Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gradually, I saw the darker meaning of the presence of these pious panhandlers. For it means that begging is now seen, by some, as a legitimate way of raising money, of earning a living...
...vividness in sacred images. The other was the legacy of ancient Rome -- the immense residue of form and narrative from the classical past. There seems to be no evidence one way or the other about Poussin's religious life or the strength of his faith. Probably he was neither pious nor a freethinker, but a stoic who could, when required, perform as a remarkable religious painter, as the second series of his The Seven Sacraments shows. His early Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, 1628, sticks in the mind because it is such a singular combination of ferocity and decorum -- the torture...
...couple consummates quickly, and the 90-day wait for their famous date atop the Empire State Building is motivated by no more than a postcoital fear of rushing into something. Not much suspense in that. Some of us religious and romantic skeptics have always thought this was a loathsomely pious and sentimental tale, but in a way we were wrong. Shorn of those qualities, it just dries up and blows away...
...insists he has been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical warden Norton (Bob Gunton, an oil slick in shoes) but also turn a tidy profit for him and his best friend, Red Redding (Morgan Freeman...
...base of enthusiastic supporters. In Virginia's fractious Senate race, a four-way contest in which the winner will not need 50% of the vote, they have helped give Oliver North a real shot at the seat held by Democrat Charles Robb. "North is constructing a coalition of the pious and the poff," says political scientist Robert Holsworth of Virginia Commonwealth University. "He's much more effective at it than anyone thought he would...