pious person

He called Zarif an “honest, brave and pious person” and praised his efforts to “resist intense pressure from the United States.”

These two concepts of God as either benevolent or authoritarian shed some light on why Trump’s often harsh language to some seems blatantly sacrilegious, basically a disqualifier for a pious person, while others see it as an expression of hard power – a type of power that to them God approves.

“He is a very religious, pious person, he doesn’t talk, unless he acts,” Mr. Abdin said.

Now she’s the most fakely pious person I know.

It probably dropped from the neck of some wealthy and pious person, and lay undiscovered in the field for half a millennium.