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To embody the idea of filial piety to appeal to the Grand Queen Dowager, Yeon creates doenjang-guk, a traditional soybean paste stew, but adds two special ingredients: spinach and clams.

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Democrats will have to decide what they trust more: the judgment of last year’s voters or the self-serving pieties of Mr. Smith.

“Punch” could easily have become a bog of pieties and earnest, uplifting lessons about the necessity of forgiveness.

There was a confessional vibe at times to the conversation, borne of a fear the left can exude a piety and loftiness off-putting to many.

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“From his hair, to his sputter, to his strut, Penn makes a clown show out of hypocritical ultraconservative piety,” says Amy Nicholson.

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