Sentence examples for expressed piety from inspiring English sources

In 1950, in "The Liberal Imagination," Lionel Trilling predicted that Gatsby's story would lose its magnetism: Gatsby, Trilling wrote, represented the fantasy of "personal ambition and heroism, of life committed to, or thrown away for, some ideal of self," while modern society urges young people to find "distinction through cooperation, subordination, and an expressed piety of social usefulness".

You have to express piety".

At times they related messages to priests to deliver to the temple deity; at other times they expressed their piety in the parts of the temple that they could access.

The cover is a veil that expresses Muslim piety.

I've chosen "Pantoum in Which Wallace Stevens Gives Me Vertigo" for these qualities, and because it expresses without piety the delight of making meanings and experiences out of language.

The ACLU represented Michael Chandler, an assistant principal at Valley Head high school, who complained that the piety expressed in his school was coercive and unconstitutional.

The early Slavic rulers expressed their religious piety and displayed their wealth through the construction of stone churches, at first in Byzantine style (such as the 11th-century Cathedral of St. Sophia, which still stands in Kiev, Ukraine) and later in a distinctive Russian style (best preserved today in churches in and around the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow).

That syncretism converted the masses, who went on to develop a unique form of Catholicism, in which rabid religiosity and popular piety are expressed, but the sacramental and social side of the faith are often ignored.

The Confucian family ideology which undergirded relations between elders and the young, husbands and wives, has been shaken so that intergenerational relations are more often based on mutuality than on obedience, but the practical need for family care to compensate for inadequate social welfare ensures that filial piety is still expressed, albeit in a modified form.

In Protestant religion, Christian piety towards God was expressed through one's secular vocation (secularisation of calling).

Hawthorne refused to adhere to the restrained and respectful norms of wartime writing, and he expressed none of the standard wartime pieties.