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nun
noun as in woman in religious order
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Nothing about the show turned out to be what it looked like at first: a standard albeit graphically gory serial killer cop show with a Murphy-esque horror twist, pairing Nash-Betts’ Lois, an alcoholic cop at the end of a failing marriage, with Micaela Diamond’s Sister Megan, a homicide-obsessed nun and…practicing journalist?
Megan isn’t a nun but a fellow detective married to a violent man Lois shoots in the face… or does she?
Meanwhile, Isabella Rossellini, who plays a watchful nun in “Conclave,” has appeared in two films that Tucci directed, including his beloved “Big Night.”
And there hasn’t been a Carmelite nun–style massacre.
But a Catholic faith so strong that she once seriously contemplated becoming a nun helped sustain her.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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