Sentence examples for crossing oneself from inspiring English sources
Other liturgical gestures found in many Christian churches are crossing oneself, genuflecting, beating oneself on the chest, and kneeling during prayer or when receiving the eucharistic elements.
His decree also required the adoption in Russia of Greek usages, Greek forms of clerical dress, and a change in the manner of crossing oneself: three fingers were to be used instead of two.
Assisted by Greek and Kievan monks and supported by the Greek hierarchy, he next carried out several reforms of his own: he altered the form of bowing in the church, replaced a two-fingered manner of crossing oneself with a three-fingered one, and ordered that three alleluias be sung where Moscow tradition called for two.
After he scores, he prostrates himself on the field, and, less noticeably, raises his index finger up in shahadah, a gesture a little like crossing oneself.
The power to compel another to change form, or to cross boundaries oneself at will, may be judged good or evil depending on the assessment of order in the worldview of the particular culture.
"Escape," he wrote, "is the need to get out of oneself, that is, to break that most radical and unalterably binding of chains, the fact that the I [moi] is oneself [soi-même]."[11] In the two, crossing dimensions of human life, sentient-affective and intentional, our experience of Being comes to pass.
They discovered that four specific gestures predicted when a person was less trustworthy: leaning away from someone; crossing arms in a blocking fashion; touching, rubbing or grasping hands together; and touching oneself on the face, abdomen or elsewhere.
But crime done on behalf of oneself, pure greed, that crosses the line.
He has publicly borne the cross of soiling oneself so that we, the people, may always be able to deflect away from our own loose sphincters.
Of course, when presenting more than one version of oneself, one always runs the risk that wires will get crossed and hypocrisies will be exposed, resulting in hurt feelings.
Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect.
