Word: virtuously
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...best. His hero, Mr. Hutton, is clever, covered in tweed and money troubles, able to explain everything about everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman has done the deed. Hutton, the reader feels...
...priestly caste, its very possession of the truth and the power unto salvation is a temptation to spiritual pride. Both religion and science are disposed to make a claim to infallibility. [But] the most virtuous priest may have his virtue corrupted by stupidity and ignorance, and the most intelligent scientist may have his wisdom distorted by pride and arrogance and the lust for personal prestige...
...Queen's ghosted speeches were "a pain in the neck," but many a newspaper, while tut-tutting, managed to slip in a needle at the Palace too. "There is some danger," said the Spectator, "of the monarchy leaning too heavily upon a single class." "In all the virtuous and vicious huffing and puffing," said the Economist, "the real point about the article has been lost. It is that its author is a sturdy monarchist...
...often appears pleasantly outrageous, but he can also wallow in ugly pomp. He seems a bit closer to sixty years old than to forty. His next scene, with The Little Miss, is somewhat slow and less smooth--shoulder-kneading can be awkward--but Gail Jones is exactly as virtuous a coquette as she should be. She succeeds again opposite John van Itallie, as The Poet, in a particularly fresh scene. Her indignantly stating "I'm not stupid," delays things a bit; he, delighted, waves back "Of course...
...finger-waving, prophetic, Victorian, virtuous, gloomy, saintly, fanatical, guilt-ridden, tubercular, self-righteous, animal farming but essentially Christian down-and-outer was, before these things, a writer. He believed that writers have messages. In spite of the grand variety of prejudices social critics now project at him, his I think was simple...