piousness

Example Sentences

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Yet, in baritone Michael Chioldi’s Seattle debut, his sadism wrapped in performative piousness is eerily familiar.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2021

Silence itself is often linked with piousness and a kind of dignified reserve.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 9, 2020

Bucar notes that when a culture invests so much of its identity in the appearance, in the piousness of women, it also is investing women with a cultural and social power.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

Now, in our increasingly secular world, piousness is enjoying a moment as the ultimate good-girl rebellion.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2015

But the hard piousness of Cynthy Ann's face had never attracted her sympathy.

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward