| 单词 | pious |
| 例句 | As a sign of mourning, the statues of the saints were shrouded in purple robes that the pious ladies of the congregation unpacked and dusted off once a year from a cupboard in the sacristy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To the pious this exchange confirmed the fundamental wickedness of Anthony’s suffragist movement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Any one could see with half an eye that the woman was as pious as could be—the kind that was hand and glove with parsons. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “Don’t be pious, Mama. You’re beautiful and beautiful women get everything they want.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her world had a population of four: herself and her three gaolers, pious and unyielding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, don’t you start, as if you are so pious,” Mom snaps. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She never laughed but often smiled the thin smile of the pious. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A towering man with a dense mustache, Emmett, as Tom’s father liked to be called, was poor, stern, hardworking, and pious. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Even the Reverend Buckland, as pious a soul as the nineteenth century produced, noted that nowhere did the Bible suggest that God made Heaven and Earth on the first day, but merely "in the beginning." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “The liberals just want to stick it to him. So they’re playing pious.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The monster will be there, pious and smiling, pretending nothing happened. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She was from the “wrong kind” of family but embedded in a pious Mormon community that, like many communities, visited the crimes of the parents on the children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I yawned, uninspired yet again by the pious and beautiful Susanna. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he kin set back and look pious at the states that has been blowin’ hot and cold.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Boyle was a deeply religious man who gave money to pious causes and by the terms of his will founded the Boyle Lectures for the conversion of unbelievers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The story of how this came about is a proof of the immeasurable power of the gods, and also of the way they reward the humble and the pious. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in New England books contained only a dreary collection of sermons, or at most some pious religious poetry. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z They had to give in to so pious a purpose, and they agreed to wait until the work was finished. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord forbidding is pious, but not to the purpose,” returned Mr. Jaggers. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The slave auctioneer’s bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Christy wore a pious look, as if God Himself had just come down from heaven to sit on her desk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z A strange friendship; grim and gambling Longstreet, formal and pious old Bobby Lee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lately her manner toward me has changed from one of pious disdain to an awed humility. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z My mother and father were deeply pious catolicos; all my relatives were Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet among all these pious wooden dolls there was one Bernabe liked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you should he more secret and guard your Lord from shame,” I say, for I am learning to speak her pious language. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Some rooms had pious pictures of Lord Krishna. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Shawn said no teenage girl was trustworthy, and that in his experience those who seemed pious were sometimes the worst of all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Lawrence family was pious in the manner of northern Midwestern Lutherans, religion serving as much as the warp and woof of the community fabric as a source of personal succor or theological speculation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Her voice is pious, condescending, the voice of those whose duty it is to tell us unpleasant things for our own good. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z If our outsides look pious but our core is not mindful of Him, we are not true servants of God. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Amen,” the pious few say quickly, and the rest of us follow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The deciding votes came from the Quakers, among Philadelphia’s most prosperous and pious citizens, who did not want to see a “grogshop man fixed in the Senate.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But you, Ben, would be much too pious to eat sins for money. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d heard you were not a pious man,” the man said to my father. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Jake rolled up his eyes and made a slow pious sign in the air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Deprecate used to mean “ward off by prayer,” meticulous once meant “timid,” and silly went from “blessed” to “pious” to “innocent” to “pitiable” to “feeble” to today’s “foolish.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They would think him, as indeed, he was, a pious youth with the most admirable filial sentiments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Can you imagine how the most pious king in the history of France would feel about sharing a cart with living, breathing saints? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Fortunately Zeus was not offended, because the two were pious, faithful worshipers of the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She stresses the verb confessing as if their father were actually being pious in looking ahead for his daughters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Isannah had wandered off because a passing clergyman had seen the sunlight on her hair and was asking her to say the shorter catechism as proof that she was as pious as she was beautiful. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Imam, how do I change and become more pious like them? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z This father was a good man, a kind gentle man, perhaps a pious man, perhaps a holy man—but all these were not qualities which could win the boy. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny heard Cilia give an exaggeratedly pious sigh. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael’s. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z However, Herb was handsome, he was pious, he was strong-willed, he wanted her-—and she was in love. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s just a joke, my darling! No need to be so pious all the time! God knows I don’t blame the poor man for wobbling like venison jelly!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Many of the scientists I have discussed were profoundly pious, but their religious faith was not what they had in common. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was a deacon at the Cockerel Church and very pious. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he was not a pious man, the carving made him feel less alone here in this queer alien city, and it was to that he had turned in the black watches of night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her husband was a pious man who spent most of his days and nights in the house of study. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Too often when we do this, however, we make a lot of pious noises to mask how low that value is. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When her captors came for her, she made pious noises at diem again and told them how determined she was to confess her sins and be forgiven for all that she had done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were pious people, Muslims, who believed the twin babies were a sign of double luck, and they were sure of this when, later in the evening, they discovered how valuable the babies were. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other, more conventional pious sayings up on the walls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Ann gave herself up to the pious delight that hymn singing had always stirred in her ever since she was a child in the small wooden church down the road from her father’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Both a priest and a Levite — worthy, pious men — came upon the man but did not stop, “passing by on the other side.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were dolls dressed up, insipid in blue and white, pious and lifeless. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A heavy silence, more fearful than pious, engulfs the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This morning he was spinning the tale of Susanna, beautiful and pious wife of the rich man Joakim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you were going to denounce Mr. Johnson, like,” Malcolm said, naming a teacher whose pious fervor made him the least likely candidate, “who would you tell?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Astrology developed into a strange combination of observations, mathematics and careful record-keeping with fuzzy thinking and pious fraud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not wish to suggest in anyway that the Laphams had any part in the imposture—they were very humble, honest, pious folk. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep my eyes closed, trying to feel pious and sorry for the dead soldiers, who died for us, whose faces I can’t imagine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Many of Philadelphia’s most pious citizens would not let the fever disappear entirely, either. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z From far and wide people came to admire the wonder, and always wreaths of flowers hung on the branches in honor of the pious and faithful pair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z By next morning Grandpa had found a way to thumb his nose at the whole dang town, so pious and hypocritical: he started giving out invites to Sunday morning preachin’ at his house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I’ll say a prayer for you, Officer,” said one pious Muslim whom I had stopped from taking extra coffee cake early that summer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not that being pious or a good person has ever protected anyone.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A pious man who worships the Seven so fer-vently that he eats a meal for each of them whenever he sits to table. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A man of faith, Kaz noted, as his mind sorted through everything he knew about Van Eck—prosperous, pious, a widower recently remarried to a bride not much older than Kaz himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The book, comprising images taken for this newspaper but which never appeared in it, manages to be both pious and oblique. What Could Have Been Iconic 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The quotable Benjamin Franklin freed generations of pious tipplers of guilt when he declared: “Wine is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Party like it's 1776: toast the founding fathers with a colonial-era cocktail 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z It may seem odd that an order as pious and ascetic as the Carthusians relies on making premium booze to survive. Chartreuse liqueur’s popularity has soared. But how do you market the elixir without offending the monks who make it? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Your story in this week’s issue, “The Rise and Rise of Annie Clark,” tells the tale of a pious but narcissistic woman who struggles to be acknowledged by her family and by God. John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z His job is to teach all the others how to be better versions of themselves, and then to exit the scene on a flood of pious, comforting tears. Movie Review: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green,’ Starring Jennifer Garner 2012-08-14T22:10:05Z If she was so pious, why doesn’t she tell the truth from the beginning?” Asghar Farhadi?s ?Separation? to Open Dec. 30 2011-12-21T13:00:00Z Standout, because this amusing word-picture of pious, novice lovers contains a giddy twist, revealing the band as players in the scene they describe. Dead Cat Bounce 2010-08-25T21:01:00Z The comedian then made fun of the band’s pious anti-big-business political stance. ArtsBeat Blog: Colbert Vs. Yorke: The 'Report' Host Talks Economics With Radiohead Frontman 2011-09-27T16:34:29Z A little too quiet, to overtly innocent, too pious, and provincial. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Her husband considers himself a liberal thinker, but, if so, he’s an excessively pious one. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Voodoo is woven into the plot, but Moira, Ms. Cadet said, is a pious Christian. The TV Watch: In Haiti TV Tries to Educate, With Mixed Results 2012-07-11T21:54:55Z In the past, they have transmitted the rage of skinheads, the terrors of the pious, the sadness of war. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z Finch aficionados, who sound more pious than the Lenore-stalkers and less frantic than the Miranda-and-Desiree fans, are determined to preserve their favorite author’s hometown “by killing it, inch by inch, and casting it in amber.” Books of The Times: The Obituary Writer Has the Upper Hand 2011-04-13T22:35:36Z This community of radical loyalty exists outside the officially pious culture of Turkey in the penumbra of its sexual hypocrisy. Review | Elif Shafak continues to resist Turkey’s repressive government with brilliant fiction 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z I await enlightenment and remain anxious to be converted, but Wilson's pious polemic did not bring me to my knees. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z 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. “the projects.” Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z But it’s the unlikely affinity between a stern, pious Muslim teenager and the captive female American soldier he is instructed to guard that gives this high-octane action-adventure drama a special charm. Review: ‘American Odyssey,’ a New NBC Series, Stars Anna Friel 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Her portrayal of Don José’s village sweetheart was a lot more feisty and likable than the pious bore of many a production. Santa Fe Opera Stages ‘Carmen’ 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The story of this 14th-century Bohemian martyr followed a familiar pattern: pious life, terrible death. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Because despite the pious waffle about market craziness being like cancer, no one is ever shown enduring the actual misery of losing money. Cannes film festival review ? Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010-05-14T13:31:00Z This is orchestrated with a hand that’s perhaps more schematic than subtle, and the play’s epiphanies carry a whiff of pious sermonizing about counting life’s blessings. | 'A Little Journey': Go West, Wide-Eyed Easterners 2011-06-09T21:40:30Z “Jews were studying it in a traditional pious way,” said Jeffrey H. Tigay, the Ellis professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z Her behavior apparently isn't typical of that and she was a very religious and very pious young woman and she also grew up in a highly violent and politically charged time and geographical region. All hail Joan of Arc, in music -- but in London? 2011-11-03T11:31:03Z 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 Art of the Qur’an,’ a Rare Peek at Islam’s Holy Text 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z As the pious tears shed by monks in contemplation of God attest, we can also shed tears for distant and highly symbolic attachment figures. Why do humans cry? A new reading of the old sob story 2013-04-13T23:05:11Z In the next scene, we’re back to King’s Landing—Sparrow country—where Margaery, who has realized that she can maneuver better from outside a dungeon, is getting pious as hell. “Game of Thrones”: Start Choppin’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z There are many pre-Lenten Carnival festivals, from Venice to New Orleans to Belgium, but no one celebrates excess before pious fasting better than Rio. The Best Events Of The Year 2011-02-02T18:45:00Z So it's ironic that their decision that even God should be addressed merely as "thou" created a new jargon of pious grandiloquence. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z After all, the assumption prevails that such Republicans, being so ostentatiously pious, really ought to behave the way the Good Book tells them to. The Bible should be X-rated: The Good Book is loaded with sexy sin – someone tell Mike Huckabee 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z “Hamilton” isn’t cool; it’s utterly sincere, but without being judgmental or pious. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z She was lying down, and I was on my knees beside her with the camera, a pious sight in and of itself. How We Saw the Arts This Year 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Or it inspires facile parallels with contemporary political movements while producing some fine folk tales about Eliot Ness, Al Capone, pious preachers, flappers, bootleggers, the Charleston and the speakeasy. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z In the diary, her public self, as a pious woman, meets a more private self, one that is unsure and disillusioned about her place in life. Black Women Writers and the Secret Space of Diaries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In “Svyati,” a setting of Russian Orthodox liturgy sung in Old Slavonic, the foremost voice was that of Mr. Rath’s cello, sounding a wordless paean atop choral lines that rose and fell with pious sobriety. Music Review: Washington Square Music Festival With West Village Chorale 2012-07-11T21:56:11Z During the occupation Joan of Arc was a ubiquitous symbol of the pious heroism that French propaganda assigned to Marshal Pétain, the leader of France’s collaborationist Vichy regime. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z This man who never really knew him, cobbling together crib notes for a eulogy with no meaning, all pious insouciance. 'The clock of his life was counting down' – loving and losing my ex 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The airy opening in quiet, pious strings is sure to be lost as picnickers settle down and latecomers scurry to their seats. Substitutes shine in 'Traviata' at the Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z As the Groom, Gentry George is stiffly wooden; his Bride, Casia Vengoechea, perhaps keeping her innate sensuality in check, comes off more pious than spiritual. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z This book never aspires to be pious or politically correct. Books of The Times: ?Hope: A Tragedy? by Shalom Auslander - Review 2012-01-17T23:18:49Z Founded in 1245, it was the home of Beguines, a group of women who lived pious lives without being part of a convent or monastery. Belgium’s beautiful Bruges: Old-world Europe in the present 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Miguel appears to be a pillar of this community; popular, pious and soon to be a father. Film review: Undertow 2010-08-05T21:50:00Z He refuses because he once made a promise to his pious father to be “one of the good guys”. Preacher: AMC's new hope dances between the diabolical and the divine 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z From its spare flute music to the white fabric glinting in the morning sun, “The Table of Silence” was too overwrought to be much more than a pious obligation. Dance Review: ?Table of Silence Project 9/11? and ?9/11 Dance? - Review 2011-09-12T23:28:21Z 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. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z I like Kadri's observation on the cleric who, while denouncing the frivolous habit of watching television, says it is fine to appear on it, being pious. Heaven on Earth: a Journey Through Shari'ah Law by Sadakat Kadri - review 2013-01-16T11:20:21Z Pauline, the pious but helpless matriarch, is perhaps the novel's greatest success. The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth – review 2013-01-18T08:30:01Z Yet, as with all overly pious people, one also wants to snap her neck. Downton Abbey Watch: Drama and then Somme 2012-01-09T14:30:05Z "Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?" As Romney surges, GOP divisions sharpen 2012-01-09T02:26:00Z The last act of “Parsifal,” for instance, usually comes as a pious unfolding of the liturgy, but here it was volatile, unstable, dark. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z What all those movies have in common is that they're not pious. 'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet overall, it's a production that reflects the characteristics of the hero: admirable, unimpeachable and just a little bit pious. To Kill a Mockingbird ? review 2011-02-23T19:00:00Z Today, though still one of the country's holiest sites, Koya-san is attracting visitors for less pious reasons: the temple accommodation run by its monks. Mountain High: Find Bliss at Koya-San 2011-02-24T11:10:00Z When Hollywood gets pious, then it's high time for satire. Site's satirical take on Hollywood pushes boundaries – and earns raves 2012-10-02T12:19:43Z A grim-sounding 1700 book called “A Token for Children” was widely popular, despite supposedly being an account of the pious deathbed confessions and “joyful deaths” of “several young children.” ‘One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature’ at Grolier 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Greatness remained beyond his reach and some of his paintings and drawings are truly awful, steeped in pious nostalgia and American nativism. Grant Wood at the Whitney Both Thrills and Disappoints 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z And along a splendid long, gilded relief in two sections, on loan from the Musée Guimet in Paris, 16 goddesses, embodying types of pious offerings from songs to perfume, form a Rockettes-esque chorus line. Art Review: ‘Golden Visions of Densatil’ Opens at Asia Society 2014-02-20T23:13:05Z The late doctor's project was an encyclopedia of everything, reminiscent of Mr Casaubon's in Middlemarch, although the Turkish physician was seeking, to the horror of his pious wife, to disprove the existence of God. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z But the timing is off, and the effect is more pious than pensive. Review: Ghosts Hover Over a New Collaboration at City Ballet 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z The Met chorus was in fine form, particularly the men, who at one point have to sing like drunken knights trying to sound like pious women. Music Review: ‘Le Comte Ory,’ With Pretty Yende, at the Metropolitan Opera 2013-01-18T23:09:37Z It was on display during Sochi’s opening ceremonies when David Remnick, possibly in a fruitless attempt to be less boring, offered a procession of Orientalist clichés and pious bromides about Russia’s isolation from the Renaissance. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z Although she still inhabits the same body, the same pious Dominican family and the same Harlem neighborhood, nothing is the same. Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The tone of the film is solemn and pious, which seems almost inevitable when the topic is segregation and racial intolerance. | ?The Loving Story': ?The Loving Story,? an HBO Documentary 2012-02-14T01:46:53Z The hysterical condemnation of Malcolm’s wife as “besmirched” hints at unsavory secrets kept in Jerusalem’s pious homes. Jeffrey Lent’s ‘A Slant of Light’ chronicles a Civil War veteran’s return 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z 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. The long road 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Life was ruled by pressure from the Roman Catholic Church, and women were expected to conform, and be pious and obedient. Review: Mint has a subtle revival of 'Katie Roche' 2013-02-26T01:16:07Z Her pious cheer masks great pain, and a battered romanticism hides under his aggression, but for some reason each lets the other see what is concealed. | 'Tyrannosaur': ?Tyrannosaur? With Peter Mullan - Review 2011-11-17T22:48:28Z The tale begins with a chance meeting between the king and erudite, pious Catherine in the treacherous court where Cromwell presides like Darth Vader, menacing and all seeing. Review | Fans of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy will want to read these historical novels next 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Tom and Eve are pious and more conventionally middle class but also develop clashing agendas. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Sometimes Brown gets pious – "Labels," he says, "who needs them to describe a human being?" – which could be a lyric lifted from the ridiculous Equality Street. Doc Brown – review 2013-04-18T16:36:59Z And for a long time all the movies about movies were pious, because that was the only way you could get the studios to cooperate and supply clips. 'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to think that “Manhattan Oil Project” is just good, clean, public-art fun; pious and well-meaning, mildly entertaining, but nothing to get especially heavy, or ignited, about. Art In Review: JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER: ?Manhattan Oil Project? 2012-03-22T20:35:42Z But be careful because the ones who answer may not give the pious the deliverance sought. Divine drama: “American Gods” answers our prayers for a show worthy of worship 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z When pressed, the pious Anna eventually confesses that she’s surviving on manna from heaven. ‘The Wonder’: From the author of ‘Room,’ another tight, intense drama 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Minutes later, Mr. Kitson, perhaps uncomfortable with sounding pious, added: “It’s not like I am like: ‘I demand truth in all aspects of my life. Exploring That Old Knee-Slapper, Suicide 2011-01-06T22:13:28Z The pious Dawn is quick to land a deal for a book about her daughter’s death, and she knows how to ask about movie rights in later conferences with her publisher. Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh Directs ‘The Library,’ at the Public 2014-04-16T02:00:01Z There is indeed a whispering, almost placid quality to this work, which, like much of Mr. Brown’s oeuvre, strikes a reverent but not pious chord. A Premiere for Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence at the Joyce 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z This Aunt Lydia is publicly devout but privately defiant, outwardly pious but inwardly sardonic. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In Israel, the show was denounced by one Haredi columnist as a “Trojan horse” crafted to influence a pious community with foreign values. Netflix’s ‘Shtisel’ Is Binge-Worthy TV on a Strict Form of Judaism 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z It was a remit that suited the pious and moral Barocci perfectly. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Movies about American history tend to be somber, responsible and pious, even as the history itself is completely crazy — violent, tragic, ridiculous and contradictory. A. O. Scott’s Top Movies of 2013 2013-12-11T15:00:05Z When it comes to devising ways to convey outrage or frustration without offending any delicate and/or pious ears, human creativity knows no bounds. For Pete’s sake — Who is Pete? 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Clark boldly reclaims American Christianity for the left, depicting a demanding faith of radical humanism, without pious displays or moralistic dogma, in service to love. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z His act of pious vandalism got him name-checked in a 139-page legal opinion that prohibits the teaching of any form of biblical creationism in public school science classrooms. Make them talk about evolution: Why won’t a single Republican presidential candidate admit that Darwin’s right 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr Johnson does not seem a pious man himself. In the hands of an angry God 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z And that’s how I ended up sitting across from a pious guitar god who signs autographs with the tagline “J.C. rocks!” and his wife, who founded an organization called Hookers for Jesus. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z There are pious Muslims and cynical hedonists, and each migrant approaches the journey with a distinctive blend of superstition and pragmatism. Movie Review: ‘The Pirogue,’ Directed by Moussa Touré 2013-01-22T23:28:36Z The pious Anglo-Saxon King Edward, who founded the abbey, was made a saint, making the abbey a pilgrimage destination. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z 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. Peeling Back the Paint to Discover Bruegel’s Secrets 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Instead, it shows events through Isabel’s naive and pious eyes, a point made right away in the first few minutes via a subway poster selling eyeshadow, i.e., The price of Hollywood whitewashing: How this complex drama about a Latina woman became just another Keanu Reeves cop movie 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Within 10 months of landing in New York, she had bagged her second husband, the pious hotelier Conrad Hilton. Review | Were Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor the proto-Kardashians? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z True, there’s a pious tone to some of this that’s standard to all superhero TV fare, but it’s overcome by the show’s many strengths. Review | ‘Black Lightning’ plays well to its strengths, rather than playing like a token effort 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z A pious Christian missionary finds himself the powerful intermediary of an ancient African god. ‘Everfair’: a fantastical utopia amid King Leopold’s hell 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s hard to remember that until the late 1960s, Boulder was still a sober, conservative and pious place. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z It starts with pious church organs, but it’s hardly overblown. 10 Essential Songs from George Michael's Music Career 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z It does not require a set of coherent policy positions, nor bootstrapping grit, nor pious restraint. Perspective | ‘Make liberals cry again’ became the battle hymn of the Republicans under Trump 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z As he builds his defense of Evelyn and worries about Ray, Vincent wonders whether his mother, upright and pious though she is, was too tough on Ray when they were kids. Motherhood in all its complexity 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The whole tone of the cemetery is ominous, a warning that life is short and to be pious and religious before your hourglass runs out and your soul flies away to the great beyond. Manhattan’s art of the dead 2012-07-12T21:18:00Z The 42-year-old pianist quoted a well-known poem by the 11th Century Persian poet Omar Khayyam that ridiculed the hypocrisy of people who pretend to be pious. Turkish pianist charged with insulting Muslim values 2012-06-01T15:18:58Z 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. Review: In ‘Head of Passes,’ Phylicia Rashad Is a Matriarch With Worries 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The result is a network comedy that sends up sex, sin and Southern Baptists, or at least the pious parvenus of Dallas. The TV Watch: Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts in ABC?s ?GCB? 2012-03-01T23:09:54Z The world was correct, pious, duplicitous Edwina, and Williams wanted to queer the world. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The tone of “Knife Fight” is mean until the movie flips a switch and turns pious and mawkish as Paul tries to make amends for past sins. Movie Review: ‘Knife Fight,’ With Rob Lowe and Carrie-Anne Moss 2013-01-25T02:18:00Z But, of course, that’s a pious and easy thing to say since I didn’t have to. Frederick Wiseman on Censorship, Small-Town America, and Why He Dislikes the Word “Documentary” 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z She's accompanied by others confined to wheelchairs as well as the less handicapped, the pious, the curious, the sceptical and various attendants. Lourdes | Film review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z Ms. Collins, as their pious younger sister, projects an anxious and matronly disapproval, making the virtuous Cordelia a hard pill to swallow. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s insolent yet earnest, flashily inventive and brazenly aggressive, joining seemingly boundless male-adolescent bravado with primal fears and a nearly pious dream of higher purpose. The “Deadpool” Phenomenon and the American Male 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Edwina, Williams’s mother, was judgmental, frigid and pious, but also as loquacious as her husband was laconic. Making Tenn out of Tom 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z It requires courage, tolerance of isolation, a strong belief of the future and a deep passion for literature – like a pious religious believer. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z As a lifelong music obsessive and secular Congregationalist, I have ferocious holiday-music opinions—if it’s too craven, cloying, or pious, it can go jump in a lake. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z After signing the document, Bartholomew said, "The pious Ukrainian people have been waiting for this blessed day for seven centuries." Putin's war against Ukraine may have spiritual, religious foundations: 'Good vs. evil' 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z He himself played both chamber organ and harpsichord, and even that was pious: painted on its lid was a Latin quote from the Magnificat. Les Talens Lyriques ? review 2010-12-07T22:40:00Z But almost immediately, scenes unfold that complicate his heroic stance, and foreshadow the gaps between rich and poor, between secular and pious Syrians, that have helped to doom the uprising to disunity. In ‘Our Terrible Country,’ Mohammad Ali Atassi Explores the Syrian Revolt 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Or is that all just a pious pipedream, when the reality is that everyone is in it for him or herself? Culture wars: what the row over vegan nursery meals is really all about 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The young romance subplot is perfunctory, and the basic anti-logging message contrives to be both didactic and pious, while being at the same time mystifyingly impotent. The Lorax – review 2012-07-26T20:00:01Z Unlike those – pious bien-pensants as much as religious bigots – who fume and splutter whenever the subject of population is mentioned, Gore recognises the increase of human numbers as one of the world's largest challenges. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z I remember that he called her “a deeply pious woman,” which was appalling inasmuch as she never went to a synagogue or even believed in a deity. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: He wants the last word on last words 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Technically, they’re reliquaries, but they’re also saintly “portraits,” the sitters being the pious sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene of New Testament fame, the one a compulsive doer, the other a “concept person,” a dreamer. With Splendor and Saints, Hispanic Society Shows Its Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There is something of a tradition of films set in monasteries and convents or, rather, two traditions: one sentimental and pious; the other bracing and meditative. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Donna’s situation might have been mined for ugly, trivializing humor or pious pathos, and “Obvious Child” could have turned out either obnoxiously silly or insufferably earnest. Jenny Slate Considers Abortion in ‘Obvious Child’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z 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. The 52 Places Traveler: In the Italian Dolomites, Dramatic Skies and Stone Giants 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z For two weeks, she is to closely observe a pious 11-year-old girl who’s said not to have eaten for four months. ‘The Wonder’ Review: The Hungry Woman 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Brown reviles religion and treats earthly powers as a pious imposture. Inferno by Dan Brown – review 2013-05-19T07:00:02Z This is not a story about pious blowhards whose unbending conviction alienated their children forever. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z And if Mary is deified as a pious martyr, there's empathy for Elizabeth, sharply isolated and under pressures that male rulers would be spared. At ACT, a tale of 2 queens, 1 throne 2011-09-16T19:59:04Z We see Cruz pretending to be pious in a Christian bookstore. Fear and loafing on the campaign trail: Showtime’s “The Circus” cops out with cynical pundit porn 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The more intensely pious the believer becomes, however, the greater the risk that these emotions will spill over into other parts of the evolutionary hack. God is not a prude: This is why religion remains so sex-obsessed, why we pretend Jesus was born of a virgin 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z But their greater act of liberation may have been their invention of the perfectly two-faced rock band: pious toward its sources, vulgar toward its audience, amped up and on the hustle. Music: Stones, Chieftains, Beach Boys and El Gran Combo Turn 50 2012-02-03T21:32:08Z 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. Review: In ‘Woman and Scarecrow,’ Female Fury Doesn’t Get Its Due 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Vowing to protect the family, Gentry winds up in a shoot-’em-up at a 200-year-old hacienda, a partnership with a rival cartel that incites war, and the arms of his friend’s pious yet sultry sister. New Books by Jim Harrison and Howard Jacobson 2011-10-19T22:58:24Z “I just found the whole thing so pious,” he said. Add Audacity To Understatement, And Stir In Patience 2011-06-10T14:20:38Z Carter was also a pious man with a lifelong fascination with the Holy Land. Lawrence Wright's new book vividly recalls 1978 Camp David summit 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z “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. What’s So Funny About Orthodox Judaism? This Comic Has One Answer 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z None of the characters is depicted as being fanatical, hypocritical or lacking in intelligence, which is too often the case when pious Christians are depicted onstage. Critic’s Notebook: Varied New Works at 38th Annual Humana Festival 2014-04-02T18:26:14Z He is pulled in several directions: by his activist older brother, by his pious West Indian mother and by white British society, which refuses to embrace him. A Landmark of Black Cinema, Restored for a New Age 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z She didn’t tell the neighbor that eventually she would leave her pious husband, my father, and her two daughters, my sister and me, and marry her lover Muhammad. Hanan al-Shaykh: By the Book 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The one thing that cannot be said about SF's attitude to religion is that it is pious – SF is a fundamentally irreverent literary form which is never really happy with certainty or solemnity. Science fiction probes at religion 2011-07-11T16:02:01Z And pious locals weren't overjoyed when well-inked young men started showing up at church. Chris Weitz: once upon a time in East LA 2011-07-28T20:55:01Z Davies delivers homilies in some of his verses, but he is never pompous or pious. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z There is a moment when she refuses to co-operate in the farce, but her willingness to get on with the job is often touching in the face of their pious insensitivity. The Cardinals – review 2013-01-15T18:17:53Z Visually, it’s jarring – the skirt suit is hip, the crucifix is pious – but this is the point. Satin v cheesecloth: how 70s style defines the warring women of Mrs America 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Right-wing propagandists quickly learned that the Tillman family wasn't going to stick to the pious, patriotic script. "The Tillman Story": The surprising saga of a football star at war 2010-08-20T21:50:00Z Always an intense, emotional character, given to his own extremes — bouts of rage and of tenderness, who once found religion after marrying a pious woman he still loves deeply — addiction has ravaged Arthur. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z And underlying the whole is the metaphor of the seasons as representing human life, with the winter of old age and mortality bringing the piece to its pious conclusion. The Seasons 2010-06-29T21:20:00Z He is confident enough to wear his influences on his sleeve without falling into empty pastiche or pious homage. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Morgan imbues Louisa with poignant grace, and Davis makes priggishly pious Anna less of a cartoon than she might otherwise be. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Every now and then a scandal erupts that generates headlines, hearings and pious declarations that such conduct is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Movie Review: ‘The Invisible War,’ Directed by Kirby Dick 2012-06-21T22:53:09Z Key had not yet been relegated to textbooks as the pious author of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Her mother is “one of the Top Five pious women of the district,” a hectoring, dispiriting force of gloom. Review | ‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The telling, though, is never merely solemn or pious. Critic?s Notebook: From Belarus, Dynamic Drama With Limited Means 2011-04-18T23:52:43Z He wasn’t especially pious, he said — just quiet, private, observant. theater: A Little Good, a Little Evil, a Lot of Ritual 2010-12-30T23:56:50Z 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. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’ Is a Ghostly Play 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z This version is, above all, sincere, even pious. Theater Review: ?Evita,? Starring Elena Roger, at the Marquis Theater 2012-04-06T02:00:09Z Leaving home and his father’s forbearance hasn’t helped him escape the vexation of being a pious man’s son. Review | In ‘Jack,’ Marilynne Robinson’s fourth Gilead novel, a lost soul embarks on an impossible love affair 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z As long as the Duggars continue being very pious and very religious, I will be making fun of them. Kathy Griffin: Always looking for the funny 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Part’s angelic face and luxurious line is certainly suited to the serene Nikiya, yet her habit of casting down her eyes creates an aura that is more pious than spiritual. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bayadère’ at Met Opera House 2012-05-23T22:30:07Z Hollywood is not a pious town, but Fox executives are praying for a box-office miracle by Sunday. Richard Corliss reviews The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 2010-12-09T19:20:00Z She dares him to judge her, and when he does, she strikes back, dismissing his naïve, pious criticisms of her turbo-capitalist lifestyle. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Part of the submissive stereotype is the idea that we’re all pious Catholic girls who are either afraid of sex or willing to serve men’s needs. 6 harmful media myths about sex and Latinas 2014-02-02T22:00:00Z I have modest respect for the artistes who take refuge in pious failure as though it doesn’t matter whether anyone is interested in their work. Can smarter clickbait save us? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z If it is distinctly thin on the more pious tales, that is hardly surprising. Grimm Tales for Young and Old by Philip Pullman – review 2012-10-05T07:00:02Z Are James's tweets so radioactively pious that they might actually get him hauled in front of his manager and told to loosen up just a smidge? One Direction's 'joint' video gets moral majority huffing and puffing 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z After the keynote speaker leaves the podium, the president, as a rule, delivers an address – usually pious pablum hardly worth listening to. Faith-fueled forces of hatred: Obama’s religion speech was troubling — but not for the reasons the right alleges 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z In a recent phone interview Mr. Ames said, “People who want a pious account of these things will not be pleased.” Antiques: ?American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960,? at Bard Graduate Center 2011-09-15T21:06:33Z I think some of them may have apologized to the children, for not seeing through to the reality beneath the pious pioneer facade. ArtsBeat: A Father’s Wrath: Tom Kizzia Talks About ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ 2013-07-24T18:12:36Z What I try to do, and this may sound kind of pious, but I really truly try in my day-to-day life and meditate on how very fortunate I am. Delroy Lindo on his "Da 5 Bloods" pro-Trump role: "He felt reviled because of his love for America" 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z She came from a very bourgeois, pious Catholic family, living in a seven-bedroom apartment in the plush 16th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Eiffel Tower. Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z It proves a juggling act as the christening approaches, with Jamie's pious extended family coming in from Ireland and a tense flashpoint smouldering away that, obviously, has to ignite in the church. TV highlights 08/01/2013 2013-01-07T20:00:02Z His noble and saintly patience embodies the movie’s gentle vision of art as an innocent practice of harmlessly humble souls—as a sort of secular monasticism that comes with its own whiff of pious rectitude. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” and the Myth of the Solitary Artist 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The boys find a bench with a bronze sculpture of a saint at one end, seated, looking pious, his arm raised plaintively to the sky, palm upturned. What we tell our sons about rape 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z “You want a training ground for good pious wives?” Review: ‘Bull in a China Shop’ Finds a Revolution in One Woman 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z It is also a lamentation for a modern Algeria gripped by pious fundamentalism. Stranger and stranger 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z This explains why the outwardly pious Commanders of the Faith have based themselves in Cambridge, Massachusetts, north of Boston, rather than Washington DC. Elisabeth Moss on the Handmaid’s Tale: ‘This is happening in real life. Wake up people’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z But this show often evokes pious art, and one of the two participants, Thomas Xenakis, scatters traditional Christian icons among his other work. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’ “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.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Front Runner’ and ‘The Emoji Movie’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Ana Steele is writing on Tess when she first encounters Christian, and perhaps EL James thought to make a sly wink at Tess's pious and emotionally limited husband, Angel Clare, in her choice of name. Fifty Shades of Grey's nod to Tess is a mark of guilt 2012-07-24T14:34:36Z “We’re not just pious, uptight people. There’s joy and laughter, the full range of human experience. The women in my community are very intelligent, very feisty. They know what they want.” Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z This was the age of Gladstone, the British Empire, the pious bourgeoisie. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z In one upstairs gallery a small, pious painting of Jesus’ head, lightly bearing the weight of the cross, is set on a small table just to one side of a wild abduction scene, Titian’s “Europa.” 2010-01-21T06:29:00Z Could this pious woman be guilty of playing God by constructing her own reality? In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z She later finds herself rejecting the Christianity imposed on her by her pious mother and being drawn to the life she once knew. Shining a Light on Black and Brown Representation in Film 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But “In Between” doesn’t suppose that only pious, Muslim men mistreat the women in their lives. Review: ‘In Between’ Tells of Three Women Fighting Patriarchy in Tel Aviv 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “Miseducation” is neither a glib sendup of a less enlightened era nor a pious reckoning with the bygone injustices of the past. Review: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ Resists the Straight and Narrow 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z India Rose, the Lilac Fairy, looked patiently pious from her first entrance to her last. Contrasting Gelsey Kirkland’s Troupe and Ballet Academy East 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Ironically, Deuteronomy itself has been described as a “pious forgery,” as scholars call works created to justify a particular belief or practice. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z It's little wonder that the pious declarations sound so jarring and uncharacteristic. Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2013-03-11T13:41:42Z Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw’s classic drama about a pious young woman at odds with her father, a wealthy munitions maker. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 4-11: Patti LuPone and more 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Vogel believes Joseph is a “pious fraud,” a prophet who created a prop for the sake of giving his religion reality for the many who needed an outward sign. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z I think when you start taking a firm moral standpoint, as a writer and trying to infiltrate that into the work, it becomes pious and boring and selfish. "Guilt" writer discusses the twisty finale, the importance of that enigmatic smile and Season 2 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Actually, so is Ms. DiMaggio, whose Vera is everything that Lydia isn’t: pious, sober, grounded, plain. Theater Review: ‘17 Orchard Point,’ a Tale of a Strained Family 2014-05-07T17:06:16Z Narrated by Halima, Livingstone’s cook and slave, and Jacob, a pious freed slave, as Livingstone’s corpse is taken to the coast of Africa, the story offers a fresh look at the enduring history of colonialism. 17 New Books to Watch For in September 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z If so, how on earth to keep it from turning pious and dully moralizing? Valeria Luiselli’s Latest Novel Is a Mold-Breaking New Classic 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z After all, its hero was always described as “pius,” a multivalent adjective that blended “pious,” “dutiful” and “loyal.” Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z One Friday night, she’s stuck at home writing Avengers fan fiction; her father disapproves of her going to parties as much as he disapproves of her unemployed, pious brother praying all the time. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Many shows on late Renaissance Roman art keep their focus on works depicting the pious and the pleasurable. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I remember streets lined with busy bars, full of aides and locals desperate to get away from the dying, the desperate and the pious. 'A holy Blackpool' 2010-03-30T20:00:00Z But many pious Turks believe turning Hagia Sophia into a museum denigrated the memory of Sultan Mehmet, who strode into the ransacked cathedral to pray at its altar. Muslims pray to turn Turkey's greatest monument back into a mosque 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “Everything is on the table,” the laughably pious accountant says, “when children’s lives are at stake.” Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z The whole collection evokes the about-to-be-upended universe of a pious, poor village girl — a village girl you desperately want to corrupt, like Apollonia from “The Godfather.” T Magazine: Giulietta of the Spirits 2011-01-27T22:15:04Z Or the pious talk about connecting the world, through a tech platform, into one big group hug. Perspective | No, billionaires won’t save us. That’s a myth that links Zuckerberg and Trump. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Despite a justifiable reticence surrounding pious displays of American pride, the left has made a critical error by not forcefully confronting the right's self-serving, deceitful, and hateful brand of chauvinism. