piety
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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
Soo’s Bonnie sweetly embodies the excesses of a kind of progressive piety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
The pope "wanted to see for himself what is happening in Monaco, where this movement of renewal is based on an embraced faith, and on an inclusive popular piety and devotion," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Opponents say composting humans is potentially toxic and lacks piety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived, and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue prayed that Hera would reward them by giving them the best gift in her power.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Headstrong, queer and disinterested in Victorian pieties, she escaped her smothering Indianapolis family and headed to Chicago, where she hustled work as a bookseller and book reviewer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
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
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