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Example sentences for: piety

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The owner, a member of one of Cuba’s most important families, rescued orphan girls and took them into his home — his obra pía (work of piety) that lends its name to both the house and its street.
Grein's hypocritical disdain for his own family is the natural state of Singer's characters, shaped as they are by multiple cultures--Eastern European Jewish piety, radical secularism, American self-invention.
Influenced in later life by the Catholic piety of Madame de Maintenon, his mistress and subsequently secret wife, Louis put an end to religious freedom for Protestants by revoking the Edict of Nantes.
Most GOP politicians are, of course, in the forefront of public manifestations of piety.
1 Aesthetics . Christian sportswear bears the same relation to piety that Tommy Hilfiger clothing does to good taste: It's a cheesy, commercialized imitation of the real thing.