用pious造句子，“pious”造句

There is this very pious Jew named Goldberg who always dreamed of winning the lottery.

She was an old garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected used stamps for some pious purpose.

A tale was made up about the pious Lady Godiva in order to attract pilgrims, and therefore, revenue, to Coventry.

The Romans would sincerely believe that if you don't sacrifice to the gods,if you're not a pious person, the gods may punish you.

As he tells the Gospel story, Mary did not have one son But twins—a gifted but pious and humble one called Jesus and his more calculating and sophisticated brother, Christ.

Wouldst thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better- can be more for God's glory, or man's welfare- than God's own truth?

Irish citizens, including pious ones, will never again treat the church as untouchable.

Congress had done no more than set out some pious hopes.

I delighted to confront a pious lady who hated the Germans with the proposition that we should love our enemies.

For decades afterwards, memory of this victorious moment was enough to fill secular nationalists with confidence, and put pious forces on the defensive.

Though it will take tact and sensitivity to persuade pro-life Democrats to back his health bill, pious progressives will praise him to the heavens if he manages it.

How are Botticelli's later pious paintings, bereft of Medici patronage, to be read?

Only pious prigs care about when he chooses to get married, or to sign his children's birth certificates, or whatever.

He threw out a few pious phrases about bipartisanship, and suggested that energy policy and education might be areas for co-operation with the Republicans.

That may be no more than another pious wish.

This development is to be deplored (though pious Britons might also note that their politicians cheerfully discussed "decapitation strategies" at the last election).

But Italians are less pious than they pretend.

In a land where pious words saturate airwaves and canonical texts fill bookshelves, the prominence of relatively secular types like Mr Qimani marks a trend.

The pious man is dubious about the vicious civilian’s vivid description of his vicinity to his wife.

On the other side, Mr Erdogan's failure to deliver on issues dear to his pious constituents, such as easing the ban on the headscarf, allowed Felicity to snatch some voters away.

Romans really did believe that they were the most pious nation on earth.