Word: remindful
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...faith in and fear of God are what they think Christianity preaches, I hasten to remind them that so too do all other religions. If the Bible is divine, then so too are the Gita and the Koran; any other conclusion would imply that God discriminates. He doesn...
...split by the green valley of the Nile stretching a man's vision in a thin straight line for hundreds of miles, there is no natural monument to dwarf him. The most breathtaking landmarks are all manmade, defying time and human fallibility. The Egyptian has reared tremendous edifices to remind him of both the finiteness of the human scale and the reach of human aspirations through recorded history...
...than mosaic for impressing on subjects' minds the idea of a continuity between the courts of heaven and those of earth. The rigid bodies and fixed, wide-eyed stares, we now feel, are pure spirit. But, as in the fearsome tapestry of St. Theodore, they were also meant to remind the faithful that Big Brother was watching, that the eye of the state found its model in the all-seeing eye of God. With its Christs enthroned as emperors and its emperors carrying the victorious insignia of the church, the official art of the early Christian empire is a sustained...
...this venomously plotted vengeance? Both men are onetime promising actors who have had to settle for doing television commercials and voiceovers. As Richard puts it, with his wife dead there will be "nobody to remind me of my potential." Playwright Tesich partially redeems this shaky premise by reminding us that failure is not a private affair in the U.S. It is a public humiliation. By shutting their wives' eyes, the two men hope to shut the world's eyes...
...during the play that he will only go as a tourist to reality. He wants to pass on this spirit to Nick, to ensure that he continues to pinpoint hypocrisy and absurdity. Nick should never become one of the "dead people," unthinking and unfeeling. Murray's struggle helps to remind us of the necessity to avoid joining the ranks of the dead. If one must compromise, it must be knowingly and reluctantly...