piety

He vilifies a ruthless, pleasure-hungry society and wonders if there can be piety without the loss of desire and sexual satisfaction, questioning whether that cultural paradigm was gone before we ever knew it was lost.

Was it, they asked, real piety or young people doing as they were told because that is how it's been here for their whole lives?

Johnson has made showy evangelical piety a big part of his political brand.

Johnson's showy piety is even more ludicrous in light of the report's leaked details.

It's certainly whiplash-inducing to be here, where attendees swing wildly between showy displays of Christian piety and vulgar and even threatening language toward fellow Americans who disagree with them politically.