Mr Yilmaz's cabinet, it is true, does not contain, as its piously Islamist-led predecessor did, a bigamist minister.

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But in the end, we all rather piously agreed that we should recommend not what was most expedient but what was right.

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But after his blazing start, he flailed, in the spell of sterile theories about color and composition, and of traditions too piously revered.

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