Word: pious
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...English producers missed out on something, too, when they presented Handel's prima donna, the notorious Mrs. Cibber (who was actually sold by her husband to another man), as a pious woman. The picture is saved by the excellent performance of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the casting of Elizabeth Allan in a part which might have been spoiled by an opera singer...
...Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists and free enterprisers is something else again. Even the most intransigent of realists flinch at the prospect of continued war between these two groups...
...this may not have signified much more than a bride's beginning to buy her trousseau in expectation. A better indi cation may have been given by a seemingly platitudinous statement that pious, hard-hitting General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave to the press...
...Charley Mac," Republicans had a tactician who knew when to hold his pack, in order to let the Democrats knock each other out. The Democrats usually obliged, after the 1937 Supreme Court crisis. Others could make windmill orations or pass pious resolutions. Charley, imperturbable in his inevitable polka-dotted bow tie, held off cynically, did the real work in the Senate cloakroom. As Republican power grew, some wanted the Party to wage more courageous fight, but he was boss...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...