Sentence examples similar to piety against from inspiring English sources

Again and again, exhilarating combinations rose from the gentle din: Ms. MacKenzie's pealing pieties against solemn organ chords; Ms. Little Eagle's joyous whoops and chortles with Matt Beckemeyer's unassuming banjo; Ms. Uzuri's gorgeously chesty ruminations alongside Gelsey Bell's cheerful accordion.

And so, astonishingly, is the Manhattan — "an offense against piety" because it has vermouth.

The City of Man was set against the City of God, public citizenship against private piety, the divine right of kings against the right of resistance, church authority against radical antinomianism, canon law against mystical insight, inquisitor against martyr, secular sword against ecclesiastical miter, prince against emperor, emperor against pope, pope against church councils.

In The New York Review of Books, the critic Daniel Mendelsohn argued that Littell is attempting to achieve what Jean-Paul Sartre called "impiety against real piety," in this case the piety being "our own conventional pruderies and expectations of what a novel about Nazis might look like".

Many of his stories are almost parables — "almost" because, with a late, acidic twist, they rebel, at the crucial moment, against piety.

Meanwhile, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has set its sights on an even bigger offender against piety and morality – the Girl Scouts of America.

Scorning the Manhattan as "an offense against piety" and fruit juice mixtures as "all pestilential, all gangrenous, and all vile," DeVoto insists in delightfully snooty language that there are only two cocktails, the slug of whisky and the perfectly-measured martini, in which "the marriage of gin and vermouth is consummated".

Don Juan's marathon monologue -- call it an aria -- is an extraordinary display piece, an ode to self-indulgence, a rage against piety, a vow to "patiently nurse an irreversible grudge," a sensible man's master plan to profit from "the vices of his age".

It not only enforced civic order; it also served to encourage piety and warn against eternal damnation.

General condemnations of the situation continue to roll in, with Charles P. Pierce railing on Grantland.com against the mass piety at Penn State in the aftermath of the scandal and Jeff MacGregor of ESPN.com puncturing the idea of football as character-building.

Mr Erbakan was made to sign directives against overt expressions of piety in the public space.