How To Use Sacrilegious In A Sentence
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It shouldn't take such an enormous grassroots effort to prevent sacrilegious exploitation of holy places.
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It was difficult for a man considering all kinds of violence sinful to conceive that there did exist some use for it in the universe which was not unholy and sacrilegious.
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Now, I don't want to sound sacrilegious here, but we considered you the ‘high priests’ of our programs.
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Gallery protests Smithsonian's removal of video some call sacrilegious, anti-Christian
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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For this kind of simony places on a par things supernatural and things natural, things eternal and things temporal, and constitutes a sacrilegious depreciation of Divine treasures.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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It must be considered sacrilegious for a Raider fan not to wear a black shirt.
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But hereby we apprehend that these were not the bones of persons planet-struck or burnt with fire from heaven; no relicks of traitors to their country, self-killers, or sacrilegious malefactors; persons in old apprehension unworthy of the earth; condemned unto the Tartarus of hell, and bottomless pit of Pluto, from whence there was no redemption.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
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If they do not remonstrate with the young couple for their sacrilegious behaviour, it may be because that they know that the church over which they have stewardship is an unconsecrated one.
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Let our simoniacal church-chopping patrons, and sacrilegious harpies, look for no better success.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He meant, I imagined, that they were sacrilegious infidels.
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This seems to me a mistake, as Balthus shared nothing of the Surrealists' irreverent, even sacrilegious tendencies.
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I don't mean to be sacrilegious here, but in a small, minuscule way trying to keep your own personal opinions out of your reporting is the goal, and it's a goal that one has to continue to be trying to achieve.
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I think it would be regarded as sacrilegious to bomb the World Heritage sites of Egypt, but I am not sure we have the same scruples about Iraq.
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As a gift of divine origin, there was nothing sacrilegious in their use.
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Undoubtedly some people will find my venture sacrilegious.
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It is unlawful to prohibit immoral or sacrilegious films in a public school.
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CNS contacted incoming House GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor for their thoughts on the exhibit -- smelling culture war blood, Boehner and Cantor embraced the crusade against "sacrilegious" art in the Smithsonian.
Michael B. Keegan: Smithsonian: Just Put the Art Back
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Is spreading the Dhamma electronically sacrilegious?
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This daring and sacrilegious act led Frederick -- the hereditary avoyer of the abbey -- to place the Waldstaette under the further punishment of the "ban of the empire.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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I suspect that it is probably sacrilegious or even blasphemous to suggest such a thing.
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The pomp of processions, the sound of bells or of psalmody, is interdicted in their worship; a decent reverence for the national faith is imposed on their sermons and conversations; and the sacrilegious attempt to enter a mosch, or to seduce a Mussulman, will not be suffered to escape with impunity.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Cesarotti was called corrupter, sacrilegious, profane, and assailed with titles of obscene contumely; but the poems of Ossian were read by all, and the name of the translator, till then little known, became famous in and out of Italy.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions
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Jasper whispered his aunt, that nuncks was a vile bore; and the sacrilegious declaration gave great offence to the diminutive gentleman aforesaid, who hesitated not in pronouncing Timothy Surety destitute of taste and vertu; to which accusation Timothy, rearing his squat form to its utmost altitude, indignantly replied, "that there was not an alderman in the City of London of better taste than himself in the qualities of callipash and callipee, and that if the little gemmen presumed again to asperse his vartue, he would bring an action against him tor slander and defamation of character.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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'By this Art, which whoso will may sacrilegiously degrade into a handicraft,' adds Teufelsdröckh, 'have I thenceforth abidden.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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More Jews have hit out at the controversial scheme, branding it sacrilegious and profane.
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It's sort of sacrilegious to break up this peacefulness with gunfire.
THE SHADOWS OF POWER
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The Pennys skipped the spellers' annual picnic Memorial Day to go into the capital, where Veronica met "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak and stumped him with the spelling of the word "sacrilegious.
The Seattle Times
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British composer Colin Matthews is orchestrating all 24 of Debussy's piano preludes, a project which many will find either foolhardy or sacrilegious.
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But it also means Democrats aren't being any more "sacrilegious" than Republicans are.
The Senate GOP's bore on Christmas
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it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on
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This supposedly sacrilegious remake sticks closely to Peckinpah's "nerd gets in touch with his brutal side" original plotwise, but sands down its spikier aspects.
This week's new films
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It was at once the most sacrilegious and yet mystic moment many of them had ever experienced.
