Sentence examples for high piety from inspiring English sources

Life decayed towards "a state of absolute nothingness", while his characters, clinging on, tried urgently and clumsily to communicate their feelings to each other.He had been brought up with Lutheranism, a pastor's son subjected to sermons, beatings and high piety, and for all his protestations his films were full of it.

The Hathaway episode is a mini snuff film, fuelled by the highest piety about the downtrodden.

The comparisons with Waugh, a generation before, were natural, but Waugh, in his early satiric books, was putting an end to what remained of the Victorian-Edwardian bourgeois pieties, the secular pieties of family and education and honor and earnest purpose, if in the interest of the higher piety of Catholicism.

A general such as Richard the Lionheart, El Cid or Saladin will be a capable military commander, while a bishop such as Thomas Becket will have higher piety than normal.

This may simply be high-minded piety, but it is also ruthless, bruising party politics.

For black filmmakers, the door swung open a crack during the blaxploitation era of the early 70's, then shut and mostly stayed shut until 1986 when Spike Lee, with "She's Gotta Have It" advanced the revolutionary proposition that audiences would pay money to see a movie about the lives of black people that trafficked neither in sensationalism nor in high-minded piety.

Still, Juva's touch of madness was warranty enough for Dubuffet — who, incidentally, rejected the term "insanity" except to characterize the obtuseness of "school teachers and dignitaries" and other upholders of high-art pieties.

The book's prose is strewn with earnest cliches and high-minded pieties: there's more to human flourishing than roads and railways (wow, wish I'd thought of that), listening to people is an excellent thing, and so is basing your policies on how the world is rather than how it ought to be.

The Sun Dance, a ritual that demanded a high degree of piety and self-sacrifice from its participants, was also found throughout most of the Plains.

The sages of antiquity and the Christian era, he recalls, all distinguished themselves through their high morals and piety.

I would rather believe the more general statement: that "The Lord of the Rings" is a fusion of "invented mythology, imagined history, high fantasy, and deep piety". In fact, Tolkien created a secondary world, one with its own integrity.