Sentence examples for desecration that from inspiring English sources

"I'm not aware of any desecration that occurred".

The exhibition presents itself as a departure from a disquieting curatorial past, when mummies would be unwrapped before titillated spectators a desecration that would have horrified their makers.

The sou'wester-clad shop-dummies stuck on the front lawn to identify participating households escape the puerile desecration that would be their inevitable fate in any other country.

He will sometimes eulogise the Los Angeles of his youth - "I could ride my bike all over" - and lament the desecration that began in the 1950s.

The future of film, he anticipated, correctly in terms of the 1980s, would mirror the desecration that had befallen the west - a plundering by greedy prospectors, a homogenisation of the medium, "an endless stream of sequels and look-alikes".

WASHINGTON, June 27 — Perhaps even more than her stance on the war in Iraq, it is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's position on flag desecration that has drawn the scorn of the liberal Democratic base.

If there is a proper investigation into the desecrations that took place, my hope is that we can find out who was responsible.

They were protesting a series of politically motivated desecrations that had taken place across the region, in which Sikhism's most sacred scriptures, called Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, had been torn up and discovered by locals.

I say further desecration because that unique interior space, previously awarded landmark status, has already been cavalierly and disastrously compromised by the removal of two of its key elements: Harry Bertoia's great sculptural dividing wall on the mezzanine level and the construction he created to be hung strategically at the top of the escalator.

Clubs have a long tradition as queer community spaces, and in the wake of Pulse, queer people had to reckon with the desecration of that sanctuary.

I think we have heard enough about the sanctity of a Notre Dame degree, and the inappropriateness of awarding such a degree to President Obama, because of his stance on abortion, without considering the potential desecration of that degree by others who receive it.