| We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist. |
| Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as the appearance of impiety was, once upon a time. |
| Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution. |
| For while God created everything to last eternally, death entered the world as a result of the impiety of people. |
| They were sanctioned by the authority of heaven, and it was deemed impiety to alter them. |
| Magic, impiety, enchantments, are often the effects of a diseased imagination. |
