Word: religionist
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...half the hands went up. I then asked those who had raised their hands how many would be prepared to tell their dormmates of their preference. A small number of hands were raised. In the language of the day, it is "politically incorrect" to insist on marrying a co-religionist. It is, however, perfectly correct to do so if it just happens that way. However, it will "just happen" that way with ever decreasing frequency...
...Clockwork Orange makes it seem that Kubrick did get lost in the stars and has become a spaced-out religionist. Aside from his ludicrously simplistic emphasis on free will, the Bronx enfant terrible has lost his purely filmic bearings. The film shows the limits of crudeness. When it takes an actor three minutes to roll off a provocative phrase like "the old in-out in-out", witty language is killed. When there are no developed antagonisms, and the camera supports the actions of a single group, gang warfare is threatless and meaningless. And, perhaps intimidated by the director...
...resists the temptation to slip him into the New Left cubbyhole and looks beneath the superficialities of speech and manner, Ferber comes forth as a complex, contradictory blend of the pragmatist and idealist, religionist and radical idealogue. His belief in non-violence is firm. His sense of perspective and grasp of social realities make him an exceptional even atypical, member of the New Left. If the government jails him, he just may have the entire prison organized before he leaves...
...this word usually connotes. It is not what I sometimes have called the magazine concept of religion-even the TIME concept of religion-namely, religion as one of the cultural functions of man's spirit reported, for instance, between economy and sports, considered as the job of the "religionist"-the most anti-religious word in the English language. Religion as the experience of the vertical line is effective in every creative work, in artistic as well as scientific, in ethical as well as in political, in technical as well as in economic creations, and even in the power...
Arkansas politics are an engaging mixture of Old South primitivism and self-conscious moderation. One of these elements usually prevails in given area: the agricultural east ("the Delta") is mainly religionist and extreme right wing, while the west and the area around Little Rock is more liberal...