How To Use Profane In A Sentence

When it comes to rock music, the line is thin dividing the sacred and the profane. Christianity Today
He was easily the smartest, funniest, most annoying and most profane man I've been around.
That the nunnery was a sacred place, and ought not to be profaned by the admission of enemies of the church. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action. Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011)

Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in their "etymological" sense, and consulting profane writers, Homer, Early Theories of Translation
The characters are crude, profane gangsters who acknowledge only the class distinction of power.
That young hair brained fellow has sent us a brace of petticoats aboard; and these the profane reprobate calls his divinities! The Red Rover
Nothing was divine any more; everything was profane.
Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
While others were scoffing at the notion of ebonics, I was lapping up inner city slang: that beautiful, musical, profane prose. Slashdot: Book Reviews
All the energies of life flow through those who are open to its many forms—undercurrents of earth and overcurrents of sky, bioelectric fields of plants and animals, magnetically charged attractions of intimacy and relationship, and even the danced opposites of the sacred and profane. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances.
profane the name of God
The ancient line between sacred and profane is hard for us to grasp now. The Times Literary Supplement
But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
The reason why by polygamical marriages among Christians the marriage of the Lord and the church is profaned, is, because there is a correspondence between that divine marriage and the marriages of Christians; concerning which, see above, n. 83-102; which correspondence entirely perishes, if one wife is joined to another; and when it perishes, the married man is no longer a The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
Oliver, from street urchin to crustation, maybe it's time to move back in with [profane] in. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
[profane] lebron in a dunk contest with kryptonate and superman, and tha king is here to show who ye rule this land. but nooooooooooooooooooooo, he dropps out lame, all those damn fans are dissapointed. hey lamebron do it for the fans come out as silver surfer, spiderman, jay-z i dont care just do it! Yahoo! Sports - Top News
She was some kind of a morbid Catholic, because that word succubus was unknown to the profane. Là-bas
As W.J.T. Mitchell once aphoristically put it, ‘When the tigers break into the temple and profane the altar too regularly, their appearance rapidly becomes part of the sacred ritual.’
The culture is not wholly profane, but it has gifts to offer and wounds to heal.
It is a temple in which the faithful may worship - but also one that begs the gora Jeustani for respect, and towards that end contains helpful guides to what is sacred and profane.
When it comes to rock music, the line is thin dividing the sacred and the profane. Christianity Today
Everything I do seems meaningless, sacrilegious, profane.
The installation is, above all, a mass-cultural version of individual flanerie, as described by Benjamin, and therefore a place for the emergence of the aura, for 'profane illumination'. Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest
The mere presence of the US profanes those holy shrines.
Nothing strikes one as more painful and odious in the ways of that Court and that Parliament than the language of sickening sycophancy which is used by all statesmen alike in public {86} with regard to kings and princes, for whom in private they could find no words of abuse too strong and coarse, no curse too profane. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
He was about to defend the holy of holies from the touch of the profane; to guard the citadel of his Church from the most rampant of its enemies; to put on his good armour in the best of fights; and secure, if possible, the comforts of his creed for coming generations of ecclesiastical dignitaries. 01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.
Jesus retorted that the priests had already profaned the holy day.
Or an ungodly witness is one that profanely and atheistically witnesses against religion and godliness, whose instructions seduce from the words of knowledge (v. 27); such a one scorns judgment, laughs at the terrors of the Lord, mocks at that fear, Job xv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
I think what happens is we have these two tendencies, divine and diabolical, the sinner and the saint, the sacred and profane.
So which did you prefer, the sacred or the profane? Times, Sunday Times
Part of this culture was a certain distinction between what made up the sacred and what made up the profane spheres.
Our attention is then drawn to the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the question of whether profane work is a stumbling block to spiritual depth.
He was hostile, aggressive, profane, rude, demeaning and intimidating.
So which did you prefer, the sacred or the profane? Times, Sunday Times
Several suggestions were made as to the best way by which Her Majesty could be placed in the carriage unprofaned by a single male eye.
a profane and drunken minstrel, called Allan-a-Dale Ivanhoe
Whosoever shall willfully blaspheme the holy name of God, by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, and whosoever shall profanely curse or damn or swear by the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Combined with a cast featuring a who's-who of Hollywood at the time, the film ends up being an indelicate mixture of the sacred and the profane.
Within a mile, the open country might be reached, and the senses refreshed and re-invigorated among streams still unpolluted, and woods and meadows as yet unprofaned by buildings.
sacred and profane music
Three spring months, at Florence, had been spent in making a scientific collection of local imprecations -- abusive, vituperative or profane expletives; swear-words, in short -- enriched with elaborate commentary. Alone
Funny, profane and fearless, she has become one of America's biggest television celebrities.
Fears that Crystal Bridges would sugar-coat American art may be true in the sense that it lacks the latest from profane or transgressive artists like Paul McCarthy, say, or Richard Prince. An Uneven Span Across Time
Before I elaborate on his numerous and profane blasphemies, perhaps an introduction to the professor would be helpful.
Alas: these archetypes we revere wouldn't last a day in a modern newspaper - they were profane, drunken, nihilistic fabulists more concerned with the cards in their hands than the truth on the page.
The wagoner was a rough, profane, burly man, of generous feelings. David Crockett
Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one.
Augustine was a renegade against his mother's religion; took profane mistresses and lapsed into Manichaeism, a religion whose dualism always had a strong appeal for him.
The Church, however, has been unable to eradicate the blend of sacred and profane, spiritual and sensuous, life within death, which the East Slavs had inherited from their pagan ancestors.
Their behaviours profaned the holy place.
Throughout his career, the profane would compete with the sacred when Alvin contemplated themes for ballets.
Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public.
Maximus Taurinus says: "The tessera is a symbol and sign by which to distinguish between the Faithful and the Profane. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Snooki's extramural activities have included participation in a tag-team bout on Wrestlemania (her team won) and a minor conviction (fine, community service) for being, in the words of the judge, "rude, profane, obnoxious, and self-indulgent" on a public beach when drunk. Other Comments
This disrespectful allusion to his calling ruffled the temper of the hospital attendant, and, growing profane, he insisted that he was as good as _Smith_, and better, and at once challenged "the bloviating mule scrubber to get down off his perch and stand up before him like a man. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
Created after oriental models, aquamaniles were frequently of a profane character.
So which did you prefer, the sacred or the profane? Times, Sunday Times
His action profaned the honour of his country.
And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading.
I've received quite a few emails about the Darwin Fish, mostly to the effect that it takes a sacred Christian symbol and profanes it.
And the word profane is usually taken in the Scripture for the same with common; and consequently their contraries, holy and proper, in the kingdom of God must be the same also. Leviathan
The Cupid, irretrievably damaged, has been altogether removed, but the landscape remains, and it certainly shows a strong family resemblance to those which enframe the figures in the Three Ages, Sacred and Profane Love, and the “Noli me tangere” of the National Gallery. The Earlier Work of Titian
However, in court, Erin's surly manner and profane vocabulary do not endear her to the jury, which finds in the defendant's favor.
muttering profanely
They demonstrate that ConFest is differentially sacralised - that which is authentic or sacred to one group or individual may be profane or inauthentic to another.
He was also noted for his dislike of profane or blasphemous language. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
I think Ace (yes, crude, profane Ace!) just may have done a better job of presenting Jesus 'mission with that "absolving" sentence than Pursuing Holiness
Again, the composer suggests the reconciliation of sacred and profane, the religious and the sensual.
The film was a stylised, violent and profane heist movie in which the heist itself was never shown. Sally Menke obituary
People of this stamp certainly look better outwardly than the immoral and profane, and yet, perhaps, are more thoroughly deceived by the great adversary of souls.
The senses of children are unprofaned.
Read Tricia Sullivan's fantastic, profane and mind-bending Maul mainly because it's very important to start loving brilliant genre fiction before older readers can tell you to be a snob about it.
There are many profane sciences which borrow unproved from a superior science their highest principles; these are the so-called lemmata, subsidiary propositions, which serve as premises for further conclusions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
The plunger is saved for the member of the crew who had the lousiest — Hochuli uses a profane term — call of the game. For NFL officials, scrutiny begins long before kickoff
When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult, but threatens the fabric of international society.
