How To Use Faithless In A Sentence

  • Note, Those that are faithless will be perverse; and perverseness is sin in its worst colours. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The treatment of faithless lovers and traitorous informers in outlaw lore suggests that not all Irish images of themselves were entirely positive.
  • Roman legend claims that ravens were once as white as swans and roughly the same size, but one day a raven told Apollo that Coronis whom he passionately loved, was faithless.
  • It was gloomy, that which wrote itself on the paper, nor did it especially apply to the case in point, "but then," she reminded herself, bitterly recalling the faithlessness of Hattie, of Rosalie, of Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart
  • The despairing, faithless, gaping, horrified wife looked down at her lover, and knew that he was dead.
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  • I've also stunned myself by loving a Faithless record - alright, Mass Destruction sounds like Black Steel by Tricky, but that doesn't stop it being a full-on barnstormer of a tune.
  • Some of the first written stories deal with the Sumerian Goddess Inanna making a series of sacrifices, including the sacrifice of herself and then that of her faithless lover Dumuzi, in order to attain the wisdom of the Underworld.
  • And, most important, mothers find the loves of their lives not in their faithless husbands but in their sons - and vice versa.
  • Whenever I tell people that I don't believe in one higher, diving being, they claim that I am faithless, that I don't believe in anything.
  • The ball had cut the ligature which bound his "greegree" of shells around his head, and the faithless charm lay on the ground beside him. Journal of an African Cruiser
  • In the scene when Jehovah sends flood, fire and earthquakes down on the faithless Israelites there's a lot of smiting, the clattering timps and rasping "natural" brass brought a frisson of terror. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Julia, who accompanies her faithless lover in the disguise of a page, is, as it were, a light sketch of the tender female figures of a Viola and an Imogen, who, in the latter pieces of Shakspeare, leave their home in similar disguises on love adventures, and to whom a peculiar charm is communicated by the display of the most virginly modesty in their hazardous and problematical situation. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
  • But to fail as Jeffrey Harrison does, so unambitiously, so droopily, to leave the plate with three called strikes-it smacks of faithlessness, of a kind of shrugging perfidy, a knowledge of what's expected.
  • When he is gone, Dal Segno's sister Julia, lady's maid to the Princess, enters with birthday-presents for her niece Cornelia, and among the things which attract her attentions sees the cracknel, beside which she finds a note from her own faithless lover Louis. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
  • Lavender sang the faithless lover Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly, and Chen Hsin-an, who was Suzuki in the same opera, will sing Santuzza this weekend.
  • And the more he yearned to be gone the more bitterly he blamed himself for what he called his ingratitude and faithlessness. In Orchard Glen
  • [54] 'In his own mode of acting,' must be understood here of his honourable mode of acting; though there are also _malae artes_, such as faithlessness, cunning, flattery, and the like. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
  • Vronsky, Anna Karenina's faithless lover, is from the Russian voron, ` raven, 'and Karenina is from the word karat ` to punish.' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
  • Not a word spake he for a full minute, but he drew his breath hard, flinging out at length a bitter sarcasm on the faithlessness of women, and bidding Raphael trust not too much to their promises, he abruptly left us. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
  • But its faithlessness manifests itself in another way also: it continually becomes only a repetition. Archive 2009-04-01
  • She decided to divorce her increasingly faithless and unreliable husband.
  • He stands by his faithless wife and cares for her child as his own.
  • But Amanda, though bitterly resenting her husband's faithlessness, remains firm in her virtue.
  • The present is not worth so much as a shoe – sole; all faithless and marrowless the doings of men; their soul has no wings and their deeds no weight; Peer Gynt
  • If you make me a rich man I'll spend all my time and all my wealth converting faithless heathens and praising your name.
  • The season concludes with Puccini's famous Madame Butterfly, a tragedy about a Japanese girl's undying love for her faithless American husband.
  • But fortunately, he is known - and will make himself known - as a patient harborer of his faithless wife.
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  • I never, not for a single moment, doubted how he felt about me, never worried that I'd have my heart broken again by another faithless man I'd foolishly trusted.
  • I have also put worthless, faithless men ahead of my friends because I was so desperate for the validation that only love, or what could pass for it in my mind, could bring me.
  • 33 _I grow weary. _ 4to 1681 'I grew weary'.p. 166, l. 2 _sure he knows me not. _ 1724 omits 'he'.p. 166, l. 16 _better than an Age of Scorn from a proud faithless The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
  • apostate" (as the Hebrew for "backsliding" is better rendered); Judah, not as yet utterly apostate, but treacherous or faithless. also -- herself also, like Israel. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • What if he was faithless to his friends and to his wife?
  • He’s the very definition of faithless—and the origin of the term doubting Thomas. Change of Heart
  • There is, there can be nothing endearing about faithlessness.
  • It is not to say that I am someone who is faithless, nor ignorant of other's religious beliefs - on the contrary - it is to say that I chose not to subscribe to any organised religion, but to rather seek out my own spiritual path.
  • In a faithless age irony is the only way to take yourself seriously, and the only way to show others that you distrust yourself enough for them to trust you.
