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Example sentences for: pious

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My hope is that an A rating would work specifically because the NC-17 would be retained, to give Blockbuster something to feel pious about.
European Jewish émigrés, whether cultured cosmopolitans or members of the pious bourgeoisie, don't suddenly convert to fundamentalism; that's a specialty of godless Americans.
When the pious project was undertaken 1,500 years ago, about 100,000 statues were carved into the walls of the rock temples dug into the cliff.
As for the pious hope that the Internal Revenue Service will be able to police the new tax breaks--to assure that all claimants are truly residents of the district and that the nation's capital has not become a flagrant tax haven--well, the IRS has a better chance here than in the Cayman Islands.
After two centuries of religious heresy, the Church needed a spiritual renewal, finding the perfect ally in Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), pious without being troublesomely militant.