Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...certain number of sissies are bound to go around condescending to Blazing Saddles as a comedy of less than perfect form. They will note that it lacks the careful construction and polished wit that are often cited by essentially humorless people, usually to justify the minor cultural sin of having a good time at a movie that is less than 35 years old and does not star either the Marx Brothers or W.C. Fields...
McCleery's point of view reduces the seriousness of the issues his characters encounter, something of a sin in these cynical days. But if his plays work on stage, his positive reductionism could well be forgiven, even appreciated, for having provided an audience with the chance to lose themselves in a realistic world of make-believe for a few hours...
...worst it's ever been, but the Lord says at the 32nd chapter of the book of numbers and the 23rd verse, your sin shall find you out, now that's right. For the justice of the Lord shall follow you everywhere. Now that's right, you know it is, you know...