| Rebecca Hall confirms her star status by endowing Maria with a mixture of scrubbed piety, intellectual fever and human rattiness. |
| By the end of the programme, it was athletes and fans who hung themselves in public with their own illogical justifications and absurd piety. |
| You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt. |
| The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn. |
| Jotted down, her words are broken, repetitive, a string of conventional pieties. |
| 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. |