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z The gratifying lesson is that however much the pious seek legal safeguards against mockery, they remain powerless against their greatest comic threat. Rewind TV: OK! TV; The British Academy Film Awards; Champions League Football; Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence 2011-02-20T00:05:41Z His ostensibly shocking, entertaining films were French cinema hits at a time – from the mid-70s on – when the directors of the New Wave began to seem tired, pious and funless. Bertrand Blier's new comedy sidekick 2011-02-03T22:15:01Z A stopgap stint at a religious radio station introduces double trouble among her co-workers: a pious but corruptible boy and an aloof girl who poses novel possibilities. Movie Review: ‘Young and Wild,’ by Marialy Rivas 2012-11-30T03:23:35Z Ms. Marshall’s quartet was a slightly pious display of politically correct behavior for three guys, a gal and a baby. Dance Review: A Tribute to Merce Cunningham in Battery Park City 2010-07-27T22:38:00Z In his memoir, he recalls a pious phase during which he assembled a crowd of dark-skinned domestics and preached them a sermon on the Biblical reasons for their subordinate status. A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The only danger to her good works is the possibility that a pious churchgoer might expose Carmen’s deception and reimpose rules that weren’t working before she took over. ‘Carmen’ Review: You Will Live in Bliss 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Martin Luther — a pious monk and fiery orator who became “The Great Reformer” — came from a humble, pastoral corner of Germany’s heartland. Visiting Germany’s Lutherland during 500th anniversary 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The Elaine look incorporates so many styles — early American settler, gypsy, business casual, pious zealot — that it was likely only a matter of time before one of them provided inspiration for designers. The Elaine Benes Look Re-appears as New York Style 2010-08-18T20:40:00Z Whether pious or risqué, the texts read as private musings; Barber’s settings rendered their interiority perceptible. Music Review: Melissa Fogarty and Marc Peloquin at Bargemusic 2010-08-02T21:55:00Z “Yet there is something about being godly — prayerful, spiritual, pious — that encourages mindfulness about doing right, and avoiding wrong.” Vitamins make you horny, and other things I learned on Laura Ingraham’s insane new website 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “Despite being an atheist or a nonbeliever, he’s the most pious and religious character in the show,” Baltz said. Tim Baltz on How B.J. Grabbed a Win in ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z They were game, and besides, they took their cues from the performers and the questions, which set the tone: serious, earnest, solicitous, a little pious. Theater Review: ?How Much Is Enough?? at St. Ann?s Warehouse ? Review 2011-11-18T23:46:52Z The most influential example was Martin Luther, who nourished a zealous hatred of Jews as well as of fraudulent itinerant monks who preyed on the gullible and the pious. The Secret Code That Threatened Nazi Fantasies of Racial Purity 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The film begins with the artist’s childhood in Queen, growing up in a pious Roman Catholic family headed by a father opposed to his son committing his life to art. How Mapplethorpe won: The Jesse Helms art world culture wars are over 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The shepherd’s innovation and freethinking liberty is ultimately preferable to the pious conservatism of the agrarian. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z In season two, he goes in search of guidance in the shape of Mahershala Ali, who plays a sheikh who represents the pious, calm ideal that Ramy wants to embody. Ramy: culture-clash comedy with a deeper message 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z “I had imagined a sour-faced pious old lady,” he wrote in his autobiography. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z The shepherds were pious Jews, and they knew what the Messiah meant. Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Considering the treatment she has received, we can’t blame her for concluding, “There were no pious men anymore, there had not been for a long time.” Review | The original nasty woman is a goddess for our times 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The riskiest thing about this movie is its sincerity: Mr. Aronofsky, while not exactly pious, takes the narrative and its implications seriously. Movie Review: Russell Crowe Confronts Life’s Nasty Weather in ‘Noah’ 2014-03-27T18:05:40Z One response might be to adopt the position of Hanshan and Shide: Point and laugh at the pious declarations of officialdom. Chinese paintings at LACMA captivate with their delicacy 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The blogofems might be hypocritical, pious and tiresome, but they are also ... correct! "30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy -- and its own 2011-02-25T18:01:00Z And it suddenly registers that within all the pious bureaucratic double-talk we’ve been hearing lie matters of genuine life and death. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z 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. Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z That’s not to say people changed their beliefs — few pious people change their mind about whether to call themselves Jewish, Muslim or Catholic — but “evangelical” is a term that’s mutable. The last evangelical celebrity? Tim Tebow’s firing may signal a recession among the faithful 2013-05-07T11:45:00Z But the biggest gasp for those less pious audience members may stem from the play’s title. Albert Innaurato Returns to the Stage With ‘Doubtless’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Aunt Lydia is a mercurial assassin: a pious leader, a ruthless administrator, a deliciously acerbic confessor. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z President-elect Donald Trump was only a reality show curiosity when Southland Tales was released, but his mix of profane and pious could easily have made him a character in the film. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Leaning with one elbow on a large, open book, her long hair flowing over its pages and a skull nestled under her arm, she gazes heavenward with a pious, melancholy expression. Art Review: Italian Paintings From the Feigen Collection, at Yale 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z “Stories of pious children tend to be false,” Flannery O’Connor once remarked, and I found this line in a book of essays and underlined it, because that was my experience. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z Yet the acting is flawless, the tone gentle and observational, and Leila’s transformation, when it occurs, is unforced and unaccompanied by pious lecturing. | 'Letters to Father Jacob': The Ex-Con and the Priest 2010-10-08T01:17:00Z So, one crew of pious Italian Christians decided to take action. Never mind the fat guy at the North Pole: Tell your children about the real St. Nick 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z When pressed, the pious girl confesses that she’s surviving on manna from heaven. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Rahima is a pious young woman who puts up with the other servants' dehumanizing treatment, saying nothing when they refer to her as "It." In a TV landscape full of serious monarchs "The Serpent Queen" has bite, along with a good time 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The raunchy women’s dance club to which Alike is drawn has nothing in common with her pious household, where a stiff, artificial cheer and tense formality pass for familial togetherness. | 'Pariah': ?Pariah,? With Adepero Oduye as a Young Lesbian - Review 2011-12-27T23:41:52Z Now she lives a quiet, pious life with her mother and her daughter, Marjana. A Swashbuckling Pirate Pulled Into One Last Job 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z And I'm sure she meant to set us campers a pious example, which is why she was changing her clothes inside her sleeping bag. Once upon a life: Rhoda Janzen 2010-12-26T00:04:01Z “The Celebration of the Holy Squash” was a weeklong feminist parody of a pious ceremony, but it took seriously a woman’s role as agent of communal ritual. Move over, Barbie, it's 'the year of' 92-year-old L.A. artist Barbara T. Smith 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The idea that humanity descended from the apes has the town’s pious power brokers up in arms. Review: John Douglas Thompson and Alfred Molina’s clash of titans transcends dated ‘Inherit the Wind’ 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Among them was Perkins, the founder of the Louisiana Family Forum, who has long promoted an existential clash between pious Christians and decadent liberals. House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z There couldn't be a more enthusiastic endorsement for an extremely pious Christian from a man who was credibly accused of partying and drug use with very young women for years. Mike Johnson's MAGA honeymoon: How long can the new House speaker hold the GOP intact? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The number of religious schools has increased in line with Erdogan’s stated goal of creating a “pious generation.” Turkey celebrates 100th anniversary of republic with fireworks and navy procession 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Analysts say Prabowo, who was previously saddled with a murky human rights record, has cultivated a more charismatic and statesmanlike image, than one of fiery, pious nationalist, to appeal to younger voters. Indonesia's Prabowo registers in three-way presidential race 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Once disgraced due to a murky human rights record, analysts say Prabowo has now cultivated a persona that is more charismatic statesman than fiery, pious nationalist to appeal to a younger voter base. Indonesia's Prabowo registers in three-way 2024 presidential race 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The former special forces commander has undergone a remarkable transformation since being appointed defence minister in 2019, cultivating a persona that is more charismatic statesman than fiery, pious nationalist, analysts say. Once disgraced, Indonesian ex-general tipped for presidency after makeover 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The Elimane file is a ludic tour of all the ways African literature can be erased: through contempt, through challenges to its authenticity, through a pious regard for noble savagery, through bemused and condescending politeness. In search of an erased African: An acclaimed French novel probes a literary scandal 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z To be clear, the United States remains an unusually pious nation by the standards of the rich world. America is losing faith in religion | Nicholas D. Kristof 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z "They hide behind their money and a pious front in order to create chaos and division in the Republican party," Rogers wrote on Facebook. Ken Paxton’s far-right billionaire backers are fighting hard to save him 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Just like the pious need a leader who has sacrificed for their beliefs, students need role models who authentically care about what they teach. The In-Credible Robot Priest and the Limits of Robot Workers 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z “They see possibilities. And you cannot believe, suddenly, how pious they can become when a financial opportunity presents itself. Suddenly they are more devout than a nun.” In Europe’s empty churches, prayer and confessions make way for drinking and dancing 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z He commands fierce loyalty from pious Turks who once felt disenfranchised in secular Turkey and his political career has survived the failed coup and corruption scandals. Erdogan positioned to extend rule in Turkey runoff election 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Fervent supporters saw it as just reward for a leader who put Islamic teachings at the core of public life in a country with strong secularist traditions and championed the pious working classes. Erdogan defies predictions of political demise ahead of Turkey election runoff 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Despite paintings like The Birth of Venus, however, Botticelli remained a pious Christian throughout his life. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scholars in northern Europe had turned to Christian humanism as a means of making people more pious and thus achieving religious reform. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Mamluk rulers were pious Muslims who protected pilgrims bound for the holy cities of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z As long as I can remember, it's been a truism that America is an extremely pious country and great deference must be paid to traditional Christian values. DeSantis' deal with the devil: Chasing the Christian right won't help him 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Fervent supporters saw it as just reward for a leader who put Islamic teachings at the core of public life in a country with a strong secularist traditions, and championed the pious working classes. In Turkey vote, Erdogan defies forecasts of demise 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z There would be harsh, and official, intolerance well into the nineteenth century, but even pious monarchs were now very hesitant to initiate or participate in full-scale war in the name of religious belief. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z A pious man who frequently stopped in the midst of battle to perform the required daily prayers, Aurangzeb sought to eliminate all non-Islamic practices from his court. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z They insisted that cruel rulers be removed from power and replaced by pious men. