How To Use Idol In A Sentence

She has one annoying but lovable big brother that looks out for her, and a little sister that adores and idolizes her.
Likewise, it was ixnay on the ommentcay when asked about reports that former show exec producer Nigel Lythgoe is returning triumphant to the show after having been pushed aside a couple of seasons back when that was their Really Bright Idea for jump-starting "Idol" and revving up ratings. 'D.C. Cupcakes' will get second season; only Ryan Seacrest certain on 'Idol'
Long gone are the days when Chairman Mao was idolised by radicals (and even respected by some mainstream academics) on American university campuses.
Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
Those brought up in the punk rock era will have a twinge of nostalgia for the days when it was a badge of honour to be gobbed on by your idols.

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“Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile. Westward Ho!
Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
The sin of idolatry may lie less in the actual action of worshipping a foreign god than in the denial of the universals that such worship implies.
The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them. Surprised by Joy
Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales. Darwinism (1889)
He has called capitalism 'an economy of exclusion by an idolatrous system of money'. Times, Sunday Times
The Genesis legends of Cain and Nimrod, Babel and Sodom uniformly attribute impiety, pride, idolatry, luxury, crime and moral depravity to all cities and their founders, Sodom included.
While examining your irises, both in-person, and later when reviewing the photographs, the iridologist will look for subtle signs of developing illness, such as symptoms of stress or a build-up of toxins. BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Bronze idol of Ganapathi, with finely proportioned torsos and exquisitely designed limbs is a cynosure of all eyes.
Lepidolite, beryl, tantalite, quartz crystals, and altered and unaltered petalite are some of the minerals that can be found in this district.
'Dancing With the Stars' bops 'American Idol' in Nielsens WN.com - Articles related to CBS scores big with basketball, Woods' return
The McGuire programme, which helped him, also enabled Pop Idol Gareth Gates to overcome his stutter and go on to chart success.
Britney Spears is being forced to give custody of her children to man-whore/baby-mama maker/Britney despoiler/my idol Kevin Federline. Archive 2007-10-01
Distinctions in moral values are valid for God and for us: truth is to be valued over falsehood, faithfulness over infidelity, true worship over idolatry, and so on.
He knows nothing of it yet. I idolized this poor unhappy child.
Another asbestos mineral, crocidolite, is used for more specialized applications, when, for example, better acid resistance is desirable.
-- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets. Rob Roy — Volume 01
I remember like about three years ago, I remember Walter and his wife Carol were having dinner at Mr. Chow's, and I remember going My God, I've kind of idolized Walter, I've been a fan for very many years, and so I just watched them. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Walter Matthau and Diane Keaton Discuss the Making of `Hanging Up' - February 10, 2000
A unique combination of tact, charm, deportment and sartorial style, he was all one would wish to see in an idol.
Israel literally went beyond the heathen in abominable idolatries. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Davies, wishing to give dignity to his Celtic mythology, determines to find the arkite idolatry there too, and the style in which he proceeds to do this affords a good specimen of the extravagance which has caused Celtic antiquity to be looked upon with so much suspicion. Celtic Literature
The vast majority of Survivors who have scored the hidden immunity idol went on to slink out of there in ignominious defeat for not having played it. 'Survivor' preview: Too soon for a merge? | EW.com
But I find it hard to make a judgment one way or the other, because the Pastoral Epistles are widely accepted as being pseudepigraphical, and yet I find it hard to imagine someone who idolizes Paul enough to write in his name penning 1 Timothy 1:15. Review of Doubting Jesus' Resurrection
It's very tempting now she's not here to idolise her to my heart's content, but I do think she was extraordinary. Lorna Sage, my mum
Some of the children of Israel had begun to stray after the daughters of Moav and to worship their idols.
I secretly revere it, as the idolater in me awakens once again. Learning to Die in Miami
It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
In order to reach their goals for conversion, they actively coerced the children into condemning their traditional religiosity and spiritualism as ungodly rites, rituals, and idolatry.
A great cheer went up from the crowd as they caught sight of their idol.
Haloperidol (50 mg/mL) and fluphenazine (25 mg/mL) are also available in long-acting (depot), intramuscular (IM) form. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Muslims may not eat any food that has been sacrificed to idols, but kosher is fine.
Unlike the previous years, this year the idols' pates have been decorated with white intricately designed frills called ‘dakarsaj.’
Causative medications are droperidol, diphenhydramine, meperidine, promethazine, atropine, and scopolamine.
Through this point of view, Brontë herself speaks to the readers and warns of idolatry.
If signing with 19 Entertainment were a good idea, its Idol winners would neither sue to get out of their bad contracts or at the minimum re-sign at their expiration. Morris W. O'Kelly: Why You (and I) Shouldn't Root for Jacob Lusk to Win American Idol
It is pleasing to note in this list that not only the garments and stuffs, but the very colors named, have an antique sound; and we read in other inventories of such tints as philomot (feuillemort), gridolin Customs and Fashions in Old New England
Harmo argento e rame, e secondo che dicono questi Indiani, et con segni fanno intendere, adorano il Sole e la Luna, anche hanno altre idolatrie ed errori, come quelli di terra ferma. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
Antonio and I looked closely at their wrappings and noted the way in which their mummied forms had been ranged before this idol -- that certainly belonged to a primitive time -- the more were we inclined to believe that this weird sepulchre belonged to the very far back past. The Aztec Treasure-House
The colour of edition of set limit to makeup combined smooth shadow and idolum creation to give infinite daydream, let any the people long to be shined by her glamour place.
In Galatians 5: 19-21 the list is headed by sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, and idolatry.
Today bullfighting is big business in Spain with the top matadors earning comparable salaries to the nation's top soccer stars and rock idols.
It will be replaced by adventure movies starring Hollywood idols including Tom Cruise.
I saw them on Idol last night and planned to check them out today..saw them on iTunes, but didn't check amazon yet. Music Recommendation: New Morning by Alpha Rev
I believe that this site was the ultimate trophy goal of French pyramidologist Jean-François Champollion," Hawass added. TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
The resultant sheitels might be hard, shiny and unpersuasive, but they were reassuringly free from the whiff of idolatry. The Times Literary Supplement
The crowd diligently sang along, going through the paint-by-numbers motions with their onstage idols.
Even during the Reformation it was biblical scenes likely to promote superstition and idolatry that came down.
Paris, said one of her greatest writers, “_aime à briser ses idoles_!” The Ways of Men
Glaucophane and riebeckite are found in low-grade schists of basic igneous parentage; crocidolite occurs in medium-grade metamorphosed ironstones.
For the "dominoes" episode of Guidolon, from SuRa: You can make it!
Denied parents for so much of the year, Angel had idolized Pedro.
The idea is that Guidolon envisions himself not just as a giant space chicken, but as the cosmic avian avenger. SERGEANT KROOSTOS, THE CHICKEN OF WAR
Idolize their favorite rappers and know all they songs.
Worshipping the true God is an authentic act of resistance to all forms of idolatry.
The ancient people of this area worshipped a huge bronze idol in the shape of an elephant.
We needed not only the essential bulk chemicals, such as amidol, metol, para-amidophenol, and glycine, but also certain rarer substances, such as the photographic sensitisers, which were so essential for the Air Force. The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
It could not do other to a man estranged from a normal life who could only live on the idolization of his fans. Michael Jackson: Shooting Star « Colleen Anderson
Our ways may be wicked, and the movements of our mind wicked; such as adulteries, thefts, idolatries, slanders, strife, passion, sedition, vain-glory, and all that the apostle Paul enumerates among the works of the flesh. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Bunyan said of the things with which one could commit idolatry when binding God with them, the laver and Table, that by the free grace of God, ‘Here's such as helpeth Man's Salvation.’
The penal constitutions of the Judaical polity (for so they were, which yet I urge not) concerning idolaters, must be stretched beyond their limits, if you intend to inwrap heretics within their verge. The Sermons of John Owen
The mysticism and its occultism are interpreted in every detail of the idol.
After an unsuccessful attempt to crash the band's after party and meet their idols in person, the boys have a near death experience.
A mild acid (usually citric, but sometimes acetic, boric, lactic or tartaric) is often added to amidol formulae to prevent oxidation, which can cause staining of the print.
These primarily consisted of amosite and crocidolite, both commercial amphiboles.
Pimozide is similar to haloperidol in chemical structure and potency, and has been shown to be uniquely effective in the treatment of this condition, especially in decreasing formication.
They were able to validate iridology by finding many correlations that in fact were not established as causal relationships by rigorously defined controlled studies.
Marshmallow, which grows in the primordial bogs and swamplands, was harvested and used to fashion these crude idols, which were then devoured to cure thigh ache.
As a student and protégé of the beloved Dr. Christopher, I began my career as an herbalist using iridology as the sole diagnostic method.
This was that host of heaven which the Jews idolatrously worshipped: chap. viii. Pneumatologia
Rebecca NicholsonOpening with a horror-movie warning about the dangers of drug abuse think Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith flying at you, this romp through rehab follows the treatment of US celebrities, including model Janice Dickinson and former teen idol Leif Garratt. Tonight's TV highlights: Martina Cole's The Runaway | In Confidence | Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew | Inside The Human Body | The Shadow Line | Psychoville 2
It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such a one more agreeable and interesting. Archive 2010-01-01
Indians, who remained outside the tribunal's jurisdiction, were subject to a parallel institution, the Juzgado General de Indios, founded in 1592, or the Provisorato de naturales, the tribunal for the archbishopric of Mexico that was charged with Indian affairs and oversaw matters of superstition, idolatry, witchcraft, and bigamy. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
It was a happy choice; my good genius, I suppose, for you see I was already fairly well read in modern science, and these old Greek philosophies set me thinking backwards, unwinding and unlearning, and getting at that eidolon which is not to be found in the mechanical heavens of this age. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
But let's make sure that we're dealing with just Jesus and not a bunch of institutionalized add-ons that try to replace the teachings of Jesus with idol worship and public piosity. Is America a Christian Nation?
The Holiness Code does not only deal with ritual sins or with idolatry.
Ridolfi (1646) mentions: “In casa Grimani da Santo Ermagora la Sentenza di Salomone, di bella macchia, colla figura del ministro non finita.” Giorgione
Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.
Idola inanimata amant, animata odio habent, sic pontificii. Anatomy of Melancholy
I really don’t like the Edward “idolism” Bella has nor the negitive put downs she constantly says about herself. Book Review: Twilight | Heretical Ideas Magazine
He looked into the crowd, first to the left then the right, all the while letting his people idolize him with cheers and yells.
My invocation of the idolatrized frontiersman had the desired effect. Nevermore
As it has done on four prior occasions, the Senate should shelve this most dangerous and idolatrous assault on our civil and religious liberties.
It completely misrepresents any interpetation of the bible other than the biblist idolotry of the modern evangelical christianist junta. AvaxHome RSS:
He looks more like a stockbroker than a teen idol.
Ahaz was described as an idolater who cooperated with the Assyrians. The Bible Unearthed
‘mammetry’ or idolatry; ‘dunce’ is from Duns Scotus; while there is a legend that the ‘knot’ or sandpiper is named from Canute or Knute, with whom this bird was a special favourite. English Past and Present
No wonder the Italian poet Petrarch, who idolised women, could not read her letters without exclamatory annotations in the margins.
Was he unconverted and just as lost as any pagan idolater in the ancient world?
Raising the subject is more racist than people simply choosing their favourite idol.
'I hold fast by the Saviour,' Behold another wonder; the idolatress in an ecstasy of joy. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.
He proposed a story about the kids following the program who "idolize" Pavan. Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
Join "saith ... concerning the house of Jacob." redeemed -- out of Ur, a land of idolaters (Jos 24: 3). not now -- After the moral revolution described (Isa 29: 17), the children of Jacob shall no longer give cause to their forefathers to blush for them. wax pale -- with shame and disappointment at the wicked degeneracy of his posterity, and fear as to their punishment. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
After the death of this most verteous Prince, of whome the godless people of England, (for the most parte,) was nott worthy, Sathan intended nothing less then the light of Jesus Christ utterly to have bein extinguissed, within the hole Ile of Britannye; for after him was rased up, in Goddis hote displeasur, that idolatress Jesabel, mischevous The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
The eastern slope has numerous large oysters on the rocks, guarded by loyal moorish idols and bicolour parrotfish.
Teenage idols have a strong influence on our children.
Their idols were the bosses of powerful city gangs who attained the status of celebrities in local tabloids.
Three days before Mr. Mubarak left office, al Qaeda in Iraq, an affiliate group, released a statement that highlighted the gulf between the protesters in Tahrir Square and the jihadis on the sidelines: "Beware of the tricks of un-Islamic ideologies, such as filthy and evil secularism, infidelic democracy, and putrid idolic patriotism and nationalism," it said. Uprisings Put al Qaeda on Sidelines
They," that is, both the makers and the idols, are witnesses against themselves, for the idols palpably see and know nothing (Ps 115: 4-8). that they may be ashamed -- the consequence deducible from the whole previous argument, not merely from the words immediately preceding, as in Isa 28: 13; 36: 12. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Plotinus, however, described the body itself as an eidolon - a simulacrum or phantom - of the soul: for him, the physical body was less real than the soul, and the soul in turn less real than divine Being.
Only idolatrous devotion could keep such brilliant minds from acknowledging the irrationality of crediting the blind force of nature with such teleological precision.
The main species threatened by hunting are the tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), fruit bats (Pteropus rufus and Eidolon helvum), and the red-fronted brown lemur. Madagascar succulent woodlands
Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
That the people shall be destroyed with the sword: I will cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, the valley of idolatry, for the gods of the Syrians were gods of the valleys (1 Kings xx. 23), were worshipped in valleys; as the idols of Israel were worshipped on the hills; him also that holdeth the sceptre of power, some petty king or other that used to boast of the sceptre he held from Beth-Eden, the house of pleasure. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
He eventually picked up a guitar, singing in the manner of his idol, Argentine folklorist Atahualpa Yupanqui. Folk Singer Facundo Cabral Killed in Guatemala
Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
They will not be among the Egyptian idolaters in the future; they will be among the immoral Canaanites.
It is occurs several minerals such as lepidolite, pollucite, amazonite, etc. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Yes, they say five fingers aren't alike but the pricky Simon like American Idol judges of today forget to count their own times of execrable acts. Are Women Toys?
This was a false assumption; Jone was well-versed in the holy scriptures, and it was whispered that he had the ability to conjure up eidolons and spirits.
Such applications used mainly chrysotile or amosite, although crocidolite was commonly used in Europe, this practice was discontinued in the 1970s because of health concerns. Asbestos
Not necessarily, but even Barrie enthusiasts might hesitate before allowing someone like their idol to look after their own children unchaperoned.
By the same token many of the Tarascans experienced the cultural shock of having their pre-Hispanic idols, temples and religious regalia destroyed by Franciscan missionaries.
A unique combination of tact, charm, deportment and sartorial style, he was all one would wish to see in an idol.
We idolize success and status and thus undermine our mutual respect.
His piety and wisdom were proverbial among his countrymen at an early period; probably owing to that noble proof he gave of faithfulness, combined with wisdom, in abstaining from the food sent to him from the king's table, as being polluted by the idolatries usual at heathen banquets (Da 1: 8-16). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
By this time Pitt had become a teenage idol.
But he was implicated in the Ridolfi plot in 1571, spent more years in captivity, and in the later 1570s lived in quiet retirement.
They quarrel with God as if he had dealt unkindly by them in forsaking them, whereas they by their idolatry had driven him from them; they have withdrawn from their allegiance to him, and so have thrown themselves out of this protection. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
After all no-one needs past heroes when there are new idols to laud.
Treatment of delirium requires use of neuroleptic drugs, such as haloperidol and chlorpromazine, not sedatives.
[Footnote 1: The practice originated with the Portuguese, who applied to any unconverted native of India the term _gentio_, "idolator" or Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
She became the idol of patrician society of Rome.
Early Christian thinkers developed the claim that in worshipping idols one worships the demonic.
The actor has more adoring acolytes than any gilded idol in Achilles' day.
Many were torn up as idolatrous or for their metal content - their 'brass' is roughly 75 per cent copper. Times, Sunday Times
To invest the Bible with the qualities of inerrancy and infallibility is to idolatrize it, to transform it into a false god. Biblical Recorder
In the Arab world many of these people are literary celebrities, film idols, and media stars.
Yet the heathen gods are false gods; whereas Israel, in forsaking Me for other gods, forsake their "glory" for unprofitable idols. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He entered it and discovered a golden idol crusted with red jewels, which he called the bloodstained god. Conan of Cimmeria
Finally, the author criticizes the sanctity of life concept by arguing that it is a form of idolatry of biological life and that it absolutizes this life by forgetting that there is a life to come.
Iridology is a safe, noninvasive diagnostic tool that involves studying the iris, the coloured part of the eye. Times, Sunday Times
How has pagan idolatry, the very same sort of idolatry that Paul encountered in Ephesus, corrupted much of the Christian-professing world?
Likewise for some Christian thinkers today, greed can mask an even greater sin; the sin of idolatry.
I was in sheer ecstasy over the prospect of meeting my idol.
I warred with the idol-worshipping hill chiefs,
Earlier this week, Lee DeWyze, the Mount Prospect, Illinois native who won the most recent "American Idol" competition, seemed to have the gig locked up. Bears-Pack: 'Idol' Winner Takes Back Seat To Local Star For National Anthem
Maybe not quite idolisation, but it came quite close for a brief spell last season," writes Paul Carey. Has a player ever been idolised by a club he has never played for? | The Knowledge
The marriage prohibition consequently played into the concern over intermarriage as a source of religious syncretism and idolatry.
This is based on Isaiah's notion that the idols represented the purported power of the nations.
Lorenzago, picturesquely perched on one of the lower slopes on Monte Cridola, claims to be the scene of the martyrdom of Saint Florian, a popular Tyrolean saint, whose intercession is supposed to be of especial efficacy in cases of fire; while Monte Cornon is said to derive its name from an incident in the history of Cadore thus related by Mr. Gilbert: – Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Rather, the founders idolized G-d alone -- faith in Him was stamped even on our money -- and brooked no shallow, hollow substitutes, Hollywood superstars included. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Obama's Soulless Obsession With Science and Math
When this is done, they go round about the cow and calf, and then give some alms to the poor, who are always present, and to the bramin or priest they give the cow and calf, after which they go to several of the idols, where they offer money, lying down flat on the ground before the idol, and kissing the earth several times, after which they go away. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
Since pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the pillars of Islam, turning Mecca, and the black rock the muslims so idolatrously worship, into a nuclear wasteland will destroy their cult. Wise words from Hamas....
By dead works we are to understand idolatry, inordinate lusts of the flesh, covetness and ambition.
If I've ever heard of worshipping idols / repitition of crosby / textor spin, then you lot take the cake. Undefined
The idolater in me, the superstitious troglodyte, whispers: Pssst. Learning to Die in Miami
The wild popularity of teen idol-driven bubblegum will burst, giving way to a new wave of old-fashioned rock 'n' roll.
Iridology is a safe, noninvasive diagnostic tool that involves studying the iris, the coloured part of the eye. Times, Sunday Times
What was relevant, however, I think, is that if the leading and most influential Catholic weekly in Poland, which has close ties with the Church hierarchy and which has been shaping public opinion of the Catholic community since 1945, can be qualified as "idolatrously philo-Semitic," it gives — I presume — some kind of evidence that something did substantially change in Poland as far as the Catholic attitude toward the Jews is concerned. 'Shoah' and Poland
He has fallen down and worshipped that miserable 'Ich' of his, and made that, and not God's will, the centre and root of his philosophy, his poetry, and his self-idolizing æsthetics; and when it fails him, then for prussic acid, and nonentity. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
Eidolon was too small to help her and the Muse man was laughing too hard, so eventually she stepped on my foot with her big, clodhopper boots.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Eyes that don't want orthoptic sorcery idol, the conference is been fond of by the perfect creature but loses mental!
She fell upon her knees, her head upon her couch her hands clasped upon her head, overcome by anxiety and terror; and gipsy, idolatress, and pagan as she was, began with sobs and tremblings to ask mercy of the God of the Christians, and pray to Our Lady, her hostess. I. The Little Shoe. Book XI
In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
“American Idol” was an imperceptive peek into the world of show business. Episode Iii | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
The inherent dialectic of desire itself had in a way already shown me this; for all images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. Surprised by Joy
Would the iridology have helped? Times, Sunday Times
Although no spectacular or highly valuable minerals are present, the pegmatites contain minerals seldom found in Wyoming, such as petalite, beusite, lepidolite, and tantalite.
Most amphibole asbestos was mined as crocidolite and amosite from Precambrian banded ironstones in South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Western Australia.
Idols of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana are worshipped in the main sanctum, which remains still neat and simple and unencumbered by temple paraphernalia.
Nineteen years old, her head shaven, surrounded by placards branding her a witch, idolatress, and abjured heretic, she invoked the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and St Michael the Archangel. Jehanne la Pucelle
Worship in truth is the antidote to idolatry, while worship in spirit is the antidote to hypocrisy.
The Beatles were the pop idols of the 60's.
