Sentence examples for as stigmata from inspiring English sources

In Japan tattoos started as stigmata on the foreheads of criminals, who later camouflaged the tags with ornate designs.

The walls of the pharynx are perforated by several bands of slits, known as stigmata, through which water escapes into the surrounding water-filled cavity, the atrium.

The corresponding music video featured many Catholic symbols such as stigmata and cross burning, and a dream about making love to a saint, leading the Vatican to condemn the video.

This suggests that EgCrtB might be transported to stigmata as well as plastids and that EgCrtB might contain an as-yet unidentified signal sequence.

Many forms of oppression and enforced stigmata (as well as dominant group privileges), however, are not as apparent, especially to members of dominant groups.

Scholar Robert McQueen Grant explained the action as a stigmata, that marked Madonna as having an important role to play in the narrative.

In medicine, this is known as a stigmata, a physical mark of illness.

I couldn't relate to many of the late monk's troubles, such as the stigmata and the demands of healing the sick.

The wound refused to heal, and people soon came to talk of it as the stigmata, the mark of Christ's crucifixion.

Although he complains about a hearing loss, you want to tell him that hypochondria and neuroses as comic stigmata must agree with him because he looks great and you can't believe he is 64.

His tendency to explain miraculous acts by explaining them away, even miracles from the lives of the saints and the Bible, such as the stigmata of St. Francis and the speckling of Laban's sheep by Jacob's rod, is even more obvious in Book Three, on demonic or ceremonial magic.