piety

But the luminous interior, designed by a man of such profound piety that he was known as “God’s architect,” compels awe even in those devoid of religious belief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The discussions range from people frustrated with controlling parents, to those exhausted from the pressure to excel academically or heed advice in the name of "filial piety".

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

You’ve seen a couple hundred of them by the time you hit second or third grade, so you become familiar with the muted ethereal glow, the heavenly gaze and the look of piety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Iskander’s David is a young man whose youthful piety and heroism make him a sympathetic figure, notwithstanding the bag of cold cuts.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

We ridicule their piety, their small economies, the size of their feet, their rubber plant, which sums them up.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Much of the public wanted a different take on war - and one that challenged solemn pieties at the heart of Official Remembrance.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

“Punch” could easily have become a bog of pieties and earnest, uplifting lessons about the necessity of forgiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

There’s not much inner life to unearth in a protagonist whose weather-vane identity is cobbled together from magazines, retail catalogs, newspaper op-eds, religious sermons and corporate pieties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Bakewell describes how he “trashes all the humanistic pieties on the subject of reading,” defending, for example, the right to unapologetically toss a dull book aside.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

The Damphair might disapprove, but Aeron and his pieties were far away.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin