| True womanhood emphasized the qualities of piety, purity, maternity, submissiveness, virtue, and domesticity. |
| 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. |
| By the end of the programme, it was athletes and fans who hung themselves in public with their own illogical justifications and absurd piety. |
| In contrast to the secular West, a deep piety permeates everyday village life, even though it is often highly ritualised. |
| Satan, a sceptical archangel, offers an experiment to test whether Job's piety is really sincere or predicated on his God-given wealth. |
