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

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

Hunt’s piousness was evident in the manner he was buried.

From National Geographic • Jul. 28, 2015

He was a little, old, dried up, and odd man with a vein of piousness in him, and he could handle men in a way that was very mysterious.

From The Belted Seas by Colton, Arthur Willis