How to Use religiosity in a Sentence

religiosity

noun
  • Yet maybe the act of balancing the two is the act of religiosity?
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But Democrats’ waning religiosity may be a factor in the longer-term trend.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The title is not pulled from some fearful religiosity, rather, hell as a state of being.
    Maria Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In any case, the film is infused with religiosity, and the filmmakers believe a higher power was in charge of their project.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2022
  • None of this is meant as a criticism of Trump’s religiosity or lack thereof.
    Peter Manseau, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2020
  • But the angry old boys’ club isn’t the only opposing force in this tale where pious religiosity meets the scourge of modernity.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Yet the DeSantis campaign and its allies see fighting the left as the fastest way to appeal to those voters rather than overt displays of religiosity.
    Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Now compare the above to the breakdown of Asian American religiosity.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2012
  • Mondrian boiled down his religiosity to a belief in the intrinsic potency of the craft of painting, in and of itself.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • This points to what, for me, is O’Hara’s true legacy: his secular religiosity.
    New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • But the works are also infused with the atmosphere of tenderness and religiosity in the Renaissance Italians and in Poussin.
    Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
  • My point is not to call Kennedy’s religiosity into question.
    Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Belief in God has been one of the strongest, most reliable markers of the persistence of American religiosity through the years.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • While Muslim Pro’s data policies are broadly in line with the rest of the tech industry, the use of the app is an indicator of faith and religiosity in ways that few others are, Billoo said.
    Johana Bhuiyan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Alabama and Mississippi tied for No. 1 in a Pew Research study of religiosity a few years ago.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The objective of Free Life is to destroy the galanthi; their hatred is a mix of xenophobia and religiosity, not unlike the Victorian purists.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
  • The Tatmadaw, as the military is known, has always used lavish displays of religiosity to legitimize its rule.
    The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2021
  • But, when such crises end, religiosity declines, and people seek out risky behavior.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Many of the paintings hint at religiosity and manifest destiny.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The overall decline in religiosity isn’t all that surprising, an expert said, and it has been reflected in the U.S. population at large.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • All of these victims got blamed for what was perceived as a decline in religiosity in Puritan New England society.
    Time, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Flashbacks introduce us to his wife, Beth (Laura Niemi), who died of cancer not long ago, and to his son Ezra, whose devout religiosity became a wedge within the family.
    Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The survey’s results follow similar trends showing a decrease in overall religiosity among adults in the U.S.
    al, 7 July 2022
  • The other problem highlighted by the book is Mr. Pence’s ardent religiosity.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • As the number of adults who belong to a church, synagogue or mosque has dropped — in 2021, membership fell below half for the first time in eight decades — another form of religiosity has emerged: spirituality.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The continental outlier isn't the U.S. but Canada, which reports the lowest religiosity in the Western hemisphere.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The exhibition makes plain how much the culture benefited from these artists whose creativity flowed from, through and around their struggles with religiosity.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Yet amid these signs of a rapidly secularizing society, the country is awash in religiosity.
    Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
  • The harsh reality could obviously be motorcycles slashing the religiosity of a pensive morning concert in the Bowl.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • The more secularized a society becomes, the more noticeable the holdouts, which is why outward displays of religiosity can seem so jarring in various European contexts.
    Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024

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