Example Sentences

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Yet, in baritone Michael Chioldi’s Seattle debut, his sadism wrapped in performative piousness is eerily familiar.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2021

Turnstile, a five-piece Maryland band, are not precious about a genre typically known for its rigidity and piousness.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2018

Bucar notes that when a culture invests so much of its identity in the appearance, in the piousness of women, it also is investing women with a cultural and social power.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

Now, in our increasingly secular world, piousness is enjoying a moment as the ultimate good-girl rebellion.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2015

He was a little, old, dried up, and odd man with a vein of piousness in him, and he could handle men in a way that was very mysterious.

From The Belted Seas by Colton, Arthur Willis