Sentences with phrase «piousness in»

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.

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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.

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.