| 单词 | piety |
| 例句 | On more than one occasion he explained to Trueba that the Communist Party was composed of four bums without any statistical importance who followed Moscow’s instructions with a piety worthy of a better cause. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Patel, Piscine’s piety is admirable. In these troubled times it’s good to see a boy so keen on God. We all agree on that.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Pietism laid great store by helping congregations find God themselves, through personal acquaintance and knowledge of the scriptures, through humility, non-confrontation and piety, through an ethos of hard work, and through education. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Kindness, humility, piety, respect for other human creatures—these are the great desiderata of all who pursue virtuous action, and it matters not whether those who preach them heed their own advice. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Go to his master. Hubert’s wisdom and piety are famous across Christendom. I’m bringing some books to him anyway. Come with me, and we’ll tell him all about the crimes of the wicked Michelangelo.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I sat now facing the portrait of Frederick Douglass, feeling a sudden piety, remembering and refusing to hear the echoes of my grandfather's voice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Said the great soldier then: “Rejoice inwardly. No crowing aloud, old woman. To glory over slain men is no piety. Destiny and the gods’ will vanquished these, and their own hardness. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I admired their piety and envied the food the monks gave them in return for their devotions, but try as I might, after only a half hour of chanting, my mind wandered. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But her beauty often seems at odds with her piety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And yet I am bestowed only with the meager effect of his hard-fought riches, that troubling awe and contempt and piety I still hold for his life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ladies from church sometimes came over to practice hymns, belting their piety through our walls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived, and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue prayed that Hera would reward them by giving them the best gift in her power. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She would attribute it to measureless wellsprings of piety or stewardship of the phantom herds that bled out the milk of human kindness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Christmas mornings of his youth had been suffocated under an excess of piety, prayer, and silence, as if a giant wool blanket had settled over the house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For sure, the age of penitence, remorse and piety was well and truly over. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She had little patience for Ginikas friends, most of whom were like that, their righteousness made her feel both irritated and lacking, but she was prepared to forgive Blaine's pieties. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "King Louis is the most beautiful man I have ever seen, but his beauty radiates from his wisdom, his piety, and his kindness. Not the dust and flesh that cling to his bones." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I’d prefer less false piety and a considerably higher economic value placed on human lives. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early days there had been no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny to decorate the sacrilege, piety, or greedy whimsy of Milagro’s various religious seasons. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily such a display would have made me nervous, but since Trebon was a mining town I guessed it showed civic pride more than fanatic piety. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Because of his cloak of piety, he is untouchable. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Those who resented her piety now are ashamed that they turned away from her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We ridicule their piety, their small economies, the size of their feet, their rubber plant, which sums them up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "Wrinkle up your face all you like, but spare me this false piety. You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z During this time, owing to his newfound piety, Bobby used no profanity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I will personally escort you to the good Abbot Hubert, whose piety and wisdom is known even as far as Aberdeen. And the Red, Fat, Wicked Monk shall not touch a hair on your heads!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When his uncle came again Wang Lung cried out, “Even filial piety will not feed my house!” and he sent his uncle empty away. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Though the fears Scheer speaks of are real, he sometimes skates by on rhetoric rather than analysis; the word "totalitarian" and pieties about the Founding Fathers appear a bit too frequently. Trying to make sense of the world of ubiquitous surveillance 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In contrast, the Taliban have long possessed the ability to tap into the innate piety of life here. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z “Love, well, what to say? . . . Love as I’ve known it, in fact, is a lava of crude life that burns the refined one, an eruption that obliterates understanding and piety. . . .” Review | In Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trust,’ infidelity takes an unlikely form 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Sadly, “White Lies” is often problematic: full of liberal pieties, patriotic credulity and threadbare similes. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Magical, funny, wholly lacking in po-faced piety, the movie incorporates elements of Irish mythology and is drawn in a flat, stylised fashion that derives from the art of the time. The Secret of Kells 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z Their discrimination is wrapped in piety; their disdain for women is disguised as honor for wives. Perspective | The ‘Billy Graham rule’ doesn’t honor your wife. It demeans her — and all women. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z That decorous age, with its bourgeois pieties and hypocrisies, was viewed in the distorting mirrors of a criminal underclass, which in turn was meant to reflect the socially corrupt Germany of the 1920s. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z The sharp-clawed satire on US culture and liberal piety, and the constant upending of what it is we think we're watching, make for a unique and compelling hour. Will Franken – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-09T15:24:46Z This is not to say that “Into the Abyss” offers sociological theories or right-thinking pieties about the causes of violence. | 'Into the Abyss': ?Into the Abyss,? by Werner Herzog - Review 2011-11-10T22:23:18Z Read beyond the title, and you realise the speaker is not about to deliver pieties or pleasantries concerning the dear Departed. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z Contemporary dramaturgy is committed to the ahistoric piety that only the singing and drama matter, that scenic design and spectacle are merely excrescences of the melodramatic mind-set. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Then she goes on the attack, cheerfully smashing pieties like the one about comedy being the best medicine. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Undesirable words, like undesirable people, are made to disappear by the government; even “hello” and “goodbye” have been replaced by the creepy pieties “Under His eye” and “Blessed be the fruit.” Yes, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Feminist 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z My mother, whose piety renewed at the gurdwara, would make me bow my head towards the food in gratitude so that its spiritual contents would envelop me — a blessing in a morsel. The sweet Sikh ritual of karah prasad 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s decked out in up-to-date attitudes, pop-culture references, and political pieties and deceptions. “Long Shot,” Reviewed: A Timid Political Rom-Com with the Politics Removed 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “As you might remember, when Sontag came on the scene with ‘Notes on “Camp”,’ she was willing to take down the pieties of the old guard in service of a new movement,” Mr. Micah said. The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z This peaceful little oasis of piety and good will might be described as an anteroom of heaven. | 'Seven Days in Utopia': ?Seven Days in Utopia,? a Golf Movie - Review 2011-09-01T23:24:59Z Heaping piety atop zeal, the painters made devotional images of devotional objects. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z She can’t just leave Gerry and move into a life of piety and good works in one of the most desirable spots in Amsterdam. Exploring the mystery of a long, challenged marriage 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Whether he transcribed a secular poem on a holy and ancient document as an act of mischief, piety or sheer carelessness, we'll probably never know: we don't even know for certain the poem is secular. Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z Berlioz' great improvement upon Virgil was to empower the women, and Sunday they made powerful mockery of masters and commanders with their pathetic piety. S.F. Opera makes an epic effort with 'Les Troyens' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z “Hightown” loses some of its momentum in later episodes — the story bogs down a bit and the pieties about addiction and taking control of your life move more into the foreground. ‘Hightown’ Review: Crime on Cape Cod, With a Hint of Elmore Leonard 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z It celebrates the ebullient openness on which the Neapolitans pride themselves; it shows their abundance of gesture, their intense emotional volatility, their embodiment of what would later be called verismo and their impassioned Catholic piety. Review: Ballet Arizona’s ‘Napoli’ Embodies a Culture of Exuberance 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Turns out, her piety is just a pose. ‘Dom Juan’ Review: The Perks of Being a Professional Hypocrite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z If not, then it would be parasitic on religious moral pieties. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Take the pieties around dropping out of elite colleges. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z As we soon gather from the villagers’ gossip, the recently deceased Eliko was a despised loner, ostracized for his perceived snobbishness and lack of piety. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z I have never been to Bhutan, and would love to go, for its architecture and its ancient pieties, and to verify its Gross National Happiness Index. Paul Theroux’s Travel Wish List 2013-01-11T19:49:59Z Mr. Wilmore uses humor to point a finger at racist attitudes in the culture, but he also pokes fun at racial pieties. Larry Wilmore Makes Debut as Comedy Central Host 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s moving, in part, because Wilson puts himself on the line by carefully considering his own snobbery and pop-music pieties: he hated Céline, and so set off to write a book about her. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a charged subject. Film: The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight 2010-10-23T16:08:00Z Or, let us say, their loyalties lie beyond the pieties of clan. Review: In ‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket,’ Who Can Afford Civil Rights? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z After surviving her “Innocents” phase — the earnestness, the piety, those doe eyes — is there a part of her that’s running in the opposite direction, searching down dark alleys to see what she might find? The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z These days Green-Wood is close to capacity, and the cultural offerings tend to stay tightly focused on the cemetery’s rich history and mood of dreamy Victorian piety. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z It is a book that smolders with frustration, a book whose author sees no way out for Belfast and Derry, nor for the warring forces—solidarity, independence, piety, skepticism, family loyalty—within him. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z And a drama often presented as something monumental, to be approached with awe and piety, becomes refreshingly accessible. Theater Review: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway 2014-04-04T02:00:14Z And if the tidal currents of the Strait of Messina are vividly portrayed in “St. Francis Walking on the Waves,” Muraro keeps the devout piety of Francis of Paola center stage. CD reviews: Breathtaking moments in new song cycle ‘let me tell you’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Could Happiness be a film that challenges the piety of relationships, or might it speak to a new 21st-century generation for whom the idea of polyamory is not alien? 'Greatest of the great' - Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z There follows a set of reversals: personalities morph into their opposites; flaws become pluses; regional pieties become signs of moral fiber; and a penetrating critique starts sounding like a defense. Theater Review: ?As Wide as I Can See? by Mark Snyder at Here Arts Center 2012-03-01T00:17:17Z A gentle spirit of syncretism suffuses “The Secret of Kells,” which mixes folklore and history without too much piety or violence. Movie Review | 'The Secret of Kells': Outside the Abbey?s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z More so than any other form of emotional expression, tears are also subject to shifting cultural and historical readings, symbolising piety and sensitivity in one age and hysteria and weakness in another. Why do humans cry? A new reading of the old sob story 2013-04-13T23:05:11Z Sonji’s inability to sustain the piety is persuasive in Turner’s vivacious portrayal, a performance filled with poise and, when required, fire. ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’: An unusual sparring match I would rather believe the more general statement: that “The Lord of the Rings” is a fusion of “invented mythology, imagined history, high fantasy, and deep piety.” ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Like another Canadian import, the Broadway hit “Come From Away,” “Spoon River” exudes a good-natured earnestness that stays shy of cloying piety. Review: What the Singing Dead Remember in ‘Spoon River’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z We now take such pieties for granted; humility and self-reflection have long since fallen by the wayside in our political discourse. Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge' spans Nixon-Reagan transition 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z If theology often sharpens curses to dogmatic points, great novels can transform them into open-ended questions, unsettling easy pieties about cause and effect, past and present, crime and punishment. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z From the outside, the Royal Church of St. Francis, located in the picturesque Portuguese town of Evora, seems like any other shrine to piety. The World’s Creepiest Attractions 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z He says the church grew “quietly but steadily” for more than three centuries, and Roman magistrates regarded Christians’ rejection of Roman piety as a rejection of Roman sovereignty. Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But he cast the fear aside: in his introduction to “Graveyard Clay” he disclaims the “sense of linguistic piety or cultural decorum” that for so long kept potential translators away. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z And it does so in a nail-biter of a play that leaves you wrung out and reassessing your own pieties. Perspective | Here are the plays that should have been nominated for a Tony. None were on Broadway. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The new one, however, further tweaks the Mulan legend, even as it plays up the virtue of filial piety in ways unexplored in the animated original. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The characters switch in blunt succession from heroism to horror, piety to brutality. The Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus 2010-07-20T13:45:00Z Some lofty souls believe that listening to a book is somehow cheating — a view shaped by our nation’s piety about reading. Perspective | Yes, audiobooks are books. But too many voices can muddle the experience. 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z It is instead an act of piety and a way of being. Companies in the European Union can ban headscarves: What will be the impact on Muslim women? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z There you have it: a freethinking Montreal Jew, in whose bones the Torah was bred, inventing precise English lines to express envy for French Catholic piety. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Erin Day is a powerful Katherine, playing with our emotions as she moves from piety to anger, from heartbreak to strength. Triple play: 3 engaging Shakespeare shows in Puget Sound parks 2012-07-26T19:53:04Z Worse yet, a Jewish draftee ought not to be shown as a slacker who pretends shul-going piety in order to evade cleaning the barracks on the Sabbath. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In a skillful blending of Eastern and Western literary tradition, Aboulela’s characters are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird that symbolizes wisdom and filial piety. Review | Leila Aboulela’s ‘Bird Summons’ takes the traditional road trip novel down a new path 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Here, as elsewhere in Scripture, it transpires that God is not particularly impressed with piety, with sacrifices, with doing what you are told to do and what your fathers did before you. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z In this telling, Mr. Bush’s religious piety took on messianic fervor leading him to turn democracy promotion into a mission from God. Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z It undermines the piety and ethical lapses in nonfiction mystery shows, while sharing with “Three Billboards” a belief in semaphores and that people aren’t any one thing. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Dvorák's piety may be his therapy, but he never stops noticing the world around him. Seeking an inner light amid darkness of Dvorak's Stabat Mater 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Clemens, in a part that recalls the embattled and idealistic heroines of David Hare, lends Hilary an appealing humility spiked with just enough ego to keep her this side of unmodulated piety. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Despite the storm’s devastation, guilt and piety were in short supply. When the Power Came Back, So Did the Crowds 2012-11-07T22:37:20Z It also represents another polarity of the art world, just as preposterous in all its piety. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z For all the play's virtues, however, I found myself questioning its attack on liberal pieties. American Justice – review 2013-01-16T17:45:18Z I don’t think the force that I, for want of a better word, call God rains down sufferings or blessings based on individual piety. Did God help Gabrielle Douglas win? 2012-08-03T15:45:00Z The characters who do vaunt piety tend to be hypocrites: the most harrowing religious tale is told by the cynical and dishonest Pardoner. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z "There are moments when the mixture of laughter and disbelief among the audience, whose liberal pieties are challenged throughout, prove every bit as exciting as what's happening on stage," says Charles Spencer, in summary. What to say about ? Clybourne Park 2010-09-08T11:39:00Z She has made a living as a yoga teacher, though she doesn’t really like teaching and has a penchant for skewering the pieties of her profession in Instagram parodies filmed by her husband. A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z But Waldstreicher acknowledges that her neoclassical rhymes and religious piety still makes some modern readers “run from the library stacks.” A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Everything is mixed together — humor and pathos, horror and absurdity, Christian piety and pagan revelry, modern manners and primal urges. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In upper-middle-class Tehran in 1976, piety is taken as a sign of mental imbalance: Marji’s teacher summons her parents to discuss the child’s worrying psychological state. Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z You came to me not because I tempted you, then, but out of piety? Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z But his realism came at a cost: his disregard for the conventional pieties led to his reputation for amorality. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z She doesn’t attend church or spout pieties; there’s nothing obviously in it for her. Movie Review: ?The Kid With a Bike,? From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2012-03-15T22:41:22Z He evokes shadows because he was in charge of the government's secret service, and is "clothed with the Bible" because of his apparent piety: he was an advocate of church building. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z Mennonites live much like other set-in-stone religious groups: frugally and with a lot of hard labour and strict piety. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:09Z It has become almost an essential piety even among his opponents that a special pathos clings to his supporters, who know not what they do, but are themselves victims of forces larger than they. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z You are required to remove your shoes to enter, but neither religious piety nor explicit holy creeds are part of the mix. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z With zero atheists or agnostics in Congress, millions of Americans have no one in the federal government speaking to their lack of piety and desire to protect it. One nation, under no god: Atheists, more than any religion, have been excluded from the election 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z What he's saying is that we have no choice but to confront loss on its own terms, with neither reassurance nor false pieties. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The performers here have only respect for the women they embody, though there’s no cloying piety in this representation. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z This eschewal of piety puts Mr Bridge at odds with his surviving prototype: the midwestern evangelical. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z He loathes symbolic politics, liberal and bohemian pieties, the drug war and, most of all, the cult of children. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z He cauterizes our indulgences in pity or piety: it is impossible, he reminds us, to feel pity for the self-pitying. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z With a piety once reserved for religion, they perform an act of devotion to a literary idol. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z I don’t suppose the artist meant them to seem humorous, but to my eye, comedy overrides piety. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z Despite the priest’s piety, black vestments and narrative prominence, he is no more a Hollywood hero than most of Mr. Scorsese’s falling and fallen men, with their arrogance and vanity. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Baudelaire's Poe valued beauty over truth in his poetry and, in his fiction, saw through the self-improvement pieties that were popular at the time to reveal "the natural wickedness of man." How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z But by making it, isn’t Fox, for all its show of piety, behaving more like the moneylenders in the temple? Fox's live TV crucifixion musical The Passion sounds like an unholy mess 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Casotti may have been exemplars of piety, but the painting says as much about the worldly recognition they aspire to as it does about their belief. Art Review: ‘Bellini, Titian and Lotto’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-07-05T21:59:59Z This is a key passage, the articulation of a principle, or an aesthetic, so subjective that our common, reassuring pieties are rendered moot. Denis Johnson had ruthless honesty and transcendent power 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z In the scattering of Christian pieties and Irish colloquialisms, I also heard the sound of home. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z Another central theme in the legend is filial piety, with Mulan getting her parents’ blessing before heading off to war. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The spoofing of Southern gun-waving and Mormon piety is too broad to register. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z In honoring the recollections and experiences of his grandfather, Mendes remains trapped in the narrow emotional range of filial piety that, far from sparking his imagination, inhibits it. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z And so some of them became a little wary of these very open displays of piety.” The last evangelical celebrity? Tim Tebow’s firing may signal a recession among the faithful 2013-05-07T11:45:00Z At one point, Jimmie hears two cool girls on the bus complaining, with the received pieties that people use, about what San Francisco has become. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z He has been promoting the full diversity of world music for decades, freely juxtaposing traditions in a way that can sometimes seem designed to flatter liberal pieties about multiculturalism, but more often simply feels vibrant. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The scene in which the nuns re-enact the rout of Cyrano's company is played with a simple piety that becomes incredibly moving. Cyrano de Bergerac – review 2013-07-23T17:11:00Z To never sin is to never truly know piety, he suggests. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In the eyes of many nonbelievers, humanism has always seemed like a misbegotten compromise – atheism tainted by religious nostalgia and Pollyanna piety – and Russell himself always deplored it. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z Growing up, in Turin, Scaraffia went to mass with her mother, who took her less out of piety than out of concern for her daughter’s social well-being, Scaraffia told me. Lucetta Scaraffia Is Trying to Fight Catholic Patriarchy from the Inside 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z It would be a far better tribute to free speech than signing on to a catchphrase and a set of pieties. What the PEN and Charlie Hedbo Scandal Says About Freedom of Expression 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z She contemplates more than a lackadaisical presence in the world; in fact, the power of the imagination becomes an action, although certain borrowed philosophical pieties also exist in her poetry. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Feigning piety and a high-minded aversion to accepting the crown, he almost had me convinced that he would rather enter a monastery than take the reins of the kingdom. Theater Review: ‘Richard III,’ with Ron Cephas Jones, at the Public Theater 2012-08-12T20:55:37Z In the hands of a less clear-eyed novelist his loving parochialism and thoughtful piety might have melted into something treacly; instead Ms Robinson makes him wise and his quotidian decency beautiful, even heroic. Amazing grace 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z But after that episode of “The Newsroom” aired, the blogosphere focused on Don’s specious piety and blew up. ‘The Newsroom’ Ends Its Final Season on HBO 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z For a number of years, we were awash in familiar farm-to-table pieties. My Vancouver: An Ever-Unfolding Story 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z In much of popular culture, Mary Magdalene is portrayed as a temptress who found piety after Jesus delivered her from a stoning. ‘Mary Magdalene’ Review: A Revision in Need of Revision 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Most important, the narrative this time around is driven by an overarching story line — a libel suit — that pulls viewers past the rocks and eddies of liberal piety. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom’ Returns, With Some New Faces and Issues 2013-07-12T21:33:38Z He “achieved vast successes by ignoring, and indeed transcending, the essential pieties of his age,” Kissinger wrote, admiringly, in his book “Diplomacy” — a history of the craft. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps, given Gorecki’s piety, it’s all a metaphor for life, death and redemption, or a jocular surprise, like the mess that ends Ives’s Second. Los Angeles Philharmonic Plays Gorecki’s Fourth Symphony 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z More recently, Jackson Browne debuted a folksy number at Occupy Wall Street that played against his soft-rock strengths in favor of talking-to-the-masses piety. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z “Brotherhood” isn’t just a parody of Irish-American tributes to sacred motherhood; it also holds on to the misty-eyed piety of its prototype. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z Everybody sings, about everything imaginable: Dad’s asthma; the importance of filial piety; gender roles and the unequal division of labor in the home; those “reckless and pushy” barbarians invading our homeland, and so on. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z There are extremes of violence and piety and wild swings between pastoral innocence and urban decadence. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z “Just About Over You” is more conventional, and demonstrates that her pokes at genre pieties are rooted in reverence. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Despite his boyish manner, he has the reputation of a transgressive preacher-man, come to roast our pieties on spits. Comedy gold: Doug Stanhope's Deadbeat Hero 2012-08-02T12:24:39Z It has manifested itself in countless ways in that time; whether as a byproduct of colonialism or through the piety of religion, there have been poor people as long as there have been people. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z At a time of inexorable polarization, Lincoln permitted neither racist smears nor radical pieties to deflect his own antislavery purpose. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z However, no prayers or professions of piety ensued. We’re coming for Fox News: “America is a very dangerous land for women, because it has such a party as the Republican Party” 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Yet many of them hardly live with the piety they die for. Look at me: why attention-seeking is the defining need of our times 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The Bunnies engage in frothy pieties and hyperbolic niceties, telling each other things like, “Can I just say I loved living in your lines and that’s where I want to live now forever?” What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z As to whether Ruiz wants us to see all this aristocratic bodice-ripping and histrionic piety through an ironic or political lens, I would say he leaves that up to us. Pick of the week: Rapturous 19th-century soap "Mysteries of Lisbon" 2011-08-05T01:01:00Z ‘I could wish that something of her piety were there to lessen your corruption. Poor vulgar shrew, I weep.’ Review | Escape reality with these delightful old-time thrillers. You’ll forget 2020 is almost here. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Venezuela is not especially a deeply Catholic country, and El Sistema’s top rank of musicians do not display piety. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z “The latest demands for intellectual conformity may come in progressive packaging,” Kipnis writes, “but feminists and leftist should be flinging these pieties away like lumps of dung, not kowtowing to the virtue parade.” Feminist flamethrowers: Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the modern sex wars 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The mom’s out-of-it piety is slyly brought into relief when she tells Luke to say his nighttime prayers and he asks God to deliver more painkillers before Friday’s big game. 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Private Meets Public 2010-07-24T03:00:00Z It’s wonderful to be able to stand up and look over that toxic fog of piety and just see, accepting reality for what it so clearly is. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z It’s clear that he prefers the desert of mesquite, cactus and arroyos to dry and unquestioned cultural pieties. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z Delightfully free of academic conventions and sentimental piety, its aesthetic freshness matches its vitality of soul. Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical 2010-12-23T22:15:17Z The eminent film scholar makes the provocative case that the erotic life of movies shapes and misshapes us, and suggests that since the Production Code of the 1930s, cinema has helped subvert smug heterosexual pieties. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Ted Cruz uttering the word “prayerfully“ while not exploding into a cloud of synthetic piety. Hillary will never survive the Trump onslaught: It’s not fair, but it makes her a weak nominee 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z However, this would have involved a possibly unsettling challenge to a sacrosanct piety. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z The single-faith graduation exercises combined evangelical/Baptist Christian religiosity with its associated ethical vision of personal piety and Christian witness in a secular world. Should graduation ceremonies be multi-faith? 2013-05-17T15:46:00Z Sexual and moral boundaries will be transgressed; every shirt sleeve will be a crusty shirt sleeve, every piety an impiety, every angel a grievous angel. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers Big Ideas in Close Quarters 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z In relatively peaceful times, this approach could seem banal, as if the films are arguing for pieties that everyone already agrees on. Review: Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam War’ Will Break Your Heart and Win Your Mind 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Bakewell describes how he “trashes all the humanistic pieties on the subject of reading,” defending, for example, the right to unapologetically toss a dull book aside. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The taste of Christmas in the little Pennsylvania town of Shillington was compounded of chocolate-flavored piety and a tart awareness of where one stood on the socioeconomic scale. Holiday Classics from the Archive 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z If members of Tifatul’s party can’t keep up with his moral code, can he really expect the public to meet his expectations of piety? Ramadan porn-block blitz 2012-07-21T01:00:00Z With Belgian waffles, Michelangelo’s “Pietà” and a Tent of Tomorrow, the event was a last postwar blast of guilt-free consumption, Sunday school piety and faith in the future as a good place to be. Art Review: Warhol Shows Open, on World’s Fair and on Jackie Kennedy 2014-04-24T12:00:01Z “The Blood of the Vampire” remains viscerally suspenseful, despite some piety and pathos toward the end. Review | Sure ‘Dracula’ is great, but don’t overlook Florence Marryat’s ‘The Blood of the Vampire’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Some were opposites, like too much Christian piety vs. too little. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Like Madea, she is an exuberantly profane, slyly self-aware character, but the movie traps Mamaw, and Close, in a sticky web of piety and sincerity. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Review: I Remember Mamaw 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance – the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God. Is France right to ban the burka in public? | Debate 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z But unlike his previous work, where he produced songs that marked him as someone willing to fiddle with genre pieties, he mostly remains tame. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Without undue questioning admirably embraces certain unfashionable virtues of what might be considered a Roman brand – duty, honour, filial piety. The Eagle ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:20Z Kureishi isn’t interested in pieties, and neither, refreshingly, is Smith, as anyone who has read her essays in Harper’s, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books knows. From Justin Bieber to Martin Buber, Zadie Smith’s Essays Showcase Her Exuberance and Range 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Linklater has never been inclined to moralize, and he has banished all piety from this movie, along with any conflict larger than the occasional collision of male egos. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z They meet the residents' committee, and the play becomes a glittering display cabinet of middle-class pieties and liberal doublethink. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z Fashion often lunges after glamour or sneers in protest of it, but Vaquera swerves both: It serves grit with a grin, disregarding such pieties as gender. The Graduates 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Ray’s film, while a commercial failure, was a bold grenade lobbed at the pieties of the 1950s. | 'Tom Ryan Thinks . . .': Drug-Fueled Rants From a ?50s Film 2011-01-19T22:09:28Z This challenging task becomes increasingly gripping as the narrative drapes across years of a past civil war and the equally damaging emotional battle of a family whose present is torn by piety and horror. 'Incendies': Mother's final wish leads to a gripping mystery 2011-05-26T20:19:55Z Christianity’s imprint on our literature isn’t necessarily about piety or doctrine — though that is sometimes the case. Imprinted by Belief 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Everything else was good to superior, and scene by scene, even when the story bordered on melodrama or enlightened piety, the storytelling was believable, engaging, subtle and subtly humorous. 'The Knick' Recap: Sins of the Flesh, With a Kick 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Flamboyant even in his piety, he took to wearing a hair shirt under his robes, immersed himself in penitential cold baths and washed the feet of 30 paupers each day before he dined. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z These two new translations bring another opportunity to enshrine the singular talent and mischief of this writer, whose late novels are insurrections against the novel itself, against its tendencies toward banal realism and earnest piety. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In keeping with Verdon’s goal to display the well-known works in a new way, the Donatello is seen alongside paintings and reliquaries that also “evoke the world of private piety,” as the wall text explains. Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo sets Renaissance masterpieces in a religious context 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z In addition to reviving his pop career, Green’s return to secular music also refreshed his image as a conflicted soul man torn between pleasure and piety. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone On the contrary, he ultimately became so frustrated by the constraints of his office and the pieties of his officials that he went on strike against his own court. Museums: China's Reluctant Emperor 2011-09-07T10:55:41Z Here was a world just like the one I found myself in, portrayed in the sharpest, most penetrating language imaginable, free of piety or wishfulness. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The satire is largely aimed at the kind of pieties about inclusion that are espoused by woke white liberals. Review: Skewering White Pieties About Diversity in ‘Admissions’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The young couple announces their engagement — she not fully grasping that he has lost his faith, he seemingly unconcerned by the allure piety has for her. Review: Zayd Dohrn Plumbs Muslim-American Rifts in ‘The Profane’ 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z To read the interview with Estregan’s spokesman, a former Marxist suffering from “the fatigue of piety,” is to feel on your own nerves the corrosive power of political disenchantment. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Nonetheless the creature retains a moving desire for its own improvement and a form of piety towards its maker, feelings that erupt in his demand that Victor build for him that female companion. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z Placing Saul’s labors as a Sonderkommando and his engagement in the uprising equally under the sign of paternal duty and Judaic piety, Nemes smooths over the confrontational challenges of Lanzmann’s work. “Son of Saul” and the Ungraspable Horrors of Auschwitz 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z And there’s a similar outrageous thoughtfulness in other FX shows–Legit, for instance, whose first season built much of its comedy out of the social pieties around disabled people. TCA: Dads, FX, and How to Do Offensive Comedy Right (and Wrong) 2013-08-02T20:13:11Z The contrast between living Cecil, as extravagant and carnal a creature as they come, and dead Cecil, who posthumously draws all his surviving circle into "false piety and dutiful suppression," couldn't be more striking. Alan Hollinghurst bears beautiful 'Stranger's Child' 2011-10-19T23:15:05Z Love will spring up where it will, regardless of whether its basis is in accord with the pieties of the age. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z There was a focus on personal piety: sex outside of marriage was a sin, of course, but so were drinking and dancing. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z This is a watchable, enjoyable film, with some hilarious and nail-biting moments, but it sets its face disconcertingly against satire and mischief with a final lurch into schmaltzy, liberal-patriot piety. Argo – review 2012-11-08T15:30:01Z And some journalists are enforcing intellectual piety and purism, using “the power to shame, intimidate and ostracize, even turning it on their colleagues.” Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z It seems to come not only from a bygone era but from a whole different cinema planet, one governed by feel-good pieties that were dubious here on earth even back in the 1960s. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z These lines, spoken as the multiracial cast attends a hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, capture the liberal piety that drags down the book’s attempt at “non-racial” sisterhood. In This Novel, a Black South African Becomes a Domestic Worker — in Her Son’s Home 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Herzog also touches on how aboriginal thought became intertwined with colonial Lutheran piety. ‘Nomad’ Review: Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z But he does rightly admire Mr. Crumb’s total lack of piety. Art in Review: ?The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb?s Book of Genesis? 2010-03-19T08:09:00Z But, I think what you have to understand, from that kind of secular perspective, is that to offer prayers is an act of piety. Why hashtags like #PrayforBrussels trend: It says “I won’t allow myself to be dehumanized by the silence” 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Having related this story patiently and well, Mr. Pullman tells us what he really thinks: “The tale itself is disgusting,” and “the tone of never-shaken piety is nauseating.” Books of The Times: ‘Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm,’ by Philip Pullman 2012-12-17T22:41:07Z It's a tsunami of jokes, a meltdown of piety and po-facedness; it has at its centre an unexpected heroine: a concerned scientist who is seen by her fellow academics as a climate-change sceptic. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z Meanwhile, on Friday morning, the obdurate Los Angeles Philharmonic offered, as it typically does this time of year, no overt acknowledgment of holiday glad tidings or piety. Cristian Macelaru gets a big sound from the L.A. Phil as it plays Rachmaninoff 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z It is a familiar piety to suggest that Shakespeare’s dramas speak to an eternal human condition. The First Great Theatrical Work of the Trump Era 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Such a tension is encoded in her sentences, with their rigorous self-examination, their refusal to fall back on sustaining pieties; this is work that wants to address reality as it is. Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with 'The Years' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z He also happens to be, without piety or elaboration, one of America’s best-known practicing Catholics. Perspective | 2019’s best TV moment? It was Stephen Colbert answering Anderson Cooper’s question about grief. 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z But actually, “Transparent” is very good, an insightful, downbeat comedy told without piety or burlesque. ‘Transparent,’ With Jeffrey Tambor, Begins on Amazon 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Now I believe him, but I’d add that it’s not a joyful religion, not a terrifying or awe-inspiring one, but a wet blanket of piety that replaces passions with palliatives, and mysteries with nostrums. What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z He’s a British citizen descended from colonial subjects; a Muslim who is skeptical of piety and tradition; a man of the 21st century burdened by an earlier era’s legacy of partition, displacement and war. ‘Mogul Mowgli’ Review: Rapping for Dear Life 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z For what it’s worth, I think your refusal to fake just enough piety to protect your paycheck is admirable, although it means you may never be an effective politician. Work Advice: Facing termination at a religious nonprofit because of a change of faith 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Her work, she explains, addresses "Christian culture with a focus on affective piety, penitential ritual and scriptural accounts." Martyrdoms, border violence, a tree-eating android are all a part of 'What I See' 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z To respect religion properly we need to appreciate how different people relate to different beliefs in different ways, and that constant, sober piety is the exception, rather than the rule. Lourdes: realistic about religion 2010-04-07T11:00:00Z A former priest, L’Heureux retained his faith but left the vocation, and his work is simultaneously impatient with pieties and deeply, even ecstatically, religious. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Earlier iterations camouflaged the brutality under a thick fog of piety. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And it doesn’t help that the objects of satire here are overly familiar: commercialism, greed, narcissism, liberal pieties, our wired lives. | 'Civilization (All You Can Eat): This Porker Has a Beef With the World 2011-06-22T22:00:51Z I’m not tolerant of platitudes, empty pieties, self-evident propositions, commencement oratory and anything that sounds as though it might have come from the insides of a fortune cookie.” Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z It has never been obsessed with any single issue, but rather by a larger sense of itself as stirring things up, undercutting pieties of all kinds. The terrorists didn’t “win”: Charlie Hebdo defended its right to satire — now let the magazine move on 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Despite the religious setting, this is not a show about piety: Think juicy ensemble soap, where guilt and righteousness are in constant conflict. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The third son of a Lincolnshire parson, Tennyson was as steeped as any man in the pieties of his day. Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review 2012-11-16T11:00:01Z The message is provocative: Whistler pours scorn on the sentimentality and piety of his age. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z The ironist knows what other, more naïve, observers do not: that surfaces are deceptive, that the real story is not what presents itself, that conventional pieties are sentimental fictions. The Carpetbagger: A Defender of 'Les Miz' 2013-01-30T15:00:19Z He is also a knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, a Roman Catholic chivalric order concerned with traditional pieties and the promotion of Latin Mass. Katherine Hoots, David D’Alessandro 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Trump took over the podium and, despite the presumed piety of the pupils seated before him, made short work of the Lord Almighty. Donald Trump’s phony faith-mongering, Ted Cruz doomed crusader: Sex, lies, religion and the GOP’s 2016 carnival 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z He “loved making a bonfire” of Berkeley’s “liberal pieties” in his column in the student newspaper and trolling his peers with a “Bush-Quayle ’88” sticker on his dorm-room door. In Two New Books, Unhappy Conservatives Ask: What Now? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z She argues that for a growing number of Muslims, “Islam is often more about identity than piety, about Muslim values rather than Islamic ideology.” Books of The Times: Upheaval and Hope in a Land of Turmoil 2011-08-01T23:00:10Z The Friars of Ascension, led by a priest with a taste for luxury, could very well stand in for the corruption and coverup that lurked behind the piety of a Pope Benedict-era conservative bent. On rebooted ‘Exorcist,’ a new way to get rid of demons: Hugging it out 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z What occurs in his revival—no matter how diamond-hard the action or exquisitely achieved the comedy, no matter how charmingly retro-right the music and dance—is the intrusion of filial piety. How a Lost Marx Brothers Musical Found Its Way Back Onstage 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Accept George Santayana’s definition of that discredited word “piety”: “reverence for the sources of one’s being.” ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Steeped in Puritan piety, it’s a misty melodrama set in Rome among four artist friends, one of whom is hiding a sinister secret. Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Oh, you know: it means joylessness, piety, self-regard, self-delusion and staggering pomposity. Clean eating: yet another pious diet to squeeze the joy out of good food 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Blistering on the past and present of race in America, it spares no person or piety. Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Instead of piety, she offers a pragmatic, borderline cynical view of how faith operates. ‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z An opening movement that anticipates Bruckner’s sensations of tremulous piety and majestic ascent gives way to a clockwork ballad, a show of blithe spirits and an acidic jollity that borders on mania. Music Review: Interpreting Several Phases of a Singular Creator 2011-02-27T22:57:49Z During the play’s 2 hours and 30 minutes, free market watchwords — not to mention, religious piety, racism, judicial corruption and well-intentioned liberals — all come in for a drubbing. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The arches, columns and rounded vault of this ethereal chapel are dazzling in their confidence and humble in their piety. Strength with soul: the Chapel of St John shows the sensitive side of the Tower of London 2012-08-08T10:47:20Z Terfel, in every sense a towering and mesmerising presence, gave that sordid show of piety even greater force than usual. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z But you might also feel that Tony is being gratuitous, that there is a social value to well-meaning pieties and cutting people slack. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Mona’s defensive irreverence has cheapened what could have been real tragedy into a jarring piety. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z His piety inspired a movement, eventually giving birth to the Franciscans. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Drifting into trances and bedeviled by fiery stomach pains, Maud nurtures a piety that seems never less than a burden. ‘Saint Maud’ Review: A Passion for Sinners 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But her superb Mrs. Lovett is Dickensian in the truest sense of the word, a portrait of an ordinary middle-class woman who believes she believes in the Victorian pieties she pays lip service to. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z In an act of filial piety, Judy named her three kids according to the new American Ho tradition: Kennedy, Truman, and McKinley. Challenging patriarchal practices makes "House of Ho" more than just a Vietnamese Kardashians clone 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z It won eight Emmy Awards, and The New York Times’s Alessandra Stanley praised it as “an insightful, downbeat comedy told without piety or burlesque.” ‘Transparent’ Musical Highlights Center Theater Group Season 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Bassani’s literature is an act of piety, an homage to the dead.” A Writer’s “Tomb of Words,” and the People Who Took It Personally 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z His sacred songs, which harness private intensity to public piety, are little masterpieces. Les Talens Lyriques ? review 2010-12-07T22:40:00Z Her plight is more than just a form of white liberal guilt or piety. Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z For example, it is also in the Book of Isaiah that we find the story of the “Man of Sorrows” – a man who takes on the sufferings of others and is an image of piety. Are natural disasters part of God’s retribution? 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z There’s a more insidious and seductive temptation: to indulge in self-pity and piety. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z That the act is one of piety and tenderness makes it all the more wrenching. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z It’s as if he’s testing how outlandish he can be in feigning piety, patriotism, familial solicitude and courtly love before his onstage audience of dupes catches on. Theater Review: Kevin Spacey?s ?Richard III,? Staged by Sam Mendes - Review 2012-01-19T03:01:14Z With its Holocaust jokes and skewering of old lefty pieties, Mr. Goldfarb’s comedy is a daring choice for this audience. Review: ‘Legacy,’ an Uneasy Comedy of Morals at Williamstown Festival 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z It all seemed an indecent mix-up to Johnson, and his own piety got in the way of his response. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z Rather, movements like "muscular Christianity" arose at the turn of the 20th century, blending fitness and bodybuilding techniques with Christian piety. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z One way to look at the shuttering of the Ivanka Trump brand is as a definitive act of filial piety. Perspective | The heiress has no clothes. