devoutness

Where circumstances are favorable, this proclivity is apt to express itself in a certain servile devotional fervor and a punctilious attention to devout observances; it may perhaps be better characterized as devoutness than as religion.

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The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised.

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But there was something puzzling about their devoutness.

Their puzzling devoutness

They leave Bibles, Christian literature, and Christian music CDs lying around their rooms; they attend fundamentalist Christian Bible studies; they feign devoutness at the Academy's weekly "Special Programs in Religious Education" (SPIRE) programs.

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Inside the church, officials expressed some optimism that candidacies by both Romney and Huntsman could help portray Mormonism as a big-tent religion, where different views and levels of devoutness are tolerated.

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He made his way to Afghanistan, where he met bin Laden at a training camp and was impressed by his "devoutness."

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It is an image of devoutness and piety, synagogue attendance, traditional

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He mentions some of the points Avi made but also says the problem goes beyond devoutness to religion and is in fact cultural.

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There is pathology wrapped up in sainthood, James admits, along with other excesses: devoutness can lead to fanaticism.

William James, part 5: Saintliness

Alec had told her before of Ted's devoutness, his interest in the Ah Tran movement.

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