  • 'Among the faithless, faithful only he' Among the innumerable false, unmoved, unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, that is my sword. Frederick the Great and His Family
  • Ay, indeed," cried the Robin earnestly; "it is faithless work to give advice which you will not follow yourself. Parables From Nature
  • And then Charles N--- fancies his mousme is faithless. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • God, he said, if you make me a rich man I'll spend all my time and all my wealth converting faithless heathens and praising your name.
  • The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology. I Say No
  • The treatment of faithless lovers and traitorous informers in outlaw lore suggests that not all Irish images of themselves were entirely positive.
  • In her early 20s, Dido realised she wanted a career in music and inveigled her elder brother Rollo, founder of the successful dance group Faithless, into giving her a job as a backing singer.
  • I think about Christian sometimes and his faithless wife and how he lost her. THE EXECUTION
  • The problem we have now is that the public expression of our religion - worship in church as a community - no longer feeds the spirit of a generation operating more and more out of a faithless culture.
  • Moreover, as we were saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • But this, so far from proving any "faithlessness," shows, on the contrary, an entire faith in their Art, that it was able to accomplish what was required of it, and needed not to be bolstered up by anything external. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
  • ‘Audiences in Sofia are quite faithless and not understanding,’ he said.
  • I know the word 'faithlessness' sounds very terrible. Without Dogma
  • In "Faithless, " two sisters explain the strange disappearance of their mother.
  • As a teenager, her life was ruined by her faithless lover.
  • One contemporary version of Henry's complaint was: ‘I have nourished and promoted in my realm sluggish and wretched knaves who are faithless to their lord and suffer him to be tricked thus infamously by a low clerk.’
  • These statistics have been employed to suggest that a lot of evidently happily married women are faithless and untrustworthy people who have ruthlessly deceived their unsuspecting husbands.
  • Everyone had a faithless lover who did you wrong, and usually blamed everything but free will.
  • How she must hate looking more like her faithless aunt than her sainted mother. FLIGHT LESSONS
  • Vicente Aranda's take on the story is a classical tale of faithless woman, doomed lover and romance gone awry.
  • But her indictment is limitless and encompasses orthodox faith as well as faithless practice.
  • The act closes with a terzetto of great power ( "O! di qual sei tu"), in which both the priestess and Adalgisa furiously denounce the faithless Pollione. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
  • For everyone knew that Cornwall was the kingdom of Arthur and his faithless wife, Guinevere, and her lover, Lancelot. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
  • Then, in my mid-20s, I underwent a crisis of faithlessness. An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless
  • In many respects, they find you antagonizing the same way they find Glenn Reynolds antagonizing - like Jesuits, they really think once they had you, they had the right to keep you, and your faithlessness is your failure, not theirs. Oppressed by the label "Republican"?
  • (And this reading may or may not be supported by the text, but one was given the sense that she had volunteered the plan of substituting for Isabella, which I found fascinating: she wasn't just a chesspiece of his undoing; she still wanted him, fucked-up and faithless as he was.) Measure For Measure
  • The letter stated that her involvement in the resolution ‘demonstrated faithlessness in and disloyalty to the University and exhibited an unwillingness to work for the common good of the University.’
  • Unlike in France or America, where children of divorced parents lost nothing and were at liberty to watch over their bringing-up, according to English law, a guilty mother was entirely deprived of their custody and even access (however, it was allowed for a faithless father). Le Divorce, Edwardian Style | Edwardian Promenade
  • And the diseases of conceit are a familiar notion from the biblical tradition that goes along with its partner diseases of hubris, idolatry and faithlessness.
  • The faithless disciple aims for both heaven and earth and gets neither.
  • How she must hate looking more like her faithless aunt than her sainted mother. FLIGHT LESSONS
  • I think about Christian sometimes and his faithless wife and how he lost her. THE EXECUTION
  • Even some Americans criticize their brothers as “little Eichmanns” for their participation in the great engine of faithlessness and nihilism that is the West. The Parable of the Spider
  • No doubt I shall lose a son by your death but if you give up your faith I shall be called the mother of a deserter and faithless son.
  • Baudelaire said of him that he was the only artist who ‘in our faithless generation conceived religious pictures’.
  • When doubts assailed him, he got many scriptural reinforcements: ‘It is I, be not afraid - be not faithless, but believing.’
  • Though bitterly resenting her husband's faithlessness, she remains firm in her virtue.
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  • She decided to divorce her increasingly faithless and unreliable husband.
  • It is entitled to compel the faithless fiduciaries to answer for their default according to their gain.
  • Having been brought up in a religious household myself, I have an innate sense of admiration for those people who have faith in an increasingly faithless world.
  • The husband's faithlessness is called a caprice, an adventure, a craving or madness of the senses. His Excellency the Minister
  • But when she beheld the letter again, she read again the opprobrious word "faithlessness" in her husband's handwriting. Filipino Popular Tales
  • The handkerchief is the physical evidence that convinces Othello of his wife's faithlessness.

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