The story moves to a close on a surge of pious sentiment.
It got more so when Republicans gave the pious sentiment a nationalist edge.
The face-off will also test whether there is more than just pious sentiment to the notion that African countries should derive greater benefit from their natural resources.
Nothing else is quite so potent a symbol of violated innocence, a spur to pious sentiment or a goad to revenge as a child in peril.
Among the more or less predictable reactions from legal adversaries to the Supreme Court's finding that ministers may not bring employment discrimination suits against their churches, there is a pious sentiment to be found here and there — an appeal to an even higher law.
"There are no more red lines left for terrorists to cross," tweeted the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, his pious sentiments shared by many other Muslim leaders.
Even during Descartes's lifetime there were questions about whether he was a Catholic apologist, primarily concerned with supporting Christian doctrine, or an atheist, concerned only with protecting himself with pious sentiments while establishing a deterministic, mechanistic, and materialistic physics.
There is a dash of the Dubliner Oscar Wilde in Žižek, a man who couldn't hear a pious English sentiment without feeling an irresistible itch to reverse its terms, rip it inside out or stand it on its head.
The pious view is mistaken.
When, in pursuit of colonial possessions, the Belgian king sent him a document expressing pious anti-slavery sentiments, Germany's perceptive chancellor scrawled a single word in the margins: "Schwindel".
Vocabulary: Stereotypes, zealots, outsize, dissects, lampoons, garnered, darkly, extol, deprived, pious, jihad, notorious, spoof, stratospheric, contradict, sober, sentiment, enlightened, extremism, alter ego, broadsides, secular, queries, credentials, imam Extension Activities: 1. Refer students to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Web site at www.tolerance.org.org
