Word: wonderingly
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There is an inevitable irony in such heavy-hearted contemplation of the lives affected by war taking place during current military conflicts generating many troubled veterans of their own. We begin to wonder: Will we ever learn...
...Instead of a President who waves at Stevie Wonder, says things like, “Awesome speech” to the Pope, and calls the Italian Prime Minister “Amigo,” we will have a president who draws crowds of thousands to hear him deliver coherent speeches in which he pronounces the word “nuclear” as God intended it to be pronounced. But before we mope from used bookstore to used bookstore, picking up dog-eared copies of “Bushisms: Volume Eight” and trying to relive old times...
...wonder that in America, officially agnostic to the competing theological claims of various sects, citizens should treat the civil duties of democracy with the reverent awe and sincere fervor traditionally reserved for religion...
...outward expressions of faith. "I grew up looking out my window at Kings College chapel [the iconic building at Cambridge University, which Rushdie attended]," he says. "And its hard not to believe in the capacity of religion to create beauty" with that sight in his memory. He then expressed wonder that, as a non-Christian secularist, he was invited in 1993 to preach a sermon in that same chapel and did. "There are moments in your life that surprise you," he said...
...hands found Frederick of their own volition and she pulled him up. His face was even waxier and paler than it usually was, but she had been in time. He coughed weakly, a spout of water dribbling down his flaccid chin, and looked at her, with a new wonder in his eyes. “You raised me up,” he said, feebly. “Yes,” she said. The water streamed from her golden hair like diamonds. Her white clothes were now transparent and clinging transparently to her buxom form...