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"pious" Definitions
  1. having or showing a deep respect for God and religion synonym devout
  2. (disapproving) pretending to be religious, moral or good in order to impress other people synonym sanctimonious
  3. pious hope something that you want to happen but is unlikely to be achieved

644 Sentences With "pious"

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I'm not hanging out with the falsely pious, hypocritical elite.
Gilead's Commanders don't want pious women — they want obedient women.
He turned to me, his eyes burning with pious fury.
One had to have a strong morality, bordering on pious.
You can't have great, pious beautiful ideas but no performance.
But is his pious traditionalism a mask for darker forces?
"Why, they can pray for a cure," Pious Paul explained.
Verdi's Desdemona has always seemed to me a pious drip.
There has been much written about stagnant wages, job loss tied to the closing of manufacturing plants and the movement of manufacturing overseas, but few offer real solutions, just pious or not-so-pious platitudes.
If the user responded, the AI would continue its pious banter.
More recently, however, the town has been welcoming to pious outsiders.
The ideal of "pious retreat" will always be fraught with contradictions.
He pretends to be pious, and white evangelicals pretend to care.
We have the disheveled revolutionary, the pious doctor, the levelheaded statesman.
Previous stands against pious bullies have often been followed by capitulation.
So you might think its shareholder meetings would be pious celebrations.
Many, like President Tayyip Erdogan, are pious Muslims who shun alcohol.
The community that flourished around the dargah is conservative and pious.
Yet even the most pious can put a price on love.
Anne-Antoinette Champion (whom he called Toinette) was tall, assertive, pious,
Ms Widiahtuti does not believe that CEOs are becoming more pious.
Cynicism in the face of pious corporate proclamations can be healthy.
If they are too pious, they risk turning away secular viewers.
" Then spoke Pious Paul of Ryan: "But teacher, is that wise?
If a student claimed to be a pious Muslim, for example, Psy-Group operatives would look for photographs of him engaging in behavior unacceptable to many pious Muslims, such as drinking alcohol or having an affair.
Some non-Muslims may be drawn to pious banks for ethical reasons.
Without the influx of pious Filipinos, it would be a different story.
We're supposed to notice that they're these pious queens of the commanders.
Each face represents a different aspect pious life for followers to observe.
"Faith," 1987 It starts with pious church organs, but it's hardly overblown.
"Anyone who is pious also has to be politically minded," he added.
To his party's pious core constituency, that is something to rejoice in.
But even among the pious and conservative, Catholicism does makes a difference.
For another, don't ask a comedic actor to do pious superhero work.
His works, however pious in theme, chiefly advertise Michelangelo as God-touched.
This is particularly marked in Europe, the least pious continent (see map).
All the higher motives and values that Moi invokes are pious fictions.
Until then, we can expect endless cycles of sanctions and pious speeches.
These are the pious men of east London who won't go away.
But, even at his most pious, Kanye doesn't only turn to God.
Don't tell us how sad and pious you are; pass a law.
Can such a "pious fraud" be excused because ultimately it did good?
The window is narrowing and the time for pious concern is over.
" Jesus turned to Pious Paul on his left and said: "Be gone!
He says he intends to cultivate a more pious generation of Turks.
The danger is that, by aiming to inspire, firms produce pious platitudes instead.
Nor does Kavanaugh's pious current account line up with his Georgetown Prep yearbook.
Under President Tayyip Erdogan, a pious Muslim, tariffs on alcohol have increased steadily.
"Hungry Americans are looking for pious blood," Demon Beto says in the video.
Tosun said Altintas' family were affiliated with the nationalist party and relatively pious.
Mr Erdogan has pledged to raise "a pious generation"; religious schools have multiplied.
Thanksgiving's Pilgrim pageants suggest that good-hearted settlers arrived from pious, civilized England.
The proposal originated with Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling and city councilman Pious Ali.
He approached her in the vocal booth and spoke to the pious Mrs.
" As their members struggled with poverty, they mouthed "pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities.
Anger at continuing inequality is not deemed pious or pretty by the faithful.
His mother, who converted to Judaism, came from a pious Roman Catholic family.
For a college student, Kushner was uncommonly pious and devoted to his family.
Meanwhile, false testimony had been extracted from the most pious of New Englanders.
The sentiments can (on paper) sound comically simple, overly pious, outdated, self-explanatory, cliche.
An energetic and apparently pious individual (lay or clerical) starts a new religious community.
As state systems grew, private schooling was left to the elite and the pious.
In 2015 he banned IRPT; since then, his campaign against the pious has intensified.
Yes, Country music hides it because it has this pious religious side, you know.
As well as having a culture of large families, Nigeria is patriarchal and pious.
Operation Steal Juicy's Fruit fails, all because Charlotte isn't as pious as Cookie hoped.
"It's easy to get pious about it but not internalize it," Curtis told CNN.
Like many pious young Thai men, he was briefly ordained as a Buddhist monk.
And she said hello, smiling and in pious lavender, with a piece of scripture.
At these moments, the preacher and the pious share a spiritual moment of darkness.
Jerusalem's residents were Jews, Muslims and Christians who tended to be pious and poor.
Sneaker heads with a taste for religious studies may appreciate this pious Nike drop.
Given a hopelessly unbalanced world economy, that multilateral system is just a pious wish.
" Nor can the most pious married couple get anywhere "without the ardor of lust.
The girl is so pious she won't even cop to having a favorite saint.
The spirit they draw wreaks havoc among the pious chauvinists who run the program.
"Look, Jesus, you have rare talent, and it should be rewarded," Pious Paul said.
As with any consumer trend, few will be as committed as pious early adopters.
So too must Nabra Hassanen, also an American girl, pious and hopeful and hardworking.
If so, how on earth to keep it from turning pious and dully moralizing?
Aegon I was said to be a fierce and focused, but pious and merciful ruler.
Gilead's pious versions of Romeo and Juliet refuse to deny the validity of their love.
And by the time the pious elites were done, the term "Lauer'd" became downright mainstream.
"People in the Taliban only respect him because he is a pious man," he said.
That sounds like a pious comment, but it's what really drives me — and that's all.
So, the United Nations' pious words notwithstanding, it is time for a reset in Afghanistan.
They denounced Israel as an infidel regime on land that must belong to the pious.
The idea is that Muslims should return to the pious behavior of the Prophet Muhammad.
But it also repressed pious peasants from the heartland, along with ethnic minorities like Kurds.
But, worn by both Muslims and non-Muslims, it can serve less pious ends, too.
Sinners who regret their failures, he said, are more moral than the pious who boast.
Its ratings soared, and Olbermann kept up his pious lectures through Barack Obama's 212 election.
Once again, Ms. Poole is fierce, but in "Mother's Daughter" her mission seems less pious.
Until recently, it might have seemed redundant: What disavowal isn't pious, or at least indignant?
He also dares to put down Nero's pious tutor Seneca (the stentorian bass Gianluca Buratto).
None of this pious handwringing for the Killers; they know the holiday as a kitschfest.
And the very poorest, however pious, are unlikely to pay a premium for peace of mind.
Among pious Northern Irish Catholics, there was less name-calling but a deep sense of difference.
The subsequent arrival of Islam depleted their numbers further; most ethnic Samaritans are now pious Muslims.
But she was the one who was eventually recognised as a martyr, not her pious compatriots.
Be afraid, be very afraid, of the pious, pretentious, bullying media that now engulfs our industry.
By their very name, Hasidim declare themselves "pious ones," so such episodes smack of individual hypocrisy.
There is a long tradition in fact of the so-called pia fraus: the pious fraud.
Moore is emblematic of all the dangers of that fusion of the GOP with pious fanaticism.
This, in a society that remains as privately pious and conservative as any of its neighbors.
Underlying all of the pious and disingenuous cant of their crusade is a terrifying logical consistency.
"Pious" is not the first word that Joy Williams's masterly short stories usually bring to mind.
An Egyptian startup is gearing virtual reality towards the pious in an already deeply religious country.
Those who knew and worshiped with Mr. Akonjee described him as a quiet and pious man.
Artistic vision reaching religious heights may contradict or supersede dogma, no matter how pious the artist.
The women's accusations have put a dent in his projected image as a pious family man.
It is haunted by ghosts, even if its more pious residents wouldn't put it that way.
The rest of us will diligently follow along on Twitter, sharing hashtags and suitably pious opprobrium.
That it is about the wealthy and pious trying to impose discipline on the less wealthy.
The story of this 14th-century Bohemian martyr followed a familiar pattern: pious life, terrible death.
He looked down on her pious mother, Varvara Stepanovna Perovskaya, as being a mere provincial aristocrat.
The local temple had proud statues of the tiger inviting the pious inside its sanctuary walls.
His policies promote the interests of the loyal business elite, the rural poor and the pious.
They wanted someone pious when they should have been looking for someone who could throw punches.
Aegon I was said to be a fierce and focused, but a pious and merciful ruler.
She is not the cloying pious woman we're used to seeing needle June and her heretic ways.
She's pious, overtly sexy ("Here's your jury booty"), and casual, with a corresponding outfit for each character.
Himself a pious man, Dolci seems to have been most at home when depicting figures in prayer.
Back in the 1200s, Sedlec was considered especially pious, and therefore a very desirable to be buried.
The monks also worry that touts and mass tourism will turn their biggest, most pious donors away.
Our pious president Ivana, Marla, and Melania: three women who've made a terrible choice with their lives.
From Syria to the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas, this has proved to be a pious dream.
Because as Eden proved, even the most pious women can use the Bible's teachings to question Gilead.
He portrays himself as a champion of conservative, pious Turks downtrodden for decades by a secular elite.
But Berg concludes it didn't happen — because Wilson was too pious to step out on his wife.
It is unclear whether Ince can win over the pious supporters of Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party.
She was just a teen-age girl, but even she knew that—unlike these supposedly pious men.
Conservatives will never work for you, unless you are already rich or pious or white or male.
It wasn't technically illegal, but it violated the trust of his supporters and sullied his pious image.
For moral justification this week, the pious Dr. Ben Carson linked Clinton to Lucifer — the devil himself.
Still, for all the pious injunctions to "respect the ingredient," the crux of crudités remains the dip.
Mr. Erdogan started his political journey as a pious Muslim from the wrong side of the tracks.
Any notion that national feeling is a thing of the past was revealed as pious wishful thinking.
Other media companies are considering the creation of faith-based streaming services, essentially Netflix for the pious.
He was adopted by a relative, Gertrude Franklin, a pious woman and a widow in her sixties.
Yep, it's the conversion of this annoyance into some weird, pious manifesto for the liberation from technological dependence.
He presided over an economic boom, championed large infrastructure projects and remains popular among conservative and pious supporters.
The underlying principle is that culture cannot just be a pious-sounding mission statement in the annual report.
For all that, it would be a mistake to assume that Ugandan writing is glum, pious or austere.
The participants stiffly act out rituals, realizing — no matter how pious they are — these are unnatural, manufactured pairings.
While the government allowed the first non-Christians to sit in Parliament, pious scientists vehemently opposed Darwinian evolution.
The resolution is God, of course, though Chance isn't fearful—they're "mutual fans"—and he isn't pious either.
It also elides the other seminal event of 1979, when pious rebels seized the grand mosque in Mecca.
The poorer countries of eastern Europe retort that these pious words are a cover for old-fashioned protectionism.
Both precedents were considered carefully by the judge who was pondering the case of the pious prison gardener.
She's to be poised, pious, and constantly striving to have a child — a real Serena Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski).
Unlike many CHP politicians drawn from the Western-facing elite, he comes from a pious Sunni Muslim family.
This is the time for family and friends, food and television—and often, the pious grumble, for overindulgence.
Zurbarán had to subsist ad hoc, often on commissions from religious orders that tethered him to pious subjects.
But it can be found in all socio-economic strata and in secular, as well as pious, families.
It's hard to remember that until the late 1960s, Boulder was still a sober, conservative and pious place.
There simply isn't room, in these books about survivalism, for more than one pious feast day a year.
Paula White espouses a version of Christianity that says God rewards the pious with material wealth and happiness.
Inspectors checked that nails were short and faces trimmed of mustaches and beards, traditionally worn by pious Muslims.
Invariably, his characters are Catholic but cavalier, believing in God and the church without living particularly pious lives.
How could one know that all one's pious efforts would be judged adequate in the eyes of God?
The underlying principle is that culture cannot be merely a pious-sounding mission statement in the annual report.
You're my worst case scenario for my career in 12 yrs: a pious, unlikable blowhard who lives alone.
The pastor's family was pious and republican, devoted to God and conscious of its social and moral duties.
" Then he turned back to Pious Paul, saying, "Let me tell you the story of the good Samaritan.
The pious calculation is that by making a show of our iron borders, Australian multiculturalism can be protected.
Some say he was a playboy with dozens of girlfriends, others a pious man devoted to the cause.
That words like "righteous" and "pious" are often used to suggest the contrary of their original meaning is ­telling.
"That sounds awful pious, but behind it are conflicts of real interests," particularly between the public and commercial enterprises.
"The pious Ukrainian people have awaited this blessed day for seven entire centuries," Bartholomew I said in his address.
Mindful of how the old military regime persecuted the pious, Japan's police long treated religious groups with kid gloves.
Such a utilitarian approach appeals to finance ministries in a way that pious talk of "women's empowerment" may not.
He's particularly popular among the poorer, more pious Muslim women who wear the veil and newly prosperous Muslim businessmen.
He's particularly popular among the poorer, more pious Muslim women who wear the veil and newly prosperous Muslim businessmen.
Darwinian natural selection is even taught in some of the most pious countries, such as Poland, Ireland, and Iran.
TURKEY'S PRESIDENT, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, makes no secret of his desire to raise what he calls a "pious generation".
They feed the poor sitting patiently outside, whenever a pious or charitable passer-by pays them to do so.
A select group of particularly pious men, called Seed Bearers, are tasked with impregnating the women of Short Creek.
Members of the elite United Order, considered to be the most pious, get the best of the communal supplies.
Political analysts put the party's core constituency of pious Muslims and Islamist ideologues at 20-30% of the electorate.
"We appeal to all the pious people out there... to extend a helping hand for these families," he said.
Also very recently was Glen Schenau, Pious Faults, and The Baby at Hollywood Sundays a month or two ago.
As long as we refuse to admit that inhumanity is completely human, we'll just be telling ourselves pious lies.
More interesting is a "Parsifal" (Challenge Classics) in which the conducting is unusually unassuming, serenely pious and quietly effective.
You say the meanest things about women, but my Feige Malke, peace be with her, was a pious woman.
Comey's problem has always been his hubris; he feels he is the smartest, most pious man in every room.
In reality, our pious intentions often gets crowded out by the more urgent and concrete problems of everyday life.
Really, I think you could make a case that they are the least pious fan base in the world.
The president has shored up his power base amongst pious voters with frequent statements and policies attacking female autonomy.
Conservatives, even the publicly pious ones, don't seem to have a problem with limiting the size of their families.
Depending on the situation, he can act as flatterer, sober man of business, pious patriot, bon vivant or bully.
" Save for the pious tone there is little practical difference between this intervention and Trump's rants about "Obama judges.
Pious invokers of fiscal responsibility and hysterical debt alarmists are perfectly OK with tax cuts that explode the deficit.
They're the reason ex-Communists made the fiercest anti-Communists, and why religious converts tend to be particularly pious.
She's a genuine saint, the real thing, without any pious crap, so she's not always easy to live with.
The country's ruling families had initially given their blessing to Islah, which they saw as a benignly pious group.
As a result, for most of the twentieth century Turkey's pious majority was governed by a small secular élite.
Hence, Russia's pious pronouncements at various international fora — and the opportunity for other states to make those words count.
Nothing against Mother Superior, but the sisters of 2017 look rather different from the stern, pious women of public imagination.
She screams and squirms, hell-bent on getting free — a haunting contrast with the rest of the episode's pious obedience.
It's a perfect capstone to Ryan's career: Rich people get tax cuts; poor people get pious words and misleading rhetoric.
For three years Herbalife made unremitting claims, pious promises and absolute guarantees that the FTC would never find any wrongdoing.
He's certain she's out to destroy him, and Kimmy begs Titus not to ruin her new pious streak for her.
His book, "Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism," is to be published by the University of Pennsylvania this fall.
There's going to be a lot of pious language about 'We yield to no one in our contempt for racism.
The pious, meanwhile, fast for the right reason: They are not forced to stay thirsty and hungry by the government.
The Église Saint-Mathias-Apôtre, in a working-class neighborhood of Montreal, once provided spiritual succor to pious factory workers.
Can they be at least as happy as Christian women and their somewhat-less-pious, prone-to-bolting Christian men?
And while Mr. Prabowo has the support of hard-line Islamists, Mr. Joko is well known as the more pious.
" He also called the contest's namesake poet "one of the most old-fashioned, schmaltzy and pious poets who ever lived.
But the latest version of this major showcase of American art is also bleak, pious, naïve, monotonous, isolated and isolating.
Release date: March 27Synopsis: Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.
She's judgmental and pious, yet not above demanding kickbacks at her job if the cost of groceries has gone up.
A hero for many in Turkey's pious working class, Erdogan has over the years also won support from liberal businessmen.
Nevertheless, Mr. Erdogan has increased the number of religious schools and speaks of creating a more pious generation of Turks.
Marissen discerns a theological message: the Jews' curse is borne by all and, on pious reflection, turns into a blessing.
But, despite that, Glimpse the Electric joy of young love, The pious intensity to create, In a devastatingly mundane world.
They tended to be conservative, averse to change and pious followers of the sober Islamic lifestyle promoted by the state.
Collins, in particular, can pull off everything from bright-eyed pious naïf to delightfully innocent drunk to, eventually, self-assured woman.
In typical ISIS fashion, this madness has been edited to include pious songs about idol-smashing in the name of God.
Let Dubai keep its bikini-clad beachgoers and cocktail-sipping tourists, say most Kuwaitis, who view such things with pious distaste.
Ayman said he was surprised by the vehemence with which they went after him, describing himself as neither political nor pious.
A softer playground, its brief reads, is a public benefit "whether it cushions the fall of the pious or the profane".
Fans uploaded blurry videos of the pious pair, who also attended church together during a trip to Miami earlier this month.
And Tehran is cracking down further, deploying 7,000 new officers last month to keep an eye out for insufficiently pious outfits.
In the run-up to an election, the president is keen to dispel the widespread charge that he is insufficiently pious.
A Martha could be a pious housekeeper or a revolutionary hiding in plain sight (with the bomb making skills to match).
Westerners imagine Iranians to be a homogenously pious and modest group, and so suppose that viticulture is wholly foreign to them.
Elisabeth Moss' character Offred remarks that Ofglen seems just as pious and obedient — perhaps even more so — than the other handmaids.
Many politicians sense they may win more votes by presenting themselves as pious Muslims than by defending sexual minorities from persecution.
Maybe that's why there are no pious old women on the council, even though there's no shortage of them in Pakistan.
As Mr. de Sautuola's wife, Conchita, Golshifteh Farahani has the regrettable role of a pious woman doubting her husband's religious faith.
Around the neighborhood where the shooting occurred, Archer was known as a pious man who organized flag football matches among Muslims.
Most Muslim women in the West don't wear abayas and many pious Muslim and married Jewish women don't cover their hair.
"More than 90 percent of pious Muslim women in the Muslim world do not wear abayas," Sheikh Mutlaq said on Friday.
Ms. Assucena's exaggeratedly wide-eyed faux childishness, Ms. Jaiani's pious graciousness and Mr. Blanco's romantic flamboyance all stayed psychologically two-dimensional.
In an effort to boost exports and pose as pious, Indonesia's lawmakers have expanded the scope of certification yet further, however.
To give a good impression to Muslim voters, Mr. Joko has been presenting himself as a pious leader who worships diligently.
Mr. Bentley, a governor once known for being pious and approachable, resigned on Monday after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor charges.
Mark is very religious and pious, but he identifies with Trump as a businessman and loved working with him on The Apprentice.
A priest called Father Fernando Karadima was initially admired for fostering a movement of pious lay people from a hitherto unremarkable parish.
These carnivorous — frequently, cannibalistic — insects are well known for their pious posture, and the female's habit of devouring her mate after sex.
Catholic teaching had obscured the biblical message that salvation is God's gift to sinners, not something earned by a pious, moral life.
This explains why a student in Catholic school claiming God spoke to him would be considered a pious young man, not delusional.
We've already seen the pious, religious hatred mixed with titillation that Fred and his fellow Commanders hold toward the women they oppress.
So enamoured of wine were these Iranians that many of the travellers who encountered them could hardly fathom that they were pious.
The Taliban and several terrorist groups are offshoots of the Deobandi movement, although there are other ultra-pious Deobandis who are peaceful.
Some of us routinely condemn these pious old men, but it seems they are not just a bunch of pampered religious nuts.
But I hope it doesn't sound pious to say that holding one another responsible is central to the relationships of equal citizens.
Scully comes to the issue as a Christian (though, by his own assessment, "not a particularly pious" one) and as a conservative.
The first stage he identified emerged in 1979, around the time of the Iranian revolution, and failed to mobilise the pious masses.
Each week, he apoplectically preaches against the dangers of provocative media and dancing, and the pious adults of Bomont internalize this message.
Greatness remained beyond his reach and some of his paintings and drawings are truly awful, steeped in pious nostalgia and American nativism.
Jon Snow, the Channel 4 presenter, lost it with the health secretary Matt Hancock as he tried to express some pious hope.
He allowed rumors to flourish that Mr. Joko, who fasts twice a week in a pious Muslim tradition, was a closet Christian.
"Miseducation" is neither a glib sendup of a less enlightened era nor a pious reckoning with the bygone injustices of the past.
In 2013, during the Gezi Park protests, a wide spectrum of young people, both secular and pious, demonstrated peacefully against the government.
Khan became Prime Minister of Pakistan in July 2018 and "styles himself as a pious, populist, anti-poverty reformer," the BBC reported.
His pious endorsement of an executive order related to anti-Semitism or any other matter reeks of nepotism and self-serving obsequiousness.
He hitched his pious ambitions to a crude, twice-divorced, self-confessed sexual predator whose grasp of faith and Scripture appears nonexistent.
And it suddenly registers that within all the pious bureaucratic double-talk we've been hearing lie matters of genuine life and death.
The most powerful leader since the Turkish republic&aposs founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Erdogan remains popular in Turkey&aposs conservative and pious heartland.
There's a huge amount ... There's almost a — pious isn't the right word — but there's almost a self-righteousness to it because they're nerds.
John Franklin is suitably creepy as Isaac, the pious leader of the children, but it's still hard to take any of this seriously.
Those differences are part of a wider disagreement between liberal and secular sections of society and Erdogan's support base of conservative, pious Turks.
But to reduce cost would be to reduce quality, and to hold onto a market of pious foodies, Blue Apron couldn't risk that.
Her son has admitted that the government is resorting to pious gestures not out of conviction, but to insulate itself from religious criticism.
The 2,000 people at the Gigafactory opening party were the most pious believers of Musk's plan, or at least the most well-connected.
The iconography of Mr Baswedan's campaign was also clear: throughout the campaign he sported a black peci—a cap worn by pious Javanese.
The programme reminds the listener of a more pious time: castaways are still offered a Bible to give them solace on the island.
After the game, Coach K was hardly the picture of the virtuous "teacher" of pious value he so often projects himself to be.
Islamic State in Syria and Iraq published explicit rules about the duty of the pious to exterminate infidel men and rape infidel women.
By contrast, Erdogan, a pious Muslim, has encouraged the rise of a new breed of religious businessmen, many of them from provincial cities.
None of us can know God's plan for television, or for our very lives, but should this knowledge inspire courage or pious terror?
Nixon's corruption, and Gerald Ford's pardon of his predecessor, created an appetite for a man untainted by Washington perfidy: the pious Jimmy Carter.
An ultra-conservative Sunni movement that seeks to emulate the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers, al-salaf al-salih (the pious forefathers).
So stash away a few extra dollars to spring for those dope organic avocados and make a guac you can feel pious about.
Erdogan's supporters, many of them pious conservatives from Turkey's rural heartlands, say he has brought economic growth and restored Islam to public life.
In Kasich's case, it has included pious lectures about how his Medicaid expansion makes him more Christian than the average small-government Republican.
The beloved, pious Countess of Cardona can lie as easily as the floozy wife of the friend who saved Mendoza's life in battle.
She put words to his faith and to his pious fear, his bafflement at his worldly daughters, his love for his defiant wife.
On occasion, pious Buddhists who find deceased strays make merit by helping the animals transition to their next life through a wat funeral.
In his Fox News interview, Kavanaugh characterized his high school self as wholesome and pious, a good friend to men and women alike.
It's not essential to survival the way more nutritious foods are, and pious folks disdain all that white sugar, white flour and butter.
A pious 15-year-old in an obscure town in the remote Carpathians, who will one day be known as Elie Wiesel — no.
A mother of three, outwardly pious, who has drawn a government paycheck for most of her adult life, she seems harmless and friendly.
She later finds herself rejecting the Christianity imposed on her by her pious mother and being drawn to the life she once knew.
The last act of "Parsifal," for instance, usually comes as a pious unfolding of the liturgy, but here it was volatile, unstable, dark.
In both cases the procedure involved is identical, and indeed it appears as if it is mostly pious Muslims who become ex-Muslims.
He was a religious and pious man, a father, a husband, a friend, a school board candidate, a man of honor and passion.
She dares him to judge her, and when he does, she strikes back, dismissing his naïve, pious criticisms of her turbo-capitalist lifestyle.
"There she is in her Gothic Revival chair, very pious in her demure black dress with a cross at her neck," she said.
Ms. Bonilla wasn't sure what her mother, a Jehovah's Witness whom she saw as very pious and conservative, would think of her business.
In campaign speeches, he proclaimed himself an Islamist, a voice for pious Turks, but he also promised to keep Islam out of politics.
Mr. Erdogan, an Islamist, rejected criticism that his government, in pushing an Islamist agenda, had deepened divisions between the secular and the pious.
When she meets another poet, Phillauri (Diljit Dosanjh), a dashing ne'er-do-well, they fall into a love forbidden by Shashi's pious brother.
In Israel, the show was denounced by one Haredi columnist as a "Trojan horse" crafted to influence a pious community with foreign values.
Or, we can all just go by the "wisdom" that clergyman Richard Carpenter doled out in his 1657 sermon: "Astrology proved harmless, useful, pious."
Rasiej's message, nestled among signs recruiting techies to join startups with goofy names, is that New York City is more pious than Silicon Valley.
The few women that I talked with, they certainly were not the pious people who expected to be or had been virgins until marriage.
In 2013 Hefazat-e-Islam, a radical movement financed by doctrinaire Islamists in Saudi Arabia, took to the streets to demand more pious government.
It'll make them better citizens, more adept at following Gilead's mandate (kind of like Eden, who was pious and able to read the Bible).
In more recent years the state has dominated education in the rich world, with the private sector restricted to the elite and the pious.
Iran's armed groups are made up of men like Mustafa al-Freidawi, recruited from the proud and pious poor of the Middle East's slums.
Dev takes this advice to heart and announces he's not religious and loves pork during Eid dinner in front of Navid's very pious parents.
Flamboyant drag queens love her; pious Southern Baptists love her; my FOX News-addicted Republican grandfather loves her; my grimy metalhead friends love her.
That, and the idea of a pious but ruggedly sexy "Robb Stark in Space" should be enough to give the show a fighting chance. 
For the time being, this defiance may help southern Republicans, by galvanising some pious voters who might otherwise have stayed at home in November.
Douthat longs for "the old establishment's more pious and aristocratic spirit," which is an idea that's naive at best and blatantly racist at worst.
Plenty of times in the past, pious calls for Europe to make its weight felt in the world have turned out to be empty.
Was it because he was used to seeing her as a pious woman, not as his mother but as his "sister" in the Lord?
And this business of a man's God-given right to give a woman a little thrashing has brought together all of Pakistan's pious men.
In the piece, Nina Burleigh examines Trump's relationship with various religious groups, federal policies relating to religion and the pious figures who counsel him.
I don't think all those pious men, or anyone else, can tell that woman with the two kids how to walk her daily walk.
Pious Turks like his vision, perhaps more for the combative stance he takes against the West than for his references to the Ottoman past.
They made blueprints of a better place, detailed right down to the wallpaper, and a pleasing aura of pious intent rises from these pages.
The comedy, which is inadvertent, springs from Robertson's absence of common sense about these utopian projects, pious intent being very different from pragmatic achievement.
Though many of them were pious, they had come to the conclusion that faith was a matter of the heart, not of the state.
Cruz's pious Christianity offered a clear contrast to Trump, who has been married three times and has a long history in the casino business.
Since the 1980s, warnings from the Social Security and Medicare trustees emerge annually and are cited with alarm in Congress, prompting only pious proclamations.
Mr. Hopp's performance peeled back the character's many layers and identities — Everyman, fool, pious Jew, paterfamilias — without ever reducing him to a single one.
