She argues that for a growing number of Muslims, "Islam is often more about identity than piety, about Muslim values rather than Islamic ideology".
Please, no more pieties about this shameful fuckfest.
I'm not talking about piety, or goodness, but something more akin to moral fortitude or excellence.
Yet Tocqueville's point about piety wasn't simply that democratic Americans had more religious feeling than debauched Europeans.
Mr Baykal vows to mount a legal challenge to Mr Gul's election, which two smaller opposition parties may join.Mr Baykal's shrillness is drowning out legitimate fears about Turkey moving to a more restrictive social environment because of a more aggressive piety.
Gender apartheid is not about piety.
A plaque, or a monument, is all very well, but great literature inspires more than piety.
As was his wont, however, he cared more about debating, with a man named Euthrypho on the steps of the courthouse before his preliminary hearing, what piety even meant.In his perplexing defence before the jury, Socrates never addressed either charge directly.
Absent those direct connections, however, sculptures partly assembled from such decorative found-objects as ornamental butterflies, deer antlers and bees feel less dexterous — more like applied pieties about a fundamental truth than forceful disclosure of it.
Jones was buoyed by more than Christian piety.
