Word: devout
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...Charles, a devout Catholic, was in Spain, did not know that his troops had pillaged Rome. Clement was held a captive for seven months, then escaped, eventually officiated at Charles's coronation...
Normal Happiness. Few devout men managed to combine orthodoxy with gusto so successfully as Chesterton. When T. S. Eliot wrote: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," Chesterton burst out: "I'm damned if I ever felt like that." He resented the suggestion that modern life had been made as dull as ditchwater: "And, by the way, is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun." But to apostles of progress he remarked: "We sometimes tend to overlook the quiet and even bashful presence...
...more devout said that God had struck El Fakir down for imitating Christ. Doctors, viewing the body, found an embolism (obstruction in the blood stream), said that El Fakir had paid the price of getting out of bed too soon...
Lord Tyrrell, 77-year-old president of the British Board of Film Censorship and a devout Catholic, forbade the showing of Stage Door Canteen unless a scene featuring Gracie Fields was cut out. His objection was not esthetic (he once remarked "I have no particular taste") but pious. The offending scene: energetic Gracie singing The Lord's Prayer...
There are also some new characters: Rose, whose face is transformed and whose body sways when swing music as sails her from the factory loudspeakers; Bert Ogmore, the Communist assistant foreman, who is so devout he is practically a Russian; Lord Brixen, the fashion plate, who is a safe second string of the Conservative Party, and four men who are responsible for the functioning of the factory and most of the novel's dramatics: James Cheviot, the general manager; Francis Blandford, his chief engineer; Maurice Angleby, assistant engineer; Bob Elrick, the works superintendent...