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Without study, people are generally "standard" and their piety may become overly exaggerated sentimentality or else may become diminished by superficiality.
Without study, people are generally "standard" and their piety may become overly exaggerated sentimentality or else may become diminished by superficiality.
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1. Here's a tip: by definition, exaggerate implies abundance, so you don't need overly. 2.
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- Here's a tip: by definition, exaggerate implies abundance, so you don't need overly.
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- Overall, piety cannot become anything without a human agent.
- That is, a person's piety can have the appearance of sentimentality or superficiality, but it cannot be the agent of these qualities.
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1. Here's a tip: by definition, exaggerate implies abundance, so you don't need overly.
2. Overall, piety cannot become anything without a human agent. That is, a person's piety can have the appearance of sentimentality or superficiality, but it cannot be the agent of these qualities. Focus the characteristis on a person, not on the abstract, "piety." EX.: Susan's piety seems exaggerated
2. Overall, piety cannot become anything without a human agent. That is, a person's piety can have the appearance of sentimentality or superficiality, but it cannot be the agent of these qualities. Focus the characteristis on a person, not on the abstract, "piety." EX.: Susan's piety seems exaggerated
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