These are often signs of growing piety, but mere piety doesn't mean a turn to militant Islam.
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" - Kevin, 31 "All performative piety all the time.
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Devout Christians profess a belief in piety, humility and sacrifice.
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As if a man's piety is evidence of his innocence.
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He peddled extravagant piety and extreme contempt in equal measure.
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Paranoia and piety are the main items on the menu.
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But the kids know which way the wind blows — Margaery especially knows a thing or two about faking piety for her own benefit, which she boldly admits while faking piety for her own benefit.
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The country is overwhelmingly Catholic, albeit with varying levels of piety.
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They questioned rivals' piety, with Ted Cruz inevitably leading the way.
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And Victorian religion tended to focus on women and female piety.
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For us, the Bible was not just a guide to piety.
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So what are the Yellow Vests protesting if not "green piety"?
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Spain was once a place where Jewish piety and poetry flourished.
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His kidnappers were a motley crew with varying levels of piety.
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It is a great experience of self-discipline, devotion and piety.
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That she's actually linked her policy views to her Christian piety?
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The head scarf might be a simple expression of individual piety.
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The causes of this growing piety are the subject of some debate.
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" The prayer also expresses a belief in "masturbating with fervor and piety.
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So by recent standards, levels of piety were making remarkably little difference.
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Trump's piety, of course, is suspect, while Bush is a true believer.
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It is really not piety that underlies this conviction; it is vanity.
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To ensure no one was preaching false piety, the researchers planted placebos.
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The resurrection of the politics of coercive piety will transform American life.
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The dominant note of this erotic encounter isn't prurience, though; it's piety.
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And when it doesn't suit the politics, the piety is easily excused.
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But the moral lesson is the same: Abraham's piety should be celebrated.
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They defined their lives through piety and strict adherence to the Bible.
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Politics, it seems, plays a bigger role with evangelical Christian voters than piety.
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But the biggest reaction has been to the drama's critique of filial piety.
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Sponsored by Saudi Arabia, they span a spectrum from piety to extreme violence.
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Her Muslim detractors are less concerned about her piety than their own recognition.
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Jokowi is perceived to lack piety, a weakness in a mainly Muslim country.
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Others promote the co-called prosperity gospel, which pins piety to material success.
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In my estimation, his piety might have led him to younger ladies later.
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This installment follows its predecessors in declaring the barbershop a piety-free zone.
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The latter does not nurture true piety, it only nurtures fakeness and hypocrisy.
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Erasmus's declaration (in his "Enchiridion") that "monasticism is not piety" resonated with him.
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Abstaining from consumerism is evidence of piety, restraint, and dedication to the cause.
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This show of coyness and piety no doubt played well with his supporters.
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Curiously, "Becoming Madeleine" avoids any mention of L'Engle's childhood piety — or lack thereof.
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On Fox, his disdain for liberal piety was less anomalous than his manner.
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For her presumed piety, four decades later, Sarah Jacob had sinned against science.
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The jihadists loathe more moderate Islamists for focusing on piety, social services and elections.
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But he does not demand piety of his preferred presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump.
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Still, Shapiro's unctuous piety towards Andrew Breitbart shows how compromised the ex-Breitbartians are.
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For example, characters of Hebrew culture get +1 piety, and Sephardi get +1 learning.
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Secular students object: How can so much arrogant misanthropy pass itself off as piety?
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It attacks every piety in its purview — without ever losing its inimitable screwball charm.
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One piety is that "Mideast peace" is all but synonymous with Arab-Israeli peace.
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It's a family tree of unimpeachable piety and dreary episcopal conformity, with one exception.
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But Rohrwacher isn't borrowing from this tradition to sell picturesque nostalgia or political piety.
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He was known to take a drink, and displayed no outward signs of piety.
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However, this mammoth display of piety runs parallel to an increased softening in Filipino Catholicism.
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He isn't sent into a tizzy because of any perceived threat to his daughter's piety.
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The constitution stipulates that presidential candidates must have "a clear past record, honesty and piety".
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Most Muslims now and throughout history observed an Islam of contemplation, piety and inner goodness.
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The Karimia Institute, a religious and cultural centre, is a hive of piety and learning.
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How do you prevent its principles, well intentioned as they are, from staling into piety?
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Instead they crafted American civil religion as an innovative blend of civic and private piety.
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Millennials aren't engendered to respect old men lecturing piety from the pulpit of social morality.
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But piety is a cheap commodity in some villages where the Orang Rimba now live.
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It's got the Coens' fat men, slapstick and glibness, slathered with Mr. Clooney's moral piety.
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Likewise, B remembers outward expressions of religious piety to be rare during B's adolescent years.
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"They seem to just be choosing policy over piety all of a sudden," Cuomo said.
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He recommends a private relationship with God over and against more "public displays" of piety.
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There's a lot of piety about the pure virtues of the blues, soul and early rock.
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Benedict commanded unprecedented respect for his humble piety, which allowed him to blend into the establishment.
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What about the Irish intelligentsia, a world where both piety and scepticism have deep cultural roots?
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" Another source was a Puritan devotional guide written by Lewis Bayly called "The Practice of Piety.
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True, a large Catholic contingent and high levels of piety are both associated with stricter rules.
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Save the piety, the circular firing squad, the shaming on social media for after the election.
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For the skeptical reader, it's a relief; his grief is far more intelligible than his piety.
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Bakker's story is America's story—one of success, failure, piety, sin, punishment, reinvention, and sexual misconduct.
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Other women eschewed epochal demands for piety and purity in their bids to earn a living.
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In return for this act of filial piety, he let me watch "Laugh-In" with him.
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Both were middle-class nerdy Muslim kids, encouraged by a favorite parent toward piety and science.
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Of course, there is no problem with these acts of personal piety — unless they are coerced.
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And overt displays of Hindu piety and nationalism have become central in pop culture and politics.
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When Robespierre brought in the guillotine, even revolutionary sympathizers longed for prerevolutionary authoritarianism, conservatism and piety.
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The rumble of violence renders sharply poignant the show's more prevalent invocations of piety and peace.
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They'll gladly boycott a company for political reasons because that is an act of religious piety.
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A sickened culture, he argues, could be cured if more people returned to this kind of piety.
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Politicians, even otherwise reasonable ones like Mr Baswedan, seldom resist the urge to cloak themselves in piety.
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One weakness of his previous campaign was a perceived lack of piety, which put off some voters.
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Filial piety, or respect for parents and older people, is a paramount virtue in the Confucian tradition.
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Somewhere down the line, recognition of historical atrocities became seen as some kind of pansy liberal piety.
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The show does get off to a slightly subversive start, before the Trek-tech piety sets in.
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With a piety once reserved for religion, they perform an act of devotion to a literary idol.
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In a show of filial piety, Meiling finally gives up her pursuit and wishes her mother happiness.
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In fact, one of the things I wanted to explore is the limits of white liberal piety.
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" Ben Brantley described the piece as exuding "a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety.
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She offers the simple dignity of a true martyr, not the melodramatic piety of the self-martyred.
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In practice, however, while private fasting is possible, attempts at communal piety are strictly restricted in Xinjiang.
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So many people feared that the curbing of the piety police would turn out to be merely symbolic.
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Black women and their bodies are constantly patrolled by the piety police and shamed for breaking their rules.
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Instead he affected greater piety himself, praying with the protesters demanding that Ahok should be put on trial.
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He is the author of Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation.
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Pilgrims to Shia shrines were allowed to move freely as if their piety would protect them from illness.
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He told the children that they owed him "filial piety," but apparently he felt he owed them nothing.
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Wilson echoed the church elder from Moss' story -- Lightfoot's policy positions were ultimately more important than her piety.
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"Piety Breakspear" sounds like an Inquisition-era torture device you'd ogle in a museum during a school trip.
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The narration of personal struggle, whether it's Peter or Mary Magdalene or Judas, doesn't drift into sanctimonious piety.
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He encourages his followers to engage with the world and worry less about demonstrations of faith and piety.
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The word is, more and more often, just a kneejerk, a tic of false piety and blind worship.
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But 1980 and the Reagan Revolution convinced many evangelicals that they could have both piety and political power.
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Although his image has not hitherto been one of ostentatious piety, he is rebranding himself as a Muslim devout.
