pieties

Mumbling pieties is not the same thing as having or practicing faith.

Think Progress » Religious Right ‘Too Busy to Comment’ on Pat Robertson, Quick to DeLay’s Defense 2005

The First Amendment permits, but doesn’t guaranty, robust expression, and you can’t have robustness when there’s a self-denying ordinance at work that protects certain pieties from being questioned.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Street Preacher Arrested in England for Public Statements That Homosexuality is a Sin 2010

Looking deeply at these countries and at this faith in a critical way risks sort of offending important multicultural pieties, which is that all cultures are equal, all religions are equal, all religions are equally peaceful.

CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2001 2001

He had lent himself in those last years to a kind of pieties which do not make a winning picture, which always have about them, even when they show themselves in men physically strong, something of the small compass of the sick - chamber.

Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866

Brand's new book, "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto," takes on a number of what he calls environmental "pieties," including opposition to nuclear power.

WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2009

Brand's new book, "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto," takes on a number of what he calls environmental "pieties," including opposition to nuclear power.

WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2009

Brand's new book, "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto," takes on a number of what he calls environmental "pieties," including opposition to nuclear power.

WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2009

In a visit to The Wall Street Journal's offices recently, Mr. Rowe was eager to strip the altar of green jobs—and the many other political pieties that distort the energy industry, even a few that he says belong to the Journal editorial page.

A Life in Energy and (Therefore) Politics Joseph Rago 2011

She also lampoons the pabulum of business motivational books and the pieties of CEO memoirs in a book that is consistently funny in its stomach-turning way.

From Medea on the Bayou to Shenanigans in the Office Sam Sacks 2011

Like Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and Flaubert, she liked nothing better than to unsaddle human pieties.

A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011