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Example sentences for: pious

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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes in the New York Times that the book is "impressive if somewhat pious" but finds Purdy's points unoriginal: "He labors at length such crashingly obvious ideas as the ethical ambiguities of technology."
Once the pious devotions are over, however, wine flows, fireworks explode, espetada (kebab) stalls flourish, and Monte regains normality for another 363 days.
The chapel was constructed in 1248 to house holy relics, fragments of what were believed to be Jesus’s Crown of Thorns and the True Cross, which pious Louis IX (later canonized as St. Louis) had bought from the Byzantine emperor.
A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.
Henry VI was the Jimmy Carter of the 15 th century: Ostentatiously pious, surrounded by mediocrities, and oblivious to England's crumbling international prestige, he managed to cripple the military and bankrupt the government simultaneously.