devout

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Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises were known for their devout advocacy of maximally free markets and minimal government assistance.

Instead, as with Brennan and Kennedy, devout faith can lead public officials in a very different direction.

Advocates, including devout Orthodox millennials like attorney Keshet Starr, are fighting to give women more equal footing.

I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.

She dressed always in black, was very devout and rich and narrow and iron-willed.

All things that could give solemnity to an observance unite to invest this with a devout character.

Strictly reared by a mother gentle and devout, and by a father hard and avaricious.

The innocent may be innocent, nay, the pious may feel devout, even in a ball room.

This solemn tragedy they felt to be the theme of devout and prayerful meditation rather than of portraiture in art.

Both were unaffectedly devout, without the least tinge of moroseness or gloom.

APRIL 13, 2021

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