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In “The Starling Girl,” a pious teenager begins an affair with her youth pastor. Your Monday Briefing: Thailand Votes for Change 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z His opponents have vowed to unpick many of the changes he has made to Turkey, which he has sought to shape to his vision of a pious, conservative society and assertive regional player. In Turkey election, Erdogan doesn't flinch as he fights for political life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z This debate would go on for centuries, with equally pious groups of Christians coming to completely different conclusions about Christ’s divine and human natures. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In their view of Islam, any pious man who followed the example of Muhammad could lead the Muslim community. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Like many heads of Southeast Asian states, Borobudur rulers staked their political legitimacy on setting a pious example for their subjects and thrived economically by opening their ports to the wider world. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He commands fierce loyalty from pious Turks who once felt disenfranchised in secular Turkey and his political career has survived an attempted coup in 2016, and numerous corruption scandals. Turkey votes in pivotal elections that could end Erdogan's 20-year rule 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Fervent supporters saw it as just reward for a leader who put Islamic teachings back at the core of public life in a country with a strong secularist tradition, and championed the pious working classes. In Turkey election, Erdogan doesn't flinch as he fights for political life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z He even managed to recast himself from a playboy cricketing icon into a pious politician as he sought the top job in the country. Imran Khan: Why was the former Pakistan PM arrested? 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z By then, Mr. Khan had embraced a pious form of Islam and sought to transform his personal image. Who Is Imran Khan? 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z He has shaped the country to his vision of a pious, conservative society and assertive regional player, even as critics say he has used the courts to crack down on dissent. Factbox: Key players in Turkey's election campaign 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z His opponents have vowed to unpick many of the changes Erdogan has made to Turkey, which he has sought to shape to his vision of a pious, conservative society and assertive regional player. Turkey's Erdogan doesn't flinch in fight for political life 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Even the pious Mike Pence went full MAGA, proclaiming it a "political prosecution." Indicted Trump: Too irresistible for GOP 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “In the Quran, paradise is described in several sections as this big, luscious garden with flowers, greenery, waters. … If you live a pious life, you can enter,” Krody says. At the Textile Museum, the divine takes many forms 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Along with vegetables, these privileged young people find plenty of time to sow their own anxieties and reap a bumper crop of conflicts within their pious group of recyclers and scavengers. Review | In Eleanor Catton’s ‘Birnam Wood,’ the end of the world creeps up fast 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z At stake in the presidential and parliamentary elections is the direction of a country which Erdogan has increasingly shaped to his vision of a pious, conservative society and assertive regional player. Erdogan pins election hopes on 'building Turkey' mission after quake 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z What Fox’s pious proclamation of press freedom misses is that lies of the sort the network appears to have told its viewers don’t enjoy or deserve constitutional protection. Column: Why Fox News' lies about Trump's defeat probably aren't protected by the 1st Amendment 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z They were as pious about their beliefs as any theologian. Biden caved to advocates, border deluge ensued 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Around us, dozens of pious voices sang with Kineret about the world to come. I Promised God It Was the Last Time 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z He forged close ties with Australia’s conservative political establishment, including former prime minister Tony Abbott, a pious Catholic who visited him in prison. Cardinal George Pell, convicted then acquitted of child sex abuse, dies at 81 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Fervent supporters saw it as just reward for a leader who put Islamist teachings back at the core of public life and championed the pious working classes. Erdogan pins election hopes on 'building Turkey' mission after quake 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z He explains to his students that these images were works of devotion created by pious artists at the behest of devout rulers. A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z But his mere presence at the compound was anathema to more stringently pious and politically neutral Jews. Religious dissent in Israel at Ben-Gvir's Al Aqsa compound visit 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z A sinister legend runs counter to the pious never-on-Sunday schedule: that early organizers made a deal with the devil to ensure rainless parade days. Only a pandemic (once) and a war (three times) can stop the Rose Parade 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z But Banks has something more complex in mind than the hypocrisy of a religious leader or the predictable impurities of a pious community. Review | ‘The Magic Kingdom,’ by Russell Banks, reveals a paradise lost 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Attacking worshipers at prayer — elderly Jews or pious and generous Black Americans — is even more repellent. Opinion | Call them what they are: Cowards 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Walker is counting on Trump’s endorsement, his own celebrity and a pious search for redemption pitched to social conservatives to deliver him victory in the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff. Opinion | Walker lacks the reputation and credibility that runoff voters need to see 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z To outsiders, reported a biographer, Drew appeared “modest and unassuming, a kindly, pious gentleman, reticent and humble to a fault.” Column: How Sam Bankman-Fried exploited the 'effective altruism' fad to get rich and con the world 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z As a young girl, I considered my grandmother Minnie, my father’s mother, the epitome of a pious Jew. Review | ‘Bad Jews’ exposes the fault lines in American Judaism 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Last week Mr Drakeford accused the leader of Plaid Cymru, Adam Price, of offering "pious aspirations and accusations that somehow other people are not as holy as he is". Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford loses temper with Tories in Senedd 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z "If all he has to offer me are pious aspirations and accusations that somehow other people are not as holy as he is, then I'm afraid that debate is hardly likely to prosper." UHW: First minister says state of Cardiff A&E 'unacceptable' 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z My dad was a pious Bedouin who died 12 years ago. Reckoning with colonialism: The British conquered my country — and built my school 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z The number of religious schools in Turkey has increased under Erdogan, who has promised to raise a “pious generation.” Jailed Turkish pop star released to house arrest over joke 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z The number of religious schools has increased under Erdogan, who has promised to raise a “pious generation.” Turkish pop star jailed over joke about religious schools 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z And he does, although by the time she manages to escape her village servitude after a savage beating, she’s already worn down — and the perfect victim for Khalifa’s pious Muslim wife. Review: Love after atrocity: A Nobel winner's new novel crystallizes the pain of colonialism 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Socrates asks, “Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is being loved by the gods?” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender- hearted woman. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z These early temperance societies called on individuals to lead pious lives and avoid sin, including the sin of overindulging in alcohol. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z By then, he had embraced a pious form of Islam and sought to transform his personal image. What We Know About Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Former Prime Minister 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The former cricket captain, now styling himself as a pious anti-poverty reformer, spoke of his dream of building an "Islamic welfare state" where wealth was shared. Imran Khan: The cricket hero bowled out as Pakistan's PM 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Phipps: The North wasn’t the pious North, and the South wasn’t the evil South. What’s Actually Being Taught in U.S. History 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Born to an Egyptian family that commingled scientists and pious Muslim scholars, he illustrated the intersection of modern technology and seventh-century values that made al-Qaeda so combustible. Opinion | Zawahiri’s death shows U.S. focus even two decades after 9/11 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z In the story, Daniel was a pious man who was thrown into the den for praising God under the rule of King Darius; the Bible says Daniel survived through his faith in God alone. How a photographer grew closer to his family, and his faith, during the pandemic 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z He shows us a glimpse of a prosperous, plural and humane region - one that can laugh at itself without the inflamed nostrils of pious outrage. Why Shah Rukh Khan is still 'king of Bollywood' 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Reflecting on his pious reputation, Pratt mused that he has recently “become the face of religion” in Hollywood while insisting that he’s not really “a religious person.” Chris Pratt 'cried about' backlash to infamous Katherine Schwarzenegger Instagram 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z That’s a suggestion we often hear from pious, well-meaning people when other words fail in the face of an unspeakable, inexplicable tragedy. Opinion | Texas AG Paxton’s shameful Uvalde cop-out: ‘God always has a plan’ 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z His inspiration was the Brotherhood’s founder, Sayyid Qutb, who saw the West as an erotic seductress that must be spurned and destroyed by pious Muslims. Opinion | Zawahiri’s death shows U.S. focus even two decades after 9/11 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z So spare us the pious calls to avoid politics. Opinion | These Gun Reforms Could Save 15,000 Lives. We Can Achieve Them. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Officials issue pious sentiments and attend prayer vigils for communities and families hollowed out by grief and literally walking in fear as they await the next deadly encounter. Opinion | We need a culture-changing solution to gun violence 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Some mock “thoughts and prayers” in response to a school shooting as the expression of pious impotence. Opinion | After Uvalde, I pray with the grieving — and for bold action on guns 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z “The pious Ukrainian people have awaited this blessed day,” Bartholomew said in a 2019 address at a ceremony in Istanbul creating an independent Ukrainian church. Opinion | Russia’s assault on Ukraine is entwined with a religious war 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The New York Times reported, "since 2000, 31 countries, many just as pious as Mexico, have expanded access to abortion, only three have rolled it back: Nicaragua, Poland and the United States." Why Donald Trump is downplaying the Supreme Court's leaked abortion ruling 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z It was an unedifying spectacle, but let's not get too pious about it: It was also TV gold. NI election 2022: Dull campaign could still produce a seismic result 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z You see, from adolescence into my early 30s, I spent so much energy measuring my every move, taking careful steps in defiance of her examples of pious and virtuous womanhood. Perspective | Making Jamaican spiced bun for my mother was a final act of love 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z We saw White Christians in the South sit serenely in their pews listening to what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called “pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities” as blatant injustices were inflicted upon Black people. Opinion | Silence in the face of injustice is a sin, too 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z But pious Sikh men, for whom wearing a beard and turban is a religious requirement, are frequently mistaken for Muslims. Within 10 Days, Three Sikhs Were Attacked on the Same N.Y.C. Block 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z This was not just pious poking into the past. Jerusalem Archaeology Modernizes but Runs into Ancient Problems 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The ideal institution for instilling a self-governing conscience was the Christian family, inspired by a pious mother and led by a sober and hard-working father. