Sentence examples for as piety from inspiring English sources

Both dancers realized that Graham's choreography here has wit as well as piety.

She wrote that she was immediately "famous" six weeks later for her "Spencer's Mountain" review, which described the film as "sheer prurience and perverted morality disguised as piety".

Malcolm's critique of her subjects is tempered by an equally stringent self-criticism, which, in the absence of much humour, can present now and then as piety.

The Arabic word din signifies an entire way of life, and the Sanskrit dharma covers law, politics, and social institutions as well as piety.

In 1020 Bamberg was visited by the pope, and it quickly developed into a splendid cathedral town where contemporary scholastic culture and art, as well as piety, found the support of Henry and his queen, Cunegunda.

Finally, in connection with this third point, it overlooks the significance of Feuerbach's agreement with Spinoza against Hegel that "faith requires not so much truth as piety" (Spinoza 2007, 184).

Mansa Mūsā's prodigious generosity and piety, as well as the fine clothes and exemplary behaviour of his followers, did not fail to create a most-favourable impression.

To the Athenians, who prided themselves on their piety as well as on their cultural superiority, one obvious place to sink this cash was into the rebuilding of the blackened ruins on the Acropolis.

Structural constraints mainly come from the set of life logic regarding family responsibilities in a culture of filial piety, as well as the absence of any related social system for pension or childcare.

Similar research recently undertaken by the Scanlon Foundation has indicated that Muslims are just as diverse in piety and cultural expression.

The revival is not entirely an expression of piety; as on Mount Yi, the government is much more likely to tolerate temples that also fulfill a commercial role.