How are Botticelli's later pious paintings, bereft of Medici patronage, to be read?
The pious man is dubious about the vicious civilian’s vivid description of his vicinity to his wife.
A tale was made up about the pious Lady Godiva in order to attract pilgrims, and therefore, revenue, to Coventry.
For decades afterwards, memory of this victorious moment was enough to fill secular nationalists with confidence, and put pious forces on the defensive.
Though it will take tact and sensitivity to persuade pro-life Democrats to back his health bill, pious progressives will praise him to the heavens if he manages it.
Irish citizens, including pious ones, will never again treat the church as untouchable.
She was an old garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.
In a land where pious words saturate airwaves and canonical texts fill bookshelves, the prominence of relatively secular types like Mr Qimani marks a trend.
On the other side, Mr Erdogan's failure to deliver on issues dear to his pious constituents, such as easing the ban on the headscarf, allowed Felicity to snatch some voters away.
Romans really did believe that they were the most pious nation on earth.
I delighted to confront a pious lady who hated the Germans with the proposition that we should love our enemies.
As he tells the Gospel story, Mary did not have one son but twins—a gifted but pious and humble one called Jesus and his more calculating and sophisticated brother, Christ.
There is this very pious Jew named Goldberg who always dreamed of winning the lottery.
The Romans would sincerely believe that if you don't sacrifice to the gods,if you're not a pious person, the gods may punish you.
That may be no more than another pious wish.
He threw out a few pious phrases about bipartisanship, and suggested that energy policy and education might be areas for co-operation with the Republicans.
Only pious prigs care about when he chooses to get married, or to sign his children's birth certificates, or whatever.
Congress had done no more than set out some pious hopes.
This development is to be deplored (though pious Britons might also note that their politicians cheerfully discussed "decapitation strategies" at the last election).
But Italians are less pious than they pretend.
Wouldst thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better- can be more for God's glory, or man's welfare- than God's own truth?
