Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that looks at first glance like an enormous platitude: If men would behave decently the world would be decent." But the sentiment, he concluded, "is not such a platitude as it sounds." Indeed, for all the pessimism attributed to him posthumously, Orwell had an abiding, almost pious faith in the ability of that fragile, querulous species, humankind, to correct its deficiencies by the most radical process of all: thinking. In The Road to Wigan Pier he expressed the belief that "economic injustice will stop the moment we want it to stop, and no sooner, and if we genuinely want...
Actually, Catholicism had never officially taught that salvation could be attained only through pious works, but the popular perception held otherwise. Luther recognized, as University of Chicago Historian Martin Marty explains, that everything "in the system of Catholic teaching seemed aimed toward appeasing...
...According to pious legend, Mary was 17 years old when Jesus was born...
...problem. He wants to get married, but the girl of his choice is the daughter of France's own Jerry Falwell, head of the T.F.M., the Tradition, Family and Morality party. How is poor Jean-Michel to explain his family, its tradition and its morality to that pious fanatic...
...Commission files indicate that Trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman conducted improper discussions with a Justice Department official and with other judges. In many ways, Radosh and Milton make Kaufman the heavy of their book. He had the onerous job of deciding for capital punishment, but there were also his pious remarks from the bench. In a 1958 letter to Federal Judge Learned Hand, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, "I despise a Judge who feels God told him to impose a death sentence," and added, "I am mean enough to try to stay here long enough so that K will...