Word: pious
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CENSORS OBJECTED to Moliere's attack on religion when Moliere came out with Tartuffe. But Moliere claimed Tartuffe defended the church by pointing out the difference between the truly pious and pretenders. It is difficult for modern audience to feel at home with such a theme; hypocrisy is understandable, but religion no longer has much place in modern consciousness. All the same, Tartuffe was worth Moliere's struggle three centuries ago, and his villainy will probably wreak havoc for' a few more...
Against all pious attempts at deification, I maintain that Jesus was Son of God, and with all the consequences, was wholly and entirely...
Peter Firth plays Tess' pious husband and Leigh Lawson the sly rogue who seduces her. Under Polanski's direction, both characters are shallow and tiresome. Firth and Lawson, both competent actors, struggle to give compelling performances--but with Sarde's strings rising behind them as they utter lines like "Is there no hope for me? I'm dying for you my darling," they fight a losing battle...
...very effort to spread the budget cuts across a broad spectrum of society all but ensures that the Reagan program will be attacked by the widest possible range of interest groups, including many now voicing pious support for the general idea of less spending. Already last week, Democratic House leaders, while advising their followers to go along with Reagan's proposal as far as they can, signed a letter warning Reagan to keep his bands off subsidies for development of synthetic fuels, which Stockman suggested chopping by $6 billion in the next fiscal year. Nor were Democrats alone...
...from his temporary hideaway in Mexico to be treated for lymphatic cancer in a New York City hospital. The Ayatullah, then 79, a Muslim mystic and fundamentalist who despised the West and held the U.S. in special hatred for its long support of the Shah, had flown into a pious rage. At his headquarters in the holy city of Qum, 80 miles to the south of Tehran, he told student followers that the U.S. embassy was "a nest of spies" and "a center of intrigue...