Word: righteously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some of this achievement seems fortuitous or fortunate, that, to devout King George, is nonetheless satisfactory and perfectly explainable as a righteous working of God's will. A word which rises often and with perfect sincerity to the King's lips is the short word...
...King." Few Englishmen would think of scrutinizing them, but scrutinized they turn out to be almost a capsuled paraphrase of the Silver Jubilee reign. In "God Save The King," swelling proudly this week from millions of British throats, is described a happy state of affairs : the God of a righteous people and their King does much of the heavy work, assisting them to push on to a glorious future, or as Englishmen comfortably say "to muddle through." Especially worth scrutiny are the verses: Oh Lord, our God, arise...
...different - perfect. And they will be different. They are, for a while: better than their best. It's at the bitter end of the affair that men, and women, tend to be at their worst, getting pathetic, shrill, vindictive. Especially if one of the pair feels wronged and righteous. No sadistic cop could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings to the job of questioning the woman who's about to walk...
...After an election, it isn't always easy to forgive, forget and move on. And although it's disheartening to believe that the leader of your country is a wrongheaded and dangerous person, it's far worse to realize he was eagerly chosen by a self-righteous and gloating majority. Some of us feel deep in our heart that America isn't really the place for us, that perhaps we belong somewhere else, in a country where good people live. There are parts of the U.S. where I now know I could not live, not because...
After an election, it isn't always easy to forgive, forget and move on. And although it's disheartening to believe that the leader of your country is a wrongheaded and dangerous person, it's far worse to realize he was eagerly chosen by a self-righteous and gloating majority. Some of us feel deep in our heart that America isn't really the place for us, that perhaps we belong somewhere else, in a country where good people live. There are parts of the U.S. where I now know I could not live, not because...