Trump is not a pious man, but by destroying informal restraints on reactionary rhetoric, he's made his party hospitable to the cruelest of theocrats.
After roughly 20 years of the internet, satellite television and affordable foreign travel, Iranians have grown more sophisticated, educated and moderate, and less pious.
Before "Wolf Hall," Cromwell was often cast as a cartoonish villain who persecuted the pious and helped a lustful king dispatch of unwanted wives.
He is considered a pious hard-liner known for closing reformist newspapers and denouncing what he considers a Western cultural onslaught subverting Iran's youth.
Its numbers reduced by disease and attacks, the Communist Party needed local allies, such as Tibetan Buddhists and Hui Muslims, and pious Chinese farmers.
"(Trump) gets a lot of support from specifically white evangelical voters, but does not personally come across as someone who is pious," Olorunnipa said.
It also contradicts the pious statements in both the National Defense Strategy and the new budget regarding the importance of allies to American security.
The victims and survivors of Parkland, and of the 339 other mass shootings in 2018 alone, deserve more than pious sentiment and political cowardice.
She didn't want to ape their pious language and she felt queasy at the thought of them seeing her profile, recognizing that it was fake.
Opponents assume that is why pious followers overlook such Trumpian sins as pride, wrath and bearing false witness (or fibbing, to use a layman's term).
That competition was for the hearts and minds of a population that was pious, superstitious and easily persuaded of the need to stamp out evil.
Iran today is less pious than the mullahs would like, less prosperous than it should be and less engaged with the world than most countries.
He and his successors helped to ensure that Quebec became a more pious territory than France itself, and remained so until at least the 1950s.
Emily's playing pious and subservient, but then Joseph asks her how it felt to run over those Guards back in season one and kill them.
The pious might frown upon such artistic license, yet they would do well to remember that the Gospels themselves are creative adaptations of historical events.
But in Britain the pious death cult around the World Wars remains a feature of daily life, memorialized on each anniversary of a heroic slaughter.
Only then will the phrase 'Never Again!' be anything but a pious and useless incantation that will neither raise the dead nor save the living.
The preacher became known as a "prosperity gospel pastor" which generally involves  espousing a belief that God rewards the pious with wealth, health, and happiness.
Right after the "Who?" line, the Times says Parks is famous — but that of course she's too "quiet, pious (and) dignified" to actually admit it.
Stretches of naturalism fare better; Dale Soules, as the woman's pious, emotionally ruthless aunt, slows things down by sheer force of will, mining genuine laughs.
Unfortunately, the policy coordination issue is an old pious wish, despite the fact that the G-20 had been set up precisely for that purpose.
To understand how a seemingly pious politician such as Pence could join Trump and stick with him requires tracing the long path of his ambition.
The American business community has learned to love the "Tariff Man," and evangelical Christians are deeply devoted to perhaps the least pious president on record.
In addition to fulfilling a promise to his pious base, Mr. Erdogan has other incentives to alter the fabric of this essential patch of Istanbul.
"I went to Christian school all of my life but I never really felt up to the Duggar standard," she says, of her more pious cousins.
Instead of being humble and, well, pious, he prefers to bolster himself by swinging his metaphorical manhood around under the guise of asserting his papal authority.
Erdogan, whose AK Party has Islamist roots, is popular among more pious Turks but secular Turks say his policies infringe on private lives and personal rights.
Scott Stephenson, head of collections, exhibitions and programming, says he does not want to present history as a pious sermon but as "a richer, messier tale".
The irony is that Buttigieg, an Episcopalian, comes closer than any candidate has in decades to fulfilling the role of the Jimmy Carter-esque pious Democrat.
In almost all Western countries, including the relatively pious United States, the number of people who acknowledge no religious affiliation (known as religious nones) is surging.
He published two books in 2017, including a moving memoir of his friendship with his (white and pious Christian) coach at UCLA, "Coach Wooden and Me".
At the Bai family mansion, Chaguan bumped into four male travellers from Ningxia, sporting straggly beards, long robes and the white prayer caps of pious Hui.
Ramsay Bolton is the show's other psychopath, but at least he spares us the pious pearls of wisdom that the High Sparrow drops at every turn.
And here is "The Pious Oreo Peacock" from the spring '1 collection, a ruffle-lined disk with a starched Wednesday Addams collar but no arm holes.
The Iranian narrative suggests that the Fatemiyoun Brigade is made up of pious Shia volunteers who are in Syria to protect sacred shrines against Sunni extremists.
Analysts say Mr. Erdogan, given his power and his vast popularity among Turkey's pious masses, is unlikely to face much political cost in removing Mr. Davutoglu.
Mass shooters have murdered pious Christians in other, less sacred contexts, all while conservative Christians and their representatives in Congress look at their feet and shrug.
He gave them a picture of his son, describing him as quiet and pious, someone who prayed five times a day and frequented the local mosque.
He was a pious, mild-mannered introvert, with no apparent real-world jihadi connections, yet online he wrote as if he were plotting a suicide attack.
The first was by championing Turkey's pious majority, who felt marginalized by the secular-leaning elites who ruled the country for much of the 20th century.
Food, though, usually is not the problem, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, when the pious reach deep into their pockets to help the needy.
When a family wants to move away, it is supposed to sell its house to the church, which will sell it on to a suitably pious person.
And the humiliating of Mr Kavanaugh, a pious, high-flying, Ivy Leaguer tippler, who once worked for George W. Bush, has given him opportunities to tuck in.
"I say to my team that our mission is so pious that God will give us a way to do what we want to do," he said.
If liberal governments do not fight downturns, voters will turn to illiberal governments that do, jeopardising the very freedoms the government's pious inaction was meant to respect.
They are not exactly "Fifty Shades of Grey", the West's self-published sex sensation of recent times: many are classic Cinderella stories or pious parables about housewifery.
Under the Ottoman Empire, the pious cared for cats through local charitable foundations, or vakif; by contrast, cats were often feared and vilified in medieval European cities.
He tells his countrymen that Turkey has always been a pious and conservative country, and that he intends to drag it back from the excesses of Kemalism.
Imamoglu won support even in traditionally pious Istanbul districts, once known as AK Party strongholds, ending the 25-year-long Islamist rule in the country's largest city.
They are perhaps under the closest scrutiny ever; their past misdeeds haunt them even as they make pious promises of dedication to a free and open internet.
Salafists: followers of the al-salaf al-salih (the pious ancestors) who want to return to what they see as the original, pure, Islam of the Prophet.
For every pious expression of support for international justice or condemnation of capital punishment, there was a shabby energy deal or quiet support for a useful dictator.
Mr Cruz did well in New Hampshire too, coming in third even though the state's Republicans are less pious and more live-and-let-live than most.
Set in the stark brutality of the early American landscape, our Puritan protagonists in this disturbing period piece are rigidly pious and obsessed with misery and shame.
Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics for more than 16 years thanks mainly to strong economic growth and support from a core constituency of pious, conservative Muslim Turks.
Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics for more than 16 years, thanks mainly to strong economic growth and support from a core constituency of pious, conservative Muslim Turks.
Erdogan, a pious Muslim who served as prime minister from 2003 until he stepped up to the presidency in 2014, shared some of the Gulenists' core beliefs.
In 2010, the faithful were divided into two castes: An elite group of the most pious and obedient men and their families emerged at the United Order.
In "For your judicious and pious consideration," Hilary Purrington (a Yale student) adapted excerpts from a 1692 petition by Mary Eastey, executed in the Salem witch trials.
This year it expects 70,000 to come to visit country whose president, Tayyip Erdogan, is a pious Muslim who has brought religion back into mainstream public life.
So power is exerted almost entirely within the organization, among its pious militants, generations of whom have clung to their lovely discipline throughout a vast, indifferent history.
When we realized that he had no Christian name and that, therefore, he must not have been baptized, no one was offended, not even my pious father.
According to her family and supporters, she is a pious nationalist and champion of women's rights who was a former youth politics leader known for fiery speeches.
He casts his life as a Christian as similarly divided—often doubtful and ironic where others seem, to him, naturally pious and enviably prone to untroubled belief.
Brennan opened the conference with a pious set of remarks about the value of the intel community, with a few civic-minded homilies thrown in for sweetener.
"The Life of Charlotte Brontë," published in 1857, is a portrait of a paragon of Victorian womanhood: humble, passionless, pious, the dutiful daughter of a difficult father.
World leaders are gathered for the United Nations General Assembly, making pious statements about global goals for a better world, but the Assembly is infused with hypocrisy.
That is certainly the position of the corporate sector, which has abandoned pious expressions of concern about Washington's extravagance in favor of earnest pleas for tax relief.
But after a while, once we've met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play.
For a large, pious section of the population, Mr. Erdogan therefore represents freedom from a kind of oppression that characterized Turkey throughout most of the 20th century.
As a pious kid, I was thrilled to imagine Luther pounding on that church door, and though I didn't know what "theses" were—the plural of "these"?
The revolution of January 2011 was a response to this profound threat; this is why it swept up young and old, rich and poor, secular and pious.
Pious platitudes have failed Christians (never mind celibates) in coping in a sexualized culture that screams sex in nearly every ad, TV show, movie and dating app.
When you understand the real reasons that people and corporations subsidize candidates, as O'Connor does, the Court's pious invocations of "freedom of speech" sound almost comically oblivious.
He described Mr. Glenn as excessively pious, scolding his fellow astronauts about their after-hours escapades while openly lobbying to be the first of them to fly.
Pious attacks on his moral failings, however justified, are likely to also feel like indictments of his voters — whose backing a primary challenger would need to win.
A masterful campaigner, Erdogan has overseen years of strong economic growth and won the loyalty of millions of pious, working class Turks for delivering schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
She herself had not been particularly pious at that point, but something changed when she saw veiled Libyan women who had come to Tunis after their own uprising.
