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

After completing his school course, his uncle and guardian, in order to put an end to his pietistic extravagances, sent him to study law at the orthodox University of Wittenberg.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.