Sentence examples for he was pious from inspiring English sources

He was pious, determined, and embittered.

However, Herb was handsome, he was pious, he was strong-willed, he wanted her — and she was in love.

As duke he was pious, reportedly taking the vow of virginity, and encouraged the work of German missionary priests in the Christianization of Bohemia.

He said that he had rarely prayed and had been a drummer in a casino — he apologized for mentioning the word, which had become distasteful to him — but that now he was pious and newly disciplined.

"He was pious but not overly so," Aybek recalled.

Mr. Ferjani, a 57-year-old self-taught intellectual as exuberant as he is pious, acknowledges the doubts.

But he and the president have discreetly worked as a team, and last weekend he expressed his support with unprecedented openness, reproaching the hardliners for exploiting religion for their political advantage.The president, said Ayatollah Khamenei in his Friday sermon, "is a cleric, he is pious...and he is working for the rebirth of Islam".

He's pious and feeble and, while I'm not saying these are recognisable parts of the British identity, I do feel that if they had acoustic guitars in the ninth century, Scallion would be all over that, kumbaya-ing across any Umbria that'd have him.

The act was pious: "walking is virtue", as he reminds us.

He added, "I was assuming he would be pious and narrow-minded".

His mother, Raj Karni, was pious and attentive.