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Unlike his grandfather, Louis was pious and saintly. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The air of pious condemnation that suddenly fills the air is both shocking and sadly familiar. Review: 'Lingui, the Sacred Bonds,' Chad's Oscar entry, strikes a mighty blow against patriarchy 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z These days, this pious sense of optimism might be overshadowed by a more popular use. Are Better Things Coming? Inshallah. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z He should be sitting on the Supreme Court — and would be, if McConnell actually believed his own pious pronouncements about how the Senate is supposed to work. Opinion | McConnell’s defense of the filibuster is pure hypocrisy 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Isabella was an especially pious Catholic who was determined to increase the power and extent of the church, and in 1492 Spanish armies had just conquered Granada, the last Muslim foothold in Spain. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In fact, it was Luther who said, “God’s highest gift on earth is a pious, cheerful, God-fearing, home-keeping wife.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He wears a kipa and tzitzit, the fringes that hang down from the waist, which puts him on the pious end of the Conservative spectrum. Inside the Unraveling of American Zionism 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, through the intricate gold threads woven one by one into the elaborate headdress worn by a pious “Mary, Lady Guildford,” Holbein created a veritable halo for an aristocrat. Review: Hans Holbein struts his stuff at the Getty Museum 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z He enveloped himself in what Guelzo calls a “cloud of pious wishes” and decided, as Guelzo tartly says, “it was up to the whites to decide when enough was enough.” Opinion | This scrupulous biography of Robert E. Lee is exactly what the country needs 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z In each town, the most pious elders met for lengthy prayer and mutual interrogation until a small number recognized one another as properly converted “visible saints” with the right and duty to form a church. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Such sights were once unimaginable in the pious rural areas of southern Xinjiang. Terror & tourism: Xinjiang eases its grip, but fear remains 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z That is, I believe, the case: I have several friends — including a couple on Set Piece Menu — who work as commentators and are extremely pious about the accuracy of their pronunciations. Saudi Arabia, Newcastle and Soccer’s Worship of Money 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Sadr is a storied figure both here and abroad, with a history of agitation against U.S. troops after their invasion and often fierce loyalty from tens of thousands of pious and working-class followers. Former U.S. foe likely to emerge as kingmaker in Iraqi election — with tacit American backing 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Her wayward yet pious turn of mind will likely catch readers off guard as well. Jonathan Franzen kicks off a new trilogy with his brilliant latest novel, ‘Crossroads’ 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z As early as 1636, a pious benefactor named John Harvard left money for the training of godly ministers, and Harvard College in nearby Cambridge was named in his honor. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z We will hear pious boasting about what countries have already done to curb heat-trapping carbon emissions — and weaselly excuses about why they regrettably cannot do more. Opinion | The goals we’ve set aren’t enough to stave off global warming. It’s past time to get real. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z They discussed for hours at a time their duties as pious Muslims. It's been 20 years since 9/11, but the accused mastermind of the attacks has yet to stand trial 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Since 2000, 31 countries, many just as pious as Mexico, have expanded access to abortion. As Abortion Rights Expand, the U.S. Joins a Handful of Telling Exceptions 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Others were quietly pious, rejecting violence in any form. In the shadow of the towers: Five lives and a world transformed As ports and merchants prospered, pious Puritans worried that the quest for profits and the lure of luxuries could undermine religious zeal. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The clerics’ demand is lofty: men in uniform, men who protest a bit too loudly that they are pious Buddhists, must exit politics. Myanmar’s Monks, Leaders of Past Protests, Are Divided Over the Coup 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z The teachings of these “pious predecessors,” as they are called by Salafists, form the basis for what their adherents follow today, including a rejection of religious innovations in Islam since the eighth century. Taliban follow strict Islamic creed that doesn’t change with the times, scholars say 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z But as to those who occupy the end points of the spectrum, it is — as stated above — the affirmatively godless who are exhibiting greater moral proclivities in our nation today than the proudly pious. Staunch atheists show higher morals than the proudly pious, from the pandemic to climate change 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z And books such as Johnson’s are a needed corrective to history as pious propaganda. Opinion | When it comes to knowing U.S. history, we should all be ‘woke’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Most of them had been baptized as children because their parents had been church members, but could the children of these pious but officially unconverted Puritans be baptized as well? Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But what they find in so-called liberated states are various forms of racism and servitude disguised as something more progressive or pious. The 15 best TV shows of the year (so far) 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Wellness lends a pious aura to certain kinds of shopping, and these sanctified prescriptions, glittering in their immaculate bottles, lull us into believing that we control our destiny. How Botanical Oils Won Over the West 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The future president adored his pious mother, who encouraged his early stage performances. Review | On the world stage, Nancy Reagan found the role of a lifetime 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z They were beautiful, light-skinned, polite and pious Christians — just the sort of formerly enslaved they liked to showcase in anti-slavery events. Desperate for freedom, 77 enslaved people tried to escape aboard the Pearl. They almost made it. 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Canal towns like Buffalo and Rochester grew quickly, moral standards relaxed, and transient canal workers collided with pious country folk. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Friday, “young and pious Iranian scientists were able to obtain a 60 percent uranium product.” Iran begins uranium enrichment at highest level yet as Vienna nuclear talks continue 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z But the angry old boys’ club isn’t the only opposing force in this tale where pious religiosity meets the scourge of modernity. Review: 'The Nevers' is HBO's next great fantasy series 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Hamzah is a popular figure in Jordan, widely seen as pious and modest. Jordan’s king sends tough message on dissent in royal family 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Like Barragán, Bennett adopted an almost pious visual austerity in which natural light and shadow, not furniture or decoration, define the milieu. In Southampton, a Beach House Not Like the Others 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z “There is a growing belief all over Indonesia that if you are a Muslim woman and you don’t wear the hijab you are less pious; you are morally less.” Indonesian girls traumatized by push to wear hijab: HRW report 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The now-commonplace public flaunting of religious belief is matched by regular pious tributes to the military, although Americans once boasted of not being militaristic. Military might, market ideology and moral posturing: A toxic combination that has poisoned America 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z “In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry,” Susan Sontag wrote in her essay “Melancholy Objects,” “the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage.” How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “A pious guy who people can identify with even if they are lapsed or cultural Catholics; someone who doesn’t engage in these ‘culture war’ issues but tries to build bridges.” What Joe Biden means for Catholics in America 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Abortion has become a highly divisive issue since PiS came to power in 2015, promising a return to a traditional, pious society mixed with generous state handouts. 'I am afraid to live here.' Thousands march in Poland against abortion curbs 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z "It was all about him being from the BBC, being respectable and very pious even. But he filled her head with rubbish." Princess Diana’s ex Hasnat Khan slams BBC’s Martin Bashir for ‘exploitive’ 1995 TV interview 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Their theocratic form of government was how things had always been, and to change anything instituted by their wise and pious forefathers would lead to all manner of vice and chaos. How democracy beat back lies, fear-mongering and conspiracy theories — in 19th-century Connecticut 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Start with Hilda, the matriarch of Pew’s rescue team: pious and nervous, giving signs she’s both guilty and ready to judge. Review: A stranger and a strange town meet cute — or do they? — in Catherine Lacey's 'Pew' 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z And it wasn’t that the Ibrahims were pious in a misanthropic way. Two Wealthy Sri Lankan Brothers Became Suicide Bombers. But Why? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z On the other, the football fan as noble and pious martyr, whose intrinsic virtue must never be questioned, let alone impugned. Jürgen Klopp blocks out the noise and shouts down cynics with immaculate title 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z All those pious fantasies of women suckling their familiars! Top 10 books about witch-hunts | Eleanor Porter 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The Trump administration is simply suspending convention, ditching the pretence of pious protocol and ritual that has always been central to the survival of the “not in America” myth. Racism in America is not the exception – it's the norm | Nesrine Malik 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z These fumbling efforts to make "Bunker Boy" go away and frame himself as a tough but pious American leader-man unafraid to handle the current moment kept going on Wednesday. Poor sad #BunkerBoy: Now Trump wants to edit real life, like an episode of "The Apprentice" 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z And Trump’s vulgar appropriation of religious symbols led even the most moderate faith leaders to express disgust — and to call out the president’s pious apologists within their own ranks. Opinion | The mass nonviolent uprising reflects the life of our democracy, not its death 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z “You mean, does he pretend to be perfectly pious?” he said. 'He wears the armor of God': evangelicals hail Trump's church photo op 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z But blessed with a melody that sounds it has somehow always existed, its strength lies in the fact that it doesn’t deal in pious sermonising; its expressions of spiritual doubt are disarmingly heartfelt. U2's 40 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z “This is not about fault. It’s about simple epidemiology,” Azar said, adding in a pious tone: “One doesn’t blame an individual for their health condition. That would be absurd.” 'All the psychoses of US history': how America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z This pious feudal society was frog-marched at gunpoint out of the early Middle Ages and into the 20th century. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z When social solidarity is essential, it’s common to hear pious sermons against class warfare. Opinion | The class war against front-line workers 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z But for the country’s pious Muslims, such as Adibi, maintaining Islamic customs is a matter that goes beyond politics and restrictions. They are the body washers, the women helping Iran through coronavirus 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Natsir was a pious Islamic scholar from Sumatra who became the first prime minister of independent Indonesia. How Saudi Arabia's religious project transformed Indonesia 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z This is not a pious mantra but fact of life. Why lockdowns may not be the answer in Africa 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z When she lived for a time with her strict, pious father after her parents’ divorce, cutting her hair short was forbidden. Saudi Law Granted Women New Freedoms. Their Families Don’t Always Agree. 