Word: piousness
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...having guts. American movies have routinely made mock of priests and ministers, but in R-rated comedies and miniature indie dramas. Yet when the notion is raised of being faithful to a popular fantasy series that takes a caustic view of organized religion, the moguls become as cautious and pious as Republican presidential candidates...
...civil religion by invoking God's name on public occasions, Adams differed little from Jefferson in his personal beliefs. Both men inclined toward Deism or Unitarianism, though Adams kept it under wraps better than Jefferson did. With both candidates sullied, their partisans debated the relative merits of a pious hypocrite vs. a reputed infidel as President...
...appears princely in his golden robe with blue details and decorated white turban in “Layla Visiting Majnun,” a Turkish rendition of the tale. Behind a setting of fluffy blue waves and birds carrying intertwining blue branches, this Majnun is too decadent to be pious. Instead, the painting emphasizes the story’s literary elements, underscoring the meeting’s fantastical nature and foreshadowing the couple’s sad fate.In the center of the six paintings on display are three tea-colored, yet brightly illustrated “Layla and Majnun?...
...crusade against smoking is succeeding through an unholy alliance of the joyless left and the pious right, Christians wary of vice and anemic secularists terrified of their own extinction. Their campaign to stave off death at all costs does not stop at smoking, which, after all, only kills the smoker. Sex, alcohol, and food are all equally suspect. Thus we see efforts to implement “trans-fat” bans, repressive drinking-age laws, and masturbation advocacy programs such as the Masturbate-a-thon in Clerkenwell, London in 2006 or books such as Walter O Bocking?...
...life went out and bought dark, knee-length, shapeless coats, the sort of uniform we had discarded in the late '90s. The crackdown had everyone on edge, in part because it was so inexplicable. Many women avoided going out in public unless it was necessary. Even the pious considered the new mood egregious. As a friend of mine who wears the black chador out of conviction put it, "This is a mockery to focus on dress when our country has so many more urgent problems...