piety

There was a confessional vibe at times to the conversation, borne of a fear the left can exude a piety and loftiness off-putting to many.

“From his hair, to his sputter, to his strut, Penn makes a clown show out of hypocritical ultraconservative piety,” says Amy Nicholson.

Public service wasn’t about party pieties, Jim said, but rather “finding a solution to a problem.”

Take the title’s smirk at the idea of piety, and the way the script implicitly questions the legitimacy of that label.

Some take comfort in hoary comic patterns, souped-up eccentricity and reassuring pieties.