piousness
Example Sentences
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Yet, in baritone Michael Chioldi’s Seattle debut, his sadism wrapped in performative piousness is eerily familiar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
“There is a piousness everywhere, it is spreading and it is becoming very difficult to live in this atmosphere,” said Mr. Salvi, a Hindu.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
The city was then nurturing a so-called antifolk scene, which sought to dismantle some of the piousness and sanctimony of the folk revival.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
Bucar notes that when a culture invests so much of its identity in the appearance, in the piousness of women, it also is investing women with a cultural and social power.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2017
But the hard piousness of Cynthy Ann's face had never attracted her sympathy.
From The End of the World A Love Story by Edward Eggleston
