Sentence examples for as a friar from inspiring English sources

He's running around town disguised as a friar, just to keep an eye on things.

Venus drops in on the Wartburg song contest, but is shooed off by a minstrel dressed as a friar.

Transferring power to Andrei Kuzichev's dry-as-paper bureaucrat, Angelo, he retreats into the shadows, disguised as a friar.

He's an odd self-defeating choice since the Duke soon returns undercover, disguised as a friar, to monitor the deputy's suspected covert sexual corruption.

As Duke Vincentio, Mr. Turk seems stiff at first, but disguised as a friar, and returning as the duke in the final scene, he is lovably comic.

Artaud played Marat in Abel Gance's film Napoléon (1927) and appeared as a friar in Carl Dreyer's classic film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928; The Passion of Joan of Arc).

That's a creditable rationale for the Duke's odd decision to leave his city in the care of Angelo while he prowls around its dark corners disguised as a visiting friar, observing how the severe enforcement of the laws affects his citizens.

Shortly thereafter, before 1255, all of Aristotle's philosophical treatises then known had become a required part of the Parisian Master of Arts curriculum, and, around the same time, Albertus Magnus committed though he was, as a Dominican friar, to safeguarding the purity of faith and dogma made Aristotle's works an indissoluble part of philosophical and scientific literature in the Latin world.

Years later, commenting on his reading of Scripture as a young friar, Luther spoke of his rage at the description of God's righteousness, and of his grief that, as he was certain, he would not be judged worthy: "I did not love, yes, I hated the righteous God who punishes sinners".

During his life as a Dominican friar, Eckhart is condemned and forgiven.

He was sipping a cappuccino in Tom's bar, where he used to eat his meals as an Augustinian friar.