Word: piousness
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...dialogue is more overheard than consciously crafted. But the result is a mess. Kym, in Hathaway's unsympathetic performance, is an annoyingly sour observer of the proceedings, a time bomb everyone hopes will not explode before the marriage is completed. Her father, played by Bill Irwin, is a pious twit, sublimely unaware of how thin and weak his family's values are when put even to the mild test this wedding's kerfuffle presents. It is nice to see Debra Winger as his ex-wife - she's been away from the movies too long - but she mostly lurks...
...indictment urging that the AKP be banned for anti-secularist activities. The main item of evidence he used to back the claim was a government move earlier this year to lift the ban on female students wearing headscarves at universities. The headscarf issue is almost irrationally divisive - for the pious, it's a matter of religious freedom; for the secularists, it symbolizes a political movement they insist threatens their lifestyle. The government's approach to the issue - introducing the change overnight, with no public debate - was widely criticized, and it spurred the prosecutor into action. Erdogan recently conceded mistakes...
...Boston University, says that the controversies would not have made the front page (or the front papyrus) in the past. One reason for this is that the concept of ownership of intellectual property is only a few hundred years old. The other is that the real author of pious art - whether literary or artistic - used to be considered to be God, who may require fear, awe or compassion, but not royalties...
...reasons that Martin Luther King Jr. was granted so much slack after it was discovered that he had plagiarized some of his doctoral thesis (apart from the fact that he was one of the greatest humans our country has produced) was the tacit understanding that when clergymen or pious laypeople write, sing or speak of God, it is God and not their own egos that they are glorifying, even when they crib from someone...
...bring you the stately matron named Christendom," he wrote, "returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate-raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa and the Philippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass...