Word: waywardly
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...many American Roman Catholics over 30, religious faith is both a disturbed and disturbing reality of their lives. The Holy Mother Church of their childhood has become a rather wayward lady who has cast off her Latin, fish days, and half the saints on her calendar. Even bishops have reopened discussion on doctrines that were recently thought to be as unassailable as the existence of God. For some, Pope John's revolution and the Second Vatican Council have seemed nothing short of a betrayal. For others, including Francine du Plessix Gray, 39, the new, questing spirit of Catholicism became...
...With his wayward orange mane and glazed fish-green eyes. Gene Wilder conveys a beguiling look of incipient madness. In his films to date he has seemed always on the verge of lurching into some marvelously insane enterprise. For a time he worried about becoming typecast as Hollywood's favorite neurasthenic comedian. "There was always a reservoir of hysteria in me that I could call upon as an actor," says Wilder. "As I grew out of it, I became more and more dissatisfied with the parts I was playing. But Hollywood, of course, couldn't keep up with...
Ship of Fools not only lacked the perfect form of the earlier stories, but their objectivity as well. The story of an Atlantic crossing between Vera Cruz and Bremerhaven in the 1930s, it is a parable of the growth of Nazism and a chilling view of human nature. The wayward characters are so often compared to animals that they seem to comprise a floating zoo. Miss Porter has often said, "I am a passenger on that ship," and it is understandable that when the book's heroine finally leaves the ship by launch, she turns her back...
...seen a world's fair-or Japan. The crowds may sometimes be unnerving, but they are part of the fun. If anyone wanders astray, there is a smoothly functioning lost-and-found center to guide him back to his group. So far it has worked for several hundred wayward Japanese...
Delighted that her wayward daughter had at last settled into a life she could dig. Ada and her latest charlie sent more money. When it arrived, Merilee set out to become a proper wife...