Sentence examples for made of pieties from inspiring English sources

Localism is a movement made of pieties.

The editors regarded it as a provincialism, a limitation on their intellectual freedom, to assume that there must be something called "the Jewish point of view"; the writers made fun of Jewish pieties about Jewishness without losing their feeling of solidarity as Jews.

He makes the piety of some people increase right up to the end of their life, but sin overcomes them at death and throws them into Hell.

This left the comedians making fun of the pieties while looking past, or not caring very much about, the politics.

He sought to elevate the status of religion in public and private life, making piety fashionable in both the upper- and middle-classes of society.

"Gianni Schicchi" is a "rogue's comedy" in which vaunting sentiment and the long face of piety are made the butts of delicious mockery.

The right to mock and to blaspheme and to make religions and politicians and bien-pensants all look ridiculous was what the magazine held dear, and it is what its cartoonists were killed for — and we diminish their sacrifice if we give their actions shelter in another kind of piety or make them seem too noble, when what they pursued was the joy of ignobility.

Where did that come from, I asked myself, before — as far as I remember — making some halfheartedly imitative gesture of piety, which probably involved a certain amount of squinting around or through my fingers.

How do you make piety entertaining without seeming impious?

You'll hear a lot of pieties about China this week.

"Wild" is about the renewal of self, but it's a film made without sanctimony or piety.