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  • They had begged off the trip to Opus One, scurried back upstairs, and popped a last bottle of champagne.†   (source)
  • A year later, the same motif showed up as the basis for the fourth movement of the last quartet, Opus 155.†   (source)
  • He calls these paintings things like Enigma: Blue and Red, or Variation: Black and White, or Opus 36.†   (source)
  • From Opus Nine and Thirty-two.†   (source)
  • In Dick's thing, I can be Bernie, a sensitive young subway guard, in the most courageous goddam offbeat television opus you ever read.†   (source)
  • I wish you'd give them opus numbers so that I could keep up with them.†   (source)
  • There were programs to be printed (through the Morrisons), elaborate enough to include the opus numbers, the first, middle, and last name of each pupil, and flowing across the top in a script which resembled, as if for a purpose, Miss Eckhart's writing in the monthly bills, the full name of Miss Lotte Elisabeth Eckhart.†   (source)
  • Quite frankly, Opus Dei has become a liability and an embarrassment.†   (source)
  • Opus Dei is a personal prelature of the Pope himself.†   (source)
  • "Opus Dei is neither," the bishop would patiently reply.†   (source)
  • Take Silas to the Opus Dei residence hall and drop him off a few streets away.†   (source)
  • Teabing had caught wind of the Vatican's plans to disassociate itself from Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • The Opus Dei numerary who had welcomed Silas answered the line.†   (source)
  • His thoughts were with the future of Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • Opus Dei is the only Catholic organization whose numbers are growing!†   (source)
  • "You are describing only a small portion of the Opus Dei population," Aringarosa said.†   (source)
  • Opus Dei was the fastest-growing and most financially secure Catholic organization in the world.†   (source)
  • He had hoped only a handful of Vatican power brokers knew of Opus Dei's impending annulment.†   (source)
  • "Many call Opus Dei a brainwashing cult," reporters often challenged.†   (source)
  • The media was now referring to Opus Dei as "God's Mafia" and "the Cult of Christ."†   (source)
  • When Opus Dei is the only remaining voice of reason!†   (source)
  • But why would Opus Dei be trying to find the Holy Grail?†   (source)
  • The mysterious Opus Dei monk had come to Saint-Sulpice for another purpose.†   (source)
  • Ask His Holiness if Opus Dei was an embarrassment in 1982 when we helped the Vatican Bank!†   (source)
  • Well, they seem to be working for Opus Dei!†   (source)
  • Opus Dei came within inches tonight of possessing it.†   (source)
  • The rituals of Opus Dei, Sister Sandrine knew, were not something she would ever understand.†   (source)
  • He said he knew of the Vatican's plans to pull support from Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • Silas had planned to hide within Opus Dei when his task here was complete.†   (source)
  • I'm not surprised the police found you, but I am surprised that this Opus Dei character found you.†   (source)
  • He knew he had sacrificed much to follow Opus Dei, but he had received much more in return.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry, you say this visiting Opus Dei numerary cannot wait until morning?†   (source)
  • I want 'The Potato Opus' to be ready for that show next week.†   (source)
  • Sister Sandrine could not help but feel that Opus Dei's good standing in Rome was suspect, but one did not argue with the Holy See.†   (source)
  • As president-general of Opus Dei, Bishop Aringarosa had spent the last decade of his life spreading the message of "God's Work"—literally, Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • The group's popular website—www. odan. org—relayed frightening stories from former Opus Dei members who warned of the dangers of joining.†   (source)
  • Murray Hill Place—the new Opus Dei World Headquarters and conference center—is located at 243 Lexington Avenue in New York City.†   (source)
  • Two days ago, the Secretariat Council voted unanimously to revoke the Vatican's sanction of Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • Silas could imagine no more blissful existence than a life of meditation and prayer deep within the walls of Opus Dei's headquarters in New York City.†   (source)
  • Now, as Silas approached the Opus Dei building, the rain began to fall harder, soaking his heavy robe, stinging the wounds of the day before.†   (source)
  • Plainly stated, six months from today, Opus Dei will no longer be considered a prelature of the Vatican.†   (source)
  • And later, to New York City, where he had proclaimed the glory of God with the towering Opus Dei Center on Lexington Avenue.†   (source)
  • We fear what we do not understand, Aringarosa thought, wondering if these critics had any idea how many lives Opus Dei had enriched.†   (source)
  • Why does Opus Dei want the keystone?†   (source)
  • Opus Dei has a residence in London, no?†   (source)
  • These choices are personal, but everyone in Opus Dei shares the goal of bettering the world by doing the Work of God.†   (source)
  • Like many members of Opus Dei, these businessmen were at the "supernumerary" stage and practiced no corporal mortification at all.†   (source)
  • In Boston not long ago, a disillusioned young investment banker had signed over his entire life savings to Opus Dei before attempting suicide.†   (source)
  • Opus Dei is a personal prelature of Vatican City, and His Holiness can disperse monies however he sees fit.†   (source)
  • Now, with over four million copies of The Way in circulation in forty-two languages, Opus Dei was a global force.†   (source)
  • He had exploited both the Vatican and Opus Dei, two groups that turned out to be completely innocent.†   (source)
  • Sadly, all of these events had helped spawn the new watch group known as the Opus Dei Awareness Network (ODAN).†   (source)
  • How powerful that will make Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • "Opus Dei," Langdon whispered, recalling recent media coverage of several prominent Boston businessmen who were members of Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • "You belong to Opus Dei," the man said.†   (source)
  • Thousands of Opus Dei members are married, have families, and do God's Work in their own communities.†   (source)
  • I cannot see that message in Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • London's Opus Dei Centre is a modest brick building at 5 Orme Court, overlooking the North Walk at Kensington Gardens.†   (source)
