Word: piousness
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...shouldn't Arbatov and his like, when they come to our country, be forced to answer the "tough ones?" Why should the incredible gall shown by their pious intonations of peace go virtually unchallenged? Why should their dismissal of direct questions be perceived as "statesman-like" when a similar action by an American would be called "stonewalling?" Soviet officials routinely dodge accountability for their actions by invoking an alleged "need" for harmonious East-West relations which nasty questions would presumably harm. It's time for us to call their bluff...
This may seem to contradict the main thesis, but Gay is not one of those little minds bothered by the hobgoblins of foolish consistency. And the Victorians were themselves contradictory. What other age could produce such an exemplar of pious perversity as Charles Kingsley, author of The Water-Babies and chaplain to Queen Victoria herself? Even before he became engaged to young Fanny Grenfell, Kingsley wrote letters to her that were full of erotic imaginings: "A wanton tongue--yet chaste & holy, stole between my lips! What were you doing?--You were secretly kissing me." Yet whenever he felt that...
...Dobrynin chomped Tom's Mom's chocolate-chunk cookies at Reagan's dinner table, then jetted off to Moscow to warn his superiors about the gunslinger. At congressional prayer breakfasts, where devout Americans roared and heaved, he was the pious atheist. He negotiated the new Soviet embassy on Washington's highest and best land, while the new American embassy in Moscow ended up in a sump...
...People should not be so naive as to think that people like Frank Duehay and Alice Wolf and the other pious hypocrites of city government are not as much into patronage aas some of the other hard-core political figures they criticize," Koocher says...
...People should not be so naive as to think that people like Frank Duehay and Alice Wolf and the other pious hypocrites of city government are not as much into patronage aas some of the other hard-core political figures they criticize," Koocher says...