The New Yorker, December 25, 2000 P. 55 Signed comment about Al Gore's concession and the Supreme Court, comparing him to Galileo... Vice-President Gore, too, offered the required pieties last Wednesday evening — about putting rancor aside, about love of country, about how "that which unites us is greater than that which divides us".
By Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker, December 25, 2000 P. 55 Signed comment about Al Gore's concession and the Supreme Court, comparing him to Galileo... Vice-President Gore, too, offered the required pieties last Wednesday evening — about putting rancor aside, about love of country, about how "that which unites us is greater than that which divides us".
Iran requires "trustworthiness and piety"; Iraq stipulates "a good reputation".
Muslim piety requires that the devout wash their hands, feet, and face before each of the five daily prayers; the use of sand is permitted where water is unavailable.
("Any guy that's playing golf in China is in my target market, right?")Mr Spitalnik says that if he told his Chinese golfing partners the idea for his business on the first tee, they would say it did not make sense, because China's tradition of filial piety requires children to look after their parents.
We meet a local midwife who matter-of-factly helps an angel deliver its children "with wings intact"; a nun fluent in "the language of the unborn and the dreams of the dead"; and the terminally idle Ms. Yetaferu, whose inventive piety requires her to honor "263 saints' days, 52 Sundays, 9 other Christian holidays, 13 Adbar days, 36 Wukabi days... and 12 days to worship her ancestors' spirits".
Outside the family, filial piety requires "conducting oneself so as to bring honor and avoid disgrace to the family name" (Chow and Chu 2007, p. 93).
In general, filial piety requires children to fulfil parent's practical and financial/material needs and look after a parent's emotional well-being; it also traditionally prescribes obedience and respect from the younger to the older generation regardless of an individual's age (Keller et al. 2005).
After all, can you imagine Neil Tennant summoning up either the sincere piety required for a convincing "Silent Night", or the jolly bonhomie to drive a decent "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"?
He told me how, seeing her in the congregation, his heart would sink as he had a bad back and Miss S's exigent (though not ostentatious) piety required her virtually to prostrate herself when receiving the host, with the priest thus having to follow her right down in order to post the wafer into her mouth.