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is not known for his piety, but his policies have made him popular with conservative Christians.
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Generally, Muslim men and women were more alike in their levels of piety than were male and female Christians.
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As the piety gap grows, missionaries from the global south feel called to save the rich world from perdition.
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Emphasizing filial piety may be a strategy for preventing defections, which have been rising in recent years, she said.
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American civil religion is no spiritual substitute for personal piety or the rich theological doctrinal specifics of individual denominations.
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For a culture steeped in oya-koko, or filial piety, fewer children has led to a crisis in caregiving.
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But if it is, we should own those flimsy ethics, and dispense with the phony piety "zero tolerance" implies.
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In the Bible, Daniel is a man of unsurpassed piety, someone who provides counsel and dream interpretation to kings.
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"Evangelical support for President Trump has always been based on his policies, not on his personal piety," he said.
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Confucius is the thinker most associated with "filial piety," the respectful care of our parents which he called xiào.
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Moore's brother, John, became a naval chaplain; her longer poems' resemblance to sermons echoes John's, and Mary's, Protestant piety.
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"They Called Us Enemy" includes numerous clips of Takei's social activism, and ends on a note of filial piety.
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Intoning words of ethereal piety, they investigated her condition fully, turned to the crowd, and pronounced her ... a virgin!
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If ever there was a moment when piety and solidarity might have seemed compelling literary values, this was it.
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Not all of this was legal, but, as Warren points out, it was hardly at odds with Puritan piety.
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Time and again, Eggers adds hints of the Biblical, to thicken the air of piety that these people breathe.
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Mosques, designed to be places of peace and piety, are increasingly targets for white supremacist terrorists and haters of Muslims.
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From pop to piety Jamshed soared to fame in the 1980s with Vital Signs, one of Pakistan's first pop bands.
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The whole ceremony in Westminster Abbey was not a display of generic religion; it was an act of intense piety.
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Such was his piety that other religious Jews came to regard him as Gadol Hador—the greatest of his generation.
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I'm terrified as being branded as a bad Muslim for using a time of piety for my own twisted gain.
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And, though I despise her for her piety, I am abashed, because what would the sisters at St. Catherine's say?
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After a while, he felt foolish, as if he were faking some kind of piety, and he decided to leave.
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Those nerve pills, she thinks, will make me crazy in the end, but, oh, what a relief from Annie's piety!
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The late 20th century collapse of liberal Protestantism and rise of evangelicalism have elevated the political importance of personal piety.
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The photo would have served as a testament to the family's piety, should ISIS fighter have ever happened upon it.
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In Rao's view, Trump's "America First" slogan is an honest declaration, a realist vision stripped of false altruism and piety.
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Something between the piety of saving sacred objects, and the market-based Power Point logic of a financially-faltering museum.
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" The CSCC tweeted back: "Awlaki—another hypocrite held up as a model of piety—visited prostitutes at least seven times.
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As a Chinese woman, and their only child, she ought to revere the tenets of filial piety, her parents pleaded.
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Another piety is that only an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal could reconcile the wider Arab world to the Jewish state.
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There's a world where this storyline ends up being a savage take on the self-satisfied piety of white feminism.
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But let's add more context to the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, which was anything but an example of political piety.
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To take your own personal hang-ups and piety and say 'that's Biblical' reveals your own ignorance of the text.
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What is okay and encouraged: patriotism, praises to the motherland, positive historical material, filial piety, and stories about helping the poor.
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Women in public places in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, wear abayas — loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of piety.
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Surrounded by devout people of faith, she is only certain of her uncertainty, and unwilling to pretend piety she doesn't feel.
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In the very first chapter, Mr Aslam lays out, as in a manifesto, his pervading themes: intercultural exchange, piety, purity, violence.
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Without ever rebelling openly, the young Margaret Roberts, born in 1925, found the mandatory piety a bit too intensive at times.
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To be sure, having a large Catholic population and high levels of overall piety are associated with strict restrictions on abortion.
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Other members of the PiS, a staunchly eurosceptic party big on patriotism and Catholic piety, have said they want it banned.
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Among the Sikhs, the dastaar or turban is an article of faith that represents honor, self-respect, courage, spirituality and piety.
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It was premised on rejecting "derogatory language and imagery", not repudiating the statements' religious roots or the piety of the customer.
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At the same time, by restricting women's mobility, the practice confined women to the family, reinforcing Confucianist ideals about female piety.
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But the swing from piety to secularism in Quebec has been exceptionally sharp, perhaps because the starting point was so devout.
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Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear: Barbarism will deliver you no glory -- piety to evil will bring you no dignity.
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The security official described Melhem's behavior as inconsistent with Islamist piety and a reason the Shin Bet believed he acted alone.
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Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear: Barbarism will deliver you no glory – piety to evil will bring you no dignity.
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Could a creative weirdo like Shulamith Firestone—or such systemic, visionary thinking, free of piety and cant—emerge from our era?
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They showed me a picture of my wife on a pilgrimage in Mecca and claimed she was a hypocrite feigning piety.
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The other takes theatrical risks in order to seduce a man "rigid as a steel box" and aggressive in his piety.
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President-elect Trump, an infrequent Presbyterian, didn't claim great piety but appealed strongly to evangelicals with promises to protect religious freedom.
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The piety of Disney in refusing to make "The Song of the South" available commercially, for example, is also relevant here.
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Péladan's pendulum swings between piety and depravity were characteristic of his milieu, although in his case the oscillation was particularly extreme.
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For Mauve, the ceremony of the blood is a perfect symbol for the peculiarly Neapolitan combination of piety, superstition, and fatalism.
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When Offred finds a kindred spirit, Ofglen (Alexis Bledel), each must gingerly unpeel the layers of piety she maintains for appearances.
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" Ben Brantley described the piece, closing on July 29, as exuding "a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety.
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She registers Anna's piety as hardly more than a tic, ignoring her compulsive praying to take notes on her physical condition.
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"Novitiate" avoids both the laundered piety of that movie and the sensationalism that hovers around the subject of women and religion.
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And the default posture of many prominent conservative figures — including Trump and Kavanaugh, apparently — is that of a constantly aggrieved piety.
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This package — a rejection of middle class assimilation, feminine piety, and traditional social decorum — has made Cardi the antithesis to ladylike respectability.
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Yet getting women behind the wheel is a welcome blow against the idea that Islamic piety is best shown by repressing them.
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Filial piety was critical in Chinese Confucius culture, and it was one manner a Manchu could demonstrate how Chinese he could be.
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Many of the men have beards, a hallmark of Islamic piety, and many of the women wear ankle-long dresses and hijab.
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And a particular brand of politics — fueled by self-flagellation, piety, pride and legal jeopardy — seems to thread through every threatened impeachment.
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The virtue of piety simply means that aspect of justice whereby we return honor or goods or concern the best we can.
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Dr. Martin Luther who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation - who possess a rare combination of genuine piety and deep knowledge of their faith.
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The discrepancy between Trump's personal life and his public piety is more pronounced than any apparent discrepancy during the last Bush presidency.
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In this telling, Mr. Bush's religious piety took on messianic fervor leading him to turn democracy promotion into a mission from God.
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Glimpses into the origins of their friendships, or the nature of their filial piety or their love, are few and far between.
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In much of popular culture, Mary Magdalene is portrayed as a temptress who found piety after Jesus delivered her from a stoning.
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He is also known as Maulana Fazlullah; the honorific maulana refers to a Muslim man revered for his religious learning or piety.
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Environmentalists have claimed that the Yellow Vests protests are actually about "green piety," or socially and economically just forms of environmental policy.
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It has good parts, he says: who can object to filial piety, getting along with your siblings or being close to your friends?
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And the recent election of Donald Trump can be thought of as a perverse twist in America's conflation of business success with piety.
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Hasids are Jews who believe in the message of extreme piety preached by an 18th-century rabbi and mystic named Israel ben Eliezer.
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Along with some thoroughly low-brow choices like Abba's "Dancing Queen" there were two hymns which reflected an intense, aesthetically refined, Christian piety.
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But let's not pretend that Strzok's piety, his professed adherence to FBI guidelines and fealty to the Constitution, were all the "there" there.