None could pierce the future; perhaps none dared to contemplate it: the wild rage of fanaticism and hate, friend grappling with friend, brother with brother, father with son; altars profaned, hearthstones made desolate; the robes of Justice herself bedrenched with murder. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
Peet was bank-president impeccable in his demeanor; Snyder was more informal — even sailorly profane from time to time. Rogue Warrior
My friend, Mr. Webster puts it this way: Profane1: Not being concerned with religion or religious purposes, secular 2: Not Holy because unconsecrated, impure, or unsanctified 3: Serving to defile what is Holy.
He could picture but one way of destroying this terrible loneliness, the attainment of a spiritual -- a divine -- state of love, a condition to which he would give no name utterable by human lips, lest it be profaned, but for which his whole being yearned. Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life
August at the convention of treason he took the material where and as he found we see him trying hard to bring the money power of the union into his service, we find him extorting large sums for his political campaigns from the so-called despisable trusts, since then we became accustomed to look upon every man of wealth and the great industrials corporations who have been and are today of incalculable value and benefit to our national welfare, as nothing more or less than contemptible criminals, whom he offended in the most profane language during his crusade against them, if they refused to become a part of his machine. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
He is sponsoring a bill that would require the FCC to define any use of eight dirty words as profane.
To smoke in a church or mosque would be a profane act.
The inversion of sacred to profane suggests a downward transformation from the spiritual to the material plane, a profane commingling of the human and divine, the flesh and the spirit.
Esau's foolish marriage -- foolish, some think, in marrying two wives together, for which perhaps he is called a fornicator (Heb.xii. 16), or rather in marrying Canaanites, who were strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah, for which he is called profane; for hereby he intimated that he neither desired the blessing nor dreaded the curse of God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
The idea that mankind is too profane to interfere in natural processes has already gained enough acceptance to affect global policy making.
There is no separation between the sacred and the profane, because there are no profane objects in this Universe.
Which dance was sacred and which profane? Times, Sunday Times
Oh blest deliverance — what a profane wretch is here, and what a lewd world we live in — oh London, London, how thou aboundest in Iniquity, thy Young men are debaucht, thy Virgins defloured, and thy Matrons all turn'd Bawds! my Lady Fancy, this is not company for you I take it, let us fly from this vexation of spirit on the never-failing wings of discretion. — Sir Patient Fancy
Which dance was sacred and which profane? Times, Sunday Times
He declared that a theophany or revelation transformed a profane space into a sacred one, and thus it became locally fixed.
In hierophany, the sacred and the profane represent absolute heterogeneity.
The profane person simply hasn't worked up a sweat trying to figure it out for himself.
With the reference to raptures, Herrick returns to the amatory imagery that links profane, sacred, and poetic themes.
The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture.
Now after the accident, when it became apparent that he had changed, he's described as having become profane, irreverent, not showing much deference for his fellows.
Their behaviour profaned the holy place.
The spiritual (sense) contained therein is this, that by polygamical marriage in the Christian world, the marriage of the Lord and the Church is profaned; in like manner the marriage of good and truth; and still more the Word, and with the Word the church; and the profanation of those things is spiritual adultery. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
Is Babel wholly profane and the Bible wholly holy?
We are by nature incurably drawn to ritual in the realms of both the sacred and the profane.
In Bobby Collins you had a pocket battleship of an inside-forward who could mix the sacred with the profane.
He says that we largely live in profane space now, and the best we can do is create ‘ceremonies’ that give the appearance of sacred space but not the reality.
Judah has dealt treacherously, and broken covenant with God, the covenant made in Ezra's time with reference to this very thing; he has profaned the holiness of the Lord by marrying the daughter (that is, the worshipper) of a strange god. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
Acidly funny, imaginatively profane and, above all, a sharp reflection of the what-do-I-do-now, postcollege dilemma. Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty: Book summary
He asserts that a division between the sacred and the profane are essential to the religious worldview.
