On the other hand, we decry the variant that "take[s] pride in their country's distinct, if not unique, status" — in this case, pride in our status as "a non-soccer-following country," which he likens to the pride of the Russians in their ability to drink large quantities of vodka or the pride of the French in their worldly attitude toward erotic adventure.
Périer may have exaggerated the other-worldly attitude of his late brother-in-law, when he wrote that, for more than ten years before his death, Pascal was aware of "the vanity and nothingness of all these types of knowledge, and that he had acquired such disgust for them that he could hardly tolerate intelligent people devoting their time to them and speaking seriously about them" (I, 459).
And, as penalty for entering, shed the attitudes of worldly men regarding us and this celestial sphere, where now your spirit begs to enter.
Like many of Bellow's other novels, Seize the Day exhibits an ambivalent attitude toward worldly success, and it follows its sensitive, gullible protagonist's quest for meaning in a chaotic and hostile world.
Perhaps it is not surprising that someone who has spent his life studying such men as Sir Thomas More and Raleigh should have an ambivalent attitude towards worldly power and ambition.
As Jesus stated, "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Church teaching on the tenth commandment is directed toward this same attitude toward worldly goods, termed "poverty of spirit".
Soon, Kano — a quiet, stone-cold killer with little worldly experience but a steely attitude — sets men's hearts aflame throughout the unit, sparking deadly rivalries among his cohorts and rattling his commanders, notably the cunning and tautly controlled Toshi (Takeshi Kitano).
But he also demanded that evangelicals look beyond liturgy and Christian tradition and remain engaged in worldly matters — "to take more responsible attitudes toward economics, the arts, politics and culture in general," as Mark A. Noll, a University of Notre Dame professor and scholar of the movement, said in an interview in 2007.
They think of themselves as younger than their years and dress to project an attitude far more confident and worldly than that of their mothers at the same age.
