Sentence examples for deity from from inspiring English sources

Armstrong, a former nun, wants to rescue the idea of the Deity from its cultured despisers and its more literal-minded adherents alike.

Captain America (Chris Evans) is teased for being an out-of-touch old-timer, Thor for being a longhaired deity from another planet.

The same is true of talismans, which offer the additional advantage of conferring supernatural power on other people, even on the deity, from a distance.

But pride of place at this booth goes to an 11th-century painted papier-mâché local deity from Northern Song China, in mint condition.

One of them, a marble guardian deity from the Tang period (618-907), realooksooks extraterrestrial, with his infantine face and larval body.

The treasures were probably offerings to the deity from the maharaja and his descendants, and there is much debate about what to do with this fortune and who can be trusted to do the counting.

Still less is it reminiscent of the sophisticated deities from Mount Olympus.

You'll find deities from African-rooted Candomblé depicted next to an image of the Virgin Mary.

The afternoon sale features two Tibetan tankas — silk-embroidered Buddhist paintings of deities — from an Italian collection.

Unlike the vast bulk of Latinos, Asian-Americans speak different languages and worship different deities from one another.

As a devotee of the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé, he crams his pieces with references to rituals and deities from Nigeria and Bahia, Brazil.