Sentence examples for level of piety from inspiring English sources

While this level of piety was rare (but still extremely irritating) in the past, it is becoming increasingly popular.

Thus, religions which could hardly differ more vastly in their understanding of the nature of divinity, reality, and causality may nonetheless converge at the level of popular piety.

The final act was deeply moving, rising to the level of religious piety and ancient barbarism to which Wagner's crypto-Christian world of holy relics and holy bloodshed aspires.

However, with certain exceptions, Connolly among them, the 1916 leaders evinced an almost sickly level of Catholic piety, which after the Rising helped to consolidate their reputations among the previously sceptical Catholic population.

At the level of popular piety both Sunni and Shi'I Muslims love and venerate the Prophet and his family, especially his son-in-law Ali b.

Thus at the level of popular piety Sunni and Shi'i Muslims share much more in common with each other than they do with the Wahabi puritans of Saudi Arabia.

It appears that as in 1968 in Prague, the police and security services are solidly behind Ahmadinejad, who after all is a child of the Revolutionary Guard and knows how to combine the economic populism of Hugo Chavez with a level of ostensible religious fervor and piety worthy of Khomeini.

They are building blocks of piety.

This display of piety elicited ridicule from his captors.

This liberalization has developed its own sort of piety".

The outward forms of piety have become more visible everywhere.