piety

Her song “VBS” takes its story from Dacus’ own experiences at Christian camp, where darker undercurrents of restlessness and nihilism course below her piety.

She breaks rules when it’s the only way to reassert the importance of filial piety.

“It seems that the different standard is (based on) the length of the beard and outwardly display of piety,” Hamdani said.

And he is to give this permission only to a priest “who has piety, knowledge, prudence and integrity of life.”

His policies helped engender the rise of an intolerant and severe nationalism that conflates piety with patriotism.

Once they win, these principles get absorbed into common sense—and, of course, get betrayed left and right, like any civic piety.

Before, his actions had been closely aligned church policies, which were basically a CYA masquerading as piety.

Certainly captain Merveilles and his people showed unusual piety.

This stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.

I came here, as I supposed, a fairly good Christian, with an average amount of piety and an average number of faults.

And for this reason the first help should be given to this State, and not to what has the pretext of piety.

To me the national affectation of piety and holiness resembles a white shirt put on over a dirty skin.