Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anthony's attempts to find God. The three monks who feed him, sing to him and argue with him represent his three temptations (the belly, the senses and intellectual pride); but even when he conquers fleshly pleasures through a death-fast, he has still to cast out the sin of pride...
...holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate the human race. The good men would have objected on the ground that sin and shame would be sure to follow, but God let nature take its course. Wars are not fought on the basis of ethics and religion. If this were so, there would be no wars...
...finally arrived in Manhattan from Hong Kong, ran from a plane into her arms, posed with her and their four-year-old daughter, Carola. As the Major got news from Britain that his wife, Ursula, had finally divorced him (Miss Hahn considered herself divorced from her onetime Chinese companion, Sin-may), the well-publicized couple planned to make it legal this week...
While adultery is the chief cause of divorce in England, Dr. Garbett does not believe that adultery is always good grounds: "Often [adultery] is committed under circumstances of great strain and temptation, with the person committing the sin never really losing love for wife or husband...
...night, her double-barreled reputation paid off-Charles Donlon, the town's leading banker, promptly bailed her out. Reason: he had scheduled a huge dinner party which would have collapsed dismally with Lucy in jail. After that, for three decades, Lucy Hicks trafficked successfully in both sin and souffle...