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It's kind of sacrilegious, a contradiction of a contract with your audience.
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In any World Cup, any stadium that is anything less than full to the brim is a bit sacrilegious to viewers like me who would give a pinkie to be there.
Ahmed Rehab: What the Vuvuzela Is Up With the Jabulani? Why World Cup 2010 Sucks So Far
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What about politicians who make sacrilegious communions?
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This may sound sacrilegious , but he is still very good on the wing, and if his choice was not playing, or playing wide, he would play there happily.
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It felt sacrilegious, but as with all sacrilegious acts, you adapt.
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The priestesses and priests turning towards the setting sun, the dwelling of the infernal gods, devoted with curses the sacrilegious wretch.
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As a gift of divine origin, there was nothing sacrilegious in their use.
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The steak sanga came laced with barbecue sauce and the chicken parma sacrilegiously crowned with a pineapple ring.
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If I felt like jumping on the bandwagon, I could discuss how both of these films are abominations to the Christmas holiday and just plain sacrilegious.
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He was ultimately caught and properly reprimanded when a copious flow of blood signaled the sacrilegious act.
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I shall unswathe it entirely, "and Braddock was about to lay sacrilegious hands on the dead, when Cockatoo entered breathlessly.
The Green Mummy
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Making fun of such sacrilegious music would have been deemed a profanity, but then Spinal Tap changed all that - thank God.
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Everything I do seems meaningless, sacrilegious, profane.
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Ragnar Redbeard, on the other hand, is another kind of egoist entirely, a Fascist, misogynistic, and sacrilegious bore who desires to impress that he Knows All, and anyone daring to disagree with his interpretation of Man is but mere dirt beneath his steel-toed boots.
Essays
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Leading clerics condemned the book as a sacrilegious attack on their faith.
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He meant, I imagined, that they were sacrilegious infidels.
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It was at once the most sacrilegious and yet mystic moment many of them had ever experienced.
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Catholic Church over which Cæcilianus presides, who give their services to this holy religion, and who are commonly called clergymen, be entirely exempted from all public duties, that by any error or sacrilegious negligence they may not be drawn away from the service due to the Deity, but may devote themselves without any hindrance to their own law.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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'Friend,' whispered he, 'for charity conduct us to some safe place where we may withdraw this bier from the sacrilegious eye of curiosity.'
The Scottish Chiefs
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They likewise sent forth secret agents to alarm the people by threats of the divine vengeance if they did not insist on the execution of Jesus, whom they termed a sacrilegious blasphemer.
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil.
Coningsby
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Leading clerics condemned the book as a sacrilegious attack on their faith.
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Questioning doctrine and the trappings of religion doesn't mean that Jones' work should be read as sacrilegious or spiritually ungrounded.
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On one kiosk in the physical show a brief view of a crucifix covered with ants by Wojnarowicz was called sacrilegious by Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, and others, and the Portrait Gallery decided it was too much of a distraction to the overall themes of the show.
Portrait Gallery gets huge online bump
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Postmodern reinvention, including Rambo as Egypt's Pharaoh, could be seen as irreverent, even sacrilegious.
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No, it's not being sacrilegious in the slightest... Listen to me Lou, it's what he would have wanted).
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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In the U.S., the frequency with which religious groups have waged campaigns over supposedly sacrilegious paintings is starting to get tiring.
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I was shocked that you would reproduce this painting since, for Muslims, it is sacrilegious to paint or depict any holy person(Mohammed Busheri.
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When the wife lifts high the blushless front and brazens out her guilt; when the child, with loud voice, throws off all control and makes boast of disobedience, -- man revolts at the audacity; his spirit arms against his wrong: its face, at least, is bare; the blow, if sacrilegious, is direct.
Lucretia — Volume 02
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I suspect that it is probably sacrilegious or even blasphemous to suggest such a thing.
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Sen. Jim DeMint R-S.C. called Democrats' push to force through an arms control treaty and an omnibus spending bill right before Christmas "sacrilegious," and warned he'd draw the process out to wage his objections.
GOP Senators Invoke Christmas In Order To Pointlessly Obstruct The START Treaty
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The sacrilegious man is he who perjures himself on the gospel, who extends his rapacity to sacred things, who imbrues his hands in the blood of priests.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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This would be seen as highly sacrilegious by many Muslims.
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However, the sacrilegious acts received little coverage in the West, particularly in the United States.
