system of indulgences. For performing certain pious acts, such as visiting churches or reciting prayers, penitent Catholics can get dispensations for part or all of the time that they would otherwise have to spend in Purgatory suffering for their sins...
...White Devil, evil wears its proper guise, disguise-and deceit. The sinister masquerades as the pious. Murderers dress as monks. Treachery promotes itself as loyalty. Love is feigned, so is madness, even death. The last deceit-self-deceit-is stripped away in Flamineo's final speech when he sees life as he has lived it: the consummate cheat, the ultimate vanity, the supreme counterfeit. At that moment, The White Devil becomes a tragedy of more than blood...
...directing the play, Morris Carnovsky has played up the broad comedy in Zweig's dialogue. Many gestures underline the characters' faults; for instance, "the dove" Colomba, a hypocritically pious and hypocritically faithful wife affectionately twirls her husband's hair into horns while avowing her undying love. Even the blocking is significant. In an opening scene, Mosca lies at his master's feet while they both drink a toast to Volpone; in the final scene, "the fox" grovels before Mosca...