Word: prayerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leaden formalities of the genre apply. It is also the memoir of an active--and very ambitious--politician. The Senator is looking to augment her political viability. She reveals that she once went hunting and killed a duck (Chelsea was horrified). She reveals that she met with a bipartisan prayer group (including James Baker's wife Susan). She tosses in lectures about the evils of terrorism and her admiration for the military. Occasionally, she hurls a smoke grenade at Bill's successor: "Despite the occasional serious political differences between the United States and France," she sniffs, "Bill and I maintained...
...kicking up controversy in March when Al Watan accused the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of abusing its powers. Its bearded, zealous cops spend much of their time patrolling streets and shopping malls to make sure that women are veiled, men are kneeling at prayer time and teenagers aren't flirting. Al Watan reported that one of its own reporters had been detained merely for growing his hair too long. Another story alleged that the morals cops had arrested and beaten a woman just for accepting a car ride from a man she wasn...
...Murder Inc. corporate ladder. He subcontracts his work out to a stable of killers, dozens of younger men who prefer a handgun to M.R.'s more intimate way of death by close embrace. He drags on a cigarette, and explains that some of his boys will offer a prayer for their victim, while others try to erase the murders from their conscience with hashish or sex. "Nobody is a born killer," he says...
According to a letter he sent to his family before his death, James Adamouski came to be known as “Father Jimmy” by the soldiers under his command because he conducted prayer services, scripture readings, and served communion for his fellow soldiers...
...story, it tells of an 11-year-old girl whose mother sends her out with a short haircut and long robes to find work as a "boy" and support the family. It's a reckless ruse, one with potentially fatal consequences. The girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, and attends instruction by a mullah in the proper washing of the male genitals. Everyone notices that this "boy" is different?"like a nymph," the mullah says. Her deceit is uncovered by her first menstrual period, and she is married off to an old mullah...