For hundreds of years, however, the Latin language, the clerical character of the liturgy, and the search for novelty have combined to produce forms of worship that are "paraliturgical," meaning that they lie outside the liturgy and in some cases contradict it.
However, as he attempted to clarify the characters' depictions he found himself resorting to offensive overexaggeration, especially of the non-clerical characters.
Compared with the seal script, clerical script characters are strikingly rectilinear.
In general, clerical script characters are "flat" in appearance, being wider than the seal script, which tends to be taller than it is wide.
Police said that Mena's clerical role was a ruse.
The would-be killer inspired, it seems, by clerical objections to allegorical characters in one of Mr Mahfouz's books—failed in his mission, but nerve damage stopped Mr Mahfouz writing for five years.He himself might possibly have dreamed up such an act of sudden violence for one of his plots, but religion would never have been the motive.
But Zach Grenier, outfitted in off-white instead of Tartuffe's usual clerical black, submerges his character's oiliness in a bland, almost insipid exterior.
Talen, who, when in character, wears a white suit, a black shirt, and a clerical collar, invented the persona of Reverend Billy almost two decades ago.
At the same time, there were bishops who organized a kind of boarding school where the aspiring clergyman, living in a community, participated in duties of a monastic character and learned his clerical trade.
The picaresque novel originated in Spain with Lazarillo de Tormes (1554; doubtfully attributed to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza), in which the poor boy Lázaro describes his services under seven successive lay and clerical masters, each of whose dubious character is hidden under a mask of hypocrisy.
Through April 21 Born in the early 1920's into an Ivory Coast farming culture, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré served in the French Navy, worked for the police department in Dakar, Senegal, and held various clerical positions while inventing a 400-character alphabet to write down the oral literature of his people, the Bété.
