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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
Where was all that
piousness when the Mayor, albeit a different one, was dismantling the neighborhoods
of these same congregants with REN 2010?