Word: sin
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...First Deadly Sin, Sanders...
...teams then traded serves, but with Harvard then in possession, Kay committed volleyball's unpardonable sin by serving the ball out of bounds and giving the ball back to Yale. The Elis capitalized on the error and scored two quick points to come away with a 16-14 victory...
...CONFLICT WOULD have been simpler and less bitter if everyone in the changing society hadn't belonged, just a little, to both sides. Salem Possessed's poignant portrayal of Parris--whose attacks on moneygrubbing were in large part efforts to purge himself of a grievous and integral sin--demonstrates the ambivalence at the heart of Salem, and New England as a whole, and makes traditional, straightforward dichotomies between victims and accusers seem embarrassingly naive...
...doomed, quixotic colonel of Sartoris in 1929. Blotner devotes 50 pages to the recitation of every known fact about the old colonel, forgetting that what history remembers and what Faulkner knew are different matters. Faulkner's South was a brooding presence, its fading grandeur stained by the sin of slavery, its future mortgaged to developers and parvenus...
...presence of a remorseful man, of one who had some secret sorrow or guilt" said Eliot's friend, Herbert Read. Matthews claims that this guilt, apart from being deeply ingrained (for Eliot had adopted, early in his life, his Calvinist ancestors' need for a constant sense of sin), was "centered on two peculiar obsessions which he stated as general truths: that every man wants to murder a girl; that sex is sin is death...