Migrants of Hindu, Muslim or Sikh background often become more pious on arrival in the prosperous but confusing West, and the younger age cohort can be particularly devout.
I saw the most zealous, the most pious among my old church friends express sadness and confusion, some suggesting we stay the course, some suggesting we demand justice.
In the episode, Nick (Max Minghella) consummates his marriage with Eden (Sydney Sweeney), the vehemently pious 15-year-old he was forced to marry during the Prayvaganza ceremony.
Even the show's most pious adults have their own complexes: Lydia (Ann Dowd) trembles with the power of her convictions, forever suspicious that others don't share her beliefs.
She's pious and devoted to him — even though he wants little to do with her — until she suddenly falls in love with a Guardian named Isaac (Rohan Mead).
Make no mistake: things named after George Washington and Thomas Jefferson occasion in me no pious "considerations" that the men were, amidst all else that they accomplished, slaveholders.
Imamoglu won support even in the traditionally pious Istanbul districts, once known as AK Party strongholds, ending the 25-year-long Islamist rule in the country's largest city.
State-funeral With his long white beard and black cap, Edhi was a pious man who was vocal in his condemnation of militants and religious extremists in Pakistan.
With national elections looming in April, the party is pandering to pious Hindus, who have not exactly been short of pandering since Mr Modi took power in 2014.
There's talk of trimming the bridesmaid list down to four, but in the end, according to history, she had 12 maids who weren't all from perfectly pious families.
First, let's return to the US Prohibition era, when those pious views transformed Tijuana into a prosperous city that allowed Californians to misbehave: gamble, drink, and get laid.
Overall the Arab world is far more pious than countries at a similar stage of development, according to the World Values Survey, a research project based in Vienna.
The homes of the Mennonites have a timelessness to them as if the images could have existed 50 years ago, perhaps driven by their pious and simple living.
Trumpism appeals to those who want to shore up besieged patriarchy, a stance that brings sexual machos and a certain segment of the pious under the same roof.
Tish becomes pregnant, and they plan to get married, to the joy of the Rivers family and the chagrin of the pious, legalistic women of the Hunt family.
Chanzaib wanted to play basketball, but the only hoop near her house was out in the open and used by boys, so one of her pious brothers protested.
Journalists can be so pious about the suffering they cover, while also wearing a protective shield of cynicism, that they excuse the material conditions of their own lives.
He'd have to become the Stammerer, or the Pious, or the Universal Spider (that was Louis XI, 1423-83, who apparently wove a lot of plots and conspiracies).
Chanzaib wanted to play basketball, but the only hoop near her house was out in the open and full of boys, so one of her pious brothers protested.
This practice was passed onto me through my mother, who used the Ouija board with her children the way more pious families might gather around the family bible.
The artist may be using a theme of pious suffering as his source, but his treatment is in no way tied to the usual connotations or historical precedents.
For slacker-bro Jason (Manny Jacinto), it's having to spend eternity as Jianyu, the pious, silent monk whose identity he's been given in a switch-up Michael engineered.
In the center foreground of the painting, "The Battle Between Carnival and Lent" we see festivalgoers celebrating on one side and pious observers of lent on the other.
"The irony is the Nazi salute is the perfect greeting for the frum man," he says, using the Yiddish word for the very pious, as he describes himself.
Pornography was the locus of Gilead's anti-sex agenda in the book; in the series, the pious headmistress at the handmaid training center spits a mention of Tinder.
Abduh, a pious Egyptian scholar, thought that the Muslim world had lost the tolerance and openness of early Islam and had been suffocated by a dogmatic, rigid tradition.
It has also increased the number of religious schools, known as imam hatip schools, and spoken of Mr. Erdogan's desire to raise "a pious generation" of young Turks.
He has also brought dignity to pious Turks who felt ostracized by previous governments that, among other measures, upheld a ban on the Muslim veil in public institutions.
Who knew how much German-Jewish comedy was focused on mocking the more pious Jews of Eastern Europe, ridiculing them as foolish, corrupt and sexually perverse country bumpkins.
To better understand why these rituals provide the foundation for an observant and pious Muslim life, we spoke with Faryal M. Khatri of the Islamic Society of North America.
In fact, wariness of Mr Maduro's new-found relationship with the holy see, and of the political dialogue that it catalysed, goes far beyond the world of pious Venezuela.
He was dubbed kooseh, the shark, on account of his smooth rubbery skin, which made it hard for him to emulate the pious beards of Iran's more senior ayatollahs.
His eyes pricked with tears as he said his sister, who he described as a kind and pious widow, was shot dead when soldiers stormed the village last month.
The repetition of small, bashful musical motifs and pious invocations of noble sentiments created a lulling haze that dissolved any potential message about the common experience of national identity.
For readers who have not yet met him, Flashman was the villain of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", a pious novel about life at a British boarding school published in 1857.
As in so many other religious debates, it is easy to pick holes in the pious version of the Christmas story, but much harder to establish any alternative account.
By contrast, Erdogan's loyal supporters see him as the champion of the pious masses, forging a proud and independent nation that will not be dictated to by outside powers.
Other Republicans have seen the same in Rockwell's idealised paintings, full of roguish boys and pious grandparents, baseball games, kindly policemen, daydreaming adolescents, heroic workers and self-important intellectuals.
But in the end, this God's Not Dead installment is just like the others: putting on a pious face but failing to imagine what real sacrifice might look like.
Iranians are much poorer than they should be; promises of justice have been drowned in the blood of enemies and supposed sinners; and theocracy has made Iranians less pious.
He remains Turkey's most popular politician, admired by millions for championing the pious Muslim working classes and delivering airports, hospitals and schools during a period of strong economic growth.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - No Muslim family should engage in birth control or family planning, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, calling again on pious Muslims to have more children.
In the past four years, the 29-year-old rapper from Compton, California has established himself as both the most accomplished and most pious rapper of the present moment.
The Burwell v Hobby Lobby decision of 2014, which exempted pious family corporations from the contraceptive mandate, contains the seeds of an answer to the religious non-profits' complaints.
By the same token, most Hindu temples, many of which have hoards of gold donated by the pious, have steered clear of the scheme, despite pressure from the government.
Instead of pious statements about poverty, or portentous mutterings on the importance of American leadership, Mr Sharma sees the world from the ruthless and restless perspective of an investor.
Some Canadians were surprised that in their country, younger Muslims (aged 53 to 25) were even more religiously observant than their parents, already among the most pious social groups.
Religious and secular, rich and poor, every man served in the Turkish military, and to all, the urban elite and pious poor, it was a symbol of Turkish identity.
The pious preacher of integrity and honor during his confirmation hearing would rather get the job without having to tell the American people what sort of teenager he was.
Stay strong, Matt In other words, if you voted for Trump and a pious bully like Maloney finds out about it, don't expect a raise or promotion, like, ever.
He has embraced pious Islam, railing against the United States and distancing himself from his partying days — though his political organization still uses a cricket bat as its symbol.
Pence, an evangelical Christian, has learned to strike a pious pose whenever anyone brings up his boss's alleged romp with a porn star or his boasting about sexual assault.
Flag-waving claims of patriotism, pious invocations of morality, stern warnings about fiscal probity are all cover stories for an underlying agenda mainly concerned with making plutocrats even richer.
I'm not ashamed of who I am eithe,r but I have this weird mental block about people making sure everyone knows how devout they are and how pious.
White is known as a "prosperity gospel pastor," meaning that she believes that God rewards the pious with wealth, health, and happiness, per a previous report from Business Insider.
A pious Orthodox Jew, Yankl makes his living in what remains a highly unorthodox profession: He owns a brothel that sits below the apartment in which his family lives.
The last thing the dinner needs is a partisan who uses the platform to turn the evening into another resistance protest marinated in pious condescension to half the country.
The report argues that local recruiting and fund-raising among pious Muslims who resented the Philippines' central government have probably played a more significant role in the insurgents' successes.
There are lots of reasons for this: a pious upbringing where priests are revered, or a desire to serve, to be special, to stand apart from others, to help humanity.
The rise of what sociologists call "religious nones" is a feature of every rich Western country, including fairly pious America, where they now amount to a quarter of the population.
His appearance at the protest, and his pious words, shows how important America's religious right is to Mr Trump's electoral coalition and the huge role abortion plays in its support.
And states that are more pious—measured by the percentage of people in the state that report attending weekly worship—have a greater propensity to listen to Christmas-themed music.
Erdoğan is now much closer to attaining what he apparently sees as his destiny: to lead an Islamic world rejuvenated by the pious Muslim Turks from whose midst he came.
The government talks of selling valuable land to developers, mining other sorts of minerals, creating a defence industry and greatly expanding tourism—but for pious Muslims, not the Western sort.
The decision was made known at the Vatican, amid a haze of pious bonhomie, as Pope Francis was receiving the Charlemagne prize, an annual award for contributions to European unity.
" The critique came as the conversation turned to a recent Newsweek column in which Wolff accused Stelter of delivering "a pious sermon about [Donald] Trump's perfidiousness and nursing personal grudges.
The argument is not only counterfactual—no matter how mightily propagandists such as Shapiro strain to turn America's founding generation into pious evangelicals, they were Enlightenment rationalists—it's also unoriginal.
The opening scenes of "Head of Passes" would seem to take place in the lucrative land of melodrama-tinged movie comedies, where a pious and dominating mother usually knows best.
It's impossible to know what Saint Valentine, the pious fellow for whom V-Day is named, would think of the pink glitter- and chocolate-laden holiday we celebrate this week.
The law aims to prevent any conflict between "thinking of oneself as a pious Muslim and proud Austrian citizen at the same time," by regulating operations of the Islamic community.
While harking back to my pious, head-covered days, I am reminded of a notion that our rabbis taught us: The theft of time is a crime like any other.
