Word: piousness
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...would get most of the rest. Bosnia's Muslims would be left with little more than the few towns and slivers of countryside they now hold. The Serb, Croat and Muslim cantons might even theoretically join in a confederation that would be called Bosnia. But that would be a pious fiction; in reality Serbian, and to a lesser extent Croatian, aggressors would have extinguished any independent, multiethnic Bosnia...
Loot's macabre plot outraged many theatregoers when it premiered in 1966, and its gruesome take on death and filial love is still disturbing. The action revolves around the corpse of a pious Catholic housewife, Mrs. McLeavy, and the cash from a bank robbery...
...senior thesis, written on a thirteenth century Jewish poet who lived in Spain, explored competing interpretations of poetic oeuvre that was at once sexually "shocking" and religiously "pious...
Entitled "The (Im)Pious Poet: Reading Todros ben Yehuda ha-Levi Abu al-'Afiya," Feldman's essay won honorable mention in the Hoopes Prize competition...
Harvard's "heresy" so repelled then-President Increase Mather that he left in 1701 to found a "new, more pious academy" in New Haven. And today, one of the most common adjectives tacked in front of "Harvard" when speaking of religion is "godless...