Sentence examples for pious about from inspiring English sources

Of course, it's easy to get too pious about this.

I really should be more pious about that.

There is nothing overtly pious about Mr. Ryan.

She isn't pious about this; her attitude, smiling and thoughtful, happily acknowledges her hypocrisy.

Without being too pious about it, it was almost a religious sensation.' It cannot have lasted long.

The next time any Republicans get pious about their party's respect for life and the rule of law, someone should ask: What about Pine Ridge?

Forget about all that gnomic pious whitewash about rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

Pious exclamations about the sanctity of life, and about not interfering with God's purposes, conceal a farrago of confusion.

It opened with numbing platitudes about "legislating for all the people" and ended with pious hopes about ridding the world of terror.

That has led center-left politicians to make sarcastic remarks about Mr. Berlusconi's personal motives, as well as pious remarks about the center-right opposition's failure to heed the pope's pleas.

If there is one certainty (apart from its result) about the election due on June 7th, it is that, throughout the campaign, politicians will wring their hands, make pious utterances about the growing cynicism of the electorate, and agonise aloud about whether a low turnout on voting day should be taken to signify some sort of crisis in democracy.