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After World War I, Buddhists began petitioning the British to return the bones of their two saints. Finally, in 1947, London sent them back. The relics were taken on a tour through India, Burma and Indo-China. Devout Buddhists claimed that hundreds of miracles were worked among those who saw them...
...always emerges as the hero of every tale. This is as it should be. By any standards, Franklin is a great man. He made lots of money, he won lots of women, and for years, he matched daring with death every Sunday afternoon to win over even the most devout afficionados...
...feats in Men at Arms is the way Waugh, too, throws open the sacred doors of the Halberdier mess to all sorts and conditions of men, making the regiment a symbol of the church militant in which he believes. Apart from Guy, none of the newer officers is a devout man, and most of them are intellectual mediocrities at best. But to Waugh -and to the reader, after Waugh has waved his magic wand of characterization -mediocrity seems not only a human condition but a fascinating one. The only trouble with it is that it is incapable of leading...
Almost 100% of the women called themselves believers, 98% of the men. High school graduates (99%) were more devout than college students...
...novelist, François Mauriac has two sides: 1) the urbane Frenchman who analyzes love with the detachment of a metaphysician, and 2) the devout Roman Catholic who wrestles with...