Sentence examples for too much piety from inspiring English sources
Too much piety, triumphal arrogance?
Proust attracts, perhaps, too much piety; certainly the Proust cult is always an enemy of Proust the writer.
Viewers are drawn to famous faces but at the same time turned off by too much piety and self-congratulation.
A gentle spirit of syncretism suffuses "The Secret of Kells," which mixes folklore and history without too much piety or violence.
If Joffe painted a picture of Escriva that focused too much on his piety, the authenticity of his humanity could be lost.
This piety was too much to endure from a government that cut short debate in Parliament by unprecedented use of the guillotine, drafted legislation so that toxic measures at the end of bills weren't examined and used record levels of unscrutinised secondary legislation.
There are all sorts of traps for the adored, including fastening too much on a sense of one's own humility, piety, or helpfulness, or one's transgressive charm.
That grants too much credence to her particular, peculiar and highly selective definition of piety.
And southerners are unusually observant: Utah is the only non-southern state where church attendance is as high as in Dixie.When piety is grafted on to a small-government political philosophy 57% of southerners think the government does "too much" and only 37% think it should do more, according to Gallup it explains much of why the South remains different.
