piety

The discussions range from people frustrated with controlling parents, to those exhausted from the pressure to excel academically or heed advice in the name of "filial piety".

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Soo’s Bonnie sweetly embodies the excesses of a kind of progressive piety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The pope "wanted to see for himself what is happening in Monaco, where this movement of renewal is based on an embraced faith, and on an inclusive popular piety and devotion," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Donatello, the embodiment of an Old World defined more by superstition than piety and by tradition than goodness, lacks the character to withstand Miriam’s inner darkness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

We ridicule their piety, their small economies, the size of their feet, their rubber plant, which sums them up.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Much of the public wanted a different take on war - and one that challenged solemn pieties at the heart of Official Remembrance.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

“Punch” could easily have become a bog of pieties and earnest, uplifting lessons about the necessity of forgiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

She has made a living as a yoga teacher, though she doesn’t really like teaching and has a penchant for skewering the pieties of her profession in Instagram parodies filmed by her husband.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

She had little patience for Ginikas friends, most of whom were like that, their righteousness made her feel both irritated and lacking, but she was prepared to forgive Blaine's pieties.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie