pietistic

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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

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

Dr. Cumming’s mind is evidently not of the pietistic order. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan