pietistic

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“Like Hollywood — a world so often criticized by the pietistic — these institutions and their leaders celebrate and reward the ‘blessing’ of fame, popularity and influence,” he writes.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2021

They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020

Less interested in blunt proselytizing than more open-ended explorations of faith and its challenges, Affirm films have gratifyingly avoided the kind of pietistic Sunday-school pageantry that characterizes so many motion pictures of the genre.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2018

German Protestant migrants formed several pietistic societies: communities that stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

He gulps down the Lachrima Christi of her exquisite love as if it were the small beer of pietistic commonplace, and then looks disappointed to find that it was not.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins