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.
This is the pious music I yearned to hear so much, imbued in the world of stone by the great General Kim Jong Il.
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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.
Unlike the sham philosophies of the defunct North African dictators, the Islamic Republic was founded on a bristly Islamism that even now commands millions of adherents, especially among the pious poor.
Although widely ridiculed by Iran's large, urban middle class, the incumbent appeals strongly to a broad constituency among the pious poor, and among nationalists who believe his abrasive foreign policy has strengthened Iran's prestige.
Some argued that the vote reflected a cultural divide between the pious northern Socialists who wanted to stand up against corruption (30 Germans, two Austrians, three Brits, a Belgian and a Swede) and those louche southerners (the Italians, French, Spaniards, Greeks and others) who would turn a blind eye.
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.
However pious the agenda, the day wasn't totally free of political subtext.
Under General Zia, the only sincerely pious leader, Pakistan introduced draconian sharia punishments, made blasphemy a capital offence and ruled that unless rape victims could produce at least four male Muslim eye-witnesses they would be held guilty of fornication, a serious crime.
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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Turkey is now being studied by Arabs as a unique phenomenon: a movement of moderate Islamists, the Justice and Development (AK) party, has overseen an economic boom, boosted the country's standing and shown that the coming to power of pious people need not mean a dramatic rupture in ties with the West.
Whenever they need it, they take advantage of the people's pious feelings and attachments.
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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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