Word: piousness
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...higher nature. Said Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, leading ecclesiastical historian at Catholic University: "The greatest contribution that the Pope's visit can make to our nation is focusing upon and emphasizing the need for a revival of morality. John Paul is a man of singular sophistication; he is no pious goose. But he is a moral leader?or he isn't anything...
...Gretel had given him a few days before dying, he heads for northern California, in search of a fictitious missing daughter who has supposedly disappeared in the moil of a fanatical religious commune. Its remaining inhabitants, when he finds them, are no Moonies. Armed to the bicuspids and as pious as piranhas, the communards turn out to be dedicated members of an international conspiracy to overthrow the capitalist-imperialist world...
Another reason for not voting for Carter is his pious use of the U.S. Navy to locate boat people in the China Sea. In a recession, Americans don't need "coolie labor" to take away jobs and decent labor practices that made America great...
These are unambiguous terms, and we may assume that for well over a century the full course of the Dudleian Lectures was given with more or less fidelity to the intentions of the pious founder...
This is an excellent example of the movie's contempt for both taste and religion. Life of Brian is even now being protested by spokesmen for various pious groups. They are quite right to do so, for this is no gentle spoof, no good-natured satire of cherished beliefs. The Pythons' assault on religion is as intense as their at tack on romantic chivalry in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). They are funny lads, but detest all formal systems of belief, all institutions: the political left and right, popular culture, motherhood, womanhood, homosexuality, conformity and nonconformity...