impiously

No work of art has ever been treated more impiously.

It occurred to me that I was acting impiously toward him.

They were not joining a sect that impiously divided the religion of the one God into warring groups.

The like severity, no doubt, was used, if aught were impiously written against their esteemed gods.

He grinned impiously.

Though Odysseus warns his men, when supplies run short they impiously kill and eat some of the cattle of the Sun.

While a temporary prison was being made, Lymond, fingered impiously off his horse, was lashed to one of the four drum towers of the wall.

"I was always creative John!" she said again and again, as if I kept impiously insisting that she was creative only sometimes or not until recently.

Through you the all-evil spirit [is] a liar, and through you (are) wrath and trials on the generations of men who live impiously.

Feeling that he was reaching impiously into the core of a thinking mind, Fafhrd gripped with his right hand for the diamond as big as a man's skull.

His fate had begun to look dire in the finale of the second of three acts, when the statue refused to surrender a wedding ring he had impiously slipped on its finger.

Impiously pleading respect for Ramadan, the Moslem holy month, the captors of a Kuwaiti airliner freed 31 hostages yesterday, and were apparently promised safe passage from Algiers.

All were shuddering, fleeing, shunning the contagion, impiously exposing their own friends, as if with the exclusion of the person who was sure to die of the plague, one could exclude death itself also.

His crime is blasphemy no less than theft, for from the beginning he lied impiously, saying he had his revelation from the saint, and he has covered his offence ever since with lie after lie.

Easily the proud attempt Of Spirits apostate, and their counsels vain, Thou hast repelled; while impiously they thought Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw The number of thy worshippers.

The Archangel Jwo-jeng is very specific on that point, as areThe Insights , but the temptation lies in impiously seeking to profane that knowledge and power which are reserved for God and his angels.

"A demon possessed her," Lytton Strachey wrote impiously in "Eminent Victorians" about Florence Nightingale; his blow extinguished the image of the lady with the lamp that had obscured the ferocity of the real woman.

The day of vengeance is at length arrived; Not living shall ye measure back the sea, The sacred sea--the boundary set by God Betwixt our hostile nations--and the which Ye ventured impiously to overpass.

Ostensibly Hitler did not use the title "president" out of respect for Hindenburg's achievements as a heroic figure in World War I (though the decree, rather impiously, was already passed before Hindenburg's death on August 2, 1934).

When he saw them hesitate, he snatched an axe from one, and thus impiously exclaimed: "I care not whether it be a tree beloved of the goddess or not; were it the goddess herself it should come down, if it stood in my way."

Woe to the country which would madly and impiously reject the service of the talents and virtues, civil, military, or religious, that are given to grace and to serve it, and would condemn to obscurity everything formed to diffuse luster and glory around a state.

We rendered, all of us, unto the Zobranoirundisi that which was truly theirs - seed and soil of the velvet fields, part and particle of the originally fertilizing dust that would have been reconstituted during the cycle we had so impiously interrupted.

'Say to Nectanebes who impiously dares to lift the veil of Time, that because he has fought for Egypt against the Barbarians who worship other gods, it is granted to him to die in his bed which shall chance ere long.

But I Gods counsel have not kept, his holy secret Presumptuously have publish'd, impiously, Weakly at least, and shamefully: A sin That Gentiles in thir Parables condemn To thir abyss and horrid pains confin'd.

For the discourse will certainly extend to great length, if we are to treat the impiously disposed as they desire, partly demonstrating to them at some length the things of which they demand an explanation, partly making them afraid or dissatisfied, and then proceed to the requisite enactments.