Word: prided
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There was a certain bracing beauty about the original seven deadly sins--pride, gluttony, melancholy (which was dropped in the 17th century in favor of sloth), lust, greed, envy and anger--which among them could account for virtually all the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. Anger gives rise to violence; gluttony to waste; pride to every manner of tragedy and hurt. They were judged sufficient for the past 15 centuries, ever since they were cataloged by Pope Gregory the Great, with an assist from Thomas Aquinas and Dante...
...anymore. "We are losing the notion of sin," Pope Benedict XVI warns, as attendance at confession plummets. The culture celebrates what once it sanctioned: parents encourage pride as essential to self-esteem; a group of self-rising French chefs has petitioned the Vatican that being a gourmand is no sin. Envy is the engine of tabloid culture. Lust is an advertising strategy; anger, the righteous province of the aggrieved. Most days I'd give anything for some sloth. It was the moral philosopher Mae West who observed that "to err is human, but it feels divine." (She also advised, "When...
...love of gardening, Bowen also loved to rock-climb and was an admirer of Jane Austen. During the last week of Bowen’s life, Weston said that he and his wife stayed with other family members and friends by Bowen’s side and read Pride and Prejudice to her in its entirety. As a teenager in suburban New Jersey, Bowen was a top student who took some of the most difficult classes at her high school. “Craigen was the older sister that every sibling should have,” Weston said...
...Bible paints an unflattering portrait of Babylon as a corrupt civilization cursed by ambition, excess and power-hungry kings. In the Book of Genesis, its residents build the Tower of Babel in a vainglorious effort to reach heaven - and God strikes it down, angered by man's overweening pride. By the time of the New Testament, Babylon's image is even more sinister: the Book of Revelation personifies it as a whore seated on a dragon, condemning the city as "the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth...
...conference foe St. Ambrose (16-6) Friday night and by EIVA division-leader Springfield (14-5, 7-1 Hay) Saturday.Harvard dropped to .500 in EIVA division play. Springfield currently tops the Hay division with a 7-1 record, while Harvard remains in the middle of the pack behind the Pride and NYU.“We still have a lot of season to be played, and right now our goal is to get to the playoffs and come in second in the conference,” junior Jeff Nathan said. “The loss hurt, but we?...