Sentences with word «piousness»

Telling me the story of how he came to have the carbon emissions from his travel offset by his community, he mocks his own piousness by pointing out that he's allowing others to shoulder his burdens.

Make no mistake: a compendium of uncomfortable images with a truly disturbing resolution, Frailty is never much more than a B - movie done well (every shocking twist is telegraphed, save Fenton's cleverly tipped destiny), yet it's the perfect antidote to the empty pretensions and overloaded piousness of most mainstream representations of popular spirituality.

Kierkegaard lived in what he called «Christendom,» a world of superficial, second - hand religiosity, a kind of diluted piousness that in his judgment made a mockery of true Christianity.

Much contemporary religiosity, infected with too much piousness, self - righteousness and decaying religious practice, could use a dose of that honest questioning.

You really revel in the thought of your own self - perceived piousness.

«In groups which in my ignorant piousness I formerly «frowned upon,»» Graham confessed, «I have found men so dedicated to Christ and so in love with the truth that I have felt unworthy to be in their presence.»

Basically, the film is a throwback to the 60s anti-Bond spy thriller (a la The Ipcress File), except here the genre's annihilating irony has been replaced by Pollack's liberal piousness.

But where Dante's cynicism ultimately carried the day over Spielberg's piousness in Gremlins, Explorers remains a hopelessly schizophrenic film, obscenely eager to compromise its own originality.

But though Sparks himself has nothing to do with this movie, it looks like it might share his smug piousness.

One more vital component too often overlooked - or too often looked down upon - by leaders determined to win respect through mirthless piousness and positional muscle - flexing: giving life every day to a culture of recognition and celebration.

Religious zealots justify their piousness based on extremist viewpoints of worst possible outcomes.

But you need others to prove to you their piousness by speaking a certain language?

Dubya was one of these religitards too and look where his piousness left us.

If it piousness offers a wide array of pleasure, it can be bring an unforgettable gust, which can harm anybody's feelings to the core, throwing them into deep disparity.

Early in the film, Stone, Skarlatos, and Sadler go as children to the same Christian school, which is shown — very broadly — to be a place of hypocritical conformity and piousness, presuming to tell parents how to raise their children.

Her Diana has a subtle longing, and she gives her piousness a complexity that keeps her proclamations from becoming flatly virtuous.

Yet Anderson never once lets on that he's making a message movie, and his main focus is on the clash between the twin churches of greed and piousness.

Where was all that piousness when the Mayor, albeit a different one, was dismantling the neighborhoods of these same congregants with REN 2010?

I can forgive her piousness even though that is the hardest part for me.