"His Grace Archbishop Joseph Coutts is well known in Pakistan by virtue of his vision for harmony and pious nature," Gulzar wrote in an email.
George Harrison's 1973 album Living in the Material World had divided music critics, with Stephen Holden of Rolling Stone lauding it as "a pop religious ceremony for all seasons" and "an article of faith, miraculous in its radiance", while the NME's reviewer derided the pious nature of the songs and concluded: "So damn holy I could scream".
The genre embraced not only fiction but also works of a near-historical nature, pious tracts, books of practical information, guidebooks, evaluations of courtesans and actors, and miscellaneous essays.
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.
Piety and Modernity explores the nature of pious reforms in such areas as liturgy, saint cults, pilgrimage, confraternities, hymns, and Bible translation, with an emphasis on the changing patterns in religious expression at the collective and individual level, the growing influence of home missions, and the relations between piety and print culture.
The four-part series, tucked in alongside puzzles, nature stories and less pious comic strips, turns the 80-year-old pontiff into a comic book superhero -- one who relies on faith, not magical powers, to help the needy and combat evil (in this case, Communism).
He was a pious man, and he viewed his charitable nature as obligatory to better the lives of those in need.
A pious, indeed rigorous, Muslim, Aḥmad railed against the secular nature of Adal, mobilized tribesmen to purify the state, and trained his enlistees to use the modern tactics and firearms recently introduced by the Ottomans into the Red Sea region.
His Al-Fuṣūl wa al-ghāyāt ("Paragraphs and Periods") is an ironic commentary on humanity and nature but is presented as a sequence of pious exhortations in rhymed prose.
As Bloomberg said in his speech, New York's decline and fall was for a long while taken for granted, as a fact of nature — and it is a useful reminder to pious liberals of the limits of liberal pieties that the unobtainable cure turned out to be a lot less hard to find than those pieties claimed.
Now that marriage has been reduced to a prize on a game show (front page, Feb. 17), will politicians from Hillary Rodham Clinton to George W. Bush end their pious pronouncements opposing recognition of same-sex unions because of the "sacred" nature of marriage?
