Sentence examples for a private act of from inspiring English sources

It has evolved, however, into a private act of confession through which every Christian's membership in the church is periodically renewed.

"The social environment that transformed a private act of sexual intimacy into a grotesque voyeuristic spectacle must be unequivocally condemned in the strongest possible way," the judges wrote.

A private act of mourning became a public consolation, and part of what it consoled the public for was its failure to care in time.

That is just what Sir John intended when he wangled a private act of parliament to set up the museum and stipulate that its contents should be left alone "as nearly as possible".

In keeping with the title of the collection one meaning of "devotion" is a private act of worship many poems here would not feel out of place in a religious service, albeit a rather unconventional one.

But most likely, the project, which took at least five years to finish, was self-assigned, a private act of devotional piety and perhaps of personal necessity, like Gerard Manley Hopkins's late sonnets.

The idea that breastfeeding is a private act is of very recent vintage.

Although this salvage operation begins as a very private act of redemption, there comes a point when Pavel becomes convinced that his own safety is less significant than the survival of Babel's gift to literature.

She is equally dextrous and authoritative in capturing the smallest moment of a character, alone in her own kitchen, engaged in a highly private act of self-laceration, and in sketching more inclusive scenes from war-torn Bosnia.

Other women would do the same, or even petition parliament to pass a private act ensuring the continuation of their birth names.

Decades on, a small private act of protest had ended quietly.