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
“Like Hollywood — a world so often criticized by the pietistic — these institutions and their leaders celebrate and reward the ‘blessing’ of fame, popularity and influence,” he writes.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2021
They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020
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
Her past pietistic fervors had left her with no memento of consolation.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
