Word: pious
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...movie's faults are those of excess--a little too much freshness, fastness, and cleverness at times. Tricky gimmicks are repeated too often or dwelled on too long the first time around. Possessive Momma sends her son locks of her hair; a hypocritically-pious spinster drags a burly cop off to bed; the bitch-goddess type has tacked above her bed the wooden leg of her first seducer--an albino hypnotherapist. It can be too much, even if you are prepared to accept most anything...
Sheer Monkery. Much to his parents' dismay, Luther kept the vow, two weeks later entered the Augustinian priory at Erfurt. Luther was a pious cleric. "I kept the rule so strictly," he recalled years later, "that I may say that if ever a monk got to Heaven by his sheer monkery it was I. If I had kept on any longer, I should have killed myself with vigils, prayers, reading and other work...
...Secular Rulers: "A wise prince is a rare bird indeed; still more so a pious prince. They are usually the greatest fools or the worst knaves on earth. They are God's jailers and hangmen, and His divine wrath needs them to punish the wicked...
...still divided labor's leadership. Walter Reuther, who had quit the A.F.L.-C.l.O. executive council over this and other issues and may ultimately lead his 1.5 million-member United Auto Workers out of the federation, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that craft union leaders were "hiding behind pious declarations on paper." His "greatest disappointment since the merger," said Reuther, "has been the failure of the labor movement to solve the problem of minority groups in the craft union setup...
...called Come to the Father, is colorfully illustrated, avoids flat doctrinal pronouncements. The accompanying manual for teachers advises: "We do not tell the children that God is this or that, but we show them what God does. It is not a question of flooding them with a wave of pious words, but rather of transmitting the Word of Life to them in such a way as to nourish their faith...