Word: devouting
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...Governor Spiro Agnew; a devout Italian Catholic, Massachusetts' Governor John Volpe; and the son of a Basque shepherd, Nevada's Governor Paul Laxalt...
...Romney, after four years in office, is still something of an unknown factor. He looks the part of a President and, as a devout Mormon, is morally about as upright as a candidate can be. But even those who lean toward him are not sure that he has the depth for the job, and some express concern over his tendency toward sanctimoniousness. One gag has an aide telling Romney, as the two emerge from a meeting, "Beautiful day, Governor." Romney's reply: "Thank you." Over the next 20 months, the undecided Republicans will be studying his performance with microscopic care...
...need for renewal with a special intensity, it may well stem from his experience in wavering between faith and doubt. His widowed mother, a schoolteacher, raised him as a Roman Catholic, and during his school years in Oklahoma City and Hollywood, he recalls, "I was what you would call devout. I was with it all the way-frequently a weekday communicant, an acolyte, the whole...
Lenin's hopes that Sorokin would convert to devout Bolshevism were disappointed. In new articles Lenin attacked Sorokin, calling him "typical of the most implacable part of the Russian intelligentsia," and in 1922 Sorokin was banished from Russia...
...Doubt & Hatred. Young Robbie Frost was a spoiled brat almost from the day he was born in San Francisco in 1874. His father was a hard-drinking, Harvard-educated journalist who beat Rob often. His mother indulged the boy, taught him to love poetry and nature; she was a devout Swedenborgian who believed that she had religious visions. It was her influence, says Thompson, that encouraged Robbie and his sister Jeanie to withdraw into a private world as children...