I trashed liberal pieties and ragged JFK.

In one sense, Simon and Burns's subjects remain uncooperative: their lives don't hew to liberal pieties, or conservatives' often pitilessly reductive arguments, about the poor.

The public Brodsky was a tireless human rights polemicist and denouncer of liberal pieties and cold-war-thaw apologetics.

It is not surprising, in the current political climate, that liberal pieties are being challenged, and many of them ought to be.

One of her strategies in "A Certain Level of Denial" is to dig beneath her audience's liberal pieties.

We are succumbing to liberal pieties.

His supporters often see him as offering a mordant critique of many liberal pieties.

Speaking to Americans for Democratic Action in 1967, he made it clear he thought liberal pieties would not solve black problems.

The writing on the show was consistently left of center, but O'Connor often deftly skewered the liberal pieties of the day.

Mr. Kushner has his politics, certainly, but he doesn't play favorites in his plays, instead shuffling the deck of liberal pieties before we can choose the obvious sides.