Word: piousness
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Solzhenitsyn must pull off a careful balancing act if he intends to influence the course of politics. Should he decide to intervene in the partisan mudslinging, he risks compromising his high moral standing. But if his solution to Russia's woes amounts to nothing more than pious platitudes, he is in danger of becoming irrelevant, reduced to the status of an eccentric who has exchanged geographical exile in the West for spiritual exile in Russia...
...mature works of the mid-1880s, Nietzsche's thought becomes more affirmative. He reveals how "we too are still pious," by pursuing the ideal of truth. And he clarifies the ideal of truth. And he clarifies the doctrine of his poetic hero-philosopher, Zarathustra, who "posits truthfulness as the highest virtue." Furthermore, Nietzsche repeatedly castigates thinkers, artists, priests, and politicians for deceiving others (and themselves...
...school and run away from home after the fourth grade, was a combative and quarrelsome Ohioan. After running through a string of jobs, Frank moved to California in 1907, built a house in the desert-edge town of Yorba Linda and tried to grow lemons. There Frank's pious Quaker wife Hannah gave birth on Jan. 9, 1913, to a second son. She named him Richard, after the English King Richard the Lion-Hearted, plus Milhous, her own family name. The newborn baby, an attendant nurse later recalled, had a "powerful, ringing voice...
Casaubon, as Dorothea soon discovers, is a pious monster. He rejects both her love and her offer to help with his work. He is uncontrollably jealous of attentions paid her by his impoverished cousin Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a handsome would-be artist turned political journalist. After Casaubon's death, Dorothea discovers that he has added a humiliating codicil to his will: she will forfeit his estate if she marries Ladislaw -- which, at Middlemarch's end, she does anyway. (In an unconvincing final chapter, which the series summarizes in a voice-over, Eliot assures readers that the marriage...
...have been superseded by pious folk-rock in the Roman Catholic churches that gave it birth, but the ethereal, sinuous style of monophonic singing known as Gregorian chant is still alive and well, thank you. In the year's biggest musical surprise, a recording of Gregorian melodies sung by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain has suddenly become a monster hit. Issued, appropriately enough, by Angel, Chant has sold more than 220,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. The album is already No. 1 on the classical charts as well...