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z “He’d regularly tell us that sex outside marriage is a sin,” she said of her pious father. How the killing of an abusive father fuelled Russia's war over family values 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “He was a pious man, he never harmed anyone,” he added. 'How can I go back?' Delhi's fearful Muslims mourn riot dead 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z At first the program targeted young, single women, because the state worried that Uighur women raised in pious Muslim families didn’t work, had children early and refused to marry Han men. China’s Uighurs trapped in factory toiling for tech titans 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Sadr is a storied figure in Iraq, with a history of agitation against U.S. troops and fierce loyalty from tens of thousands of pious and working-class acolytes. How powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr could snuff out Iraq’s mass street protests 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z She shaped her public narrative, deftly balancing the personas of stately matriarch, pious Muslim, peasant country girl, defender of the Arabic language and symbol of Egyptianness. 'She exists out of time': Umm Kulthum, Arab music's eternal star 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z It is possible that repeated calls for more theory may be a pious hope. Why your brain is not a computer 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z They are, like everyone, at the mercy of whimsical, spendthrift monarchs, the king a “large, pious, conscientious boy”, the Queen wearing “diamonds like naked blades”, and a selfish aristocracy. My favourite Mantel: by Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and more 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Some are pious alumni who have become their teachers and mentors; others climbed the Catholic hierarchy to be revered as bishops and cardinals. At a Catholic seminary, hope for church beyond scandals 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z However, he was raised in a pious household of River Brethren, a Mennonite offshoot. National Prayer Breakfast was a moment for leaders to show humility — Trump changed it 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Chase — not to be confused with Justice Samuel Chase, whose nickname was “Old Bacon Face” — was an extremely serious and pious man. The chief justice who presided over the first presidential impeachment trial thought it was political spectacle 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The country’s ruling families had initially given their blessing to Islah, which they saw as a benignly pious group. Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z His parents were upset by his growing disinterest in school and he realised he had gone too far for even his pious Muslim family. The ‘ex-closeted gay jihadist' bringing meditation to Jakarta 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Even though security forces are unpopular, Suleimani personally had an enormous following, because the Iranians saw him as a heroic figure defending the country and someone who stood for patriotism and was pious. The Meaning of Qassem Suleimani’s Death in the Middle East 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Secret documents reported by the AP last month showed the Chinese government used mass surveillance and an integrated computing system to target pious Muslims and Uighurs who travelled abroad for detention in internment camps. Sticking to soccer, Toure against Ozil’s rebuke of China 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z The face of misogyny was no longer pious Christians claiming that feminism was a threat to "the family." The 2010s in feminism: Two steps forward and a big shove back 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Thatcher’s father, the deeply pious Alfred Roberts, was a shopkeeper, and she was born into modest circumstances above the corner store in Grantham. It’s Still Mrs. Thatcher’s Britain 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Inspectors checked that nails were short and faces trimmed of mustaches and beards, traditionally worn by pious Muslims. Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Thanksgiving’s Pilgrim pageants suggest that good-hearted settlers arrived from pious, civilized England. The Invention of Thanksgiving 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z 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. Ultra-Black Is the New Black 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Shocked neighbors described her as “pious,” and her sister-in-law said Joseph was “smart and jovial.” Six deaths in one family over 14 years. Police say they have found their killer: The daughter-in-law. 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z He’s so pious that he won’t attend Friday night games because of the Jewish Sabbath. For owner Ted Lerner, Nationals’ World Series berth is a family celebration 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most galling part of Barr’s speech, under current circumstances, is its hymn to the pious life. William Barr’s Wild Misreading of the First Amendment 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Shindell argues that Urey’s pious upbringing underpinned his convictions about the dangers of a nuclear arms race, and his commitment to research integrity. From bomb to Moon: a Nobel laureate of principles 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z “I was pained to hear, right here, a sarcastic comment about a pious man with feathers on his head who brought an offering,” the pope said on Monday. Pope decries 'offensive words' against indigenous people's feathered headgear 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Pence presents himself as a man of deep faith, an evangelical Christian who is pious and righteous. Mike Pence's not-so-secret plan: "He's focused on the White House" — but how soon? 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z In the seaside cafés of Tunis, I met Nour, a pious high-school dropout who longed to join her fighter husband in Syria. From ‘our girls’ to ‘brides of Isis’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z “Pastor French,” Ahmari called him, suggesting that French was too pious to recognize that politics, as Ahmari put it, was about “war and enmity.” David French, Sohrab Ahmari, and the Battle for the Future of Conservatism 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z There were many pop-psychology theories: Was it the harsh family background with a father who deserted him, refusing to even pay school fees, and his strict, remote and pious Roman Catholic mother? Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longtime president ruled through fear, has died 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The spirit they draw wreaks havoc among the pious chauvinists who run the program. Season 1 of Into the Dark blurred the line between TV and film 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Salafi jihadists view Hamas as insufficiently pious and overly interested in politics at the expense of violent struggle. Hamas Arrests 10 Suspects in Gaza Suicide Bombings 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z They enjoyed such pious diversions as fireworks, football tournaments and bullfights, even though the last were not, and are still not, locally popular. From bombs to Benidorm: how fascism disfigured the face of Spain 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Personally, I thought she had never been more relatable, trashing the contract of pious relatability that traps young women in the public eye. Taylor Swift: ‘Pop music can feel like it’s The Hunger Games, and like we’re gladiators’ 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z For Sunni Muslims, Abu Bakr and the rest of the Prophet Muhammad's disciples are pious role models, while many Shia - though not all - see them as traitors and apostates. Why Nigeria has banned pro-Iranian Muslim group 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z He used to be known as a celebrity playboy but now styles himself as a pious, anti-poverty reformer. Pakistani PM to meet Trump in bid to mend ties 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Judgment Day is coming soon, he warned, and the people need pious leaders to show them the path to righteousness. Saving Thomas Jefferson’s soul 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z 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. Turkey's opposition strikes blow to Erdogan with Istanbul mayoral win 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z A pious Muslim whose following draws heavily upon the devout, Erdogan also charged that a senior local leader of Imamoglu’s secular Republican People’s Party, or CHP, violated Islamic teachings by eating pork. Repeat election for Istanbul mayor is key test for Turkey's authoritarian-minded president 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z “A lot of politics without being pious or obvious.” Emma Thompson left comedy after being called a ‘man hater.’ But she never stopped making trouble 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Fike was struck that his friend, a pious Christian, would take such an oath. It was the backbone of this town for 131 years. Now Luke paper mill is gone. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z One midnight in the spring of 1814, Miles King, a pious former sea captain in Mathews, Va., woke up thinking about Thomas Jefferson’s soul. Saving Thomas Jefferson’s soul 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z I believe — I must believe — that the priests I am allowing to interact with my children are honest, pious men. As a Catholic parent, allowing my children to be altar servers is an act of faith 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Churchill was clearly not religiously devout or personally pious. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Misquoting Winston Churchill and misusing space terminology 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z 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. Terror-accused Hindu hardliner from Modi's party wins seat in India... 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But, by portraying Washington as this pious figure, modern politicians are able to imitate him in a very easy way. Demolishing the right's "Founding Myth": America was never a "Christian nation" 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z This isn’t because of some pious attempt to correct my predominantly white, male back catalogue. We’re in a golden age of feminist TV, and don’t even need the Bechdel test to prove it 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Hugo, not a pious figure but a Republican and political one—the voice, in fact, of the impious populace—made the cathedral the quintessential French romantic setting. Notre-Dame in the French Imagination 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Along with Han settlers, they felt increasingly unsafe travelling to the region’s Uighur-majority areas, and uneasy in the presence of pious Turkic Muslims. China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The production schedule also jumped around, meaning she might be playing the youthful, optimistic Alison of the 1940s in the morning and the intense, pious Alison of the 1960s right after lunch. Ruth Wilson on going bold in ‘Lear’ and her own secret family saga in ‘Mrs. Wilson’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z I think that's one of the reasons you see this deliberate attempt to repaint him as this pious man. Demolishing the right's "Founding Myth": America was never a "Christian nation" 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z And most of all, it plays directly to his conservative, pious support base, who lap up his strongman rhetoric. Why Turkey's Erdogan is using Christchurch attack video 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z She put words to his faith and to his pious fear, his bafflement at his worldly daughters, his love for his defiant wife. How a Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Is it perhaps not too much to hope that when celebrations start at 1.59 on future Pi Days, the pious might spare a thought for the modest inventor of Chemical Pi? Chemical π 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The ban became a source of humiliation for some pious Muslim women in the country. Iran lawyer convicted after defending women protesters 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z He called Zarif an “honest, brave and pious person” and praised his efforts to “resist intense pressure from the United States.” Iran’s Rouhani rejects chief diplomat’s resignation, calling it ‘against national interests’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z All the higher motives and values that Moi invokes are pious fictions. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z You are pious, your kisses are your prayer. A Valentine in Uncertain Times: ‘I Kiss You Amid the Taliban’ 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z 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. Private Mossad for Hire 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z |
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