Word: pious
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Puritan: A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked...
Puritan: A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked...
...health insurance and, if they work in Harvard Square, passport wielding Euro-trash who don’t know how to tip. But, behind the second-hand smoke statistics and public health claims lurks the upturned noses and holier-than-thou stares of those “pious gentlemen” who believe in letting us live only as they...
...Muslim mainstream identified with the terror attacks. That much was obvious from the wave of denial that blamed the attacks on the Mossad or the CIA. The truth - that the callous murder of almost 3,000 civilians was carried out by 19 Arab men who considered themselves devout and pious Muslims carrying out a blessed act - was too horrific to swallow. Cowardly attacks on civilians elicited little pride in the Muslim world, and plenty of revulsion. That was why they had to be blamed on somebody else...
...program on their heads to sneak some relief, Bush compared the slaves struggle to Christ's torment in a speech that repeatedly returned to religious themes. And he said that it was the slaves who kept the light of liberty alive in America, more so even than the publicly pious who had become corrupted by the "peculiar institution." "Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice," said Bush. "A republic founded on equality for all became a prison for millions...