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“Like Hollywood — a world so often criticized by the pietistic — these institutions and their leaders celebrate and reward the ‘blessing’ of fame, popularity and influence,” he writes.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2021

They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020

Less interested in blunt proselytizing than more open-ended explorations of faith and its challenges, Affirm films have gratifyingly avoided the kind of pietistic Sunday-school pageantry that characterizes so many motion pictures of the genre.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2018

German Protestant migrants formed several pietistic societies: communities that stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

The pietistic or mystical view of the sacraments does so too, but in a different way.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)