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Having conferred upon Franco’s touchdown its name for 11 o’clock news viewers to embrace, I accept neither credit nor, should you hold the moniker to be impious, blame.”

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Once it felt impious just to say the word Auschwitz.

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I left singing the show’s catchy number “What’s the Buzz” with impious sarcasm.

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But Harriet would have disliked those novels’ impious ruminations on motherhood, and probably also their authors.

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Surviving a political smear campaign that implied he was an impious Muslim, Mr. Joko appears to have won a second term in this month’s elections.

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