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
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
Two weather-beaten stone buildings at Ephrata, in Pennsylvania, remain as monuments on this side of the water of the great pietistic movement in Germany in the early part of the eighteenth century.
From Duffels by Edward Eggleston
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