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In the context of G.O.P. politics, he could not compete with the alpha dog Donald Trump or the smarmy piety of Ted Cruz.
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In the 2016 presidential election, religious conservatives broke for Donald Trump in near-record numbers despite his complete lack of outward Christian piety.
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Sikhs wear turbans to represent piety, spirituality, courage, self-respect, and honor, and allow their hair to grow to symbolize devotion to God.
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She is the queen of hand-wringing Anglican piety, self-sacrifice as a moral good, pathological humility as the highest pride of all.
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"Piety turns away with horror from so fearful an act of desecration," he writes archly, yet facts are facts and metaphors are metaphors.
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In tales of love, chivalry, friendship and filial piety, his characters are flawed, with complex emotional histories, making them all the more appealing.
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In Taiwan, filial piety and education are widely recognized as important virtues, but young people face a tougher economic environment than their parents.
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Their schemes involve a battle for control over Piety and Absalom's slacker son Jonah (Arty Froushan) who is easily the show's blandest character.
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While filial piety is a highly regarded Confucian virtue, it was also the basis for an extreme act of cannibalism-related self-sacrifice.
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Despite the religious setting, this is not a show about piety: Think juicy ensemble soap, where guilt and righteousness are in constant conflict.
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Hancock said his family took piety seriously, that it was like making sure the gas stove was off or the smoke detectors worked.
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Yet God seems determined to keep testing them, prompting characters to ask how they can continue to believe, only to have their piety rewarded.
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In that quarter, voters probably welcome Mr Fillon's piety, and some dismiss as a frame-up recent allegations about improper payments to his wife.
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"Apelike imitation" and "intrusive piety" are just two of the phrases he used to describe the threats that lurked under the carapace of progress.
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The survey results seem to overstate the level of Christian practice in Europe, and for some reason respondents may have exaggerated their own piety.
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Berger called evangelicalism (under which he included Pentecostalism) a very modern faith, with an act of personal decision at the core of its piety.
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Malaysia, like much of the world, is a confusing mixture of piety and tradition on the one hand and secular individualism on the other.
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Throughout history, the human skeleton has been a symbol of broad-ranging themes such as love, heritage, piety, privilege, war, and of course, mortality.
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There was such flaunting wealth and beauty, such exotic, improbable belief and such ostentatious performances of piety, such cruelty, such laying on of gold.
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There are differences, certainly, between the Christian piety on display at the summit and the alt-right sympathies of Trump, Bannon, and their cadre.
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They also strongly encourage masters to free their slaves, as a way of atoning for sin or simply as a disinterested act of piety.
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To be victorious, Mr. Raisi would need a strong turnout from voters who live in less-affluent areas and who emphasize piety and ideology.
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Tom LoBianco asks all the right questions in "Piety & Power," his crisp and engaging biography of the vice president, but the answers remain elusive.
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The song, as performed in concert, was short and simple: a mix of piety and patriotism that did not explicitly mention religion or government.
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I'm your conscience, the angel on your shoulder, the real thinking mind you've buried under layers of performative, let-me-flatter-liberal-readers piety.
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In this heated context, Ramadan fasting, as well as many other outward expressions of Islamic piety and identity, has become a potent political symbol.
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Further, because virtue was masculinized and vice was feminized, their cross-dressing likewise communicated their extraordinary piety, superior to that given them by nature.
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Southern piety dictated that queer performers be relegated to serving as coaches, choreographers, or spectators in the conservatively gendered spaces where college dance lines performed.
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Other women may choose to cover their hair or faces out of piety, or because they dislike being ogled, or to affirm their Muslim identity.
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Mr. Hill takes his shots at hate-filled talk radio, at false piety, at lemming-like obedience to anyone who claims to be a leader.
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But the time-honoured display of piety is marred by seven Buddhist nuns with shaved heads and pink robes, who are bickering with the devotees.
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Many of the movie's main themes — such as bias towards women, and the importance of filial piety — are important themes in Indian and Chinese culture.
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Which brings us to Jerusalem, and the piety that pretending it isn't what it is can be a formula for anything except continued self-delusion.
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He's taking it directly to Trump and to Vice President Mike Pence, who flashes his piety like a seven-carat diamond on his pinkie finger.
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I even requested and obtained the empress's F.B.I. file, surprisingly full, and found that while her piety was never in doubt, she remained intensely political.
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He also taught that obsession with outward expressions of piety can nurture a culture of hypocrisy — as is the case in some Muslim communities today.
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A number of stories recount the legendary piety of the town's rabbis and sages, portraying a Jewish ideal that unites immense learning with extreme humility.
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One day "The Art of the Deal" is his bible; the next, the Bible is his everything, and he's promoting piety all over the place.
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You can get past some inconsistencies and superfluous piety, though, on the sheer pull of the story and on the overall strength of the performances.
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That is probably because she senses that in Britain, as in many other democracies today, voters are averse to overt or exclusive-sounding displays of piety.
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Those he knew said he posed a threat to ISIS with his piety, knowledge of Islamic law and ability to sway practicing Muslims in his community.
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Seen that way, piety is hard to untangle from other markers of conservative identity, from gun ownership to feeling the country is going to the dogs.
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The bounty of oil made the model appear workable; Saudis could have both the good life and piety (those who disliked religiosity could always go abroad).
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But after 1979 Saudi kings, who call themselves custodians of the two holy mosques, resolved to outdo their foes, both Shia and Sunni, in Islamic piety.
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However, due to a tradition of filial piety, the role of chairman may not pass down to Lee Jae-yong until his father actually passes away.
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Among people aged 16 to 245, the Czech Republic showed the lowest level of piety, with 91% of that age group saying they had no religion.
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The bishops of Quebec, the Canadian province which for centuries was the greatest bastion of French Catholic piety outside the motherland, have just published a booklet.
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"We need to educate the next generation on filial piety, no matter how you show it, as long as it comes from the heart," Yuen added.
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The nebulous and yet nevertheless intuitive values Kelly articulated—chivalry, piety, valor, and patriotism—are precisely the grounds on which Trump prefers to make his stands.
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Mr Najib has pooh-poohed such talk as alarmist, but Malaysians know all too well that the ratchet of imposed piety turns only in one direction.
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At turns meditative and psychedelic, the short begins with the nun being visited by birds, who become lenses through which we understand her life of piety.
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White evangelicals continue to focus on personal piety as the measure of true Christianity, while neglecting the Social Gospel that enlivens Jesus' words for the masses.
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And today in America, with its bizarre piety of free enterprise and private wealth, it is almost unimaginable that anyone would adopt so seditious an attitude.
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But he argued that this corruption was also evidence of a national crisis, one that could be addressed only by a politician untethered to political piety.
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Did it ever occur to you that your wacky, neurotic, dopey bouts of piety and vanity during the campaign broke F.B.I. rules and ruined your reputation?
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The young couple announces their engagement — she not fully grasping that he has lost his faith, he seemingly unconcerned by the allure piety has for her.
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The lesson here, I think, is to not synonymize material beauty with piety and the grotesque with irreverence, but rather to treasure all things as equal.
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Nur, by contrast, suggested that Boko Haram should only attack military targets and that using children as human bombs might not be an act of unblemished piety.
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We can start tackling that message by exposing the basic hypocrisy of a movement that lays claim to true Islamic piety even as it routinely bombs mosques.
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The safety nets Asia is weaving might even spare some people from long, listless waits outside a mosque, hoping to be fed by the piety of strangers.
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Most Indonesians, by and large, understand the distinction between piety and intolerance perfectly well—and reflect that in their votes for moderate parties like the PDI-P.
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This is a painful story about the human cost of oppressive religious regimes, and the horror of a system that allows bullies to mask sadism as piety.
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Timothy Husband, the curator, points out that some scholars credit the "three P's"—paper, piety and playing cards—with the spread of printed images throughout medieval Europe.
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Their rigid class distinctions, false religious piety, sexual aggression, oppression of children, spouses, and siblings—all reveal themselves to derive from the most primitive and idiotic impulses.
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The devotional images of the Madonna, Christ, and saints that exist in so many Roman Catholic homes (on candles, cards, wall hangings) express a deeply felt piety.
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Jo dresses like a boy and is harsh, but in the end, she, too, becomes something of a paradigm of goodness and piety, a model family woman.
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Many pilgrims of the time had little of the piety we might imagine; they saw pilgrimages as opportunities to party in a kind of medieval study-abroad.
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Chinese readers saw the story as an indictment of a society that values filial piety — it is expected that children will support their parents in old age.
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Hughes reads A Week of Kindness and its companion volumes as mordant satires of the piety and stuffy respectability of the artist's turn-of-the-century childhood.
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It undermines the piety and ethical lapses in nonfiction mystery shows, while sharing with "Three Billboards" a belief in semaphores and that people aren't any one thing.
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The message is a brazen defiance of international outrage against the sweeping internment program, which forces Muslims to renounce religious piety and pledge loyalty to the party.
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This was the origin of the modern religious right, and it helps explain why a movement publicly devoted to piety has stood so faithfully by Donald Trump.
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Yes, you can still see Caravaggio faces around the Colosseum in Rome; along the ghats in Varanasi, India, you're among the clamor and piety of the Vedas.
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Leaving aside any sappy rhetoric, Kon — together with Cowboy Bebop's screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto — devises an edifying Christmas carol that doubles as a contemporary tale of humanist piety.
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Father Sandoval said, "The church has finally recognized Romero's humanity, goodness, and Christian piety, now the Salvadoran state has to be similarly open" and name his killers.
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This old ideology was revived in the early 1980s by the introduction of hijab, a seemingly innocuous piece of cloth, under the guise of modesty and piety.
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That so many Chinese retirees would leave behind their homes to live in an unfamiliar city is all the more remarkable given China's tradition of filial piety.
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The answer is that for Xinjiang's Muslim residents, who are deeply resentful about rule from Beijing, religious piety is increasingly a signal of resistance to Chinese domination.
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I had forgotten the landmark was also a place of worship, and I was initially struck by the spectacle of piety to which Catholics seemed so unwaveringly committed.
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Even the mysterious circumstances of her death can't obscure the piety and service to God she showed in life, which is what's believed to have prompted her assumption.
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He also presented a second image of himself: as a devout Hindu combining personal piety, celibacy, closeness to grassroots right-wing Hindu groups and toughness on Muslim issues.
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Due to a tradition of filial piety, the role of chairman may not pass down to Lee Jae-yong until his 75-year-old father actually passes away.
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I think in Singapore it's still very much, I wouldn't say conservative exactly, but we're focused on other things like family, filial piety, and stories of the underdog.
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Catacombs are made from the dead for whom there was simply no more room in hallowed earth; cemetery locations are dictated as much by politics as by piety.
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The policy especially emphasizes the Confucian concept of "filial piety," stressing children's responsibility to care for their aging parents, an expedient economic move given China's rapidly aging population.
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The letter said that stoning to death and amputations could only happen if "men of high moral standing and piety" had witnessed the alleged crime beyond all doubt.
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Though it is comedic in nature, the show also touches on more serious topics in a lighthearted way such as filial piety and expectations of traditional marriage. 3.
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The historian Barbara Walter noted in 1966 that since the Victorian era, the "true woman" has been defined as possessing four core virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity.
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But phrasing it that way, in a party in which piety and limited government sentiment are a package deal for many voters and activists, was clear political malpractice.
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He says the church grew "quietly but steadily" for more than three centuries, and Roman magistrates regarded Christians' rejection of Roman piety as a rejection of Roman sovereignty.
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Instead there is the soliciting of popular votes, complete with a fraudulent display of religious piety, the slandering of opponents and a grossly exaggerated threat to national security.
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The background: Having grown up in secular Turkey facing social exclusion because of his piety and conservative views, Erdogan is motivated by deep-rooted animosity towards Ataturk's legacy.
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His blend of patriotic fervor, health and religious piety flows seamlessly into the harder versions of Hindu nationalism, which are often openly hostile to India's 172 million Muslims.
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Wu, who advised the Federal Trade Commission on competition issues during the Obama administration, doesn't buy all the piety; nor should he or anyone have to, he says.
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This perceived (by me) scholastic veneration, this fucking piety felt such an anathema to Walker's cool joy, and made it impossible to keep straight faces, let alone listen.
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An idealistic journalist in the story sets out to "torpedo every piety of this new faux-religion of finance" but edges too close and is compromised and subsumed.
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While Pakistan has always had Islamist parties, the new entries are notable for their alleged links to militants and their rhetorical attacks on mainstream politicians' piety or patriotism.
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The world's most populous Muslim-majority country has substantial Christian, Hindu and Buddhist minorities but has seen a recent trend toward greater religious piety and conservative Islamic activism.
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Its leaders tapped Poland's brand of patriotism infused with Catholic piety to build up popularity among voters and ensure the backing of the clergy, influential across provincial Poland.
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Since coming to power 15 years ago, he has gradually removed restrictions on public displays of Islamic piety while rapidly improving infrastructure, health care and social security programs.
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Its emollient tone suggests that in both quarters, there is a glimmering of acceptance that displays of strident Orthodox piety in high places do not please all Russian citizens.
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In 315 flowery characters, it urged his subjects to cultivate loyalty, filial piety and, above all, a readiness to dedicate their lives to the survival of the imperial house.
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But, says Pasquale Annicchino, a religion scholar at the European University Institute, this was more of a pragmatic link-up than an act of piety on Mr Gentiloni's part.
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The popularity of American sport culture is deeply rooted in the history of a particular kind of American "muscular Christianity," a conflation of nationalism, nostalgia, piety, and performative masculinity.
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Polyneices's sister Antigone, in an ecstasy of mixed grief and piety, begs for her brother to receive the proper funeral rites, but again and again the king denies her.
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Early adventurers such as John Ussher, Charles James Wills and Henry Austen Layard, told far less of "Mahometan" piety in their travelogues than they did of debauchery and dissolution.
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The citizen enjoys a sweet reverence for all the gifts that have been handed down over time, and a generous piety about country that is the opposite of arrogance.
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Mr. Linklater has never been inclined to moralize, and he has banished all piety from this movie, along with any conflict larger than the occasional collision of male egos.
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But if, as an actual sheepdog might, you see the world in black and white, its humorless piety, self-righteous rectitude and complete absence of subtlety would seem appealing.
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China has defied an international outcry against the vast internment program in Xinjiang, which holds Muslims and forces them to renounce religious piety and pledge loyalty to the party.
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With his sweet face and soft body, he hardly fits the stereotype of a terrorist, but his piety pulls him away from most of his family and toward violence.
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If the hijab or burkini had anything to do with modesty or piety, the Islamic fundamentalists would have sought private beaches, not insisted on forcing themselves on the public.
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"The mechanisms are now changing, but there are innovative ways people are exploring, such as video connections and cash transfers, to enable this filial piety to continue," he said.
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As Mr. Carter became the national scapegoat, the qualities that once made him the antidote to Richard Nixon — his piety, simplicity, openness, gentleness — could now be coded as impotence.
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He uses his expressive eyes as emotional floodlights—when his mood changes, from attraction to shame, from anger to fear, from piety to pain, we instantly feel the shift.
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Tinged by secular piety, today's public conversations about human nature often propagate a feel-good mantra that despite our flaws, we're enlightened beings who eventually overcome our base instincts.
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But his blend of patriotic fervor, physical health and religious piety feeds seamlessly into the harder versions of Hindu nationalism, which are often openly hostile to India's Muslim minority.
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After centuries of depicting pain (often as a means to induce piety), artists in the 1970s on both sides of the Atlantic began exploring pain itself as a creative act.
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The power of this made me nauseous, as I thought about the women I was supposed to be like, and how devoted they were to goodness, piety, acts of charity.
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Make no mistake, this is neither piety nor a genuine effort to protect the freedom of religion in Russia — especially coming after the authorities only last month banned Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Practising the ideal of unconditional hospitality, she was critical of the ritualistic piety of some fellow members of the Russian diaspora in France, and she doubtless infuriated some of them.
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Both the priest and his mother encouraged young Robert, a bookish and solitary child, to dream of a great future, while also drumming into him the habits of Catholic piety.
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To get close to the tone of it today, you would have to imagine the literary reputation of Raymond Carver joined with the popularity and political piety of Bruce Springsteen.
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The movie has sparked online debates about gender in China as well, he said, particularly around the importance of filial piety, another trait that India and China have in common.
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In past writing on Balthus, I've insisted on his hebephilia, countering the long and enabling piety of art people who have endorsed his pretensions to aristocratic nobility and spiritual mysticism.
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In the 19th and early 20th century, values such as purity, domesticity, piety, and submissiveness—which later came to be called the "Cult of Domesticity"—dominated Western thinking about women.
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How long have we been subjected to that subjective phrase, championed by Republicans who equated it with heterosexuality, fecundity and Christian piety — and who appointed themselves the custodians of those?
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Though he hates war, the elder Doss is hardly a pacifist, and his violent behavior toward his sons and their mother (Rachel Griffiths) helps push Desmond toward peace-loving piety.
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Despite the priest's piety, black vestments and narrative prominence, he is no more a Hollywood hero than most of Mr. Scorsese's falling and fallen men, with their arrogance and vanity.
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Chinese holidays usually emphasize family union and honoring ancestors, said Haiwang Yuan, a professor of library public services at Western Kentucky University, which aligns with the importance of filial piety.
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But while this line of reasoning might help Trump, it does undermine the whole effort of Evangelical Christians over many decades to infuse American public life with open displays of piety.
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It's about negotiating that identity as an independent woman and a daughter in a society that still places a lot of reverence on filial piety, family values, modesty, and the like.
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Outside a polling station in a well-to-do part of Medan, Ela Wijayo, a lawyer sporting a bejewelled hijab and a shiny gold handbag, waxes lyrical about Mr Edy's piety.
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In a cultural commentary piece for The Atlantic, writer Spencer Kornhaber highlighted the fact that Simmon's public "piety" is what motivated both Khalighi and Lumet to go public with their experiences.
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But he also, often, specifically cries out to a creator, seeking forgiveness or guidance, or at least using such pantomimed piety to attempt to compress a complicated world into manichean simplicity.
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The girls in the league played in pants and shirts, but many wore niqabs to and from the court, shielding their faces to show piety and to keep from being recognized.
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But these days Tokarczuk's binarism sounds too close to easy campus wisdom, to postmodern piety, even to neoliberal commerce: leaving is good, staying is bad; deracination is expansive, rootedness is dangerous.
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Developed by Confucius in ancient China, the term suggests the interconnectedness of human beings and has at its foundation the idea of filial piety, or duty toward one's family and society.
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We'd take the Rusty Rainbow — an arch-shaped pedestrian train track overpass — from Piety Street to Crescent Park, an unpolished, Highline-style public space built from the remnants of riverfront industry.
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In her book "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject" (2004), Professor Mahmood explored a grass-roots women's movement focused on moral reform in Cairo in the 1990s.
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He doesn't know if he believes in God, for example, but he'll make sure to flush out all the obviously gay priests from the Church, the better to prove his piety.
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He is daring people to judge his government not on piety but on performance, not on Quran but on KPIs — key performance indicators on unemployment, economic growth, housing and health care.
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But unlike political dissidents or other activists suppressed by the Communist Party, they hope to change Chinese society through personal piety and by working with the government instead of against it.
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PIETY AND POWERMike Pence and the Taking of the White HouseBy Tom LoBianco After losing his first campaign for Congress, a penitent Mike Pence swore off the dark side of politics.
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But longstanding Confucian traditions and values — an emphasis on having a respectable marriage, giving birth to sons, saving face and filial piety — remain deeply embedded in the fabric of Chinese society.
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In St Paul's Cathedral hung a rood, a grand figure of Christ on the cross, the centre of the medieval churchgoer's attention and piety, which provided a political bellwether through these years.
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As emerges in a revealing biography by the late Heidi Holland, a journalist who had unique access to him, Mr Mugabe's childhood was steeped in piety, revolving round a Catholic mission station.
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This fragmentation is partly because of the sheer diversity of a country made up of Jews and Arabs, Jews of European and Middle Eastern origins, and Jews of varying degrees of piety.
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Meanwhile, Confucianism's emphasis on filial piety formalized ancestor worship as part of everyday life: ancestors who did not receive offerings of food and incense would become hungry and irritated in the netherworld.
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Filial piety, respect for elders, respect for scholarship and respect for traditional authority were ideals that enabled the Chinese Jews to view their heritage as harmonious with the dominant culture in China.
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Finn knew that he wasn't holy, but during a retreat in college he had succumbed to a fit of piety and, dizzied by the idea of sacrifice, applied to join the Jesuits.
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From her room, she learns to balance the outside world's influence with her interior life as she deepens her relationship with God, and wrestles with the fraught relationship between piety and gender.
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She didn't consider herself part of the clan, and saw no reason to observe the rituals of filial piety, such as visiting the ancestral home on holidays and kowtowing to my grandmother.
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Religiously, we can see it in distinctively American crazes like the Victorian era's New Thought and the popularity of the Christian prosperity gospel, which implies that your piety directly impacts your pocketbook.
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Piety and nostalgia belong to the past—which is why Agnon's writing never glows with a warmer love than when he is describing the town he left as a teen-ager, Buczacz.
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The potentially blasphemous question rears its head again: if it's a curse to be a Sidenius, is Per cursed by generations of unerring piety, or by that ancestral aberrant flash of madness?
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Despite his criticism of the Islamic State, he showed few signs of relinquishing his extreme religious views and faulted his homeland, the Muslim-majority country of Morocco, for a lack of piety.
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No one, though, is more competent than Mannix, who in his looks, loyalty and especially his piety is finally the biggest fantasy figure on screen: the studio executive as a man of virtue.
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To sit through this — and there's a lot to sit through (Senate hearings, newsroom slapstick, Scoot McNairy doing Lieutenant Dan from "Forrest Gump") — is to see both rage and piety hit a wall.
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They cosset their cowardly bloodlust in affected piety, soothe their base's sentiments with concern-trolling about how all life is sacred—far too sacred to entrust to stupid, poor, and/or nonwhite women.
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Grogaard's scholarly certitudes about Munch are countered by the Norwegian artist Vanessa Baird, who declares a painting Grogaard praised highly "embarrassing" and demolishes one art piety after another with an invigorating demotic sharpness.
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The goal would have been to keep piety and discipline embedded in the culture of a place like Harvard, rather than the mix of performative self-righteousness and raw ambition that replaced them.
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Ms. Clemens, in a part that recalls the embattled and idealistic heroines of David Hare, lends Hilary an appealing humility spiked with just enough ego to keep her this side of unmodulated piety.
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This week, he took along an unlikely guest: President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, a veteran of the Soviet system who eschews the post-communist fashion for piety and cheerfully calls himself an "Orthodox atheist".
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The acceptance of international marriages, familial piety, the stresses of parenthood, the regret of wasted lives, the panic of a porn collection being found after death — all are focuses of the show's short episodes.
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Mr Jones ran on policy, talking about "kitchen-table issues" such as health care and education; aside from hating abortion and same-sex marriage, Mr Moore talked about little other than his own piety.
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Mr Jones ran on policy, talking about "kitchen-table issues" such as health care and education; apart from hating abortion and same-sex marriage, Mr Moore talked about little other than his own piety.
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As in many poor countries, Zimbabwe's economic woes provide fertile soil for Pentecostal preachers who promise their flock that piety will be rewarded by prosperity, but often seem more interested in their own wealth.
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Widely referred in media as the "Dishonored Mother case", the initial sentence evoked widespread sympathy for Yu, whose defense of his mother resonated in a country where filial piety is considered a core value.
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The national embarrassment over the fuerdai has gotten so bad that the government ordered 70 Chinese heirs to attend a reeducation program to reacquaint themselves with the values of modesty, reciprocity, and filial piety.
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" This outburst of goodwill is met with confusion from the audience of masked men and veiled women, which only heightens as he continues: "there is no difference between Arabs and Westerners except in piety.
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We're soon given to understand that her piety depends, at least in part, on the fact that she gave birth twelve years ago, as a teen-ager, and put the baby up for adoption.
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The governor's action meant that the matter could go before voters as soon as November, and it started a campaign that will force Alabama to weigh the politics of public finance, poverty and piety.
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If we have come to a point where personal expressiveness is valued above all else, we should be grateful for Rabinowitch's selfless dedication to a historical presentation memorable for its piety and anonymous construction.
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To counter Mr. Prabowo's appeal to such Muslims, Mr. Joko named a conservative cleric, Ma'ruf Amin, as his running mate and made a pilgrimage to Mecca this week to remind voters of his piety.
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After surviving her "Innocents" phase — the earnestness, the piety, those doe eyes — is there a part of her that's running in the opposite direction, searching down dark alleys to see what she might find?
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It was initiated by my parents' piety, inflected by my numerous ailments, was thrown into relief by extremism and today inspires me to help build a United States to which all of us belong.
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And so the city changes — not back to the past but into something made up of ideas from the past — of filial piety, respect for authority, traditional religions, but also privilege for the rich.
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Poland's political landscape has shifted since the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) government came to power in 2015 after campaigning on a platform of generous welfare spending and nationalist rhetoric infused with Catholic piety.
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There is Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute, whose book "The Once and Future Worker" criticizes the single-minded focus on expanding the economic pie regardless of other considerations as "economic piety" (get it?).
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For Sir Roger, the proper attitude to such "lasting things" is not to ask "what is this for?" but to acknowledge them without question and show what, in a non-religious sense, he calls piety.
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Then Sam Adams, the firebrand known more for being contentious than conciliatory, rose and said that he would hear a prayer from anyone of piety and good character, as long as he was a patriot.
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Saudi Arabia announced steps this week to rein in its religious police, which is responsible for ensuring morality, piety and adherence with Islamic law but has become the target of mounting criticism in recent years.
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One Confucian text, the Classic of Filial Piety, makes it crystal clear that delivering the "utmost pleasure" unto one's parents is something that you just do, lest you be a rebel against virtue and propriety.
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There is always the danger of faux jubilation and mock piety with annual commemorations -- that pausing to think and share on Mandela Day is a bit like going to church once a year at Christmas.
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Both Sophie and Absalom's wife, Piety (Indira Varma of Game of Thrones and Rome), are meant to be masters of manipulation, but they just come across as pale imitations of Littlefinger and Cersei Lannister, respectively.
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Yet with the act of kneeling, these rare, gifted, often doomed human beings are shrouding their protest in a kind of self-abasement; a display of vulnerability and piety in the face of iron injustice.
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Nonetheless, Michel Foucault noted the book's importance for his own approach in "Discipline and Punish," and today Kantorowicz's work is considered seminal to the emergence of new historicism, with all its piety-challenging political overtones.
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Every haptic application, once its cool stuff is demonstrated, is followed by a sober explication from its maker on its four potential uses, always offered in descending order of piety: medicine, prostheses, commerce, and gaming.
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But the hypocrisy police should take a breath and calm down, because Tinsel Town piety now threatens to become that thing most dreaded in the entertainment industry: routine, expected, maybe even a little bit boring.
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Bridgman's 1877 painting "The Prayer," for example, depicts an unknown Muslim man in a mosque as a vision of absolute piety; his eyes point to the heavens as a fellow devotee prostrates in the background.
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These books were the prized possession of aristocratic Jewish, Muslim and Christian families who used them as a way to show off their wealth and power at the same time as their piety and devotion.
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As Democrats start picking a nominee to face off against President Trump, who has the support of evangelical voters but isn't exactly known for his piety, 2020 candidates are talking more about their own faith.
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Just as the especially poverty-loving Cistercian order of Roman Catholic monks played a major role in advancing mediaeval agriculture, Protestant piety helped lay the foundation for the industrial economy, big welfare states and individualistic consumerism.
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Throughout his tenure as attorney general, Sessions has frequently and consistently conflated American identity and Christian piety, signaling to the 81 percent of white evangelicals who voted for Trump that he was, in essence, their guy.
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As for the crown prince, when religious types criticised him for daring to shake hands with women last year, he resorted to the protection of an over-sized rubber glove in a parody of exaggerated piety.
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Descriptions of Catholic piety, from the tender to the sarcastic, are a commonplace of Irish fiction and film, but Ireland has not generated Catholic writers comparable to the English converts like Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene.
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But even as Jokowi has made a show of piety, he has banned one hardline Islamist group and allowed prosecutors to bring charges against the leader of another, enabling the Islamists to paint themselves as persecuted.
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Last month, when the Pew Forum, a pollster based in Washington, DC, published a wide-ranging study on that question, it was surprising to find what sorts of behaviour did and did not correlate with piety.
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Mr. Huang's public pose is based on ego, attitude and hip-hop-flavored rebelliousness, but when he makes his annual trip home for Chinese New Year in "Huang's World," he's largely the picture of filial piety.
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" A dedicated moonlighter, in February he released an album of original folk/Americana songs, "Piety," and last month, the single "Pony Girl," a fragment of which Mr. Cerveris sings to his onstage daughter in "Fun Home.
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Its language plainly echoes more particularized orthodox Lutheran observations about God and music that were laid out in Johann Gerhard's "School of Piety" (43), one of many books of practical theology listed in Bach's estate inventory.
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Organs of state repression have targeted Muslims accused of excessive piety, particularly in the western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims, mostly from the Uighur minority, have been detained in re-education camps.
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The marches became an opportunity for PiS to fan emotions that drive many of its conservative supporters: distrust of foreigners, patriotism infused with Catholic piety and anger that Poland's economic success is not more evenly shared.
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On the one hand, early Christians would agree with the Met exhibition and gala organizers about the importance of dress as a primary mode through which individuals have long expressed their religious identity, commitment, and piety.
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" On the multitudes embodied by the color black, favored by ninjas, nuns, fascists and fashionistas alike, they write "[Black is] the color of abjection and of arrogance, of piety and of perversity, of restraint and of rebelliousness.
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She doesn't often divulge details about her private piety, even while hinting that prayer and pastoral counseling have led her to consequential decisions, such as remaining with her husband, Bill, after the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 211.
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Leadership analysis might give clues MORE's first visit to Russia last week reaffirmed, above and beyond the traditional friendly ties between the two nations, the young Korean leader's filial piety — a hallowed virtue in the Confucian civilization.
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Jesse's wife, Amber (Cassidy Freeman) is eerily comfortable in her status as a wealthy "bless your heart" housewife who consistently gives her husband a pass for bad behavior and also weaponizes her own piety against other women.
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For the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims -- both converts and those born in Islam -- it is a faith that stresses the importance of personal piety and purification, for striving to uphold peace, justice, and social equality.
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Buried in the vaporous synth lines and swooning vocals—which recall the 80s most dreamily sedated synth pop hits—is a sense of quietude and piety that echoes the architecture, if not the spirit of holy spaces.
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Only when they are receiving instruction from the leader of the retreat — who remains unseen but is voiced with hilariously oily piety by Jojo Gonzalez — do the characters assemble on chairs at one end of the stage.
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Although he inherited the standard-issue piety and patriotism of his social milieu, Mena, an excellent student, seemed destined to become the first member of his family to attend university and escape the confines of village life.
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Kacey Musgraves: A Very Kacey Christmas (Mercury Nashville) Christmas and country music generally mesh due to religious piety, excessive respect for tradition, and a willingness to guzzle the sentimental juices spurting from the big fat national heart.
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Please. You are granting way too much historical importance to the self-implosion of a political movement that rose to power over the past 30 years on a platform of moralistic piety, militarism, anti-abortion, and xenophobia.
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But people of that persuasion were horrified by the propaganda coup which Mr Maduro seemed to pull off on October 24th when he had a short, unscheduled meeting with Pope Francis and came away glowing with unaccustomed piety.
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To understand the danger of politicised piety, consider Hebron, Jerusalem's "older sister" and site of the Cave of the Patriarchs (which Muslims call the Ibrahimi Mosque), where the Bible says Abraham bought a burial-place for his family.
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An outspoken atheist in a country where politicians often trumpet their piety, Karunanidhi built his political machine as a crusader for social justice, with policies aimed at helping those at the bottom of India's rigid Hindu caste hierarchy.
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They also embody the main themes of his campaign, namely piety and violence, both real and rhetorical, which he promised to inflict on enemies from the corrupt halls of Congress to the glowing sands of the Middle East.
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That's especially true of her three daughters: Agnès (Nedra McClyde), who longs to attach herself to a rich white man; Maude Lynn (Juliana Canfield), a young woman of fanatical piety; and Odette, the least assured of the three.
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The case attracted considerable attention because the mother and son had put down in a written contract — signed when he was 20 — what is often left unsaid, particularly in a heavily Confucian-influenced society that emphasizes filial piety.
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It steps outside of the Gilead that we've seen — the serene exterior of Commanders' homes, wives decked in blue, the strictures of the Red Center — to communicate how piety is just another carefully coordinated mask in this culture.
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Just don't give me the both-sides piety when something like this happens — and what, just a week after the freakout over Karen Pence teaching art at an evangelical school with a traditional-Christian code of sexual behavior?
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In a letter to the new assembly, carried by state media, Khamenei asked the new members to "guard the Islamic and revolutionary identity" of Iran and pay attention to the "personal and political piety of the (next) supreme leader".
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In fact, the proto-French probably happily ate horse until 732 A.D., when Pope Gregory III abolished it as a pagan practice (a decree that likely had more to do with conserving horses for warfare than any particular piety).
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Judge Agee failed to consider how the commissioners' openly expressed piety "might fall on the ears of Hindu attendees, Jewish attendees, Muslim attendees or others who do not share the commissioners' particular view of salvation or their religious beliefs".
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Then he looked at the comparatively small (15-point) difference that piety made: weekly churchgoers favoured Mr Trump over Mrs Clinton by nine points, while among the less devout, the Democrat was preferred to her rival by six points.
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The conservatives remain generally popular among voters thanks to a blend of nationalism, Roman Catholic piety and steps to help poorer Poles who have not benefited much from a decade of heady economic growth in the formerly communist country.
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Every piety that the speaker utters, every moral posture that he strikes, will be received with derision by anyone who remembers the months that he spent urging Americans, albeit through gritted teeth, to make Donald Trump commander in chief.
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" Ms. Cummings concludes that both Jerome and White "came of age just as the values of the old republic — piety, frugality, moral prudery and personal rectitude — were bumping up against new, less inhibited attitudes toward money, morals and sex.
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When a Satmar grand rabbi wanted to stretch the length of the Sabbath day as a mark of extra piety, Rabbi Hager refused to go along, indicating that he wanted to be faithful to the traditions of his ancestors.
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BEIJING — A Chinese court commuted on Friday the sentence of a man who had killed a creditor who had harassed his mother, in a closely watched case that has provoked a national debate about family honor and filial piety.
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He has spoken in the past of seeking to create a new generation of pious youths, has already significantly increased the number of religious schools and this week questioned the piety of those who would vote "no" on Sunday.
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President-elect Trump — not exactly known for his piety — will be sworn in as the 45th president with not one Bible but two — the one that Abraham Lincoln used at his first inauguration and his own personal Good Book.
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And perhaps most scandalously, these paintings often portray actual members of the Italian elite, who professed piety in public but enjoyed these works in private, and sometimes even equipped them with a retractable curtain fitted to the painting's frame.
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In the second role in as many months that hinges on piety (the other being "Hacksaw Ridge"), Andrew Garfield stars, alongside Adam Driver, as a pair of young Portuguese priests who embark on a perilous mission to Japan in 1641.
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The older Lee has been incapacitated since suffering a heart attack in 2014; due to a tradition of filial piety, the role of chairman may not pass down to Lee Jae-yong until his 75-year-old father actually passes away.
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Mulan's motives are supposed to be tied to filial piety, but the movie's climactic moment—where she is recognized by the emperor and bowed to by the crowd—is too individualistic for a movie based on a traditional Chinese folk tale.
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Although Mr Jacobs-Jenkins upends religious piety and uses an irreverent vernacular, his play stays true to the timeless concerns of the medieval original, asking, ultimately: when the time comes and you look back on your life, what will you see?
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The archetype of the gruff patriarch is familiar, but is admirably fleshed out in Mr John's portrayal of a loving but wrong-headed man, tragically incapable of reconciling his son's sexuality with his own archaic notions of piety and propriety.
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Of requests for beards made so far, 42 percent have been granted on grounds of piety while other applicants were rejected for trying to "hitch a ride" and shirk shaving, chief military spokesman Brigadier-General Motti Almoz told Army Radio.
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" A good-natured, if pensive ad man named Saeed tries to woo a motorbike-riding woman named Nadia who dresses in a long black robe not out of piety but, as she tells Saeed, "So men don't fuck with me.
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This latest version at the National, with Rufus Norris directing a newly foul-mouthed adaptation by Simon Stephens, has a dirty old ball exposing the contradictions between bourgeois piety and criminal actions, and between flashy showmanship and its cheap paper facades.
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If the Saudis continue to abandon the long-running race to lead the world in Islamic extremist and violent piety and show a willingness to recognize and respect Israel, that will be a stark enough difference for anyone to notice.
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As The New Yorker's Doreen St. Felix pointed out: black voters and black women voters vote in their self-interest enough with this piety narrative They certainly didn't show up at the polls as a favor to Jones and the Democrats.
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The social media barons of Silicon Valley are more relevant to many of these younger Saudis, at ease with the liberal mores of American television shows as well as the conservative piety of the kingdom's tradition, than Western political leaders.
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In fact, he left a Europe that was subject to bloody religious wars and, incidentally, to the Catholic backlash of the Counter-Reformation, which strove to co-opt the Protestant emphasis on personal devotion in new styles of traditional piety.
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Nai Nai still hasn't seen the movie (and still doesn't know what it's about), while Wang wonders how the whole notion of filial piety, that Confucian tenet of respecting one's elders so treasured by the Chinese, fits into her family's decision.
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Josh is the oldest of four children (he has a brother, Zachary, who is sixteen months younger, and two sisters, Kelci and Amanda, younger by seven and fourteen years) and as a result apparently bore the brunt of his parents' piety.
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In its presentation of hale young adventure athletes, living righteously in Edenic locales, all of them with just the right amount of dishevelment and duct tape, the catalogue can emanate the passive-aggressive piety of a food-co-op scolding.
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None of this piety will change anything on the ground, where settlements continue to grow, the daily humiliations that constitute Palestinian life continue to accumulate, and the occupation that will mark its 50th anniversary this year continues to entrench itself.
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Starting around the 1990s, displays of public piety became more common, historian Rian Thum, an assistant professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, told me, as many Uighur began reasserting their Islamic identities in deliberate opposition to the Chinese state.
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Regarding Azuza's meritocratic claims, she said that Ibadi custom holds that leaders be chosen for their knowledge and piety without any regard to race or lineage, but noted that many of their imams were in fact elected along dynastic lines.
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No piety of the culture—whether it be I think therefore I am, To be or not to be, You do you, or I contain multitudes—should or ever can be entirely fixed in place or protected from the currents of history.
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Part Malcolm X, part Louis Farrakhan (or so he'd like to think), he sees himself as totally magnanimous, but playing into the duplicity of his environment, his piety is eventually shot because he commits the cardinal sin of falling for a white woman.
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The "forests of symbols" in these drawings are best understood in context of the literature that inspired them: Many were originally created as book or magazine illustrations; others are dark, modern spins on classic tales and Biblical scenes, stripped of their usual piety.
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What happened to the ever-present and horrifying idea that June's fellow Handmaids could inform on her for her lack of piety at any moment, and that they were in fact encouraged to do so with rewards and special treatment for the informant?
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"The scale of victory or defeat with the mujahedeen, the people of faith and piety, is not tied to a city or a village that was taken," Mr. Baghdadi said in the speech, the first recording of him to be released since Sept.
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These are all acts, among other signs of piety, that would have been flagged by the Chinese government and warranted monitoring or even detention for Uighurs living in the western Xinjiang region, according to a leaked government document obtained by The Times.
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Cate and these two downtrodden women — and even the haughty "sisters" of the Home, who herd their enervated flock onto the path of righteousness through a relentless drumbeat of prayer and piety — endure tragedy at the hands of cruel parents and predatory men.
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Centered, at first, on a genteel schoolteacher, Elizabeth (Erin Krakow), a handsome Mountie (Daniel Lissing), and a local widow (Lori Loughlin) in a western-Canadian mining town circa 1910, it has a whiff of the piety of the "Love Comes Softly" series.
