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Word: sinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monday evening the Pope sat before the shrine listening to the incongruous sound of a Catholic folk-rock band that blasted out We Want God and other religious songs. When the musicale ended, John Paul confessed, "I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. Now I must go; otherwise I will lose my image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Triumphal Return | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...aggressive anti-intellectualism. He displayed what Frady calls his "capacity to trivialize the awesome" when, after the My Lai massacre, he submitted: "We have all had our My Lais in one way or an other . . . with a thoughtless word, an arrogant act, or a selfish deed." His definitions of sin and evil have not always done justice to the subject; he tends to concentrate on the homely offenses of drink ing, gambling, lying and even nagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Country-Grown Candide | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...from my missionary zeal to suggest Christianity as a cure for Woody Allen's suffering. To put an end to his torment would put an end to his art-and that would be a sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1979 | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Bible spells homosexuality with three letters: sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...cobwebs of grave sin and mental disorder are beginning to clear. Gays and straights now finally realize that closets are for clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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