Which words are exactly considered profane is still unclear, but the bill does have a list of qualifications for profanity including words or actions that are lewd, vulgar or indecent in nature. Boing Boing
Trina, a smart, beautiful and sweet teenage daughter becomes abusively profane and violent; she is both tortured and the torturer.
The site owner has decided the guy ‘hasn't gone that far yet’ so I am now left in confusion wondering what ‘profane’ means to some people.
They have profaned the long upheld traditions of the Church.
Such essentialism turns profane spaces into sites that are released from any constraint as to their exchangeability and exploitation.
And you shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord Leviticus 19:11–12. The Ten Commandments
Seven players were suspended, each organization was fined $500,000, and the already cold relationship between Thomas and Karl grew even frostier after Thomas accused Karl of creating a dangerous situation by leaving his starters on the floor, and Karl fired back with a profane tirade. USATODAY.com
For two hours he spoke below the brazen sky — the sky which, he cried, is daily profaned and violated by the Yanqui spy planes, “to destroy which,” he demanded, “who of us is not ready to die?” Fidel Castro
We strongly encourage that you refrain from any profane or indecent language.
The questions can be completely anonymous and we encourage you to challenge the boundaries of the profane, the indecent and the naughty.
It is convenient to reserve significant parts of the world as profane, and even ‘dirty,’ in order to preserve our ability to act in them without scruple.
Suppose this point then settled, for anything would be remarkable and highly rememberable which comes near to a common familiar fraction of so vast a period in human affairs as a millennium [a term consecrated to our Christian ears, (1) by its use in the Apocalypse; (2) by its symbolic use in representing the long Sabbath of rest from sin and misery, and finally (3) even to the profane ear by the fact of its being the largest period which we employ in our historical estimates]. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
However some may call it a fashionable accomplishment and entertainment, it is not for kings, O Lemuel! it is not for kings, to allow themselves that liberty; it is a disparagement to their dignity, and profanes their crown, by confusing the head that wears it; that which for the time unmans them does for the time unking them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The Jews Jesus was speaking to would have viewed leavened bread as profane; it was unleavened bread that was sacred.
Formerly, even the most profane men intermitted their profanity in the presence of women, but they A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
An 'hyeh's another who meddles with thy servant and profanes thy day. In Happy Valley
Many were put to profane use as prisons, garages or warehouses. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
His burning impulse is to exit in sound and fury, screaming outright the profane secrets he merely hinted at in his earlier comments.
The profane usage of the term began in the 14th century and "suggested high sexual desire in a woman, comparable to a dog in heat. Hayley Rose Horzepa: The N-Word, The B-Word, and Rihanna
Go in, my brave Profane, to my lords; they will give thee for thy welcome as good a coranto€* as the whole of this kingdom will afford. The Holy War
He was also noted for his dislike of profane or blasphemous language. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
Mix the sacred and profane to reflect our true holiday experience. Times, Sunday Times
I don't think I've gotten any more profane and offensive, lately, that I can see, and I tend to talk in much the same way as I always have, about much the same sort of things.
One of Christianity's holiest shrines was profaned by armed terrorists.
But the voice that emerges is unmistakably the dark lord's: growly and profane and black with comedy. Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone
He can have my best cigar in the house if my name accidently fell out of his mouth on a Freudian slip of the tongue with a few profane expletives to liven it up! Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Which dance was sacred and which profane? Times, Sunday Times
In 15th-century collections, mostly on paper in portfolios, religious and profane elements intermingle.
To have your religion distorted and ridiculed and then to have one of your culture's most deeply treasured expressions purposely profaned - well, it's not very pleasant.
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I think I actually came up with a fresh curse, right then and there, unuttered by anyone before, a unique combination of the sacred and profane.
He was as interested in the sacred as in the profane, in devotion and deviation alike.
I write sentences with out a fuck'in profane word in it all the time. Some things that creep me the fuck out
A doctrine this whereby it is possible for me certainly to know, that how loosely, how profanely, how debauchedly soever, I should behave myself, yet God will love me, as he doth the holiest and most righteous man under heaven.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor.
But he slowly recovered himself after some profane mutterings, reeled up the next flight of stairs, and finally deposited his well-soaked clay on the bed in his own room immediately over mine.
My seats were in the right field bleachers, notoriously the most profane, obnoxious and uproarious section in Yankee Stadium, if not in all of baseball.
All that was sacred has been profaned, as Marx put it, and it is not clear what, if anything, is sacred anymore.
If you've seen Mr. Guirgis's funny, poetically profane, Tony-nominated play, "The Motherf**ker With the Hat," his modest, soft-spoken demeanor might come as a surprise. Growing Up With the Hat
profane utterances against the Church
He was also noted for his dislike of profane or blasphemous language. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
Discontented as he was, the expression hereinbefore written would have seemed profane to young Fielding, for a farmer's farm and a sailor's ship have always something sacred in the sufferer's eyes, though one sends one to jail, and the other the other to Jones. It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Today we received a shipment of a new item with a name profane enough that I can't use it here on Epinions. Epinions Recent Content for Home
And he had the habit of often making obscene, vulgar, or profane comments to other people he associated with, whether he knew them or not.
And behold what I would have applied to the tongue of the evil-speaker, had I undertaken to give you a just and natural idea of all the enormity of this vice: I would have said that the tongue of the slanderer is a devouring fire which tarnishes whatever it touches; which exercises its fury on the good grain, equally as on the chaff; on the profane, as on the sacred; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin; digs even into the bowels of the earth, and fixes itself on things the most hidden; turns into vile ashes what only a moment before had appeared to us so precious and brilliant; acts with more violence and danger than ever in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct; which blackens what it can not consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it destroys. Of a Malignant Tongue
A crude, profane, hard-drinking and oversexed football player from Paris, Kansas, Gantry latched onto the ministry because of the power it gave him over others, through the exercise of his histrionic gifts and his "arousing barytone. Lewis's Profane Preacher
The profane love of woman presented itself to my fancy, clothed, not only with all its own charms, but with the sovereign and almost irresistible charms of the most dangerous of all temptationof that which the moralists call virginal temptationwhen the mind, not yet undeceived by experience and by sin, pictures to itself in the transports of love a supreme and ineffable delight immeasurable superior to all reality. IX. Part II.—Paralipomena
From thence at least did these profane eyes look down and see all the mumblement and jumblement, which after all was little enough; but saw especially the idle clerical apprentice who, had that screen been down, and had he been called on to do his altar work before the public eye, would not have been so nearly asleep, as may perhaps be said of other clerical performers nearer home. The Bertrams
The profane clown plays verbal patty-cake with the racist latina nominee. Sotomayor stumped
He joined me from the cabin, offering a beer and various kinds of counsel, profane wisdom of the world.
Rizzo's language, which was hilariously profane, got cleaned up in print.
Sin and damnation are downplayed, and the distinctions between heaven and earth, the profane and the sacred, tend to be fudged.
I think what happens is we have these two tendencies, divine and diabolical, the sinner and the saint, the sacred and profane.
� Emanuel is brash, profane, and larger than life. Obama Taps Longtime Aide Rouse To Replace Rahm
Adrian and I, leaving Clara and Evelyn wrapt in peaceful unobserving slumber, carried the body to this desolate spot, and placed it in those caves of ice beneath the glacier, which rive and split with the slightest sound, and bring destruction on those within the clefts — no bird or beast of prey could here profane the frozen form. The Last Man
This is a very profane interpretation and shows a huge misunderstanding of the canon.
he kept wondering profanely why everything bad happened to him
The coffee itself is better than some, not as good as others, but profanely overpriced.
My favorite curse word, unlike the favorite curse word of most of my guests, is not obscene, it's not scatological, it's profane.
Name 10 Body Parts - of with 3 letters each (no profane words please)? zxcvbnm is the most searched meaning less word in net then what means "asdfghjkl"? en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Maybe we ought to have flashmobs where people gather to recite profane poetry…
They saw a sometimes remorseful, if inarticulate and profane, Davis recount his now-familiar tale of killing 12-year-old Polly.
