Word: pious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conclusions which Gomes draws on the particular subject of homosexuality, but I am excited more by the broad program for Christian ethics which he seems to describe. I confess that before I had read Gomes's essay, at the same time so marvelously urbane and yet so devoutly pious, I should scarcely have believed that the freedom of the Christian was so compendiously broad...
...logic, did in those whom it could neither control nor convert: the first of these took place in the ecclesiastical dungeons of pre-modern Spain, and the other on the gibbits of Salem. In both cases, a relentless logic and a fear of an untidy universe provoked in ordinarily pious and decent people an evil all the more heinous for its pretensions to reason, virtue and compassion...
...parents of children adopted abroad, and the groups that represent them, point out that much of the nay-saying sentiment is little more than pious hypocrisy. However much Third World governments may decry the surge in Western adoptions, millions of children around the world are abandoned and homeless -- about 7 million in Brazil alone. Only a tiny percentage of these children find homes locally, and in some cases they are doomed to eternal stigma. In Korea, for example, a Confucian value system places such a premium on male gender and blood ties that the adoption of a baby girl...
...PIOUS PLATITUDES notwithstanding, God is not on the side of the editorial board of The Crimson. Still, in spite of the spectre of rational argument and logic, the mind-readers and soothesayers in the majority have managed to determine that Professor Anita Hill is telling the truth. And that Judge Clarence Thomas...
...federal bureaucrat, Hoover had thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister before he was hired by the Justice Department as a clerk in July 1917. He so blatantly cultivated an image of pious rectitude that one wit dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often...