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z His low-key demeanor is a far cry from Orthodox Judaism’s stereotype as a bastion of perpetual piety. Etan Cohen, director of 'Get Hard,' is used to confounding expectations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z This reflects Tóibín’s own loss of faith, but it’s particularly interesting because “House of Names” maintains the fierce tension between Clytemnestra’s atheism and Electra’s piety as they pursue their competing futures. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z He might have selected any option from the banquet of contemporary pieties and shown Finch stomping it with her sensible brogues. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Interestingly, Asians like myself appear to take the lead on the phenomenon; as with math and filial piety, we're overachievers when it comes to prejudice too. K-dramas cured my prejudice against Asian men 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Profanities and atrocities mixed in with the piety. | 'Machine Gun Preacher': ?Machine Gun Preacher,? Story of Sam Childers ? Review 2011-09-22T21:58:35Z Like Ms. Clark and Mr. McAnally’s best songs, “Moonshine” tweaks rural pieties and stereotypes. Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally on ‘Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Yet there are no soggy pieties in this tautly constructed group piece. Phoenix Dance theatre ? review 2010-12-01T23:40:00Z On “Mad Men,” the rural world, particularly as it is conveyed through Don’s childhood, is full of false pieties and misery. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z For all the outward piety of Saudi Arabia, the kingdom has clearly not yet chased out all its demons. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It leads to a bunch of “kneejerk piety and parading around of piety” that is more about showing off than about sincere belief. Nearly a quarter of Americans are not religious: Why doesn’t that diversity show up in politics? 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z His new one, “Bewilderment,” is so meek, saccharine and overweening in its piety about nature that even a teaspoon of it numbs the mind. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z There are some wonderful verbal volleys, but at times the piety is so thick it casts a pall on the humor — like walking out of a funeral and straight into a backyard bounce house. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom,’ an HBO Series From Aaron Sorkin 2012-06-21T21:29:12Z Sure, he creates a Huck whose instinctive compassion and intelligence seem to trump bigotry and proscriptive pieties. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z So The Righteous Gemstones and Perpetual Grace, Ltd - in exploring the uses and mis-uses of piety - can be seen as part of liberal Hollywood’s response to the shock of the 2016 election. Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of piety about the pure virtues of the blues, soul and early rock. Review: ‘Vinyl’ Resurrects the ’70s Music Industry, Amid Proto-Punk Squalor 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Being an agnostic aesthete and a leading member of the Bloomsbury circle, Strachey couldn’t resist poking fun at piety and earnestness, seeing in them the outward form of religious mania and personal ambition. Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The story of a Muslim Pakistani-American family and their extended community in the Midwest explores faith and hypocrisy, the motivations for piety, and the clash of tradition and a liberal culture. Staff picks: ‘American Dervish,’ ‘The Trial’ and cocktail flights 2013-04-17T22:00:52Z The story of an advantaged European face to face with desperately imperiled African refugees seems tailor-made for political pieties and the dubious enshrinement of one more white savior story. ‘Styx’ Review: The Refugee Crisis as Moral Thriller 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z At their worst, his films can manifest virtue only by displaying other characters misting up at the hero's down-home piety. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z Other women eschewed epochal demands for piety and purity in their bids to earn a living. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z More devastatingly, he finds himself sentenced to live past the Georgian era into the frowzy Victorian age, which could not suit him less, with its “sanctimonious” attitudes and “piety,” as he disdainfully proclaims. Review: ‘Being Mr. Wickham’ Tracks a Rake’s Progress 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The first victim of the new piety was Michelangelo, whose painting The Last Judgment was said by prudes and hypocrites to be a gay romp full of male nudes. Barocci's drawings blow me away 2013-03-18T17:09:37Z The need to feel entirely immersed in Christ’s suffering on the cross led to a passion for self-flagellation until a papal edict attempted to end the popular display of public piety in 1349. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders 2010-12-19T20:30:01Z Thom, whose name seems to deliberately echo that of Thomas Paine, the author of “Common Sense,” is full of righteous indignation and sardonic put-downs about the buzzwords and pieties of the social media generation. Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z While she found nothing that justified the attacks, she did find meaning in prayers about strength, piety and resolve. For American Muslims, Choosing to Wear the Veil Poses Challenges 2010-06-11T23:37:00Z In 2000, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized him and his family as passion bearers, a category used to identify believers who endured suffering and death with Christ-like piety. Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Batiste, 28, has a lanky frame, a dandyish flair and a breezy disregard for genre pieties. Jon Batiste Will Lead ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Band in a Style He Sees Fit 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z I suppressed an occasional laugh in the face of Smith’s somberness: as with the Catholic priests of my childhood, her piety provokes my irreverence. The Theology of Patti Smith 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “I think this will put an end to the excess piety in favor of the repatriation model,” he said. Islamic State Destruction Renews Debate Over Repatriation of Antiquities 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In Boccaccio's Decameron, priests, convents and piety are mocked even more harshly than they are in The Canterbury Tales. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z His unusual personal piety, his guru-like attraction to the young men of the city, suddenly seemed to have a sinister tinge. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z Corporeal desire clashes with evangelical piety, tragedy ensues — just not in that order. Music Review: Boy Meets Girl in Matt Marks?s ?Little Death, Vol. 1? 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z Whereas all religion was public in Athens, Socrates seemed to enjoy a peculiar kind of private piety, relying on what he called his "daimonion", his "inner voice". Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z With his sweet face and soft body, he hardly fits the stereotype of a terrorist, but his piety pulls him away from most of his family and toward violence. ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The theme may be piety, but Mr. Beauvois and his cast do not address it piously. | 'Of Gods and Men': Between Heaven and Earth 2011-02-24T22:55:48Z Er, not exactly: the final moments of The French Connection are a powerful, even magnificent repudiation of the modern piety of redemption and sympathy. The French Connection: shock of the old 2011-07-14T11:24:26Z For proof, you only need look at this 85-minute play, first seen in New York in 2009, which seeks to land a knockout blow on liberal pieties about race, but leaves them largely unscathed. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z Women in public places in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, wear abayas — loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of piety. Fashionably late: Saudi Arabia hosts its first-ever fashion week 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z It would be fascinating to see the colossally derisive wreckage that Bay could make of the rigidities and pieties of “Star Wars.” The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z It is about revealing larger social truths by pillorying the pieties on which a hypocritical society relies. Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z It may be all about his mother, but he makes sure not to leave any gaps or blots on his unbroken swoon of filial piety. Mike Mills’s Too-Sweet “20th Century Women” 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The movie takes aggressive satirical aim at exactly this kind of piety without risking true offensiveness. Movie Review: ?21 Jump Street,? With Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 2012-03-15T12:30:07Z The candy canes and the tree come down, along with every totem of Harold’s propriety and the Yule season’s piety. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: This Santa's Got a Brand New Stash 2011-11-03T21:21:13Z “Sound of Freedom” settles on a tone of piety. ‘Sound of Freedom’ Review: In the Land of Child Traffickers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Filial piety also dictates that she return home to her parents after her tours of duty are over. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z She had given up on religion by then, but a whiff of piety lingers in her flat, affronted air of certainty. Susan Sarandon: ‘The good news and bad news about Hollywood is that they’re not political’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z This effect rules even though the writers undercut the characters’ pieties now and then. Review: The More, Further (Final?) ‘Tales of the City’ 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z That's no act of filial piety; that was the surest sign that he was planning to go for the old man’s throat – as anyone who has seen a mafia film can attest. "Succession" ends its second season with a killer instinct 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z It's Austen's boldness and her witty fury we respond to, not the piety her relatives posthumously attributed to her. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z The violence is brutal and fast and executed without any sympathy for our usual screen pieties. Review: 'When Evil Lurks' calls back to the times when possession movies kept you guessing 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Traditionally, offspring have been expected to support their elders and demonstrate filial piety above all else. Young Chinese adults can't find work. Now many have a new job description: 'Full-time children' 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z In life, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was known to her fellow nuns for her devotional poetry, her sense of humor and her fierce piety. A Miracle in Missouri? The Nun Who Put Her Abbey on the Map. 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z And all of this is imbued with the language of a white supremacist Christian piety. How far-right Christianity quietly fueled the Jacksonville shooting 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Masih, a Christian motorcycle repair man in the city of Lahore, argued with a Muslim customer after the latter demanded a discount on account of his religious piety. A country wracked by crises sees a sharp rise in religious intolerance 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z It will play to the masses as an inspiring underdog saga, spiced with proper pieties about the power of hope and individual destiny. Read The Times' scathing, prescient review of Michael Lewis' 'The Blind Side' 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Many have seen hundreds of shows, displaying a band-as-religion level of fandom with tattoos, license plates and jewelry professing their piety. Why are Dave Matthews fans so loyal? 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr Tsaghati is the founder of a cultural centre focused on piety and the hijab. Iran sex tape scandal: Government says no prior knowledge of alleged behaviour 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z She offered a new moral compass beyond the lie of societal piety, one that pointed towards an uncharted direction of authenticity. How Sinéad O'Connor changed Ireland 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In 1567, Pope Pius V did outlaw bullfighting, calling the practice "alien from Christian piety and charity" and "better suited to demons rather than men", but his ban eventually lapsed. Animal rights campaigners urge Pope Francis to denounce bullfighting 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z He was arguing in favor of its openness, its refusal to traffic in standard pieties. Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught us how to be free 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Former Vice President Mike Pence has piety and consistent conservatism to remind evangelical Christians of what brought them to politics in the first place. ‘A Long Shot, for Sure’: Sizing Up Burgum, and Most of the G.O.P. Field 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z There was clearly a Christian precedent for Victorian obsessions, and Victorianism was certainly tied to Christian piety. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z They consider them a symbol of their cultural identity or religious piety. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z By the end of the fourteenth century, leadership crises associated with the Avignon papacy and the Great Western Schism had badly damaged the papacy’s reputation and led many to question the church’s piety and integrity. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z For observant Muslim women, the head covering is a sign of piety before God and modesty in front of men outside their families. As more women forgo the hijab, Iran’s government pushes back 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Those ways are essentially practicing Catholicism with “baroque piety,” having lots of children in wedlock, seeing the upsides of empires, which “have gotten something of a bad rap,” dying well and having “a memorable funeral.” Hungary’s Habsburg Ambassador to the Pope, With an Offbeat Résumé 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Likewise, his works focused on themes central to the Renaissance as a whole: the importance of patronage, the celebration of classical figures and ideas, the beauty of the human body and mind, and Christian piety. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Wealthy individuals might also build caravansaries, providing shelter for travelers as an act of piety. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z This eleventh-century image shows Radegund, queen of the Franks and later founder of a monastery, seated with a book, demonstrating her learning and piety. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “Its piety and its luxury. Its mathematical exactitude and its spiritual excess.” Your Monday Briefing 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Standing outside Carter’s front door, Golson pressed Carter on whether his piety would make him a “rigid, unbending president” unable to represent all Americans. Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ‘76 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The painting thus completely rejected the asceticism associated with Christian piety during the Middle Ages, suggesting instead a kind of joyful sensuality. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The revolution was to be fought in the name of Fernando VII and the Virgin of Guadalupe—the ultimate symbol of Mexican Catholic piety. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z A devout Christian, Justinian expressed his piety by drafting laws that specifically addressed religious matters. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z She prefers the grit and grimness of the original versions of fairy tales, with their “agony disguised as piety” and “cultish suffering.” Review | This enchanting memoir is a spell book for our times 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The opposition promises to reverse many of the policies of Erdogan, who has championed religious piety, military-backed diplomacy and low interest rates. Explainer: What's at stake in Turkey's upcoming elections? 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The piety of the empire sometimes undermined secular learning, however. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The goal of learning was to awaken an inner sense of piety, and northern Renaissance humanists such as Desiderius Erasmus encouraged people to use Christian teachings as a guide to daily life. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z "Especially for Asians, it's critical to have filial piety — you honor the family name. And that's a hit not only to her personal reputation but her name and family," the former official said. Trump's former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has had enough of his racist attacks 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z My Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “devout” as “committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises,” or “expressing piety or religious fervor,” using, by the way, “devout Catholic” as an example. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: About that wokeness at Princeton 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In Chinese culture, bunnies are often feminized, associated with the Jade Rabbit that lives with the moon goddess and symbolizes selflessness, piety and sacrifice. Will the Year of the Rabbit finally bring us some peace in 2023? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Thus, most crusaders combined ambition and greed with genuine Christian piety. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The presidential and parliamentary elections, which must be held by June, mark the biggest political challenge yet for Erdogan, who has championed religious piety, military-backed diplomacy, and low interest rates. Explainer: What's at stake in Turkey's upcoming elections 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z But on lefty social media, we're suffering through a crisis of empty piety, where people get attention by dunking on each other for being either too woke or not woke enough. A resolution for 2023: Time to say no to the "woke wars" 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The group, which refines and varies the content regularly, has its roots in satire, as a sendup of some of the pieties of the art world. Blue Man Group is so indestructible, it’s even outlasting ‘Phantom’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z And yet, admonitions to piety are proclaimed everywhere. Review | In Dunya Mikhail’s ‘The Bird Tattoo,’ Iraqi women are sold as slaves 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Among non-Muslim visitors, even the hijab, the traditional Muslim headscarf showing piety to Allah, has emerged as trendy World Cup wear. Fans’ wild World Cup fashion draws praise, scorn in Qatar 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Gandhi’s forehead has often been adorned with a red dot, or tilak, a mark of Hindu piety. Why Is This Man With the Famous Name Walking 2,000 Miles Across India? 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z I think Christmas is more a celebration of our affluence than of our piety. Forget the politics at family gatherings this holiday season 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Known for their piety, the people of Cianjur live mostly in towns of one- and two-story buildings and in smaller homes in the surrounding countryside. 162 dead as Indonesia quake topples homes, buildings, roads 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z To begin with, there’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to laundering wrongdoing through conspicuous displays of spiritual piety or good works. Column: How Sam Bankman-Fried exploited the 'effective altruism' fad to get rich and con the world 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z But “The Good Fight” was too sly and incisive to cling long to these sorts of pieties. Why 'The Good Fight' is the Trump era's best political drama: It understood liberals 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “What this means is that we are no longer intimidated by their fake pieties. Their control over us has finally been broken.” Elon Musk, right-wing figures push misinformation about Pelosi attack 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Women athletes competing at home or abroad, whether playing volleyball or running track, are expected to keep their hair covered as a sign of piety. Iran’s Elnaz Rekabi, who competed without hijab, returns to Tehran 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z United Methodists are part of a global movement that traces their origins to the 18th-century English revivalist John Wesley, who emphasized personal piety, evangelism and social service. United Methodists are breaking up in a slow-motion schism 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z But conventional piety urged the pastor to insist that she live up to her wifely duty, no matter that her husband grossly flaunted his infidelity. Review: A striking revival of 'Ghosts' at the Odyssey suffers from lack of ensemble cohesion 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Conservative pundits swooned in admiration of what they saw as a rebuke of liberal pieties. Politico’s new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The pandemic must have seemed like just another field full of fears and pieties for Buckley to muck about in. Review | Are you ready for some pandemic humor? Christopher Buckley is. 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z A cornerstone of Confucian virtue is filial piety. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z German Protestant migrants formed several pietistic societies: communities that stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Dugin, who has been slapped with U.S. and European Union sanctions, has promoted Russia as a country of piety, traditional values and authoritarian leadership, and spoken with disdain about Western liberal values. Russia blames Ukraine for car bombing death of nationalist’s daughter 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Amid the industrial goth-rock churn of “Heaven,” Lovato sings of choosing pleasure over piety: “Crucified for the life I’m living / Oh my god hope I’m forgiven / Going to hell ’cause it feels like heaven.” The remaking of Demi Lovato: 'I am owning my dark side' 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z It is high time for a reassessment of the convenient piety, voiced by diplomats, advocates and activists, that Haiti should be left to find a “Haitian-led solution.” Opinion | As Haiti sinks into pandemonium, the international community is silent 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Filial piety the ethical obligation of children to their parents. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The most revealingly ugly scene finds a handful of surviving characters clinging to some of the Extremely Online generation’s more obnoxious social media pieties: “I’m an ally!” Review: It has its sharp moments, but ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ could use a few corpse corrections 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Contemporary social pieties are distinctly left wing, and progressives enforce them with at least as much moral ardor as the most zealous members of the religious right. Opinion | What Comes After the Religious Right? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z By citing Texans' "God-given rights," Schaefer and his fellow state legislators transform a gun into a symbol of morality, piety and identity. A gun and a prayer: How the far right took control of Texas’ response to mass shootings 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Many Christian nationalists see former President Donald Trump as a champion despite his crude sexual boasts and lack of public piety. Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The sage tradition is a largely prehistoric tradition that provides a narrative about how intellect, wisdom, piety, and virtue lead to the innovations central to the flourishing of ancient civilizations. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z News & World Report who delighted in puncturing the liberal pieties of college campuses, mocking political correctness and satirizing the idea of cultural victimhood, died May 10 at a hospice facility in the Bronx. John Leo, conservative columnist for U.S. News, dies at 86 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The specifics of the novena differ across parishes; the one at Our Lady of Grace includes prayers for attributes such as faith, hope, charity, piety, justice and fortitude. We’re in a crisis and St. Dymphna, patron saint of mental health, is having a renaissance 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z This is the false piety hidden in the Republican Party’s zeal to roll back a woman’s right to choose. Opinion | The GOP roars about abortion. Then they abandon the children. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z It was not long before these pieties gave way. Sports Betting Has Become So Easy That the Sports Seem Secondary 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The name comes from the Platonic dialogue Euthyphro, which features a conversation between the philosopher Socrates and a man named Euthyphro who claims to be an expert on piety. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z But on Friday, for the first time in recent memory, there were no protests other than a man carrying an American flag advocating world peace, and another man a few blocks away promoting religious piety. In Cleveland, Some Fans Are Guardians Only of the Past 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z This public piety from Republicans was more muted during the Barack Obama administration, but only slightly. Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Last year, Maqsood Rahimi celebrated Ramadan, a time of reflection, piety and charity, in the city of Kabul, where he grew up. How are you giving back this year for Ramadan? Tell us your stories 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Last year, Maqsood Maqsoud celebrated Ramadan, a time of reflection, piety and charity, in the city of Kabul, where he grew up. Safety and sadness: Afghan refugees observe their first Ramadan in the U.S. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z That means that piety is a command from above without reason, which limits one’s ability to theorize about it. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Beards are seen as a sign of piety. Afghan women traveling alone boarding flights despite ban 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Trump gave the right permission to stop trying to dress up their ugly views in Christian piety. Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z On Monday, members of the Taliban vice and virtue ministry stood outside government ministries, ordering male employees without traditional turbans and beards — seen as a symbol of piety — to go home. Taliban further restricts women and blocks international media 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Whigs endorsed evangelical virtues such as temperance, thrift, hard work, and piety, and often embraced the moral reforms inspired by the Second Great Awakening. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The sage tradition is a largely prehistoric tradition that provides a narrative about how intellect, wisdom, piety, and virtue led to the innovations central to flourishing of ancient civilizations. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z It’s also something of an encyclopedia, providing reflections on Middle Eastern history, the nature and appeal of fanatical piety, the sociology of Bedouin life and, sadly, the Western Allies’s political duplicity. Review | Why ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ is worth reading today 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Barrett has a long history of public piety in the Bush mold. Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Paying one’s respects to the past, through memorialization of some kind, is an act of piety. Review | Pushing back against the American tendency to forget 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z A revival movement known as the Great Awakening swept the colonies, splitting old denominations, revitalizing personal piety, and encouraging ordinary Christians to decide religious questions themselves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In a famous passage on filial piety, Confucius introduces a potential moral dilemma for the junzi: “The Lord of She instructed Confucius, saying, ‘There is an upright man in my district. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Confucius stressed that children should practice filial piety, or respect for their parents and ancestors. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It must delight Putin to employ an American saint’s piety in an act of anti-American realpolitik. Opinion | Putin, in his feral cunning, is Bismarckian, with a dash of Lord Nelson 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z And the epitaphs are more personal: Gone are the Victorian odes to piety that dominate the older section of the cemetery. A City of the Dead That Inspires the Living 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The brothers John and Charles Wesley led a Methodist movement to revive personal piety in the Church of England that later became a separate denomination. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Socrates is shocked to hear this and questions Euthyphro on the nature of piety. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In the Middle Ages, some people had demonstrated their piety by wearing rough clothing and eating plain foods. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "How many unsuspecting Bruce Springsteen fans had been spared a life of brain-dead liberalism by his foreign dispatches and mockery of left-wing pieties?" PJ O'Rourke: US conservative satirist dies at 74 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Odenkirk’s belief that truly great jokes carry some irreducible amount of anger — and that this anger’s noblest function is to torpedo pieties and hypocrisies — helps explain his lifelong commitment to sketch comedy. Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road to Serious Success 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Almost immediately, Columbus and his men began to mingle arrogance and violence with piety and garbled good intentions in a pattern that scarred European relations with Native Americans for centuries. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Sacrificial offerings to parents and other ancestors after their death, for example, cultivate filial piety. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Filial piety, according to Confucius, meant devoting oneself to one’s parents during their lifetime. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Isn't it clear that democracy is no idle piety — that as a nation we are either committed to it or not? From our archives: Todd Gitlin on "Back to the civil rights barricades" after the Bush-Gore election 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Intermingling patriotism and piety has become common even among groups better known for nationalist violence than adherence to a particular faith. How the Capitol attacks helped spread Christian nationalism in the extreme right 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z It reveals a man of great learning and sharp wit who excused his nonchalant brutality with superficial piety. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It’s time for him to produce — or spare us the naive piety. Opinion | As one Joe builds, another Joe destroys 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Muslim focused on personal piety at a mosque where many focus on foreign policy, a religious conservative in need of mental health support in a faith tradition not quick to pursue it. A cryptic email, then a confession: How a Muslim group uncovered moles 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Spare me the Republican pieties about the horror of activist judges legislating from the bench. Opinion | Mitch McConnell’s un-conservative plea to the Supreme Court 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Religious leaders derive their authority from their piety and knowledge of a religious tradition. False prophets: When preachers defy COVID — and then it kills them 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Despite conservative complaints, it isn’t actually impossible to keep your university job while dissenting from progressive pieties. Opinion | The University of Austin founders’ challenge: Creating a college from another time 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Roden insists that she has earned a right to this more individualistic approach, motivated by joy rather than piety to convention. Legendary author Claudia Roden, 85, trades travels for memories in her newest cookbook 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Oligarchies, which spew saccharine pieties and platitudes, engage in lies that are often far more destructive to the public than the lies of a narcissist autocrat. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z This begins her path, but her purpose doesn’t become clear until she spots Jim in college and they bond over the idea that poverty is not the kind of piety they aspire to. Review: With empathy, Jessica Chastain plays Tammy Faye Bakker 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z But such piety and knowledge grants them neither infallibility nor expertise in matters outside their purview, be it public health or science. False prophets: When preachers defy COVID — and then it kills them 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The Marines I worked with were shocked, for example, to hear me exchanging favorite Koran verses with my fellow Afghans, mistaking this for extremism rather than shared piety. Opinion | I was a combat interpreter in Afghanistan, where cultural illiteracy led to U.S. failure 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z But the movie proves equally critical of that counterculture and its own delusions and pieties, and it casts a skeptical eye at any characters who might fancy themselves on the right side of history. Review: The animated ‘Cryptozoo’ is a sexy, political, wildly imagined beast of a movie 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z This is often the advice they get from religious friends: Treat piety as an act of the will undertaken in defiance of the reasoning faculties, and see what happens next. Opinion | A Guide to Finding Faith 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z In a statement issued on Biden’s Inauguration Day, Gómez said he was praying for the new president, whose piety and personal story he found hopeful and inspiring. How L.A.’s Archbishop became the public face of a plan that could deny Biden communion 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson, who is by his own admission not a soccer fan, has backed the team with the piety of the recently converted. Steeped in Soccer Heartbreak, England Holds Its Breath 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z He professes to be a Christian but, unlike incumbent council members, doesn’t spout pieties. Review: 'Kid Candidate' shows politics isn't a joke 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Confetti quickly became more associated with parties than piety. Wedding Receptions Are Back, and Italy’s Candy Makers Are Delighted 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z But periodic surges of piety, religious or revolutionary, kept more “honest” faces the standard for the masses, prioritizing the cultivation of good skin over the trickery of disguise. How Botanical Oils Won Over the West 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Tabag said that filial piety is ingrained in Asian children, who are expected to listen, follow directives and not speak back to parents and elders. Emptying the Nest. Again. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Whose bourgeois piety could he be referring to, pray tell? From beyond the grave, Philip Roth cancels himself 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z There’s little piety among those running the mines that are the main source of income. Colombia police, military raid illegal gold mining operation 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z But it was still an extraordinary display of military might, historical sweep, national symbolism and religious piety. Perspective | The royal funeral was a reminder of the value of rituals 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z A traditional burial is favoured in China, with people investing heavily in funerals and coffins, believing that doing so is a way of showing filial piety towards their ancestors. Chinese man kidnapped and killed in elaborate body swap scheme 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z No, they get only chyrons and newsprint, to go with smarmy platitudes of inaction, specious pieties worn smooth by repetition. The victims of this war don’t get a wall 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z The old false pieties never die: Social programs demoralize or emasculate; morality equals hardness or toughness, equals readiness for war. Military might, market ideology and moral posturing: A toxic combination that has poisoned America 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The higher the price tag, the better the demonstration of filial piety. Perspective | I chased the American dream. It brought me back to my father’s deathbed in China. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z He says that Europeans alternated their reaction to the bubonic plague, swinging wildly from piety to, well, wildly swinging over the centuries that the Black Death haunted the Middle Ages. Has the COVID-19 pandemic forever altered human behavior? 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Republicans who were mainly incensed at perceived disrespect from liberal institutions tended to locate Trump’s appeal in his belligerent refusal to mouth liberal pieties. Opinion | There is no Trumpism. There is only Trump. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z There is no self-pity in this telling and few of the expected pieties. Review: "We are all terminal patients on this earth": a survivor's memoir on sickness and health 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Conference of Catholic Bishops, the church’s policymaking organization, released a letter saying Biden’s “piety and personal story” were “hopeful and inspiring,” and praising his “longstanding commitment to the Gospel’s priority for the poor.” What Joe Biden means for Catholics in America 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Catholic Bishops Conference, the governing body of the church in America, welcomed Biden on inauguration day with a statement praising his “piety.” Pope Francis is a Biden fan, but some U.S. Catholic leaders give president a frosty reception 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z PiS fuses piety and nationalism to the point where a central banker nominated and chosen by the party has published his views on moral topics. As Poland's Church embraces politics, Catholics depart 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “Douay-Rheims is simply an English translation of the Latin Bible so popular in Catholic piety and worship,” he said. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Pompeo’s piety about curse words came as a surprise to some in his inner circle who noted his frequent use of profanities during heated office interactions. Pompeo clings to Trump’s legacy with an eye toward inheriting the MAGA base 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z “We honored piety but failed to show even basic kindness to those who needed it most,” he said. Irish leader apologizes for cruelty to unwed mothers and babies at homes run by the state and Catholic Church 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Like many in his Muslim-majority nation, he prayed regularly and advised colleagues to maintain their piety, too. Indonesia Crash Thwarts Push to Rehabilitate Country’s Airlines 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z As with their beloved president, dramatic performance of public piety by so many right-wing Christian leaders is little more than a dog-and-pony show put on to sucker the rubes. Remember that stupid thing Donald Trump did? Hard as it is to pick, here are the top 10 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Under Warnock, the church has continued to exist at the intersection of piety and racial justice. In Georgia Senate runoffs, the focus — and the fire — is on Raphael Warnock 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The apparent absence of any principle but power in McConnell, and his ability to propound rank dishonesty with perfect piety, should have lost the ability to shock by now. Opinion | McConnell helps ‘working families’ by killing coronavirus relief. That’s rich, Mitch. 