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
Less interested in blunt proselytizing than more open-ended explorations of faith and its challenges, Affirm films have gratifyingly avoided the kind of pietistic Sunday-school pageantry that characterizes so many motion pictures of the genre.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2018
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
The pietistic or mystical view of the sacraments does so too, but in a different way.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
