Sentence examples for forms of piety from inspiring English sources

The outward forms of piety have become more visible everywhere.

A Christian Egyptian princess, Mahliya goes to mass and displays conventionally demure forms of piety.

Other forms of piety, such as Shīʿism, could be associated with wealthier elements among the landowning and merchant classes.

Some movements were more coherently ideological than others, and various forms of piety could reflect socioeconomic distinctions.

He comes across not so much as a pioneer Surrealist, psychedelic shaman or Freudian precursor as a satirical religious moralist whose dark wit and wild imagination served fairly conventional forms of piety.

But the relationship between traditionalist religion and liberal politics is far more contentious especially as we approach the most intense forms of piety and the most exalted forms of citizenship (which involve serving in high political office).

(The same form of piety appeared during the last few years of the George W. Bush Administration).

Maududi regarded warfare for the faith as an exalted form of piety and encouraged the subjugation of women and non-Muslims.

When she was young, she seems to have been a prairie version of one of J. D. Salinger's Glass children — except that rather than urbanity, her precociousness took the form of piety.

Rather than viewing an author's piety as a barrier to historical inquiry, Krueger argues that consideration of writing as a form of piety opens windows onto new modes of practice.

While in the case of natural phenomena suspension of judgment maintains an unfailing spirit of research, in the case of the divine realm, where human understanding is seriously limited, suspension of judgment, Plutarch suggests, is due also as a form of piety towards the divine (De sera 549E; Opsomer 1998, 178 179).