Sentence examples for a pious man from inspiring English sources
Higginson, the radical, was a pious man.
His grandmother, Halimah Abdul Rahman, described him as "a good son, obedient … and a pious man".
He had struggled to process what was happening when Lebovits, a pious man, put his mouth on Aron's penis.
About the elderly imam, who he described as sickly and frail, he said, "He's a pious man.
He was a pious man, and he viewed his charitable nature as obligatory to better the lives of those in need.
A pious man, he was a staunch supporter of the Church of England but tolerant of Methodists and Quakers less so of Roman Catholics.
As for Ayatollah Khamenei, a victim of torture under the shah and now accused of direct involvement in these crimes, Mr. Asadi believes that he underwent a complete transformation from a kindhearted, pious man to a dictator, a process he attributes to the corruption of power.
Church officials say that a genuinely pious man is being slandered.
Tintoretto was a genuinely pious man, in the age of the Counter-Reformation when Italy abounded in new religious energy.
A first-rate stage veteran, whose Broadway career ranges from the musical "Barnum" to Peter Nichols's "Joe Egg," Mr. Dale unerringly locates both the rigidity and the tremors in a resolutely pious man whose certainty comes under siege.
The 1864 Apologia not only established the stylistic contours for much modern autobiography, it also carefully depicted Newman as a truly pious man whose thankless quest for truth inevitably led him into the embrace of the Holy and Apostolic Roman Catholic Church.