She had been a pious believer, like many ex-Muslims, who tried to convince herself of Islam's truth by reading the Quran and other religious texts while redoubling her devotions.
In the premiere episode, portentously directed by Shyamalan with a lot of odd framing and looming close-ups, Sean and Dorothy welcome the dowdy, pious, unworldly Leanne (Nell Tiger Free).
And there's things that made me laugh with my family, where it's someone pretending to be more pious than they really are — it felt like something we hadn't seen before.
"Most of his account was reasonably factual, although I was neither the pious saint nor the other guys the hellions he made them into," he told Life magazine in 290.
Against the charged backdrop of debates about homosexuality's place in Islam and Islam's place in the West, the novel's chief success is its dramatization of the hypocrisies of the pious.
The latter two paintings bring us into the territory of the clothed and pious female, which instead of album jackets, would go well on the covers of Thomas Hardy novels.
Harvey Scrimshaw turns Caleb, the eldest son (who keeps checking out his sister), into a pious figure of righteousness who only slowly realizes how in over his head he is.
He even pledged bullet trains that would enable pious passengers to leave Karachi after dawn prayers and arrive in Peshawar, more than 1,000km to the north, in time for evening worship.
As members of a religious minority with a history of being persecuted, pious Mormons perhaps feel a special obligation to depict their group voting behavior in the most virtuous possible light.
Over the years, Turkey's leader has convinced millions of pious voters that their fate depends on his, and that they will become second-class citizens as soon as he loses power.
In nearby Jiu village, home to a century-old mosque, Wang Yisehakai, the ahong or imam, blandly praised General Bai as a pious man who prayed in the heat of battle.
Unluckily for them, the resurgence of the augmented-reality version of the game has clerics renewing the ban to remind everyone that the pious do not wander around seeking imaginary animals.
Many northern politicians, while eager to appear pious, are not really committed to stamping out booze and fornication, perhaps because so many voters want to be left to their own vices.
But some pious voters do seem to have been persuaded that their churches would be safer, from terrorists or secularists, if a billionaire from New York was around to protect them.
In the Assembly of Experts, out went harshly pious hardline icons including Ayatollah Muhammad Yazdi, the current head of the body, and Muhammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, the Revolution's chief surviving theorist.
Cézanne himself tended toward the right, embracing pious Catholicism in his last decade, and though not overtly anti-Semitic, like Degas and Renoir, nevertheless siding with them in the Dreyfus Affair.
Turkey's most popular, and divisive, politician, Erdogan is admired by millions for championing the pious Muslim working classes and delivering airports, hospitals and schools during a period of strong economic growth.
A man walks into a bar, declines a drink because he's "waiting for a friend," and, when the "friend" arrives, goes in for a hug—torsos arranged at a pious distance.
Honestly, not to be too pious, but we're living in very dehumanizing times when everyone hates one another and retreats to their corners, and are staring fiercely at the other side.
The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the outfit that has led Malaysia's ruling coalitions since independence, found religion in the 1980s while fending off a challenge from a pious opposition party.
Pious members of the Serbian Orthodox Church attend their local house of worship several meters underground, where they gaze upon glistening stained glass windows and biblical reliefs carved into the walls.
The authorities said Mr. Ali had managed to escape suspicion for his crimes because of his pious demeanor; he used to recite Naat, a form of religious poetry, at religious functions.
The A.K.P., which rose to power in the early 2000s as the party of the pious Muslims disenfranchised by the secular elite, could no longer claim the status of the underdog.
Rather it's to look forward, and to suggest that our current elite might someday be reformed — or simply replaced — through the imitation of the old establishment's more pious and aristocratic spirit.
It has also shaken a country that has an almost pious adherence to "fair play" in sports, and prompted coaches, university officials and politicians to question the violence of the game.
After every concert, the head-banging audience bow their heads in prayer and listen to sermons - something the movement's founders hope will redirect their fans on to a more pious path.
While its clerical leaders often portray themselves as modest and pious representatives of God, beneath their façade lie yearnings for power and wealth — much like those of dictators throughout the world.
In other words, the church's newly exposed pathologies provide yet another reason for a kind of pious retreat, into smaller communities where a spirit of self-discipline and self-examination would prevail.
Leaving aside the odd implication that two-year-olds are divisible into the categories "pious" and "profane", the state's brief replies that "declining to subsidise" a church does not violate its rights.
For many years, the pious, well-connected and well-to-do women in the sisterhood held closed-door meetings in private homes, their activities illegal and virtually impossible for outsiders to penetrate.
Under the leadership of Cardinal Jaime Sin, formerly Manila's archbishop, it showed its moral power to move the masses when the pious marched to oust Ferdinand Marcos from his dictatorship in 1986.
Erdogan's fervent supporters see him as a champion of the pious working class, resetting the balance of power in a country dominated by a secular elite for much of the last century.
The result laid bare the deep divide between the urban middle classes who see their future as part of a European mainstream, and the pious rural poor who favor Erdogan's strong hand.
Under President Tayyip Erdogan, a pious Muslim known for his dislike of alcohol, taxes on booze have increased steadily and now account for two thirds of the cost of some alcoholic drinks.
The Economist appears to have an idée fixe that immigration is a universal good, regardless of origin and consequences and holds pious hopes that work, time and education will promote integrated communities.
An obvious point is that Mr Trump's grasp on religion is hazy (he recently confused a communion plate for a collection plate) and his attempts to sound pious have not been convincing.
The religious leaders had said that the players were going naked, and being sinful, so the girls decided to show that they could be pious on the clerics' terms and also defiant.
When delegate Thomas Cushing suggested that sessions begin with prayer, his fellow delegates John Jay and Edward Routledge, both pious men, opposed the idea and emphasized the religious divisions among the delegates.
For all the magnificence of its Baroque churches, Vienna is now a pretty secular, cosmopolitan city and it would not take kindly to a political leader who presented a super-pious image.
For Smith, Tebow was a dud—a nice and commendably pious dud, but a dud all the same—who could barely throw a spiral and would never make a lasting N.F.L. starter.
At the start of the opera, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate from a pious Irish Roman Catholic family, is approached by the suave and confident Hawkins Fuller, a State Department official.
On her walk to the grocery store with the irritatingly pious OfMatthew (Ashleigh LaThrop), June learns that Chicago, once controlled by the resistance (the real America!), is about to surrender to Gilead.
But Narinder, a pious Sikh, has agreed to the marriage out of a spiritual yearning to help someone in need; she is cordial but distant, careful not to offer him any encouragement.
With a powdery soft tone and comforting low register, Ms. Isaev was most convincing in the first act, in which we get to know Tosca as a sweet and playfully pious diva.
The alarm clock for some of these awakenings is the friendship Green strikes with Marlon Wellings, a pious, studious black classmate who lives near Green in the Robert Gould Shaw Homes, a.k.a.
Material preciousness became an end in itself, turning Qurans into prestige objects and political currency, valued as diplomatic gifts, as war booty and as pious, grace-earning donations to mosques and mausoleums.
"The Man Dressed in Linen" tells the story of a cantor who was so pious that he refused the customary payment for chanting the prayer service on Jewish holidays, despite being destitute.
Without any access whatsoever to the yet-unreleased film's script, it was perceived that it showcases an illicit romance between the pious Hindu queen Padmavati and a menacing Muslim invader Alauddin Khilji.
Naturally, the slaves elevated everything low in themselves that contrasted with their masters' nobility: "The miserable alone are the good...the suffering, deprived, sick, ugly are also the only pious, the only blessed...".
By adding Mr Amin to his ticket in place of his current, term-limited vice-president, Jokowi doubtless hopes to attract more pious voters in his re-match against Mr Prabowo next year.
He adopts different personas, too: a hug-happy uncle on trips abroad, a finger-wagging prosecutor against critics, a pious ascetic for the religious, a chowkidar (watchman) to please law-and-order nationalists.
" More alarming for the truly pious, he couldn't come up with a favorite Bible verse when asked during the campaign, except to say he liked the Old Testament's "an eye for an eye.
This community's roots are in a Turkish Islamist movement, Milli Gorus (National Vision) which flourished among German Turks before propelling a pious government to power in Turkey, in 1996, for one turbulent year.
Like much pious art from across the millenia, the man occasionally known as J. Spaceman songs have this feeling of being gilded in precious metals, in an attempt to underscore their remarkable ambition.
But on Sunday, months after her Instagram account had been shut down, she wore a pious black scarf and matching gloves as she was questioned by two prosecutors during a live television program.
Its unnamed narrator grows up feisty and fatherless in rural Ireland, with a fanatically pious mother and a learning-challenged older brother, who nearly died from cancer of the brain as a toddler.
Ross's chief points of contention with Pullman's book—that the characters murder God and consort with beings called "daemons"—fueled pious right-wing tirades for years, even though they are based on misreadings.
Instead, Bulgarov started going to the mosque with followers of a pious strain of Islam, and, according to a close relative and Egyptian security sources, went to Cairo last year to study Arabic.
And at the very end, the way "Since You've Gone to Heaven" sentimentalizes her father the better to bemoan the decay of the small town she's never too pious to make fun of.
Reza Ahmadi, who has been organizing the reconstruction, greeted us by putting his right hand on his heart, because like many pious Afghan men he considers shaking hands with women to be improper.
Its landscape is dominated by the Dolomites, which look less like mountains than a crowd of pious giants frozen in stone, some well over 9,000 feet high, reaching heavenward in one magnificent range.
For years, Mr. Sadr has championed social protest movements, and allies from these marches and strikes, including Iraq's moribund communists, Sunni businessmen and pious community activists, joined him in the 2018 electoral campaign.
Then Pope Gregory IV and Emperor Louis the Pious extended the November 1 feast of All Saints to the Holy Roman Empire in the 9th century, and from there it spread throughout Europe.
