The repetition of religious duties, without the feeling or spirit of religion, produces an incurable callosity of heart.

He warmed to his modesty, his unbullying camaraderie and genial absent-mindedness; he was touched, too, by this southerner's affection for a northern city, so heartfelt that he had actually made his home here.

We do not have to become a rock to study rocks, but we do have to understand the nature of “rockness.”

The misorchestrated Kabisig — which, organizers will have the public know, is not a political party — is only one case in point.