“To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy.”
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Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)
Context: To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.
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