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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."
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.
Originally it was organized for religious observances and practices, including pious prayer and bodily penance, but the society eventually became very important in providing mutual aid to the local communities.
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.
Steve Forbes, for instance, has undergone a campaign conversion from supply-sider to pious family-values conservative.