Word: piousness
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...Much of this action plan is filled with pious wishes, in my mind," said Robert O. Edbrooke, a Prescott Street resident who said he relies on Central Square for shopping because Harvard Square is too expensive...
Snaking down from a Himalayan ice cave to the Bay of Bengal, the 1,560-mile- long river is called Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges), the holiest of all Hindu streams. Every pious Hindu wishes to be cremated on the Ganges' banks and to bequeath his ashes to her waters...
...their election campaigning against Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino and her vice-presidential running mate, Salvador Laurel, were often photographed kneeling together in prayer before church altars. Seeing the pious pair, some Filipinos quipped that the couple looked as though they were being married. Indeed, the Aquino-Laurel partnership was a political marriage, though merely one of convenience. He shared his well-greased political machine with her. She shared her enormous popularity with him. Little else...
...ashes came pious promises from politicians and the rhetoric of renewed resolve. "The only genuine long-range solution for what has happened lies in an attack -- mounted at every level -- upon the conditions that breed despair and violence," proclaimed President Lyndon Johnson. No one seriously thought the inner city could be transformed overnight. But few were cynical enough to envision what actually happened: an entire generation would pass as life in the black ghettos of a rich nation went from bad to almost unimaginably worse...
...their own. In most foreign policy crises, such is the case. The only country in a position to act is the U.S. To fob off the responsibility on allies, who we know in advance are in no position to act, is to declare, in the most pious multilateral tones, an American retreat...