Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What comes naturally to us is not righteousness...it is sin," he says. "Repressing that which is contrary to God's council to us is a virtuous thing...
...staff would like cops to enact nobly their virtuous civic functions while refraining from profanity and without threatening to arrest students. While these qualities might be desirable in a proctor or administrator, were they to be adopted, they would be possibly dangerous constraints on the police...
...sisters, yes it has. It has sinned with thongs on Baywatch, it has sinned with adultery on Melrose Place, and it has sinned, time and time again, on MTV. But now prime time is appearing before you to beg forgiveness, to prove that it too can be a virtuous member of our community...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...
That's good, I guess; no pain, no gain. But can I twitch through six more weeks of virtuous nibbling and meditation and moderate behavior? Will enlightenment and serenity finally make clear to me the meaning of "antioxidant"? One thing is sure: only the strong survive...