Maritain
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“One is tempted to say that attention to the political is too much,” wrote Jacques Maritain, the French postwar ambassador to the Vatican, “considering the essential role of the Church.”
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2015
“Coming from a big public high school, G. K. Chesterton or Hilaire Belloc or Jacques Maritain or Evelyn Waugh — these are writers I wouldn’t have run across,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
There are a lot of serious thinkers cited throughout the book, people like Niebuhr, Jacques Maritain and John Courtney Murray.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2012
Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood."
From Time Magazine Archive
My faith was buttressed by a book by Jacques Maritain rather than by the experience of worship at a Lenten service with classmates or serving at some old lady’s funeral.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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