| 单词 | pious platitude |
| 例句 | Repeat your pious platitudes in the drowsy ears of the faithful, and read your Bible to heretics, as kings read some forgotten riot-act to stop and stay the waves of revolution. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z If you want to talk pious platitudes to me by rote, please don’t, for we should be sure to quarrel. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z The world does not need more pious platitudes delivered on the anniversary of still-unfathomable violence and pain and destruction. Where Obama will spend 9/11 is apparently an important question 2010-09-03T19:45:00Z "They want lies," he laughed, "they want pious platitudes; well, they shall have them, and they shan't suspect that the man who utters them is drunk, and that he's living in hell." The Man Who Rose Again To Forrestal equal opportunity was not a pious platitude, but a practical means of solving the military's racial problems. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 No wonder that the reverend men glance at her uneasily, scarcely mustering courage enough sometimes to answer her with a pious platitude. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' Everybody has seen weaklings who were full of pious platitudes. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy Though I guess pious platitudes are preferable to lower Manhattan hate marches, like the one that will be held at the site of the World Trade Center on the anniversary of the attacks. Where Obama will spend 9/11 is apparently an important question 2010-09-03T19:45:00Z Fellows like you utter pious platitudes; you proclaim the glory of women; you hold up your hands with horror at a man who dares tell the truth, and then you back out like cowards. The Man Who Rose Again The Decalogue he had observed, From Faith in Jesus had not swerved, And scorning pious platitudes, He saw in the Beatitudes A lamp to guide his feet. Black Beetles in Amber The safest thing therefore was to close the conversation with one of those pious platitudes which Warman had always at her command. The Lovels of Arden A supercilious smile or a glance of amused tolerance occasionally betrayed that the newcomers anticipated nothing more than a few pious platitudes. Autobiography of a Yogi A supercilious smile or a glance of amused tolerance occasionally betreayed that the newcomers anticipated nothing more than a few pious platitudes. Autobiography of a Yogi "There," he said, when he set down the glass empty, "that for your pious platitudes, my friends." The Man Who Rose Again |
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