Word: piousness
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...point or another, Jack had a white wife and an Indian wife, worked as a huckster of phony patent medicines, was a famous gunslinger, a Cheyenne hero, a scout for Gen. Custer, a drunk, a hermit, a pious churchgoer, a great lover, a mule-skinner, a shopowner. He also toyed with suicide...
...architect of that unity, Count Otto von Bismarck looks on, gripping the long spike of his Prussian helmet, while Prussia's King Wilhelm proclaims the establishment of the German Empire. Historian Thomas Carlyle hails the German victory in a letter to the Times of London: "That noble, patient, deep, pious and solid Germany should be at length welded into a nation and become Queen of the Continent instead of vaporing, vainglorious, gesticulating, quarrelsome, restless and oversensitive France seems to me the hopefullest public fact that has occurred in my time...
...Gierek's initial, conciliatory moves. He ended the state of emergency, under which police and the army had been sent into the riot zones along the Baltic seacoast with orders to shoot to kill. As cities quieted, dusk-to-dawn curfews were lifted in time for pious Poles to attend Christmas Eve midnight Mass. Air, road and telephone services were restored, breaking the cocoon of isolation that Gomulka had imposed to limit the demonstrations...
Also, all the Democrats who did win had to wave the American flag, posture as pious champions of the Silent Majority, and in reality virtually steal Agnew's gams plan...
Until popular architecture makes an effort to understand the needs and the spirit of the age, writes Ada Louise Huxtable, "we will continue to have the pious reproductions, the dead reconstructions, the vacuum-packed imitations and the false, nostalgic standards that, at best, evoke only the second-hand suggestion of the artistic glories of some other age, or at worst, throttle creativity and subvert values...