Word: piousness
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...they weren’t Lutheran, they did share my culture and attitudes more than any other group on campus. I would continue in literalist Lutheranism for two more years, while they began knocking down the walls of anti-Catholicism in my mind. They showed me that there were pious Catholics who weren’t biblically illiterate and who did know and believe their catechism...
...Beren Hall is a place of pious worship and the site of daily prayer services. But for the auction, seats were arranged fashion-show style around a central catwalk. As approximately 100 undergraduates arrived to bid on the sexy dates-for-sale, the expectant crowd transformed the hall’s atmosphere of religious reverence into a (kosher) meat market...
...prints, 10 sculptures and three murals. The large number of prints reminds us that much of what this master of violent color first learned about art came from black-and-white reproductions. As the son of a Protestant clergyman, the young Van Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes...
...killing spree in the first few days of the genocide. Her right hand is scarred with machete wounds; a bullet is still lodged there. When the Hutu came she tried to take refuge in the Khadafi mosque, believing it to be a sanctuary. But the killers were not a pious lot. "They shot at us. Those who tried to flee were cut up with machetes. Then they threw grenades." Last year when she and fellow survivors started testifying in court about the genocide, her house was broken into. She believes the perpetrator was sent by families of prisoners to kill...
...since this director is Mel Gibson (who got his Oscar for Braveheart), the tone isn't always pious. Gibson loves to goof. Playing practical jokes is a way of keeping the crew loose, asserting the primal jester inside the armor of a star's machismo. So to wrap up the temple take, he has a quiet word with Morgenstern and steps back to leave the actress alone--staring dolefully into the camera with a bright-red clown nose he has stuck on her face. Cut. Print. Amen...