Elsewhere the dialogue recovers and proves capable of poking a little borax at the rigid principles and habits of Scotch piety. |
Rebecca Hall confirms her star status by endowing Maria with a mixture of scrubbed piety, intellectual fever and human rattiness. |
Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible. |
In contrast to the secular West, a deep piety permeates everyday village life, even though it is often highly ritualised. |
In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives. |
You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt. |