Sentence examples for desecration to from inspiring English sources

His handiwork is so painterly that it can feel like desecration to dig a fork into it.

Over the past 14 years, she has seen more than enough archeological desecration to fuel her passion for such a depressing career.

During the court case in Paris, the Hopis said they regarded their public promotion and sale as "a desecration to our religion".

The tally of incidents, which range from serious assault to cemetery desecration to the display of posters in a Hertfordshire street of a hook-nosed "Jew", is likely to exceed 1,000 for the first time.

As he travels from the Bosporus to the notorious trance-dance beach at Goa, MacLean goes from areas of commercial desecration to brutal police states and ghastly combat zones.

Although it was searing to be torn away from her book, Ruby had never dreamed of carrying it off with her; it would have been a desecration to steal one volume from where it belonged among its fellows.

But their visit has caused an extraordinary row, with Filler accusing the project's architect, Patrice Calvel, of a cultural desecration akin to "adding arms to the Venus de Milo".

"The desecration was to my ears, not to the music," he said.

They have set me writing a book (in part) for children in collaboration with the artist Jackie Morris, earned me a Private Eye parody from Craig Brown that left me tearful with (mostly) laughter – and prompted me to begin a glossary for the Anthropocene: a dark-ecological "desecration phrasebook" to set alongside the optimistic word-lists of Landmarks.

A Flag Desecration Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been proposed repeatedly in Congress since 1989, and in 2006 failed to pass the Senate by a single vote.

And it may seem a desecration actually to inhabit such structures.