piousness

Example Sentences

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I don’t find piousness and pedagogy interesting in art, and neither do children.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2022

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

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

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