Word: piousness
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...imagination." But because of its very conspicuousness, it has been attacked by all those so concerned with pressing problems here on earth, while they ignore the egregious crimes of Viet Nam and our military, which dwarf the space program both in money and lives that have been squandered. These pious critics are akin to a policeman who arrests a jaywalker while ignoring a bank robbery...
...memoir is an incomparable record of the weird and wonderful Russian nobility, compared with whom the pious, drunken, sheepskin-clad serfs seemed like another race. The Czar's ramshackle empire was made up of three other races-the merchants, who were much like merchants anywhere; the official class, whose devotion to sacred paper could be compared only to a Tibetan monk operating a prayer wheel; and the student and professional intelligentsia, politically zealous to a pitch of almost mystical intensity...
Embarking on a "pious investigation" into drugs and theology (which he seems to think are somehow related...
...this role." She asserts her Catholicism with a most graceful catholicity. "The writer should never be ashamed of staring," she wrote. "When the Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which we have so long been famous." Instead, she consciously sought to use her belief as the light by which she saw, making her religion implicit in her vision rather than explicitly intrusive in her work. If the theme of redemption by Jesus Christ lay at the center...
...Yorty claimed that Bradley was partly responsible for the resignation of Reddin, probably the best-liked big-city chief in the country. Though Reddin would deny it, said Yorty in his pious fashion, he was really worried that Bradley, who has often criticized the police, would become mayor...