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Example sentences for: pious

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A danger of injecting "values" more fully into school curricula, however, is that if it isn't done thoughtfully, it will end up presenting certain pious and erroneous sentiments as fact.
Merkin doubts Bloom's claim that she was helpless: "One can discern, through the pious gloss Bloom puts on the events of her life, the shrewd maneuverings of a stage brat."
Steve Forbes, for instance, has undergone a campaign conversion from supply-sider to pious family-values conservative.
Swift's “Meditation upon a Broomstick,” for instance, impressed the Countess of Stanford as deeply pious instead of hilariously parodic.
One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.