| Rabbi Berger's pious respect for Schneerson's memory severely compromises his best efforts to combat the Lubavitchers' adoration of him. |
| Most contemporaries cannot identify with the pious monk and virtuoso repenter who bored his superior with six-hour monologues about his sin. |
| While middle-aged women of pious persuasion are novelizing as hugely as ever, adolescent girl threnodists have fallen into a decline. |
| By the twelfth century in England, however, aspirants to anchoritic life were pious lay people. |
| But their wishes, even pious ones, do not trump the natural right of parents to decide such a matter. |
| The resulting properly pious disposition serves the earthly church by providing it with members who do not challenge sacerdotal authority. |
