Word: piousness
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...Martin Luther King, Jr. eloquently appealed to in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail" over 30 years ago. Instead of calling for racial, social and economic justice, today's leaders mimic their reactionary predecessors. As King wrote: "In the midst of injustices," they "stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities...
Sheehan's darkened plate-glass windows are unassuming, overshadowed by the ready-to-wear glamour of Filene's and Jordan Marsh. Unlike the well-heeled habitues of Downtown Crossing, the store's customers are a diverse assortment of Boston's most pious population...
...tragic sacrifice with which some students justify their pre-med choices simply perpetuate the rampant "stereotypes that have plagued all Asian-Americans." It is very filially pious to honor your father by going into medicine because, as one student put it, "My father really wants me to go into medicine. He's given up too much in absolute terms for me...It'd be too cold not to honor that wish." It is quite another matter to claim that this mentality somehow breaks any mold...
...March sisters navigate the passage from girlhood to womanhood with grace, spirit and infinite appeal in Gillian Armstrong's passionate realization of the 19th century children's classic. Winona Ryder leads an entrancing cast in a family film that interrupts our pious pratings about "family values" to say something truthful and unsentimental on the subject...
...gradually, I saw the darker meaning of the presence of these pious panhandlers. For it means that begging is now seen, by some, as a legitimate way of raising money, of earning a living...