piety
Example Sentences
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As traumatic as such piety might seem, Jonathan Sheehan’s “On the Altar” shows convincingly that human sacrifice and its multiple meanings and practices have shaped the intellectual history of the West.
Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.
Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times
Much of the public wanted a different take on war - and one that challenged solemn pieties at the heart of Official Remembrance.
From BBC
I marveled at how those marks of piety remained, just an hour away from the Rooms hotel’s sleek pool deck.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