Erdogan, the most popular and divisive politician in recent Turkish history, sees himself as the liberator of pious millions who were deprived for decades of their rights and welfare by the secular elite.
Western policies became greedier and more cynical, especially during and after the first world war, and this triggered a sharp reaction in the Muslim world, enraging humble, pious folk as well as clever elites.
Poirot goes about his business, inspecting cabins and interviewing individual passengers, who range from a pious missionary (Cruz) to a flirtatious divorcée (Pfeiffer) to a startlingly racist professor en route to a conference (Dafoe).
An icon of Pakistani cricket and a one-time London playboy who has since transformed himself into a pious, firebrand nationalist, Khan's campaign speeches were littered with anti-America rhetoric and baiting of India.
In "Original Backdrop to PanisAngelicus" (early 1970s), the artist captures the baroque splendor of the Forty Hours' Devotion ceremony using multicolored foil he might have found in the pantry of his pious childhood home.
His austere approach grated on some colleagues—though Mr Glenn insisted he was not the "pious saint", nor the other guys the "hellions" depicted in the film version of Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff".
To try to get some better explanation for shatnez, I called my father, a pious and deeply devout Jew who is definitely the smartest person on the planet (don't argue with me on this).
Turkey's most prominent leader since the founder of the Turkish republic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Erdogan has built support based on strong economic growth and backing from a core constituency of pious, conservative Muslim Turks.
They can fuck up, they can be pious, they can help us, or they can hurt us, as shown in folktales from One Thousand and One Nights (commonly known in English as Arabian Nights).
Some pious Turks, who for years have listened to Erdogan talk about the need to save Syria from President Bashar al-Assad, are now puzzled by his closer ties with Russia, Assad's main backer.
In the 100-odd books that he published during his lifetime—books with three-word titles like The Fatal Lozenge, The Pious Infant, The Blue Aspic, The Disrespectful Summons—he experimented promiscuously with format.
They are filled with extraordinary people—whether Evita or Jesus—singing big stuff; the excitement gained by the spectacle is paid for by the loss of soul, pious aspiration replacing spice and street savvy.
One of America's first blockbuster films, Birth of a Nation, ends with the capture of a "mulatto" carpetbagger who had tried (and failed) to force a pious and virginal white woman into marrying him.
Reagan, arguably the first president carried into office by the newly politicized evangelical movement, was a perpetual disappointment to the movement, despite being seen by many evangelicals as only slightly less pious than Jesus.
Pious worshippers of the coveted Berlin techno mecca have offered bribes to get inside, designed simulators that mimic its infamous door policy, and posted grainy videos of its inner happenings (also known as berghrotica).
Erdogan's supporters see the changes as just reward for a leader who has put Islamic values at the core of public life, championed the pious working classes and overseen years of strong economic growth.
It is 1943 when Gina's father, a general in the Hungarian Army, ships his daughter off to an oppressively pious boarding school in the remote village of Arkod (now the Serbian town of Jarkovac).
The show uses gospel and praise music, both straight ("Sign of the Judgment," by the McIntosh County Shouters) and skewed ("Song of the Pious Itinerant [Hallelujah, I'm a Bum])" by the New Christy Minstrels).
A festival in a nearby town begins with the parading of a Madonna, in pious procession, and ends with Harry taking over the karaoke machine at a local bar and crooning to the crowd.
During his remarks, Trump accomplished two things: For black listeners, he poured pious praise on the "cherished" role HBCUs have long played in American life (without meaningfully mentioning the overall dire state of HBCUs).
"Margaret is played with cunning and gusto by Meryl Streep, and it is a pious critical convention to praise performances like these on the grounds that they go beyond mere impersonation," the Guardian wrote.  
Turkey's most prominent leader since the founder of the Turkish republic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Erdogan's support has been based on strong economic growth and backing from a core constituency of pious, conservative Muslim Turks.
Cheyenne walks in emanating exuberance, straps everyone's feet in, and gets on a platform at the front of the room to saddle up himself, looking pious as the stage's under-lighting sets his face aglow.
His political rivals, meanwhile, showed no compunction about taking advantage of this travesty: the victorious candidate for governor, Anies Baswedan, took to campaigning in the white shirt and black skullcap of a pious Javanese Muslim.
Police in Pocono Township, Pennsylvania, have teamed up with the FBI to hunt for the two suspects, who authorities say probably don't actually dorm in a convent or live out a chaste and pious existence.
The protections for companies with pious owners would "[deprive] female employees, students and other beneficiaries connected to exempted religious objectors of their statutory right under the ACA to seamlessly-provided contraceptive coverage at no cost".
Camp is typically a bright spot of everything she appears in, whether she's vamping as a pious reverend's wife on True Blood or quietly simmering as an Upper West Side mom on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
" A cottage industry of books with titles like "How to Stay Christian in College" has long warned pious 18-year-olds that college is a place where the "Prince of Deception" will set "spiritual snares.
When Mitch McConnell formed his working group on health care legislation, it was — despite his pious complaint on the House floor that Democrats "did not want to engage with us seriously" — a one-party affair.
This explains why they've been content to look the other way with recruits who don't exactly act pious in their personal lives as long as they get the dirty work done in their professional lives.
"It may seem to be just a piece of land but for us it is a pious place where our god was born," said a senior Hindu leader affiliated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party.
As the color best able to hide stains and dirt, black was the color of the laboring classes, and of the pious: people who sought to signal their disinterest in personal vanity and worldly affairs.
Mohammed Hanif Karachi, Pakistan — IN the world we live in, there is no dearth of pious men who believe that most of the world's problems can be fixed by giving their women a little thrashing.
For all of the pious sermons Democrats are spouting about Putin's attempts to subvert American democracy, the hearings telegraphed to the country that they've largely given up on pinning that charge to anyone around Trump.
The various gunmen picked their targets because that was where a large number of ethnic and racial minorities congregate, not because of any militant secularism or love of anti-pious jokes on late-night television.
He succeeded where others had failed in tearing down Turkey's rigid, classist system of government; sending the meddling military back to its barracks; and opening up the bureaucracy, long deeply suspicious of Turkey's pious underclass.
Don Rogerson St. Louis, Mo. Divine Interpretation There is something old-fashioned, even pious, about the opening admonition in Adam Gopnik's recent piece on contemporary readings of sacred texts (A Critic at Large, January 28th).
Whether its pious declarations were ever actually about more than securing Southern votes or limiting the rights of women and minorities has always been questionable, but at least in theory the party took federalism seriously.
Under George W. Bush, Republican rhetoric took a different turn — more overtly pious and messianic — but in the wake of Bushism's self-discrediting collapse, Nixonian themes have strongly reemerged under the leadership of Donald Trump.
The statement called him "a pious leader, who has nothing but respect for Gambian women and women around the world," and noted that he had enacted laws to abolish the practice of female genital mutilation.
Giorgio Bassani belongs to that extraordinary flowering of Italian Jewish writers, from Natalia Ginzburg to Primo Levi, who came of age under Fascism and thus grew up skeptical, allergic both to absolutism and pious rhetoric.
In the first installment of a three-part series, the two write that to understand how a seemingly pious politician like Pence could join Donald Trump, one should trace the long path of his ambition.
It was abundantly clear to Muhammad Ali that Western know-how, trade and finance were the keys to power in the modern world, and like Henry VIII he confiscated lands set aside in pious foundations.
For some, these changes simply constitute a progressive attempt to open up public space and discourse to the pious sections of the population that for decades were marginalized by the country's secular and military elite.
Erdogan, accused by critics of crushing democratic freedoms with tens of thousands of arrests and a clampdown on media since a failed coup last July, has in the past spoken of raising a "pious generation".
There was a new dichotomy I had never heard of before: the "white Turks" (Westernized secular élites in Istanbul and Ankara) versus the "black Turks" (the pious Muslim middle and lower-middle classes of Anatolia).
In a pre-recorded address to mark the four-day Eid al-Adha festival, which starts on Tuesday, Erdogan, a pious Muslim, sounded a characteristically defiant note as he lashed out at those selling the lira.
So it seems conceivable that future incumbents of the White House, even Republican ones, will no longer be so constrained to court the faithful, regardless of their own feelings, or give a pious impression of themselves.
Mr Trump has promised to fill Guantánamo with "bad dudes", and seems tempted to let Russia commit war crimes in Syria, in pursuit of IS. If pious appeals do not move the next president, try this.
Abadi is leading a coalition in the May 12 general elections, and improving life in Baghdad may help him expand his base beyond the pious Shiite Muslims to middle-class and younger voters demanding lifestyle improvements.
Unlike more conventional Pakistani female celebrities -- who found fame portraying pious damsels in distress on television and film -- her videos were not slickly produced, her English was not flawless and she was curvaceous and self deprecating.
In Sissy Spacek's breakout role, she plays Carrie White, the quiet, nervous high school teen dealing with a scarily pious mother back home and a gang of mean girls who make fun of her at school.
Acting, production, and story often took a backseat to a more urgent, pious priority: namely spreading the word that God and Satan are about to duke it out in an apocalyptic showdown that will destroy Earth.
Erdogan's core supporters see him as the champion of the pious Anatolian masses, a strongman restoring religion to the centre of public life after decades of rule by what they see as Western-facing Kemalist elites.
For Ms. Anderson's new play, Ms. Close has shed all vestiges of surface sophistication to portray the humble but formidable, earthy but pious Isabelle Arc, a 15th-century mom to an exceptionally gifted and headstrong daughter.
One word about my five years at the Natural Resources Defense Council, or my work in the climate justice movement broadly, and I'm bombarded with pious admissions of environmental transgressions or nihilistic throwing up of hands.
"Rather than being a subject of pious platitudes, the arts must be viewed as an essential part of our existence which can be easily neutralized by an uncaring populace or an insensitive political leadership," he said.