He goes to pagan shrines, worships disgusting idols, and lends money for profit.
So when the Siamese need rain, they set out their idols in the blazing sun; but if they want dry weather, they unroof the temples and let the rain pour down on the idols. Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain
It will be replaced by adventure movies starring Hollywood idols including Tom Cruise.
The trend observed of increasing tensile strength of amphiboles from tremolite, to amosite, to crocidolite is directly related to the iron content of these fibers. Geology of asbestos
If you cool cats like classic hotrod cars, bad boys from the other side of the tracks, sexy blondes in tight shirts, insipidly catchy songs, goofy teen idol good looks, and the world's biggest cell phone ... this one is for you! Boing Boing
So why was Paul not stoned as a blaspheming idolator for claiming that a crucified man was not 'merely' the Anointed One, but rather more than that? Review of Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel
Majestie in erth, making the Saitt of justice, quhilk aucht to be the sanctuary and refuge of all godlie and vertuouse personeis, injustlie afflictit, to be ane den and receaptakle to thevis, murtheraris, idolateris, huremongaris, adulteraris, and blasphemaris of God and all godlynes. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
In the first dawn of my manhood the old painters of Italy had taught me their dangerous worship of the beauty that is more than mortal, but those images all seemed shadowy now, and floated before me so dimly, the one overcasting the other, that they left me no one sweet idol on which I could look and look again and say, Eothen
P.S. As for other posts generating more hits, well, American Idol generates phone calls galore, while the McGlaughlin Group has a tiny audience. Trucked-Up Immigration Policy: Now We're Importing Air Pollution
I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
In Dreamsongs Volume I, Martin confesses that he would never be able to write as well as one of his childhood idols, J.R. R. Tolkien, and yet has now been labeled as the “American Tolkien” of our time. “Dreamsongs, Volume I” by George R. R. Martin (Bantam, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
A book of exemplary wisdom was, therefore, easily more divine than idols.
The royal equivalent of a Hollywood matinee idol, he was tall, suave, charming and debonair, with the unmistakeable look of his Hanoverian forebears.
In other words, I would say that idolatry not only dishonors God and demeans the idolater; it ultimately leads to the destruction of the hapless idol itself.
He did not mourn his personal sin, of course, but that of his fellow repatriates - who had been freed from captivity only to inter-marry with idolatrous Canaanites.
You might even end up being just like Compton - a tall well-built hero with matinee-idol looks and a wizard with the willow.
Omg.Omg. i was litterally first lyk da dude wid da shing black fringe is pretty cool but wid as u said twilight influence n he lykin da books n den bein called as EDWARD CULEEN.aaaaaaaaaaaaaa. iwas knocked off my heals n now am totally, in favour of adam, da idol edward cullen. Twilight Lexicon » Adam Lambert Talks Twilight Again
“As’af” and “Naylah,” two idols, some say a man and a woman metamorphosed for stupration in the Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
I've been immersed in Russian literature, music, film and even painting since my teens; and I admire the Russian theatre only this side of idolatry.
He claims that his only quarrel is with “the idolatry of woman,” but it is one thing to want to take la femme off her pedestal — assuming she was still on it in the 1930s — and another to assert that when lying on her back during sex she looks “ridiculous … froglike.” Monster of Marriage
They had one child, a girl whom they idolized.
But surely there's a difference between iconoclasm and the blind, flailing in the dark that might, just might, if she's lucky, cast an idol at Simpleton's feet.
Looking back, it's amazing that they were on key, never "pitchy" as they say on "American Idol. Binky Philips: Dad Takes Me To See The Beatles - August 29th, 1964
No, Oscar won't quit and go out of business and try out for American Idol but he may have to record another CD-aye caramba!
Until recently, sandblasting was the method used to clean various stone idols, images, and pillars.
After what feels like two dozen weeks of auditions, Randy, Steven and Weepy McLopez made their "final judgment" as Seacrest boomingly kept calling the ep, like God crossed with Guy Smiley and unleashed on the world American Idol Season 10's Top 24... Watercooler: American Idol's Top 24… Have At 'Em!
I wanted to prescribe 20 mg. of haloperidol daily as an anti-psychotic, but without a proper medical history I thought it unadvisable.
He that burns incense to God, and so puts contempt upon the incense of Christ's intercession, is as if he blessed an idol; it was as great an affront to God as if they had paid their devotions to a false god. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

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