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
The city was then nurturing a so-called antifolk scene, which sought to dismantle some of the piousness and sanctimony of the folk revival.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
The movie’s most effective antidote to piousness, though, is Callahan’s corrosive sense of humor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2018
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
He was a little, old, dried up, and odd man with a vein of piousness in him, and he could handle men in a way that was very mysterious.
From The Belted Seas by Arthur Willis Colton
