This may not reflect religious piety (The Passion is very pious, The Code quite skeptical) so much as it does the labor of reading.
Many progressives in the church say the conservative group, with its strict adherence to personal piety (some lay members take vows of celibacy and practice self-flagellation), can .
Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well.
Mike Huckabee in FOXNews This is an enemy that really basks in the perversion of piety and the face of a faith to create a real sense of the ultimate contrast between light and between darkness, between life and between death,Huckabee said.
President Bush in Asia Times Online They hate our freedoms,Bush told Congress and the nation a few days after the 9/11 attacks. "Our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with one another ...... We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in AFP Their economy is collapsing...... the reason for their defeat is that they have abandoned faith in God and piety,Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech in the northeastern city of Bojnurd.