pietistic
Example Sentences
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It’s also a deeply spiritual film, without being pietistic or sanctimonious.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021
They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020
There’s a subtext having to do with female empowerment, pietistic hypocrisy and finding God in the sacred and the profane, but it’s submerged under what is essentially a very long, slightly wan Monty Python sketch.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2017
German Protestant migrants formed several pietistic societies: communities that stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Come, now, my dear Howe, you mean that the analytical and agnostic novelist wants the romantic and pietistic novelist, only for the purpose of breaking a lance with him.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