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z She wrote about her twin big brothers, their piety and their powers. ‘We Were Bulletproof’: As Child Soldiers Grow Up, Legacy of War Lingers 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Spare me the pieties about the sanctity of the Constitution, which, by the way, says nothing about the size of the court. Opinion | Republicans have no standing to complain about court-packing 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z His tranquil voice and Christian piety conceal an extreme fundamentalist agenda. Pence’s politeness masks a ruthless ideology 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Kennedy mocked pieties, but he was a deep romantic, in a dangerous sort of way. Review | A far deeper, worthier and more interesting JFK 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Marian devotion is particularly important to Francis, history’s first pope from Latin America, where displays of such popular piety are common. Pope seeks to ”liberate” Virgin Mary from the Mafia 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z "Places of religious worship held absolutely no interest to him, and he possessed precisely zero personal piety in his life," Cohen writes. What he really thinks: Trump mocks Christians, calls them "fools" and "schmucks" 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The center of Southern movement activism shifted away from urban sit-ins to rural voter registration and, well before the events in Selma, spoke more about political power than piety. Review: The new John Lewis biography is a stirring tribute that still sells him short 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z But she wishes it were possible to stipulate without incurring rancor that objects of piety have their place in the order of things. Opinion | ‘Racism Makes a Liar of God’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z For those who knew Inshaf well, it would have been impossible to interpret this piety as preparation for a suicide bombing. Two Wealthy Sri Lankan Brothers Became Suicide Bombers. But Why? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “We know it’s not about Trump’s piety or his devotion,” said Gerardo Martí, a sociologist at Davidson College and author of “American Blindspot,” about race, class, religion and the Trump presidency. Trump’s white evangelical approval slips, Pew finds, but 82 percent still likely to vote for him 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z But as McKay Coppins writes at The Atlantic, "most white conservative Christians don't want piety from this president; they want power." Can the "religious left" save abortion rights from Republican hypocrisy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In Barr’s view, piety lay at the heart of the founders’ model of self-government, which depended on religious values to restrain human passions. William Barr’s State of Emergency 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Donna O’Leary, 59, a political activist in East Spokane, Wash., saw an image of strength and piety. George Floyd's death sparks voices on America's deep pain and searing rage 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z People once concerned with piety, Fea said, now crave “an exercise in pure political power”, and the Bible is not longer a spiritual weapon but an earthly one. 'He wears the armor of God': evangelicals hail Trump's church photo op 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Indeed, one reason money is a troublesome idiom for expressing gratitude here is that it awkwardly suggests a mercenary motive for those years of filial piety. Should a Parent of Two Children Split Inheritance Equally? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Inverted piety is an inexhaustible source of laughter, but Beckett’s predominant comic mode is savagely ironic. Waiting for Sauvignon Blanc: Pandemic reveals Samuel Beckett as the ultimate realist 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z They need to stop quoting Barr's pieties about being apolitical without context. Under cover of the pandemic, Trump tries to assert total power. When will the media take him on? 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Patrons commissioned caves as acts of piety, and the art reflected the hopes of those living in or passing through Dunhuang — to cross the desert safely, or to be reborn in paradise. A Poetic Journey Through Western China 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z If he was a gadfly, then piety, justice and intellectual orthodoxy were his nectar. Review | The philosopher who rebelled on matters of the soul 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But in practice, this was less about Ahok and more about displaying the piety and political power of Muslim Indonesians – and it worked. How Saudi Arabia's religious project transformed Indonesia 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z And the church, always the church: straddling feasting and fasting, paganism and piety with its usual panache. 'I was told there was no market for foody books set in rural France': Joanne Harris on writing Chocolat 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z “I saw this as a remarkable example of filial piety, something that today’s generation might not understand,” Professor Helmreich told Mr. Mitchell. William Helmreich, Sociologist and a Walker in the City, Dies at 74 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z And the public cycles incoherently through moods: denial, dread, a growing sense of panic; sudden gusts of piety, followed by gusts of licentious abandon. Albert Camus' 'The Plague' and our own Great Reset 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z People may have already unknowingly spread the virus in the name of piety. In a Pandemic, Religion Can Be a Balm and a Risk 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z In that tradition, Leonora is a way to speak back to patriotic pieties as well as Americans’ willful ignorance about the effects of their actions. Review: ‘The Gringa,’ at once a naif and a radical 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z In their general tenor, the documents evoke the blend of technocracy, democratic piety and ambitiousness that is the hallmark of EU communications. The real test of an AI machine is when it can admit to not knowing something | John Naughton 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z That said, the GOP’s false piety is hardly the only — or even the most — alarming thing about this incident. GOP plays by different rules 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Even if the dystopia never quite arrives, the longer a period of stagnation continues, the narrower the space for fecundity and piety, memory and invention, creativity and daring. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z More younger men wore Muslim skull caps and grew beards, while more women took to wearing the heavy headdresses and long dresses common in the Middle East to display their Islamic piety. Battered but Resilient After China’s Crackdown 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z As Mr. Carter became the national scapegoat, the qualities that once made him the antidote to Richard Nixon — his piety, simplicity, openness, gentleness — could now be coded as impotence. Opinion | Donald Trump Is a Hostage to 1979 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z For all their church-going piety and plundered billion-dollar fortunes, high-ranking Russian government officials, almost to a man, are former members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (In)famous Western alliances with the Soviet Union/Russia 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Transactional politics is universal and piety a guarantee of little, perhaps except as one more flavor of conformity. Trump/Netanyahu: Israel, America and the rise of authoritarianism-lite 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Several tracks on his most recent studio album, such as his ode to fast-food restaurant Chick-Fil-A, “Closed on Sunday,” reflect that shift, exploring themes of Christianity and piety. Kanye West praises the Lord — and himself — at Joel Osteen's megachurch 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z When Perry began his formal prayer, Trump assumed a posture of piety — eyes closed, bowed head, clasped hands — but began to twiddle his thumbs and briefly opened his eyes. How the Trump Cabinet’s Bible Teacher Became a Shadow Diplomat 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Confucius is the thinker most associated with “filial piety,” the respectful care of our parents which he called xiào. What Do I Owe My Free-Spending, Hard-Luck Parents? 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “It’s disgusting. Fake piety is worse than none at all,” added Mr. Moulton, who was briefly a Democratic candidate for president. In Bracing Terms, Trump Invokes War’s Human Toll to Defend His Policies 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z They didn’t have to fake piety, she said, but they should acknowledge that these communities were important to their constituencies. Teaching Democrats to Speak Evangelical 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z It’s a family tree of unimpeachable piety and dreary episcopal conformity, with one exception. A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The only thing that's changed is that the veneer of piety no longer seems as necessary as it once was on the Christian right. Why evangelicals won't care about Jerry Falwell Jr.'s apparent sex scandal 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z But in a country home to more than 80 million Catholics, such promises have long disappeared into a haze of tradition, piety and clerical influence. A US priest, a Philippine village, and decades of secrecy 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z The smug piety with which the argument is always made, and that white males are only ever guilty, goes a long way toward explaining the appeal of our bad-boy president. Opinion | A disturbing quest for purity 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It is a beautiful, terrible detail that cuts through all slogans and pieties to isolate the cruelty of modern-day partition. Suketu Mehta: ‘The migration debate is driven by populists – they can tell a false story well’ 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The potentially blasphemous question rears its head again: if it’s a curse to be a Sidenius, is Per cursed by generations of unerring piety, or by that ancestral aberrant flash of madness? A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Trump mumbles NRA pieties about guns and mental health. Donald Trump's week from hell: After the horrors of El Paso and Dayton, GOP is in full retreat 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “It is also seen as connected to international forms of piety, or in the eyes of state authorities, religious extremism. They want Islam in China to operate primarily through Chinese language,” he said. Sign of the times: China's capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols... 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z A few folk question this very public display of plutocratic piety, but we are of course professional malcontents. The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don’t rely on billionaires | Aditya Chakrabortty 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Their continued whining, arrogant piety and feeble attempts to destroy the president will fall flat in 2020, because the formidable alliance of co-belligerents is only growing. Trump, evangelical supporters unfairly attacked for efforts to stop abortion 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Per reflects that he is at home neither among ascetic Christians—the piety of the Sideniuses—nor among “the children of the world”: the luxury of the Salomons. A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He also exhorted church choirs to perform at liturgical services with “sincere piety.” Sistine Chapel Choir director quits after funding scandal 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z He listens to Leclerc’s absurd plan “with the piety of an agnostic, feeling perhaps that this was how, in some clean and magic place, it really ought to be.” Boris Johnson’s “Looking Glass” Brexit 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Hollywood and the Republican right have clashed for years over the morals of the silver screen and the piety of the steeple. Georgia's abortion ban forces political reckoning among TV and film workers 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Using the language of familial bonds is a powerful way to instill political fealty in a culture that enshrines filial piety. Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Backs Down, but the Protests Continue 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z After official campaigning ended, Modi went to a Hindu pilgrimage site high in the Himalayas where he prayed and meditated overnight in a cave, an exercise in piety broadcast nationwide. India’s Modi wins resounding election victory with potent appeal to nationalism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z A revivalist movement that originated in India, the Jamaat has traditionally stressed personal piety. John Walker Lindh, the ‘America Taliban’ from Marin County, remains a 9/11 enigma 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “Bellow, like most writers critics take seriously, attacked the basic values of middle-class Americans: easy piety, marriage, life in the suburbs,” Fiedler said. Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning master of sweeping historical fiction, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Chucking practical drywall signals a loathing for conventional cultural piety. LACMA’s concrete wall problem: Why a chic design comes with consequences 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Kemp writes: “Akhenaten appears to represent an early example of a widespread trend in the history of piety, towards greater austerity in conceptions of the divine.” Into the pharaoh's chamber: how I fell in love with ancient Egypt 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Its university led intellectual thought in Europe and King Louis IX was recognised and subsequently canonised for his piety. How Notre-Dame became the heart of France 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z As the sultan has aged, he has gravitated toward religion and piety, even leading Friday prayers — a role usually reserved for religious leaders in many Islamic states. Brunei once held off on strict Islamic law to stay in a U.S.-backed trade pact. Then Trump pulled out. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z |
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