Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small drum, tapping into silence up an empty street. He sat down to write his tone-poem, Francesco da Rimini. Down in Hell's gilded street, the phantoms jostle; winds squeal like demented fiddles; ghosts squeak like dismal flutes; and lonely in the company of lovers who have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever the joy of love's delight, Paolo and Francesca embrace in pangs and torment. But Tschaikowsky believed that he had lived his best years; his hand faltered. The music twists and tumbles, witless in anguish. Hell...
...annoyance of the Lord thereat are profusely painted in. They illustrate the villain's attempt to justify to the wife her proposed seduction by himself. Very properly the bewildered girl burst into tears and went downstairs to her husband. The picture proves that travel talks on sin are unwise at critically unmoral moments...
...effort to "vindicate" the churches of pacifism, and the institution of chaplaincy has been used by the war system as a weapon to fight the churches' pacifism. "If the Federal Council meant its own words when it declared that war was the world's chief collective sin, it cannot find any apologetic for continuing the unholy alliance...
...left the floor, sometimes the press gallery was vacant, and some times, too, the other galleries emptied; but he always had for his audience the presiding officer and the clerks who scribbled the minutes. On them he turned the scorching eloquence of his denunciation of Republican weakness, wickedness and sin, preaching in the desert, of the Sodom which was Teapot Dome, and the Gomorrah which was the Department of Justice...
...Willoughby Dickinson: "We must be ready to fight, pacifist though we may be. We have got to attack war as a sin ... It is to the simple, God-fearing people we must appeal...