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Instrumental in feminizing the occupation, Beecher argued that pious young women should be the ones to do the moral work of teaching — in no small part because they provided cheap labor.

We understood that conservative racism often hides behind pious professions of color-blindness and pretensions that the only "color" that should matter is dollar green.

So while the pugnaciousness of Spirit can feel anti-customer, there’s also something pious in the bad blood it’s willing to endure.

Absent the American people suddenly waking up and refusing to elect dangerous crackpots to Congress, Brands’ pious wish for congressional reassertion of power is a non-starter.

Over the course of a whopping 11 seasons, the pious Camden clan dealt with everything from spray paint huffing, alcoholism, gangs, caffeine addiction, bulimia, hickies, homelessness and, in one particularly memorable episode, the matriarch’s devastating admission that she had once smoked marijuana.