  • Opus Dei had always made her uneasy.†   (source)
  • Opus Dei is searching for the keystone.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Aringarosa had learned, in an age of religious cynicism, cults, and televangelists, Opus Dei's escalating wealth and power was a magnet for suspicion.†   (source)
  • Every Opus Dei building has one.†   (source)
  • The media always gravitated toward scandal, and Opus Dei, like most large organizations, had within its membership a few misguided souls who cast a shadow over the entire group.†   (source)
  • The male receptionist in the lobby of the Opus Dei headquarters on Lexington Avenue in New York City was surprised to hear Bishop Aringarosa's voice on the line.†   (source)
  • She scorned the work of Opus Dei!†   (source)
  • Now, eyeing the bewildered Langdon and Neveu, Teabing resisted the urge to reveal how he had brilliantly implicated Opus Dei in the plot that would soon bring about the demise of the entire Church.†   (source)
  • The price tag of twenty million euro was paltry when compared with the prize of obtaining the Grail, and with the Vatican's separation payment to Opus Dei, the finances had worked nicely.†   (source)
  • Out of respect for your organization's relationship with the previous Pope, His Holiness will be giving Opus Dei six months to voluntarily break away from the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Sitting up now on his straw mat, he listened to the quiet breathing of the Opus Dei residence hall, the stillness textured only by the soft murmurs of someone praying aloud in a room below him.†   (source)
  • Despite Aringarosa's concern at having missed the call, he felt encouraged that the Teacher felt confident enough to call Opus Dei headquarters directly.†   (source)
  • With the soundproof divider raised, Teabing was able to phone Silas in the front seat, use the fake French accent of the Teacher, and direct Silas to go straight to Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • The Opus Dei Centre in London.†   (source)
  • Recently, however, Opus Dei had found itself threatened by a force infinitely more powerful than the media… an unexpected foe from which Aringarosa could not possibly hide.†   (source)
  • "As you are well aware," the secretariat said, "His Holiness and others in Rome have been concerned lately with the political fallout from Opus Dei's more controversial practices."†   (source)
  • His broad back still ached from the corporal mortification he had endured earlier today, and yet the pain was inconsequential compared with the anguish of his life before Opus Dei had saved him.†   (source)
  • Sadly, while most of the Catholic Church was gradually moving in the right direction with respect to women's rights, Opus Dei threatened to reverse the progress.†   (source)
  • The mysterious summons, Aringarosa suspected, was probably a photo opportunity for the Pope and other Vatican officials to piggyback on Opus Dei's recent public success—the completion of their World Headquarters in New York City.†   (source)
  • Architectural Digest had called Opus Dei's building "a shining beacon of Catholicism sublimely integrated with the modern landscape," and lately the Vatican seemed to be drawn to anything and everything that included the word "modern."†   (source)
  • Two months ago, an Opus Dei group at a midwestern university had been caught drugging new recruits with mescaline in an effort to induce a euphoric state that neophytes would perceive as a religious experience.†   (source)
  • Suspiciously, Opus Dei's elevation occurred the same year the wealthy sect allegedly had transferred almost one billion dollars into the Vatican's Institute for Religious Works—commonly known as the Vatican Bank—bailing it out of an embarrassing bankruptcy.†   (source)
  • I am an Opus Dei numerary.†   (source)
  • Aringarosa had been using all of his political sway—substantial considering the size of the Opus Dei constituency and their bankroll—to persuade the Pope and his advisers that softening the Church's laws was not only faithless and cowardly, but political suicide.†   (source)
  • In a second maneuver that raised eyebrows, the Pope placed the founder of Opus Dei on the "fast track" for sainthood, accelerating an often century-long waiting period for canonization to a mere twenty years.†   (source)
  • The Vatican prelature known as Opus Dei is a deeply devout Catholic sect that has been the topic of recent controversy due to reports of brainwashing, coercion, and a dangerous practice known as "corporal mortification."†   (source)
  • Opus Dei's traditionalist philosophy initially had taken root in Spain before Franco's regime, but with the 1934 publication of Josemaría Escrivá's spiritual book The Way—999 points of meditation for doing God's Work in one's own life—Escrivá's message exploded across the world.†   (source)
  • So far, the evidence they had uncovered was unhelpful: a single bullet buried in the floor; a paper with several symbols scrawled on it along with the words blade and chalice; and a bloody spiked belt that PTS had told Collet was associated with the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei, which had caused a stir recently when a news program exposed their aggressive recruiting practices in Paris.†   (source)
  • Not just for Opus Dei.†   (source)
  • The head of Opus Dei?†   (source)
  • Of course the ultimate embarrassment had been the widely publicized trial of FBI spy Robert Hanssen, who, in addition to being a prominent member of Opus Dei, had turned out to be a sexual deviant, his trial uncovering evidence that he had rigged hidden video cameras in his own bedroom so his friends could watch him having sex with his wife.†   (source)
  • She began playing Opus 32, 1, a piece she was preparing for an upcoming recital, and one I especially liked.†   (source)
  • He played a little riff of something, a Beatles song, then a few lines of the latest version of "The Potato Opus."†   (source)
  • So you're doing 'The Potato Opus'?†   (source)
  • A whole opus.†   (source)
  • ' "The Potato Opus'?"†   (source)
  • It's an opus.†   (source)
  • "And, on top of that," John Miller continued, "the band will mostly likely be rejected by yet another record label because of the artistic integrity of Sir Ted, who will drive us all into retirement by stubbornly refusing to admit that his potato opuses are a bunch of crap."†   (source)
  • Beethoven," and Mr. Beebe was wondering whether it would be Adelaida, or the march of The Ruins of Athens, when his composure was disturbed by the opening bars of Opus III.†   (source)
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