Word: devoutness
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Since the days of the palmers, pilgrimaging to Jerusalem has become less and less devout, until now many people visit the Holy City with no higher motive than curiosity...
Historians might trace the beginnings of the Pérez episode deep through a trail of many years. Necessarily or unnecessarily, there has always been the conflict between Mexico, the devout daughter of Rome, and Mexico, the touchily independent Nation. There have been tiffs between Vatican and Government Palace...
Like his comrade General Castelnau (whom many say is the greater soldier), Marshal Foch is a devout Catholic, but unlike him he does not mix in politics. M. Castelnau has been an administrator, a tactician. Foch is the theorist, the strategist. Castelnau organized the mobilization system that worked so wonderfully for France at the begin- ning of the War; he saved Nancy, which Foch was apparently unable to do; he saved Verdun, which Petain could not do. Foch became the greater general because, although a Catholic, he kept his political opinions to himself, which Castelnau...
...religious beliefs, the then Colonel Castelnau was, as always, a devout Catholic, while in politics he was a sincere Royalist; but his Royalism was of a brand that placed France above everything, as his long career under the Third Republic has proved. His Catholicism and his Royalism made him many enemies and he is known throughout France as le capucin botte (the booted Capuchin...
...unthinkable and impossible to imagine that the real Americans of the type who made this country, such as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson or Monroe, or the devout and God-fearing Pilgrims who preceded them, should voluntarily sit and watch corpulent Italian, Spanish, French or German aliens and a few Americans, trained in Europe and alienized, enacting, upon the stage, scenes of Latin passion, seductions, betrayals, murders, assassinations, insanity, jealousy, disease and death. The horrible nature of operatic librettos is intensified by poignant, passionate music, acting and singing. The American mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera...