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Jesus' views on fasting parallels his views of other forms of worship. He decries those that make a public spectacle of their piety, and assures his followers that the reward for such worship is only public adulation, and God will give no reward for this behaviour. "Disfigure their faces" (aphanizo) literally means "make their faces invisible."
The Aurora was regularly filled with articles attacking what Bache considered to be Washington's monarchical tendencies, his hostile actions toward France, contempt for the public, and his friendly relations with Britain. [20] After anti-Federalists accused Washington of being too ready to accept public adulation, Bache increased his attacks. [21]
Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries, and is still practiced by different means (e.g. schools) in the modern era.
Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished ...
Because of the popularity of Italian opera throughout 18th-century Europe (except France), singers such as Ferri, Farinelli, Senesino and Pacchierotti became the first operatic superstars, earning enormous fees and hysterical public adulation. [12]
(The Center Square) – More than 2,600 people signed on to support a school choice bill that received a public hearing Thursday in Olympia. House Bill 1140, sponsored by Rep. Travis Couture, R ...
De Gaulle attracted public attention by leading a parade of 80 tanks into the Place d'Armes at Metz, in his command tank "Austerlitz". [56] By now de Gaulle was becoming a well-known figure, known as "Colonel Motor(s)". [3]: 117 At the invitation of the publisher Plon, he produced another book, La France et son Armée (France and Her Army) in 1938
A public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior. Oftentimes these messages feature unsettling imagery, ideas or behaviors that are designed to startle or even scare the viewer into understanding the consequences of undergoing a particular harmful action or inaction (such as pictures ...