Word: virtuous
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...pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved in sexual intrigue, even the innocent, deceived mates, is rocking the town with scandal. When one decent husband's eyes are opened, his affectionate if promiscuous wife harshly berates the prude. Then, drugging the virtuous lady, she plots with a procuress to make the lady believe that while unconscious she was violated by the town rake...
...vicious characters, jailers and jailed, are often splendid company, though the protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...
...Nogi, the hero who captured Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War and later disemboweled himself on the death of his beloved Emperor Meiji in 1912. The act had shocked the West and produced a critical editorial in the London Times, but Nobusuke hailed it as an example of virtuous idealism...
...March 1939) he conjured up the spectacle of a bomb-battered England. Long before the Comet crashes, he visualized aircraft exploding from metal fatigue (No Highway). In an age of equivocal values, Shute took an authoritative, old-fashioned moral stance. His men were manly. His women were womanly and virtuous. Sex was linked to marriage; evil, when it existed at all, was apt to be just inefficiency...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. A wry, readable 16th century Chinese tale about a virtuous widow and the Boccaccian crew of thieves, pimps and "Powder-faces" who surround...