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Recent Examples of pietistic
In the nineteenth century, U.S. political parties were divided along sectarian lines: pietistic versus liturgical, low church versus high church, Protestant versus Catholic.
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David E. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
Warnock’s doctoral thesis, the basis of a book published in 2013, was about the divide in the Black church between a pietistic tradition, which emphasized individual righteousness and uplift, and a social one, epitomized by King.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2022
By the time Warnock was hired to lead Ebenezer, in 2005, strains of the pietistic tradition had consolidated in the new suburban Black megachurches that preached the prosperity gospel, led by figures such as Creflo Dollar and Bishop Eddie Long.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2022
The official version of Irish history was a dour, gray, pietistic nationalism.
—Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
Fonny grew up there, too, with his alcoholic father (Michael Beach), unforgivingly pietistic mother (Aunjanue Ellis), and judgmental sisters (Ebony Obsidian and Dominique Thorne).
—Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
My personal Sharia tells me how to pray, how to fast, how to follow my personal pietistic laws, but then there is Sharia that gets involved in criminal law, that gets involved in prohibiting siege.
—Fox News, 18 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pietistic
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In the 1490s, for instance, a group of Florentine nuns began to show signs of possession following the imposition of strict new rules with the rise of the charismatic ascetic Savonarola.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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The level at the very top makes former communist leaders appear positively ascetic.Gregory Feifer, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2016
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Whether embarking on a physical or spiritual journey, turquoise acts as a guardian, keeping this Fire sign grounded and aligned with their intentions.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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There’s a quicksilver brilliance to her Berniece, a widow still grieving her husband, a daughter acutely feeling the loss of her parents, a mother determined to shield her daughter from generational trauma, and a woman contemplating her own future, romantic, economic, spiritual, and otherwise.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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Her chef and housekeeper, Bruna (Alba Rohrwacher), is timid and worshipful but able to take quietly decisive action when necessary.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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In a country given to worshipful talk of Founding Fathers, this is not a new subject on the political stage.Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
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The Republican National Convention is a redemption story, a narrative of prayerful compliance.Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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As the beat ascends, Eazi sings the title phrase with prayerful gravitas.Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
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Bad news comes in the form of this Brighton away shirt, which seems to be a reverential tribute to their away shirt from… 2014.Nick Miller, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
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Despite smart, playful cooking, everyone around me ate in reverential near-silence.Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2024
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At the center on one side was a life-size Virgin holding the Child, surrounded by 40 reverent haloed figures.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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Beethoven would hardly recognize our concert-going culture, in which people sit in reverent silence, then clap politely and go home.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Pietistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pietistic. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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