Sentence examples for forbidden of from inspiring English sources

Alcohol is forbidden, of course.

This mystical revival is attracting devoted followers in that most forbidden of realms: the marbled, atheistic halls of Chinese officialdom.

But the technique can hide aching vacuity: "The whole notion of the forbidden, of course, prescribes the individual's legitimate pleasures".

Their love is forbidden, of course, and Julia is ostracized by the members of her small black community and despised by Herman's formidable mother.

This is a nothing line, pointlessly repeated: "The whole idea of the forbidden, of course, gives us… a set of rules and prohibitions".

If Updike, Roth, Bellow, et al. have begun to peek into that most forbidden of chambers, the parental and even, God forbid, the grandparental bedroom, it's in part because we've given them license.

"It's the equivalent, God forbid, of double quotation marks".

In the past Saddam's forbidding of the Ashura pilgrimage only strengthened Iraqi Shia's traditional feelings of persecution.

This can be done by forced forbidding of certain cipher suites.

And perhaps some tweaking — heaven forbid — of the sacrosanct commercial property tax.

Discussion of these issues was forbidden for thousands of years.