Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just last Thursday. And he thinks his new movie, Showgirls, starring ELIZABETH BERKLEY, is fine family fare even though it's rated NC-17. "Not to allow high school kids to hear a very moral message simply because it's set in the world of nude dancing is just pious nonsense," says Eszterhas, who suggests teens use fake IDs to get in. Many kids no doubt appreciate the tip, but Motion Picture Association of America head Jack Valenti doesn't. He told USA Today that Eszterhas is "desperately ill and in need of medical attention...
...King Jr. responded to a group of "liberal" Southern church leaders who had criticized his nonviolent demonstrations as "unwise and untimely" acts of outside agitation. Wrote King: "In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churches stand on the sidelines and merely mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard so many ministers say, 'These are social issues with which the Gospel has no real concern.'" But for the most part, King's powerful appeal...
Most of the abstract painting coming out of the School of Paris in the late '40s and '50s, except for Serge Poliakoff (sometimes) and the still somewhat underrated Nicolas de Sta?l, was either self-consciously pious (religious stained glass was a favored metaphor) or mock convulsive. A hideous array of bravura squiggles by Georges Mathieu, whom French critics, for a while, regarded as Europe's answer to Pollock, reminds you how shallow this rhetoric could...
...whether he is in Denver or Jerusalem,dressed as a pious Jew or as a pregnant woman,Geller surely will never be satisfied with being apart of just one culture
...have made our answer to Esquire's question amply clear. We prefer to be hip than to be smart. We prefer to be cool than to be pious. We are beyond piety, and certainly we are close to being beyond the power of persuasion. Faith is a dream, knowledge a seventy-yard field goal. We are extraordinarily far from Athens or Jerusalem. Instead we have ensconced ourselves in the sugary bosom of a pop culture manufactured by sweaty-toothed media moguls in Los Angeles who cannot bear to be without their cellular telephones even when they go to the bathroom...