Figuring out which politicians are more virtuous based on the speed of their denunciations of heinous acts is a fool's game; nothing is repaired by pious news releases or rants on cable television and social media.
The only other character in the novel that Comensal invests with an interior dimension and sense of life and death capable of matching Ramón's (if not besting it) is Elodia, the family's pious Roman Catholic maid.
The 49-year-old - described as a pious nationalist, fiery orator and champion of women's rights by her family members - stoked a controversy this month by calling the killer of India's independence hero, Mohandas Gandhi, a patriot.
But unlike some of the more secular media activists ISIS has targeted in Turkey previously, AlShurqat was a deeply pious man and a religious leader to his community in the town of Al Bab in Aleppo, Syria.
Compared with other pious citizens, the Mormons are not tempted by Donald Trump, and their heartland, Utah, is the only state where a third candidate has a chance of doing better than both him and Hillary Clinton.
He has to demonstrate that he is a worthy candidate, is pious and a good Mujahid and that he has been selected according to Islamic law or Sharia, or at least to the Taliban's reading of it.
His AKP has strong support among pious and conservative Turks and its stewardship of Turkey's economy through a decade and a half of construction-fuelled growth helped Erdogan win more than a dozen national and local elections.
I'm even having a hard time imagining what exhibit co-chair Katy Perry, who recently appeared on the most recent cover of Vogue in a Comme creation, in anything as true to Kawakubo as Pious Oreo Peacock.
But despite a few pious nods towards the importance of the real world, the film doesn't seem very interested in the flaws of the OASIS — or the dark side of the nostalgic fan culture that Wade embodies.
This vision seems to suit our moment—with a negation now available for every previous affirmation and a loss for every gain—better even than Rorty's dream of the slow consolidation of a pious coalition of goodness.
He was a pious, somewhat idiosyncratic man, who tossed bread to stray dogs from the basket of his bicycle on his way to the old temple every day, and he often spent nights meditating in its crematory.
An infant when he inherits the crown, this king (Jon Norman Schneider in a lovely, understated performance) grows into a placid, passive, pious man — reasonably decent, albeit comically effete in the manner of those pampered from birth.
Scholars without a specialty in religious history are understandably reluctant to immerse themselves in all the varieties and phases of Christianity, so the pious are often all assumed to be "orthodox," as Greenblatt frequently refers to them.
Trump also grasped what Republican élites are still struggling to fathom: the ideology that has gripped their Party since the late nineteen-seventies—anti-government, pro-business, nominally pious—has little appeal for millions of ordinary Republicans.
Legend has it that the man was pious and non-violent and therefore refused to raid Anglesey when the Vikings went in to do their thing, choosing instead to hang back and sing psalms on the boat.
The pious hopes of the French President François Mitterrand and the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl that a common currency would bond their countries and the rest of Europe into a peaceful and prosperous union could soon be dashed.
If a new party is established, it could lead to more resignations and defections from the AKP, breaking its hold over a large swathe of pious and conservative voters, said Galip Dalay, a visiting scholar at Oxford University.
Parson Weems's pious legends of Washington chopping down cherry trees and casting silver dollars across the wide Potomac persisted for about 150 years, but these false details about Luther have persisted for more than three times as long.
His AK Party has strong support among pious and conservative Turks and its stewardship of Turkey's economy through a decade and a half of construction-fueled growth helped Erdogan win more than a dozen national and local elections.
His AK Party has strong support among pious and conservative Turks and its stewardship of Turkey's economy through a decade and a half of construction-fuelled growth helped Erdogan win more than a dozen national and local elections.
He described himself to Darren Byler, an anthropologist from the University of Washington, as a Sufi wanderer, a pious man with a wife and small daughter, who prayed five times a day and disapproved of dancing and immodesty.
Viewed with deepening suspicion by liberal Turks and some Western allies, who fear his Islamist ideals and authoritarian leadership are eroding Turkey's secularism and democracy, here Erdogan is seen as a hero of the pious, patriotic, working man.
The public is presented with information by media that invariably takes a side based on the three furthest things from the pillars of sound journalism: sensationalism, dishonesty and an ideological tilt while being hopelessly pious in the process.
Reb Berish Zhichliner, in prayer shawl and phylacteries, had already finished his proper prayers, but he kept on reciting additional supplications, which are repeated only by the very pious and by those who have a lot of time.
We'll never know how many European pilgrims were driven mad by the American wilderness: The imposingly pious William (Ralph Ineson), his equally severe wife, Katherine (Kate Dickie), and their brood of five stand in for all of them.
Erdogan has said he wants to raise a "pious generation," and the education ministry has announced a new curriculum that includes massive amounts of religious text, and a heroic depiction of Erdogan's win against the July coup plotters.
In addition to Christians interested in sampling the scents, Erlich says he has been fielding inquiries from pious Jews who thrill at the prospect of recreating the incenses that were burnt in their Roman-era temple in Jerusalem.
She continues to write ever more incendiary articles, getting scoops that expose the graft and corruption of the overtly pious Islamic Republic, but she also begins a series of trips to London and ultimately finds exile in America.
A broad definition of "religious extremism" — which included behavior as simple as trying to persuade people to quit alcohol and smoking, as well as more serious transgressions — gave the authorities wide leeway to punish even mildly pious Muslims.
At the same time, the ruling Islamic-inspired Justice and Development Party has significantly increased the number of religious schools, known as imam hatip schools, and promoted Mr. Erdogan's professed goal of raising a "pious generation" of Turks.
" For one hard-drinking member of the campus's most Dionysian fraternity, a late-night, draft-induced epiphany revealed his pious destiny as "a divinity student attending an accredited theological or divinity school to be prepared for the ministry.
At the same time, we've grown dangerously inured to pious doublespeak — whether it's the politician claiming to stand for the family while engaging in multiple extramarital affairs or the corporation that combines feminist ads with hostile work environments.
A wise onlooker, watching me swing too hard or hearing me curse on the driving range and suffering a lecture from a pious old man — this happened twice — might conclude that the sport and I were fundamentally incompatible.
Many of his supporters, who represent just over half the electorate and see him as champion of the pious working class, believe the narrative that Turkey, battered by regional conflicts, needs strong leadership for its long-term stability.
While Victorian churches themselves often tended their rhetoric toward the feminine — wives were the "angels of the house" in charge of keeping their wayward husbands pious — this brand of Christianity gave men a place at the communion table.
Erdogan's fervent supporters see his drive for greater powers as the just reward for a leader who has put Islamist values back at the core of public life, championed the pious working classes and delivered airports, hospitals and schools.
Until recently, many Saudis avoided the rock-hewn pre-Islamic tombs at Al Ula out of a pious superstition that they were haunted, and non-Muslim tourists who wanted to visit the country almost never found a way in.
The film pointedly evades confronting some of his more egregious infractions — like the sexual assault accusations levied against him in 2017 — preferring instead to get at the complexity behind football fandom, shrouded in questions of nationalism and pious devotion.
Such a slowdown could hurt Erdogan, who has built much of his reputation on his stewardship of the economy, above all his record of delivering roads, hospitals and public services to millions of pious poor and middle-class people.
In hopes of moving one step closer to repairing the damage, Zellweger, as the pious Deborah, requests her husband volunteer at an inner city homeless shelter where they meet an underprivileged man (Hounsou) she believes will change their lives.
Permitting a pious man like Mr Phillips to define what someone else does as religious and to refuse service to people who fail to follow his own strictures in that context, transforms religious liberty into a self-defeating principle.
Regardless of circumstance, Trewitt pursues his own needs with a pious zeal, having stumbled as a boy on a stray passage about the value of self-interest in a manuscript by Adam Smith, the father of free-market economics.
Erdogan, a pious man who has styled himself as a champion for Muslims in Turkey and beyond, spoke at the opening of a Turkish-sponsored mosque near Washington, reportedly the largest Muslim house of worship in the United States.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Through his 16 years in power, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been able to rely on the pious electorate of Istanbul's Eyup district, where for centuries Ottoman sultans received their ceremonial sword after ascending to the throne.
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, she's said to have faced a confusing and disorienting interrogation, accusations that she wasn't as pious (or virginal) as she claimed, and even threats of torture with total patience, reiterating her commitment to God.
This converges, at least in part, with the concept of "faith security" which has been used by the Egyptian government to justify strict government oversight of religion, clamping down on atheism and "blasphemy" as well as ultra-pious extremism.
Five weeks after a pastor in the Netherlands started what seemed like a fairly ordinary church service, that service is still underway, a sort of pious filibuster relay that involves hundreds of people and shows no sign of stopping.
In a society where you have to be pious, selfish and conniving to thrive, nothing short of a counter-revolution—like the one Litchfield's inmates incited, but couldn't resolve—can give Offred a shot at living a happy life.
The current generation of Saudis has grown up in a time when previous rulers empowered clerics who have taught a rigidly pious stream of Islam known as Wahhabism, which is not practiced widely in other Arab or Islamic countries.
My guilt about my failure to properly prepare is amplified by an awareness of how lucky I am to have been invited to God's "house," a yearning unrealized and unfulfilled by millions of far more pious men and women.
Bourdain, having established himself as a brash truth-teller, got into public spats with more famous figures; he once laid into Alice Waters for her pious hatred of junk food, saying that she reminded him of the Khmer Rouge.
James Haggard died of a stroke in 22006, after which Mr. Haggard's mother, the former Flossie Mae Harp, a strict and pious member of the ultraconservative Church of Christ, took a bookkeeping job to provide for her three children.
He has spoken in the past of seeking to create a new generation of pious youths, has already significantly increased the number of religious schools and this week questioned the piety of those who would vote "no" on Sunday.
He has spent his career fighting to bring religion back into public life in constitutionally secular Turkey and has cast himself as the liberator of millions of pious Turks whose rights and welfare were neglected by a secular elite.

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