| Jotted down, her words are broken, repetitive, a string of conventional pieties. |
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| Don't trust their bright shining lies, don't fall prey to their traducements and self-enamored pieties. |
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| The characters remained self-absorbed, oblivious to conventional morality or the pieties of political correctness. |
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| And for so long the pieties, dogmas, and set of assumptions being taught on college campuses have been found on the far left. |
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| Antique pieties cannot be restored, for we moderns know that the hungers they excite can be sated only by the gospel of Christ and him crucified. |
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| The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn. |
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| This flies in the face of centuries of pieties about the power of literature. |
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| There is no need to pay excessive deference to the political pieties and givens of the region. |
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| It mocks our pieties, it doubts our concern, it questions our commitment. |
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| For all the pieties that the press and television are merely objective observers of the political pageant, this is the moment when coverage decisions can affect the outcome. |
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| Apart from the matter of a wide dissimilitude of pieties, the task was complicated by somewhat different understandings of the role of hymns in worship. |
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| A hero of the counter-culture, Thompson did not easily fall in with liberal pieties. |
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| But the slaughter still mocks Mr Obama's pieties about interdependence, and his glib plans for win-win diplomacy. |
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| But four years later, events are conspiring to undermine Mr Obama's Cairo pieties with unusual precision. |
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| As the storm rages, the London summit looks like offering nothing but pieties. |
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| In them he seems to find a galvanising rejection of liberal complacency and post-enlightenment pieties. |
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| You remember the good times, the pieties you observed around one another. |
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| She doesn't care what anybody thinks is appropriate behavior, or which topics are just not talked about, or about the liberal pieties, she snarls right back. |
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| Nationalists do not like us to question their pieties, especially their essentialism and attempt to justify the nation as always necessary and always right. |
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| In Ireland the pieties of the old culture remained in place. |
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| The hard-bitten cynic and skeptic smiles with inward pride when his friends chuckle over his well-wrought and ironic disdain for conventional pieties. |
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| On everything from gender and sexual preference to climate change, those who dissent from the official pieties risk punishment. |
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| For all their iconoclasm, Stewart and his sidekick-in-sanity, Stephen Colbert, calculate to honor mainstream liberal pieties. |
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| The gleeful, violent overturning of pieties-including the pieties of race and nation-in the name of modernity is precisely what Vorticism announces itself to be about. |
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| Putting his characters on the rostrum he sends up everything from the contextual pieties of the new historicists to the gender fixations of the post-feminists. |
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| Since then, the big guys have issued a running series of paper promises and formal commitments, none of which amounted to more than empty pieties. |
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| Coming of age just after the Second World War, he was too old to be a child of the 1960s, but too young to accept the pieties his parents might have taken for granted. |
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| The unreligious Amis was putting an end not to bourgeois piety, which had been roughed up enough by two wars, but to cultural pretense, which, with the pieties gone, was all that was left. |
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| But the sentimental pieties familiar from Helprin's previous work — his strapping, athletic hero and heroine rhapsodize about the values of hard work and finding oneself — are here made more palatable by the absurd context. |
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| How can we listen and talk about these differences, and the different pieties and moral positions we have as churches in our diverse cultural settings? |
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| I'm a constituent of hers, and although some find her a poor time-keeper with a weakness for grand pieties, her local reputation is good among many. |
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| It maintained an allegiance to Rome and a faith in pieties such as pilgrimages, veneration of relics, and prayer for dead souls. |
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| Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, to 22 January The formidable genius of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio cut like a knife through the pieties of Italian art at the end of the 16th century. |
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| When Donahue left L. A., she took up with a grower she calls Judah, moved to a community she calls Nuggettown, and embraced the local way of life: hardihood, hot-tubbing, and New Age pieties. |
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| In the summer of 1521, Luther widened his target from individual pieties like indulgences and pilgrimages to doctrines at the heart of Church practice. |
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