Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...posthumous. If the Virgin Mary had died surrounded by Chinese soup tureens and minor Hellenistic antiquities, instead of the wooden bench (workshop of St. Joseph, estimate 20 to 30 copper pieces) and the simple tin cup that presumably furnished her abode in Jerusalem, the rush for pious souvenirs would not have been greater...
...signaled an end to a failed marriage as famed as any in history, the unexampled source of sustenance to the tabloid press and a wish-book chronicle that has nourished the fantasies of people on several continents for 15 years. The Establishment lost no time in expressing suitably pious sentiments. Said Lord St. John of Fawsley, a constitution expert and an unquenchable royals commentator: "My main feeling is relief. Insofar as there has been a War of the Waleses, it will enable both of them to remake their own lives...
...Pious Chamber of Commerce...
World War II was the most destructive war in history. We have collectively resolved time and time again that the tens and tens of millions who perished shall not have died in vain. Yet, for all the pious proclamations to the contrary, Bosnia shows that we have not remembered the lessons we swore that we would never forget. In the town of Mostar, pock-marked by mortar shells, someone has scribbled on a wall a reminder and a reproach: "Don't Forget." Maybe this time...
...Peninsula, which bills itself as "Harvard's Only Conservative Publication," illustrates what most Blacks have known for years--scratch the surface of seemingly pious, morally upstanding conservatism and you will often discern the unmistakable stench of racism. Last year, the Peninsula bashed immigrants, supported racist Bell Curve theories, and repeatedly mocked Black people, Black leaders, and Black culture...