Word: zeal
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...designers who were asked to envision something with "more presence, prestige and modernity" for priests presiding at altars of the future. No impious exercise, the designs were commissioned by a committee of bishops, priests and art historians; the designers consider themselves devout Catholics, and approached their task with missionary zeal...
...said that U.S. officials could interview Sella, but only in Israel and only if he were given immunity from prosecution. They asked for the same protection for three lesser officials implicated in the spy case. American prosecutors rejected the deal, prompting some Israeli officials to complain that Washington's zeal in the Pollard affair is designed to weaken Israel's political clout...
...they are conservative on economic matters and distrustful of Big Government. Yet they are liberal on social issues like women's rights and abortion, and wary of the moral preachments of the New Right. Nor has the generation that marched for civil rights entirely lost its zeal for racial equality. Though Boomers & oppose strict quotas in hiring, they favor affirmative action to overcome racial discrimination...
...Popular Revolution, designed to eradicate all forms of the nation's bourgeoisie and bureaucracy. His revolution was based on three slender volumes of his own self-taught philosophy titled The Green Book, Gaddafi's equivalent of Mao's Little Red Book. The books outline Gaddafi's combination of Islamic zeal and Bedouin socialism in a system he calls the Third Universal Theory. The premise is that all contemporary political systems are inherently undemocratic and divisive. Gaddafi contends that capitalism benefits only the elite, whereas Communism stifles the individual...
THROUGHOUT THIS philosophic and mysterious plot, Mozart has written some of the most thrilling and beautiful music of any of his operas, which the Lowell House Company attempted to deliver with zeal to its small audience Thursday night. Three majestic chords begin and also end the overture which musically combines all the basic thoughts and conceptions of the opera. The playing throughout the opera was erratic, though punctuated by a few inspired musical moments...