Pieties

Mumbling pieties is not the same thing as having or practicing faith. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The First Amendment permits, but doesn’t guaranty, robust expression, and you can’t have robustness when there’s a self-denying ordinance at work that protects certain pieties from being questioned. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Looking deeply at these countries and at this faith in a critical way risks sort of offending important multicultural pieties, which is that all cultures are equal, all religions are equal, all religions are equally peaceful. ❋ Unknown (2001)

He had lent himself in those last years to a kind of pieties which do not make a winning picture, which always have about them, even when they show themselves in men physically strong, something of the small compass of the sick - chamber. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

Brand's new book, "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto," takes on a number of what he calls environmental "pieties," including opposition to nuclear power. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've spent a lot of time recently thinking about "eco-pieties," the perceived "wisdoms" accumulated by people who want to make the world better, but don't want to think too hard or put themselves out too much while doing it. ❋ Tony Greenberg (2010)

She also lampoons the pabulum of business motivational books and the pieties of CEO memoirs in a book that is consistently funny in its stomach-turning way. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

Yet his analysis of their work offers no special pleading — indeed, Capote is praised for not assuming a political stance, thus rejecting "the leftist pieties expected of writers from the 1960s on." ❋ By Stefan Kanfer (2010)

Like Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and Flaubert, she liked nothing better than to unsaddle human pieties. ❋ André Aciman (2011)

Something about Europe organizes the political classes and punditry to prevent them from organizing widespread the angst and alienation among the European public into a movement that will override the social-democratic pieties that are holding Europe back. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, all the people so far quoted except Mr. Murray come from the salaried commentariat, who might be expected to parrot liberal and establishment pieties. ❋ Andrew Roberts (2011)

In a visit to The Wall Street Journal's offices recently, Mr. Rowe was eager to strip the altar of green jobs—and the many other political pieties that distort the energy industry, even a few that he says belong to the Journal editorial page. ❋ Joseph Rago (2011)

Though Professor X's essay in the Atlantic was a welcome challenge to reigning pieties and a revealing look at a corner of campus life that gets precious little attention, it turns out that his firsthand experience is too narrow and his narrative too self-absorbed to sustain a book-length critique. ❋ Eric Felten (2011)

But he did so in the face of a severe foreign-exchange crisis and under a prime minister, P. V. Narasimha Rao, who saw how the socialist pieties of his Congress Party had kept India poor. ❋ Sadanand Dhume (2012)

Philip José Farmer, a prolific and popular science fiction writer who shocked readers in the 1950s by depicting sex with aliens and challenged conventional pieties of the genre with caustic fables set on bizarre worlds of his own devising, died Wednesday. ❋ Adrenalinegirl (2009)

"Conferred upon me for the piety Which to my country I was [judged] to have [shown]." -- [Milton] ❋ Scaper-X (2004)

I [exhibit] piety with every [devout] act, thought, or [statement] I make. ❋ Gwarg (2004)

I will do thy will, oh Lord, even though what I interpret as your will will conflict with the many interpretations of others causing me to pursue a passionate crusade against all others not conforming to what I [percieve] to be your will because everyone should follow your one true will, right, oh Lord? [Bless me] father. You are my [shepard]. I submit my free will to you. Just deliver me to eternal bliss, please. Amen. ❋ Lu (2004)

The [ascetic's] piety was [something] to [adore]. ❋ Seeing Red (2004)

Confucian [scholars] [taught] [filial piety]. ❋ Leafthief4649 (2022)

At this point, [Mike Pence] may be the newest and likely the most [feckless] [poster] person for the Piety Party ❋ Dr Bunnygirl (2022)

[Sooooooooo] why exactly do you expect [your kids] to take care of you when you're old? Parents: Fillial Piety (Proceeds to instantly snap parents [necks]) ❋ Thisnameisoriginaliswear (2021)

You are my sunshine whazza matter for you downer courage slueth piety ([Block] this [person] on all [social media]). ❋ J4cobi (2020)

[I didn]’t even know [piety] is [a word]. ❋ Cwg516 (2022)