Word: pious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...good as Hollywood generally does for children under 16. The title derives from a large, red-haired horse that has what appears to be delicate baby-blue eyes veiled with beautiful false eyelashes. After long training by a small, red-haired boy (Ted Donaldson) and interminable praying by a pious terrier, Big Red wins the big race just in time to save the old homestead from the sheriff. Best bit: a gory battle royal between the stallion and a jolly black bear, which delegates all the infighting to a stand-in from the taxidermist...
...Ridders and Colonel Ames, it seemed that the Journals were made for each other. Both were businessmen's bibles; both had a pious regard for the value (and news value) of a dollar. Each had valuable commodity market services and news which the other could use. United, they could afford a bigger network of correspondents, could exchange their news by direct wire. And a merger would add a strong Chicago outpost to the Ridder radio and newspaper empire...
...asked what had often been asked before: an anti-lynching law, an anti-poll tax law, a new FEPC, a law protecting the right to vote, laws guaranteeing equality of treatment in education, health and public service. In the nature of things political, many of these recommendations would remain pious hopes. But the committee's report provided a sharp and much-needed prod to the nation's conscience...
Dear Judas (by Robinson Jeffers; produced by Michael Myerberg) offended the pious-when tried out last summer-by laying irreverent hands on a Bible story. It could hardly, however, be as sacrilegious as it is soporific. What Robinson Jeffers wrote in Dear Judas was simply a dramatic poem; putting it on the stage does nothing whatever to turn it into a play...
...argued that "an exclusive concern [with] the classical curriculum has failed in the past and will fail today. ... It may be that education is not a strong enough social tool to maintain the survival of civilization. However, one can look for more in it than Mr. Hutchins' pious hope that if we go down, we will go down talking...