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The others include the tensions between the North and the evangelical heartland of the South, the argument over the fundamentalist belief in biblical inerrancy and the ongoing dispute over whether America should be a light unto the nations or an isolated refuge of piety.
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"It raises questions of how does [Kanye] situate himself to that particular [Black Christian] prophetic tradition that is much more interested in the social good and social welfare as opposed to personal piety," Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University Dr. Xavier Pickett says.
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Since coming to power in 2015, the PiS has pursued policies that reflect patriotism infused with Catholic piety: ending state funding for in-vitro fertilisation, promoting awareness of natural family planning in schools, and restricting support for some organisations focusing on violence against women.
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Civilisations for which the Earth was not the centre of the universe might, he suggested with a sort of atheist piety, have been less likely to develop the sort of monotheisms that see humans as the centre of the universe and the apex of creation.
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The selective co-optation of religion in Vladimir Putin's Russia is more obvious (given the president's overt Russian Orthodox piety) and not quite so dramatic: so far, anyway, Russia has nothing comparable to the re-education camps set up for Uighur Muslims in China.
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"Hans Memling: Portraiture, Piety and a Reunited Altarpiece," at the Morgan Library & Museum, is a minute but invaluable gem of some two dozen small paintings, drawings and books set in the Morgan's Clare Eddy Thaw gallery, known as the Cube for its intimate size.
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In one, he offers a lucid summary of the intellectual innovations of Erasmus of Rotterdam — the "first literary superstar in modern history," he calls him — whose promotion of an interiorized piety over external ritual helped prepare the way for more outspoken reformers like Martin Luther.
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Not only did Jesus and the prophets of Israel vehemently denounce those who prayed devoutly while neglecting the poor and oppressed, but Muhammad, Confucius, Mencius, Mahavira, the Buddha and Gandhi all insisted that personal piety was fruitless unless one worked tirelessly to relieve human suffering.
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It is easy to forget that the 1979 revolution in Iran was as much about an anti-imperialist nationalism as it was about religious ideology; for most Iranians, the rallying cry "Neither East nor West" resonated just as loud as the call for Islamic piety.
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To defend that bet, some historically-inclined believers have cited past cases where Christians accepted bargains with a not-particularly moral leaders — including the way the early church accepted the patronage of Roman emperors, from Constantine onward, whose personal piety was limited at best.
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Much as Speaker Pelosi and her colleagues donned sack cloth and frowny faces to express how very, very sad they were to execute a hatchet job on President Trump, voters saw through their phony piety and moved solidly against deposing a duly elected president.
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Mr. Vance is correct that the legislature created limits, but it simultaneously built ways around them; its "spirit and intent" is like the public piety of a Mafia hitman who makes the sign of the cross when passing a church on his way to work.
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By equating prime minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalists with their secular rivals, he was implying that, since both of India's biggest parties share such traits as cronyism and paternalist economics, all that really distinguishes the BJP is its displays of piety, such as reverence for cows.
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A third scenario would see religious leaders repudiating this latest display of hatred masquerading as piety, promoted by phony Christians who believe the Gospels, which they've obviously never read, require them to deny certain people their God-given rights — when in fact the exact opposite is true.
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Then the police pressed further, Mr. Satyanarayana said, accosting the couple for hanging up photographs of Indian social reformers but not of Hindu gods and goddesses, and berating his wife, an upper-caste Brahmin, for not wearing red vermilion, a symbol of piety, on her forehead.
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Apparently, due to her devout faith, Breitwieser's mother chose to abandon a Medieval sculpture of the Virgin Mary in a remote chapel rather than destroying it, though it must be noted that her piety did not include adherence to every single one of the ten commandments.
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The mixture of hedonism and piety that defines their lives — at least those parts that the film chooses to depict — is fascinating, and a different kind of documentary might have delved into the cultural, sociological and religious aspects of aristocratic life in the modern Middle East.
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Gradually, though, Mr. Hemsworth was allowed to cut down on the piety and self-seriousness so that, maybe, by the time "Thor: Ragnarok" opens in November, what's left is a leading-man foundation that takes him from subpar Laurence Olivier to peak Charlton Heston or Mel Gibson.
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Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va., is in one of the reddest patches on that map, and the president seemed to relish mixing politics and piety, much as the school's founder, Jerry Falwell, did, and as his son Jerry Falwell Jr., now its president, continues to do.
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Unlike their previous positions high above parishioners' heads, they're temporarily installed in the Chapel of St. James, wrapping around the room at eye-level, as they would have been in the 21047th century when the textiles heralded the wealth, taste, and Christian piety of the Barberini family.
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In the past, Sikh officers had to wear a patka (a turban worn by members of the Sikh faith to exhibit honor, courage and piety) under a cap and also weren't allowed any beard growth above 1 millimeter, as they interfered with gas masks, the Associated Press reports.
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" Indeed, her political proposals on everything from health care to climate change have roots in the United Methodist Church, which advocates social justice in addition to personal piety, said Paul G. Kengor, a professor at Grove City College and the author of "God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life.
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I certainly understand that liberal theological Christians profess their faith by trying to "make the world a better place" through works, while Evangelical Christians believe that the world would be a better place inherently if more people simply professed to be disciples of Christ and practiced a personal piety.
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Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel will be speaking at the RNC, as well as casino mogul Phil Ruffin and private equity investor Thomas J. Barrack Jr. Men of faithEven though Trump might not be known for his piety, he still managed to get the support of religious leaders.
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Casanova's autobiography, "The Story of My Life," provides granular insight into the 18th century's social manners over its 17663,700 handwritten pages: how high-living Europeans feasted and gambled, how they chose their clothes or styled their hair, how they maintained a veneer of piety while seducing one another.
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Eisenman likes rhyming contemporary subjects with motifs from the past, including, as she told Gioni of a number of pictures, a timeless gesture of "shoulders curled in and our eyes reverently looking down"; it's a pose familiar from classic paintings of religious piety, reënacted whenever we check our phones.
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These are all acts, among other signs of piety, that would have been flagged by the Chinese government and warranted monitoring or even detention for Uighurs living in the western Xinjiang region, according to a leaked government document that was shared with several news media organizations, including The Times.
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" In her deliberate refusal to valorize Confucian traditions of filial piety, Mizumura, who was educated in the United States but now resides in Tokyo, queries the dark contradictions in a modern Japan, where obligatory caretaking can manifest as ritualized misery, culminating in guilt-ridden, resentment-soaked "meshes of woe.
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In recent years, as the Catholic Church has weathered wave after wave of sexual abuse controversies (a new one is in the process of exploding in Germany), some have gone so far as to question, in the context of religious piety or otherwise, if living a celibate life is even possible.
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Fallon's coming-out precipitated a great burst of self-righteous hand-wringing, what Philip Roth might call an "enormous piety binge," in the MMA world (which, being a place where perpetual outsiders have always done their work in shadows while scrapping for respect from the "straight world," really should know better).
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These scholars, academics, and advocates apply deep nuance, piety, and sophistication in seeking to address these issues, and have shown that it is not only possible, but incumbent, to do so in ways that are both penetrating and respectful, all while not shying away from difficult questions and harder answers.
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Which is a fair critique — except that the pope himself is the one driving the church to that point, by treating traditional piety as a roadblock to his efforts, by demonizing whistle-blowers in an age of awful scandal, and generally behaving less like a pastor than an ideologue in white.
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Denislav Kasaivanov from Wilmington, N.C., loves looking back at his Mongolian-Slavic family history: For as long as humans have walked the Earth, ancestry has been a major focal point in many cultures; ranging from the filial piety of the Chinese to the 'pure' blood-line of the Habsburgs of Austria.
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In so doing, these stories market an imagined moral economy in which tiny acts of voluntary personal piety, such as recycling a plastic water bottle or purchasing an organic apple at Whole Foods, can be exchanged as an "offset" to justify the continuance of our current consumption patterns and volume.
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Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections; Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety continues at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (Harvard Yard, Cambridge) through December 10; the McMullen Museum of Art (2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston) through December 11; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (25 Evans Way, Boston) through January 16, 2017.
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