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Sentence Examples While middle-aged women of pious persuasion are novelizing as hugely as ever, adolescent girl threnodists have fallen into a decline. However, their recommendation so far remained a pious wish without suitable legislative support. This announcement should be seen as a pious hope rather than as a political reality. Sorry to sound pious but what about the homeless, the sick, the poor and neglected? Well, it would be nice to think that the pious hopes expressed in the Speech from the Throne would result in real action. Three women who were caught veilless were bound to stakes and exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died. On the other hand pious people often have little respect for what they dismiss as milk-and-water values like kindness and compassion. The people who stay there are at the same time loyal and treacherous, pious and blasphemous, violent and generous. Their response, however, consists of a pathetic mixture of pious wishes and unrealistic hopes. Yet reality must be confronted, if reconciliation is to be more than a pious hope. Honest and pious Muslims opposed to Umayyads usurping power were severely persecuted. We've called him and his ilk everything from thickheaded bozos, to donkeys and pious do-gooders. But their wishes, even pious ones, do not trump the natural right of parents to decide such a matter. They harbour the pious hope that change is easier from within than from without. The document it produced was toothless, consisting of many pious hopes and a few unenforceable targets. Proper behavior means to be loyal, filially pious respectful and trustworthy. Discussion ranges from monastic confraternities to miracle stories and the pious legends of saints. He said all the pious words about fresh air and cuddly animals but nothing about the obligations which might be imposed on industry. Yes, the new EU constitution has plenty of pious words about ensuring that there should be no unfair state aids and other subsidies. Yet it has evolved as the major challenge of our day, demanding responses beyond pious platitudes. Show More Sentences What stopped this from being a pious platitude was his accompanying insistence that the objective could be achieved by reform. Once again, there is no sign of any reaction from the United Nations beyond pious platitudes. Laid out on the table in front of me were the pious platitudes of Government Ministers responding to the loss of 350 permanent jobs in Donegal. Now the third important point related to government regulation is the aim of religion education is to develop pious and devout students. Of all the religions, the best religion is to repeat God's Name and to do pious deeds. But her mother, my maternal grandmother, was very pious and strict about religion. Both feel deeply about nature and religion, and are devotedly pious to church and religion. Somehow or other, by destiny, this sinner did perform a pious deed, and by that deed he became purified. I don't doubt that such experiences can inflame devotion, like any pious dream. By prayer and meditation the pious Buddhist enters into living communion with the heavenly Lord. It doesn't surprise me when the most forcefully pious turn out to be raging hypocrites with identity issues. If it seems that way, it is only because of the puritanism, the pious emotional parsimony, of our American era. In the evening we keep pious conversation while attending to pious works such as making rosaries, cilices and repairing books. But the pious man's grain, which had been sown in the second half of Heshvan, was saved. Rabbi Berger's pious respect for Schneerson's memory severely compromises his best efforts to combat the Lubavitchers' adoration of him. Some of these pious frauds go so far as to claim that evolution is false and not scientific. It is the social duty of the few to fabricate and defend these noble lies and pious frauds for the well-being of society. At his junior seminary in Cumbria, the outwardly pious enforced a regime of physical and sexual abuse. If asked how it is possible for her to have the stigmata and be a pious fraud, the answer is that she does not truly suffer inexplicable wounds. Most contemporaries cannot identify with the pious monk and virtuoso repenter who bored his superior with six-hour monologues about his sin. Show More Sentences Of these, some may have been the effect of imagination applied to natural markings in rock, while others may have been pious frauds. By the twelfth century in England, however, aspirants to anchoritic life were pious lay people. Slowly, slowly I began to approach the Wall in fear and trembling like a pious cantor going to the lectern to lead the prayers. The resulting properly pious disposition serves the earthly church by providing it with members who do not challenge sacerdotal authority. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. The staff's reaction made me suspicious in turn, since I have more than once found a wary attitude masking pious fraud. This is a tale about a pious young soldier who is tempted and seduced by a beautiful woman. The publication of this special edition of Folklore suggests that this possibility is now more than a pipe-dream or a pious hope. The revolutionaries have failed so far to mobilize and unite the masses and pious middle classes of most countries. And the gambling, whether by charities or not, was illegal thanks to a plenitude of anti-gambling legislation originating from pious groups to the south. I'm tired of hearing politicians making pious pronouncements about their devotion to the people. She is deeply pious but also brave and fiercely protective of her son. I had dated non-Jews before, but none went so far as to decorate their home with such blatantly pious trinkets. But journalists who hurl the most appalling abuse at officials of the government are not well placed to act pious when that abuse redounds upon their sources. None of them merit the same pious attention as our own original zebu. The priests and priestesses are pious, sanctimonious bastards. She then became the official mistress of Louis XV and marquise before ending up as lady-in-waiting to the queen, de facto minister, and pious, platonic consort of the king. The paper will try to demonstrate how the night meeting of Ruth and Boaz at the threshing floor could have served as a kind of biblical example of pious, virtuous bundling. We are becoming a crazed culture of cheap criticism and pious moralizing, and in our self-absorption may well lose what we inherited from a better generation. We will doubtless hear some pious hypocrisies from Jack Straw. Show More Sentences The world is too complex and dangerous for his pious simplicities. We can't take the decisions from the people and leave it in the hands of a few judges, moralists, atheists and the pious ultraconservative religious. Critics described him as a brazen-faced charlatan and a pious rogue. There was lot of promiscuity in my family, but everyone was pretending that they were pious and perfect. How can the pious candidate pivot when polls show voters shifting away from religion? But there's more to public touchiness over last week's sketch than just pious indignation. The stations seem to have originated in the pious practice of pilgrims to the Holy Land who visited the sites of the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. There has been much pious handwringing from the Democrats about the fate of poor Valerie Plame, but we have to put this into non-partisan perspective. That mode of expressing grief was used also by the heathen, but was specially appropriate in the pious worshippers of God in suppliantly deprecating his wrath. I wonder who Nicola thinks she's fooling with this pious claptrap. Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation. As they came down they neared a grave, where some pious friend or relative had laid a wreath of immortelles, and put a bell glass over it, as is the custom. I am sure he and his comrades saw themselves as pious Muslims. I was rather pious about my religion and thought I might be a priest. Even among the most pious, few could afford to neglect appearances. When he enters, everybody falls to the ground in a very pious manner. His supporters view his rise as just reward for a deeply pious man. In fact, some of these would not be suitable for a more pious audience. But this is one issue on which I think incoherence and vacillation, combined with a liberal dose of pious platitudes, are exactly what most people want. The sheer supercilious, pious hypocracy fair takes the breath away. Show More Sentences If one is looking for pious platitudes, this is not the place to come. We have more pious language, more platitudes, no clear definition, no consistency, and no clarity for those people who have to work under the Act. He's a pious hypocrite and a greedy, petty, stupid, mean-minded crook. I mean, that sounds rather pious, but that is the way it is. So it would be a mistake for Democrats to start sounding more pious. Many pious words have been spoken in the past few days about bringing the country back into the European family, supporting democracy, fresh starts, and so on. Since sons and daughters were supposed to learn how to be loyal to the king by being pious to their parents, one could not easily excise the first bond. The message was delivered through an intermediary, leaving the CIA with the pious hope that once its wishes had been made known, Viaux would respect them. This was to prove a pious hope, the costs doubling over the period. In a world come of age, we have no luxury of a pious hope that God is either our copilot or an air traffic controller who would save us from crashing into each other. Does it have anything other than a vain and pious hope that that could actually be achieved, or is the Government treating it in a cavalier fashion? Despite pious hopes, it is unlikely that any national government will allow the UN to tax its citizens or that taxes, like books, will be destroyed by the Web. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded. What these beneficiaries of social mobility urged on contentious workers was pious resignation, and in no city did they sermonize more harshly than in Rouen. The pious, sanctimonious Oscar ceremony is how Hollywood wants to see itself. It is now generally considered to be a pious forgery, although there remains disagreement over its original purpose. But in this world, simple walking is a Cockaigne miracle, like honest usury and pious bawdry. There are several ahadeeth that highlight the importance of choosing a righteous and pious spouse. It was recorded that the pious Tiberius walked in front of his brother's body all the way back to Rome. The villagers revered their religious leader for his example of pious conduct. Show More Sentences Far more often read were his five books of sermons, which were admired by a wide circle of pious readers including Queen Victoria. A hasid is a pious, saintly individual whose dealings with fellow humans are predicated on the notion of hesed, kindness, love, grace. Louis's association with the pious widow, Madame de Maintenon had led to a new tone of piety, even prudery, at court. His doctrine was High Church, and in his life he was humble, pious, and charitable. Throughout his life, Coleridge idealised his father as pious and innocent, while his relationship with his mother was more problematic. This left his