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Example sentences for: piety

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But the only way to combine piety, cowardice, cynicism, and recklessness is to hit him from both sides.
Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Our Lady of Piety) was originally founded just after the island’s discovery during the early- to middle-15th century.
Cynthia Ozick, the American-born doyenne of contemporary observant Jewish writers, used to make her heroes and heroines refugees from the Nazis, struggling to fortify their shredded piety against the American profanity.
A half-century later, Austen's great-nephew wrote a classically priggish memoir that cast Jane as the perfect Victorian lady, a superwoman of piety and self-denial.
Most Americans tell poll-takers that they believe in God, but few of them in a way that would make it impossible to take His name in vain: That requires an Old Testament piety that disappeared from American middle-class life a long time ago.