pietistic
Example Sentences
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It’s also a deeply spiritual film, without being pietistic or sanctimonious.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021
They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020
There’s a subtext having to do with female empowerment, pietistic hypocrisy and finding God in the sacred and the profane, but it’s submerged under what is essentially a very long, slightly wan Monty Python sketch.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2017
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