younger son, the pious but politically ineffectual Feodor Ivanovich, to inherit the throne. He put together a group of his most pious cardinals in order to move the process along. The following stories and sayings give a taste of the inner life of pious Hassidim. The decision on the future of the islands belonged to the pious Queen of Castile and the Pope, the ultimate arbitrator of the legal claims. Another pious man Sheikh Murshidi interpreted the meaning of a dream of Ibn Battuta that he was meant to be a world traveller. The earliest assessments of David I portray him as a pious king, a reformer and a civilising agent in a barbarian nation. Let water be brought to perform my ablutions, and let the pious Fakreddin be called to offer up his prayers with mine. The movement to dechristianise France not only failed but aroused a furious reaction among the pious. Faith, not pious acts, prayers or masses, in this view, can secure the grace of God. He is usually one of an indistinguishable line of black-robed Jesuit extras, looking plastically pious at stage left of the mural. The contrast with the standard image of a pious, theologically orthodox Yankee tunesmith could not be more striking. Otherwise, the pious would have an obscured view of the covered icon and altar through the grillwork at the top of the Scala Santa. Angle was a pious woman, keener said, not one for earthly indulgences. For him the key to the kingdom's spiritual revival was to appoint pious, learned, and trustworthy bishops and abbots. Later in life, he married Margaret, who was described as a charitable and pious woman. Show More Sentences A revolt broke out led by a pious family known as the Maccabees, or Hasmoneans, the patriarch of which was named Mattathias. Alexander was, like his brothers Edgar and David, a notably pious king. Though Sri Chand was not an ambitious man, the Udasis believed that the Guruship should have gone to him, since he was a man of pious habits in addition to being Nanak's son. Allying himself with the pious king, Aidan chose the island of Lindisfarne, which was close to the royal castle at Bamburgh, as the seat of his diocese. As the heir to a considerable estate and a pious layman, Robert would also have been given working knowledge of Latin, the language of charter lordship, liturgy and prayer. Sadat is portrayed in all his contradictory glory, as visionary and paranoiac, his pious, austere public persona at sharp odds with an ostentatious private lifestyle. It is a systematic stereotyping and degradation of Westerners that dehumanizes them, and makes their death a pious deed for some and a cause for celebration for others. The pious politician knows that, gods willing, one can do anything to man. Henry was not an especially pious king by medieval standards. But some of the gathered skirts, with an extra tire of fabric around the middle, looked dustily Yamamoto, with pious allusions to women in bonnets and rustic stoles. His nickname reflects the traditional image of him as unworldly and pious. Without a shadow of a doubt, what they are doing is wrong, but I can't adopt a pious, holier-than-thou attitude to a few ex-miners making a mockery of a system open to abuse. Of course, that hasn't stopped thousands of would-be Jesus-historians, whether simple-mindedly pious or degreed experts, from trying, and their work is everywhere. John was a pious and dedicated Emperor who was determined to undo the damage to the empire suffered at the Battle of Manzikert, half a century earlier. Palmer, who was born in Surrey Square off the Old Kent Road in Newington, London, was the son of a bookseller and sometime Baptist minister, and was raised by a pious nurse. Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection. He appears not so much as a revolt against societal standards as an embodiment of them, being generous, pious, and courteous, opposed to stingy, worldly, and churlish foes. From 461 to 465 the pious Italian aristocrat Libius Severus reigned. Examples from Classical Literature After our escape from agon and his pious crew we returned to our quarters in the palace and had a very good time. Prayers can win this paradise and Ahura Mazda and the Archangels will come and show the way thither to the pious. When the measures of Count Aranda deprived Paraguay of its pious and skilful civilizers, the sad truth appeared in complete light. The story of Reuben and Bilhah, in the next chapter, may be instructive to the pious, but is not so to persons of refined taste. The callousness which he displayed in saying all this deeply pained his pious father. And they go from that home, with their new cane, looking as pious as though they were passing the collection plate. The pious wish of the ancients was sanctity, the pious wish of the moderns is corporeity. The subject of this sketch was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, of respectable and pious parents. Human souls, not all of them, but only the pious ones, are daimonic and divine. But it was not a dejection that could awaken pity in the pious heart of Asad. Do you not recollect that there was one idea which made the impious impious, and the pious pious? I say, recounts even to the gods his duteous conduct and his pious care of their altars. The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation. A belief lingers that the pious are en rapport with the deity, who converses with them and even inspires them. He belonged to a class of holy men, fanatically pious, rigidly observant of the law, and miserably and abjectly poor. With these pious feelings I let down the glass, and called out to the garcon for a glass of brandy and a cigar. In this position every pious Hindu must mentally repeat a certain verse, which is called the gayatri. The monks received them in the guesthouse and from this there arose scandals which filled pious souls with desolation. The chief faults, however, of this sermonic pamphlet are its pious, but personal abuse of Dr. Trapp. Oh, I am delighted that your pious heart has found so congenial a helpmate! Show More Sentences It's the way YOU feel, and if you weren't so immorally pious you'd be honest and say so. Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business? You are a pious and virtuous woman, and your pity and prayers must keep fit company. Vambry, who proposed to visit all these fanatic states, had then adopted the character of a pious and zealous Sunnite. Now says the holy Gregory, there was a reverend monk in the country of Lycaonia, very pious, his name was Martyrius. The people are tidily pious nowadays, those that are left of them, and the living is consequently easy. If He were to change His will there would be neither a true believer nor a pious man. That he was pious after a fashion is most likely, but that he also practised the tyrannic cruelties of his age is undoubted. How this uncanonical behaviour must have vexed the shades of Fulk the pious! Euthyphro explains that he means by pious acts, acts of service or ministration. The son of the pious mother acted, as if she was still his guide and monitress. He was pious, but did not think it necessary to advertise it day and night unremittingly. Some very pious Sha'hs celebrate the fortieth day after the first of Muharram. They are written in the Nagari alphabet and record various pious foundations. Besides, I am told that she belongs to the nonconforming order of pious people. Inexplicable, for example, this pious return of the outbound bishop at the last battle-cry of the king. His abdication was considered by many pious persons as striking a death-blow at papal infallibility. The latter, it was said, had remained at Lourdes in service with a pious lady. How do you reconcile that puffed-up heart with the pious devotion in which you are being brought up? She was pure, reverential and pious in her ways and died at the age of seventeen. Show More Sentences Let pious women, especially, take a lesson from this incident. Antigone, for aiding in the pious Theft, was adjudged to be buried alive. The sea-vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled. One turns with relief to Zarathustra after associating with pious people. Pelops, the son of the cruel Tantalus, was a pious and virtuous prince. I looked out, and saw a pious Mohammedan hastening to prayer. The wife of Mr. moll is an English woman, a pious Independent. The pious Llewelyn began his song from the rude and shapeless chaos. For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly rather hard-hearted to say the least. And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another. In this stanza Rhuvawn is celebrated as pious, valiant, and hospitable. They had been left just so, all these lifetimes, and avoided with a pious fear, as things accursed. Towels, curtains, bed linen, all were pious offerings to the monastery. Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious bringing-up. Willard, a pious minister of Boston, was cried out upon as a wizard in open court. Ronaldson looked down with a slightly pious expression which indicated, I felt sure, that they thought the quotation was from Holy Writ. The gentlefolk are pious, and the commonalty are not irreligious. And then came the pious climax of coronation, America, and the Doxology. He turned to brush away a tear, and then, summoning up all his firmness, drew his daughter toward him, recommending her to be pious and resigned. To go a suppliant to that pious icicle my mother were worse than useless. Show More Sentences Encouraged by his opinion, Alice did what her pious inclinations, and her keen relish for gentle sounds, had before so strongly urged. Yes, but I make hereby a vow in your presence, to employ all that remains to me in pious works. These pious sentiments are all written in my sacristan's cell. While the desideratum was a dying person's testimony of faith, the author shows how family members came to interpret silences as pious suffering. The old24 Druze women are masters of a pious religious phraseology. You, who are one of our most pious and faithful parishioners, must have keenly felt the bareness of the high altar. I bestow wealth on the pious sacrificer who presses the Soma and offers the oblation. The big brother counted upon a pious, docile, learned, and honorable pupil. A pious rishi, named Sthula-kesha, found the child and reared her. When young I was sincerely pious, and you have made me a freethinker. Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river, and groups of Indians, despite the advanced season and chilly air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions. What say you, gentlemen, to the First Epistle to the Corinthians in our pious ministerial journal, and the reply Epistle to the Ministers in the opposition sheet? There were the deacons, and other eminently pious members of his church. In a word, pious persons, devotes, are stupid on various points. Its purchase suggests the influence of the pious Madame de Maintenon, who was instrumental in the movement of Louis XIV's taste from mythological to religious works. You know, madame, that many very pious princes have overstepped the privileges of the churches for the glory of God and the necessities of the State. The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time. The designer came up with his own interpretation of drapes and wraps as he presented his mysterious take on pious reds, saffron hues and fiery orange. Find more words! 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