Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. From LearnThat.org. [Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)]
pious readings. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Secondly, it is a good example of what I call the pious palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
While a man thus truly pious is liberal, he increases in substance. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Relatively, the longest experience of divine anger by the pious is momentary. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Martita kneeled on the front row with her hands pressed together in pious prayer-like fashion. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco, Ixtacamaxtitlan, part 2] Reference
Religious tolerance from the pious is a beautiful thing. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Wooing Of Evangelicals Runs Into Fierce Resistance] Reference
These might with strict propriety be termed pious frauds; and. From Wordnik.com. [Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark] Reference
‘That was what you may call a pious fraud, sir, that was.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Doto was, for an islander, in good circumstances, but who, ah! who, could call her pious?. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wrong Paradise] Reference
When quite a girl, George Eliot was known as pious and clever; and in the letters she wrote in. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy]
Because of his care for his gods, and for his old father, he is always known as the pious Æneas. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Rudolph had heard evil reports of this man, though he was highly respected and known as a pious man. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction] Reference
For the sake of his care for his gods, and for his old father, he is always known as the pious Æneas. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks' History of Rome] Reference
"Mrs. Moodie!" she exclaimed, holding up her hands in pious horror; "they are the children of the devil!. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
Young Havelock is bent on the perpetration of what, under the circumstances, may be called a pious fraud. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
The other sayings may be aptly described as the pious maxims of a sect; these as the thoughts of a nation. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur] Reference
I think he was very pious, that is, paying a debt to people who had hosted him when he was merely archbishop of Krakow. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2005] Reference
If the pious are the first to be shocked, so much the worse for the pious - others will enter the Kingdom of Heaven before them. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Addison's blog World Changers] Reference
Aeneas is now called pious, duty bound Aeneas again (545); Virgil had stopped with those adjectives while Aeneas was, ummm, distracted. From Wordnik.com. [felix hominum] Reference
The word, legend, which at first indicated what the faithful ought to read, soon suggested the idea of pious fables and childish tales. From Wordnik.com. [Penguin Island] Reference
I own one of each, the "pious" as I call it, and the "wrecks". From Wordnik.com. [Contradictions: Contemplating the Mysteries of Cycling] Reference
Nouri was no dissident and was often praised by clerics as a "pious" man. From Wordnik.com. [Cracks in the Iranian Monolith] Reference
The sting of hypocrisy has left Brandon full of insight from the church's "pious" stand. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gregory: To Lynch a Mockingbird] Reference
Mrs. Obama does not affect the kind of pious deference favored by many other political wives. From Wordnik.com. [First Lady in Waiting] Reference
At best, or worst, India was seen as "pious," with its Gandhian austerities and Nehruvian Non-Alignment dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room] Reference
Like Virgil who drops the epithet "pious" on a similar occasion, the poet here calls Billy by the appropriate epithet. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
But he's at his best skewering the "pious" Tartuffe (Bradford Cover) and Orgon, his wealthy, blockheaded patron (TJ Edwards). From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Tartuffe, Hair] Reference
Would it mean that the Chinese are getting ahead because they are more 'pious' communists?. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
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