Word: sinfully
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...married after a brief and passionate idyll. With everything moving between violent sensuality, cruelty, coarseness and total austerity, this story assumes the dimension of an ancient tragedy reconfirming the profound cinematic sensitivity of its director, Damianos, especially in depicting the authentic environment in which the agony of sin takes place...
Much to the surprise of many, most evangelical Christians actually believe the things we say and the things they write. When we claim to "hate the sin and love the sinner," we are not just using polite code words for hate and disgust...
...pork, drenched in a "Bad Mood" sauce. Although the sauce was recommended as spicier and better than the "Good Mood" alternative, it was sweet enough to put on pancakes. The bad mood came more from the inclusion of a slice of white bread on the platter, an impardonable sin when the chef could have topped it off with cornbread instead...
...where the word sin has become quaint -- reserved for such offenses against hygiene as smoking and drinking (which alone merit "sin taxes") -- surrendering to the authorities for armed robbery and manslaughter is not an act of repentance but of personal growth. Explains Jane Alpert, another '60s radical who served time (for her part in a series of bombings that injured 21 people): "Ultimately, I spent many years in therapy, learning to understand, to tolerate and forgive both others and myself...
That's a hard one? Reflecting on the man who learned to like himself in prison, Bloom notes that in the mind of this ex-con, "the problem lay with his sense of self, not with any original sin or devils in him. We have here the peculiarly American way of digesting Continental despair. It is nihilism with a happy ending...