Word: sinner
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WHEN Graham preaches about pride or venality, he struts; when he speaks of the unregenerate's awful doom, he covers his eyes with both hands; and when he warns that "it can happen to you," his forefinger slashes at every sinner's heart. To keep himself mobile, Billy clips a lipstick-shaped microphone to his necktie; an assistant holds the coiled slack of the wire, and pays it out to him as he moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon...
...Bavarian Alps, housepainting is an ancient and honorable art. In the 14th to 18th centuries, most buildings of any account were decorated with high, wide & handsome representations of saints (and, occasionally, sinner: These paintings, done in weatherproof fresco and retouched every 50 years so, still make scores of Bavarian streets look like open-air picture galleries. Today the art of housepainting is enjoying a boom, thanks largely to the efforts and skill of a Garmisch-Partenkirchen painter named Heinrich Bickel...
...thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican . . . And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other...
...these novels seems to indicate that authors who fit in the last category are almost completely preoccupied with sin, virginity, and mariage. Easily a dozen books, for example, bear titles including the word "sin." Some of these are "Born to Sin." "Sin is Man's Twin," and "The Constant Sinner." Sundry types of virgins are considered, including "13 Carat Virgin," "Professional Virgin," and "Broadway Virgin." The stacks are studded with gaudily colored volumes which sport such appealing names as "Roue the 4th." "No Bed of Her Own," "Naked Glory," "Bare Living," and "Bedroom Eyes...
...Elimination of Religious Superstitions, and I diet for my figure three times a week. Oh, I thank Thee that I am not like the rest of men, those nasty people, such as the Christian there in the back of the temple who thinks that he is a sinner ... I may have an Oedipus complex but I have no sin." ¶ Liberty has become doing as you please, and that is not freedom. Freedom is the right to do what you ought...