pious

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The Portuguese design genius for mixing the pious with playfully overelaborated touches reaches its apotheosis at this Unesco World Heritage site—Portugal’s equivalent of France’s monumental Cathedral of Chartres.

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The sun was eclipsed, horses were spooked and the pious dropped to their knees.

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If that sounds pious for a politician, Mr. Sasse doesn’t mean it to be.

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And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

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Erdogan, a devout Muslim and graduate of a clerical school, has previously said he aims to raise a "pious generation".

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