Word: suspicion
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...ancient Greeks had the same suspicion. The 5th century B.C. playwright Euripides portrayed the oppressed and frustrated women of Thebes, egged on by the wine god Dionysus, abandoning their babies in the cradle and their weaving on the loom to run off into the hills for nights of wild drinking and dancing, further enlivened by the women's enthusiastic dismemberment of any living creatures they came upon. At one point the queen mother, in her wine-addled frenzy, rips apart her own son, the king, leaving the audience with one clear lesson: keep the women indoors and those wine-filled...
...representatives on earth turn out to be, many of them, child molesters and protectors of child molesters, then who will ever see such men at their priestly work--consecrating the body and blood of Christ, or whispering through the grill in the dusk of the confessional--without suspicion and unbidden loathing...
...picture and took her to meet McCurry. She now lives in Afghanistan with her husband and their three children. For the past decade, she has covered her face with a burka. When she lifted the garment for McCurry, he felt certain she was the girl from his photograph, a suspicion confirmed by technology that compared the irises in the 1984 picture to those in one taken in January. She will appear on the April cover of National Geographic...
...still now forced to be in a position where I have to fight to get somebody to acknowledge what they did or didn't do. It's not good enough." Given the opportunites that church has had in the past to deal with priestly crimes, there is the suspicion that it is only the lawyers' intervention that hasbrought action...
...representatives on earth turn out to be, many of them, child molesters and protectors of child molesters, then who will ever see such men at their priestly work--consecrating the body and blood of Christ, or whispering through the grill in the dusk of the confessional--without suspicion and unbidden loathing...