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Example sentences for: pieties

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Needless to say, in his recent visit to Moscow Bill Clinton repeated the old pieties, suggesting the West was "ready to offer further assistance if Russia stays with the path of reforms."
It's a testament to Norton's utter immersion in the role that he can even halfway connect the dots between this fundamentally sweet, brainy kid and the magnetic, white trash monster who'll haunt our minds long after the movie's liberal pieties fade into static.
Life is drab in Updike's novels, and sins are vast, and the Christian pieties that come tumbling down from the pulpit never seem adequate to the case.
But for someone so bent on unmasking pieties, Smiley is not above her own kind of sanctimony.
He wanted psychoanalysis to be a science of self-deception, a proof against the old pieties.