Pollution traditionally involved an act of defilement and desecration; in previous times, to pollute was to profane, to stain, to sully, to corrupt.
Then, he commenced to begin propositioning a whore in a profane courtship that last an hour or so until Rupert dragged him out.
Although, I think a major part of it were the people, those who were pretending to be enjoying this violent scene, along with dancing and grooving to music with profane lyrics - violent in content towards women and others.
A profane act demeans both the perpetrator and the one who is acted upon by disrespecting the Divine Force residing in each.
The word profane comes from the Latin profanus which literally means from the temple. The Profanity of the "Religious Wrong"
Christ is there, who, as he shows himself jealous for the honour of his temple, in expelling those who profane it, so he shows himself gracious to those who humbly seek him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
In most writings and interviews, the profane world is interpreted as a place of probation and is explained as an illusion or a bridge to other worlds.
It's littered with anachronism and it borders on profane ideas riddled as they are with holes.
In the meantime, audacious scribblers arise, as from our own bosom, who not only obscure the light of sound doctrine with clouds of error, or infatuate the simple and the less experienced with their wicked ravings, but by a profane license of skepticism, allow themselves to uproot the whole of Religion. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
What if Johnny paints profane imperative sentences on the barn door?
Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street. Tom Brown at Oxford
When two foremen told him to ‘control himself,’ he quickly ‘became abusive and used obscene and profane language to both of them.’
That means demanding that they answer for their lies, hypocrisy and profane behavior, just as much as we must answer for ours.
When Elijah complained, ‘they have slain your prophets, they have profaned your altars and only I am left’, the Lord replied, ‘What are you doing here?
That 's what I call a profane remark, Ellery Davenport," she said. Oldtown Folks
Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God.
She has the ability to scratch and burrow under the surface of human experience and lay bare both the sacred and profane.
Thomas, they railed, had profaned a sacred text.
Confronted with divine works, the characters in Terrence McNally's two playlets react with decidedly profane thoughts.
And if you continue to use profane language, which your chat buddy Sharon Cox abhores when it suits her e.g. 286 vs 295 , I will report you to the moderators. Think Progress » Rice Was Against Iraq Group Before She Was For It
The supernaturalism of these railways can also shift from the religiose to the profane – witness the alarming Paul Delvaux mural of a girl in a white dress among rearing black engines in the station brasserie at Bruges. Jilted City by Patrick McGuinness
On the books of profane music which entered the convent, amour (love) was replaced by tambour (drum) or pandour. Les Miserables
The spring season in New York is, happily and atypically, plump with demonstrations of such genre bending, with entrancingly wicked shows that extract the profane from the sacred and the rot from the pillars of society. February 2006
Mix the sacred and profane to reflect our true holiday experience. Times, Sunday Times
Just beyond the good "sister" stood a young man, poring over a piece of paper, which had the appearance of a medical prescription: a spirited-looking youth, whose harmonious and intellectual cast of features was heightened to rare beauty by richly mellow coloring, and the silken curves of a beard and moustache unprofaned by a razor, -- curves softly traced above the fresh, rubious lips, and gracefully deepening about the cheeks and chin, -- curves that disappear forever when the civilized barbarism of shaving has been accepted. Fairy Fingers A Novel
The history and geography of the world were familiar to his memory: the lives of the heroes of the East, perhaps of the West, 6 excited his emulation: his skill in astrology is excused by the folly of the times, and supposes some rudiments of mathematical science; and a profane taste for the arts is betrayed in his liberal invitation and reward of the painters of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He had now no scruple about giving her time to arrive, but she didn't arrive, and when he went away still missing her he was quite profanely and consentingly sorry. The Altar of the Dead
It need scarcely be added that the young men were overjoyed on receiving this almost unhoped-for intelligence, and that Harry expressed his satisfaction in his usual hilarious manner, asserting, somewhat profanely, in the excess of his glee, that the governor-in - chief of Rupert's Land was a "regular brick. The Young Fur Traders
I love these guys - they make me look like I'm clever, when really I'm just voluble and profane and tediously honest.
The ancient line between sacred and profane is hard for us to grasp now. The Times Literary Supplement

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