Word: sin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...procedure is not upsetting. He is used to being examined in more funeral settings, complete with invocation ("You will have three hours ...") and benediction ("Gentlemen, this examination is over.") To take an examination without a proctor nearby to hand you bluebooks and save you from the consequences of original sin would seem an invitation to lack of preparation, cheating, and worse...
...public opinion is divided as to whether smoking, drinking, gambling and professional sex service are vices; that the church has the right to teach these certain acts are wrong, but has no right to prohibit them." This view is connected with the belief of many leading Galveston businessmen that sin is good for business; that the tourist trade would fall off if gambling and prostitution were sup pressed...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate chorale on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
...drops of the washing water. They made floral offerings to their husbands and walked respectfully round them. They laid their heads on their husbands' feet and prayed: "You are Brahma [Creator], You are Vishnu [Preserver], You are Maheswara [Destroyer], You are my god. If I have committed any sin, my beloved husband and lord, forgive me, forgive me." In token of forgiveness, the husbands offered flowers to their wives...
These Stories of Changing Forms, however brutal, point the moral of Ovid's poem. Mankind is punished for the great sin which the Greeks called hubris-overweening pride. "I am too great for Fortune's power to injure," says arrogant Niobe, proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters. The boast is scarcely uttered, when Apollo looses 14 fatal arrows from his bow. "She would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage...