14) Tighten your clothes, since this is the way of the pious generations after the Prophet.
14) Tighten your clothes [a reference to making sure his clothes will cover his private parts at all times], since this is the way of the pious generations after the Prophet.
You should clench your teeth, as the pious early generations did.
Or they should sing songs to boost their morale, as the pious first generations did in the throes of battle, to bring calm, tranquillity and joy to the hearts of his brothers.
Not only had they become, over the years, less pious than the first generation of settlers; they had also failed to convert the Indians to Christianity.
Hulya Aslan, Ala's editor, a 24-year-old in a striking leopard-patterned head scarf, argued that the magazine's depiction of fashionable veiled women reflected the empowerment of a generation of pious women in Turkey and was helping to overcome outmoded stereotypes about wearing the head scarf.
Both were strong Methodists from families where the industrious, pious tradition went back generations.
Investigations followed, and Baldo's discovery gave credence to a legend passed down by generations of pious islanders – that Mljet is modern-day Melita, the place named in the Bible as the site of St Paul's shipwreck on his journey from the Holy Land.
For a generation accustomed to pious and priestly nature writing, this confession was welcome, a clear signal that Abbey was one of us: a fellow sinner in the temple of nature, part of the problem as well as the solution.
Mel Gibson, by the way, is back in the industry's good graces, thanks to his pseudo-pacifist, pseudo-pious tribute to the Greatest Generation, and Andrew Garfield's performance in that movie got him a Best Actor nomination that would have been more apt for his role in Martin Scorsese's "Silence" (nominated only for its cinematography, by Rodrigo Prieto).
