How To Use Deadly sin In A Sentence

  • But when you think about it, greed, gluttony, pride and vanity aren't deadly sins.
  • Thinking about deadly sin led her to think again of Satan.
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi listed The Seven Deadly Sins in the last century which could destroy mankind one of which was commerce without morality.
  • And also that he forswear not him in judgment, ne make no leasings to annoy ne grieve another, nor he ought not to missay ne speak evil of others in intention to impair his good name and fame, for it is deadly sin. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
  • I noticed with amusement that the tapestries hanging there illustrated the seven deadly sins.
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  • Just like the ancient seven deadly sins - pride, anger, envy, greed, gluttony, lust and sloth - the memory sins occur frequently in everyday life and can have serious consequences for all of us.
  • The original ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ are commonly regarded as greed, gluttony, envy, sloth, pride, lust and wrath. search news
  • Wasn't accidie, that lethargy of the spirit, one of the deadly sins? The Murder Room
  • The movie rollicks with elements of pretty well all seven of the deadly sins.
  • The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
  • People do feel helpless, but I believe that sense is itself a sign of something spiritually deadly: what the Fathers and Doctors of the Church called acedia or the deadly sin of "sloth. Archive 2005-10-01
  • A few of the other deadly sins arise from covetous vision.
  • The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
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  • Anger, he saw, had not been lightly numbered among the deadly sins.
  • St Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian who shaped society's thinking on the deadly sins, rated pride as the worst of all.
  • I being in such a position in the colony, and considering the fact that Madam Cavendish and Catherine were staunch loyalists, and would have sent all their tobacco to the bottom of the salt sea had the king so ordained, and regarded all disaffection from the royal will as a deadly sin against God and the Church, as well as the throne, and knowing the danger which Mary Cavendish ran, I was in a sore quandary. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
  • A Boy Scout, of course, needs no reminding of the Seven Deadly Sins - he probably has them branded on his woggle.
  • One of the Seven Deadly Sins and the one most often fatal to the great ones.
  • Bronte depicts young Master John Reed as virtually a paradigm of the Victorian bad boy, wallowing in gluttony, sadism, and a host of other deadly sins.
  • And if holy Church hath the words of God, and is alonely guided of His Spirit, then must it be an awful and deadly sin to gainsay her bidding. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
  • Besides, envy is the last deadly sin I'd expect from Flash-man bahadur. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
  • In a sign that relations with South Korea are likely to remain rocky, the North and South ended their first working-level military talks in two years Thursday with no progress as negotiators stumbled over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang, Seoul's Defense Ministry said. Kim Jong Un PHOTOS: North Korea Prints Pics Of Heir Apparent
  • He felt as if he had been led through the seven deadly sins one by one, with lust leading the way.
  • Many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or "capital vices" laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularised in the Middle Ages by Aquinas, and by Dante in The Inferno.
  • Idleness," says Burton, in that delightful old book "The Anatomy of Melancholy," "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ... How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success
  • Their ruinous vice, if we are to trust the records of the time, was what the old monks called accidia -- [Greek text] -- and ranked it as one of the seven deadly sins: a general careless, sleepy, comfortable habit of mind, which lets all go its way for good or evil -- a habit of mind too often accompanied, as in the case of the Angle-Danes, with self-indulgence, often coarse enough. Historical Lectures and Essays
  • Stephen Webster ' s latest collection is a Seven Deadly Sins set of rings, including the lust ring, made of 18-carat white gold, white diamonds and a central tanzanite, £ 98,000. All That Glitters This Christmas
  • Idleness," he says, "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal .... Character
  • The seven deadly sins and their antitheses, the four cardinal virtues and three heavenly graces, provide the book's organising principle.
  • Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a sole cause of this and many other maladies, the devil's cushion, as [1540] Gualter calls it, his pillow and chief reposal. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Some of those who specialize in the study of gluttony also seem to suffer from another deadly sin: greed.
  • And he that will not obey to him that hath the cure over him when he enseigneth and teacheth him good that he is bound to do, he sinneth grievously and is inobedient, which is deadly sin. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
  • It provides also a springboard for its close relative and fellow deadly sin, jealousy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone in this facility yields to the seven deadly sins… especially pride and vanity!
  • These latter-day seven deadly sins all seem to be connected with information technology, as the art of communication is known these days.
  • Rather than titillate or horrify, MTV's Skins elicits a certain acedia -- a lingering spiritual listlessness or torpor that the ancients counted among the Seven Deadly Sins. Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children
  • Thinking about deadly sin led her to think again of Satan.
  • Anger, he saw, had not been lightly numbered among the deadly sins.
  • It is best known for its carvery trolley and its hearty '10 deadly sins' breakfast. Times, Sunday Times
  • The core of the company's operation is still designer chocolates — indeed, its "7 Deadly Sins to Share," a stark, postmodern box filled with black currant and Champagne (pride), almond praline (wrath) and passion fruit (envy) chocolates, among others, may be this Valentine's Day's most high-concept box of candy. Ring Dings, From the Heart
  • Pride is one of those seven deadly sins.
  • Envy is not just a deadly sin, it is also an emotional reality.
  • Greed is their most deadly sin, because none of them can escape it.
  • (Seriously, the little bugger is getting far too close to my Rexona zone) … being the chronically envious type that I am, afflicted by that greenest of the seven deadly sinsCheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something.

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