| 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. |
| A hero of the counter-culture, Thompson did not easily fall in with liberal pieties. |
| Jotted down, her words are broken, repetitive, a string of conventional pieties. |
| 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. |
| The characters remained self-absorbed, oblivious to conventional morality or the pieties of political correctness. |
| There is no need to pay excessive deference to the political pieties and givens of the region. |
