So in the infamous words of the GOP's beloved Newt Gingrich: Spare me the pious baloney.
Both she and Brother Jobe were dressed in the severe clothing of the pious.
The pious hope of this newspaper that America's president might fill the gap was confounded too (see article).
Arabs are not becoming less pious, but the pious are beginning to question the point of participating in politics.
Whole Foods thrives by presenting food as theater, playing up the pious organic angle even as it peddles tempting offerings of culinary excess.
The pious fraud was no longer political, but had become economic.
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Yet underneath the pious hopes lies an element of serious reconsideration.
If both the more pious Mr Romney and the more secular Mr Huntsman, who have been personal rivals in the past, run in the primaries, their Mormonism will become an issue again.
However, the less pious - particularly from Australia and the US - have logged in as Satan, ranted from the virtual pulpit and shouted expletives in the aisles.
However nothing rankles quite like the fraudulently pious.
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He accused the Labour party of being "pious" about the issue.
The press, currently so pious and pompous about the BBC's mistakes, faces the Leveson report at a very low level of public trust, and unless it learns to deal with its mistakes in a serious and transparent way, that is how it will remain.
Janeway's tales of the brave and pious deaths of thirteen Christian boys and girls were nothing if not heartrending.
An Indian feminist is apt to laugh in the face of a pious Hindu who tells her that gender relations need to be ordered by the ancient laws of Manu.
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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Among its offshoots are the Tablighi Jama'at, a huge, worldwide missionary movement (strong in Yorkshire and London), in which lay people help to propagate the idea of a pious life.
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He skilfully embodies them all, from a stubbornly independent middle-aged man to the two adolescent girls (one pious, one callous) as they attempt to find their place in the world.
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Such talk has boosted his popularity on the Arab street and among pious Turks.
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Granted, customers may be worried by the idea of the marauding megacorp clouding the vision of the small--but pious--retailer.
Party officials argued that pious citizens had the right to affordable leisure space that did not offend their values.
Turkey's pious producers like the bits in the Koran that favour honest trading.
Mojtaba Vahedi was born in 1964 to a pious household in the holy city of Qom but grew up mostly in Tehran.
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There will also be a lot of pious palaver about the need for more cooperation, better international regulation and new initiatives to fight protectionism and promote free trade.
Amid its pious devotion to the woebegone, there are scenes that manage to twitch into life and hit a nerve, perhaps because they also bump the funny bone.
While pious Turks like the way that Ozal eased religion into public life, they will be hard pushed to turn this controversial bon viveur into a religious figurehead, still less his motorway tomb into a site of pilgrimage.
On the whole, though, the generals have failed to persuade pious Turks to stop liking Welfare.
William Wyler's remake is just a pious slog up to the admittedly exciting chariot race (which Wyler did not shoot anyway).
The main characters are an excruciatingly pious young priest called Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau) and an Algonquian chief named Chomina (August Schellenberg).
Such later capitalists as George Pullman, the railway tycoon, also claimed pious intent when they established model towns that prohibited alcohol and prostitution and imposed a curfew.
It has to be said that the old Bousque woman, as old as she was, had not become pious with age, an unusual state of affairs in this part of the country.
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