Sentence examples for work of piety from inspiring English sources

Gallego, now 77, says that the cathedral is a work of piety, begun when he was dismissed from his Cistercian order for having tuberculosis.

"The Testament" is top of the fiction lists in America and Britain.The generation game appears in different guise in TV-newscaster Tom Brokaw's work of piety atop America's non-fiction list, "The Greatest Generation".

Philip Augustus led French contingents on the most fully international of the great Crusades (1190 91), although, having once demonstrated his energy in that work of piety, he could not afterward be persuaded to renew his vow.

The rabbinic program fashioned by Johanan ben Zakkai and his circle replaced sacrifice and pilgrimage to the Temple with the study of Scripture, prayer, and works of piety, thus eliminating the need for a central sanctuary (in Jerusalem) and making Judaism a religion capable of practice anywhere.

For Theano, the most famous Pythagorean woman (see 3.3 above), one fragment of a work On Piety is preserved as well as the titles of several other works, numerous apophthegms and a number of letters.

This is clearly a work of filial piety.

This superbly designed book, with its 1,480 illustrations, is a work of filial piety on the part of their daughter Jennifer Bass, herself a graphic designer, in collaboration with the design historian Pat Kirkham.

Brief Words is dedicated to a Muslim patron, and it easily and naturally reads as a work of Muslim piety.

One of West's great masterpieces, this work depicts an act of piety and defiance by a Roman matron.

Once deemed a work of deep, if morbid, piety, Handel's Saul has been drafted into the debate about its composer's sexuality.

Selling Jerusalem offers a penetrating introduction to the explosive combination of piety and capital at work in religious objects and global politics.