You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt. |
Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible. |
Rebecca Hall confirms her star status by endowing Maria with a mixture of scrubbed piety, intellectual fever and human rattiness. |
True womanhood emphasized the qualities of piety, purity, maternity, submissiveness, virtue, and domesticity. |
In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives. |
By the end of the programme, it was athletes and fans who hung themselves in public with their own illogical justifications and absurd piety. |