Sentence examples for forbidden text from inspiring English sources

Plenty of religions have some notion of the forbidden text (or the text to be treated really, really delicately).

Fans of mysteries set in Tudor times will be familiar with the device of the heretical, forbidden text.

I dialled an imprisoned political dissident in North Korea and said, "In your next forbidden text, why not say, 'We must end tyranny, and have you seen Gwyneth's butt?

"What I find so fantastic about this book is that it's profoundly religious," Ms. Amer says, explaining that it was written during a flourishing intellectual period in Islam but that it has long been a forbidden text.

Forbidden text messages may be delivered to cellphones as blank screens.

He then moved to the Tiflis Theological Seminary, where he secretly read Karl Marx, the chief theoretician of international Communism, and other forbidden texts, being expelled in 1899 for revolutionary activity, according to the "legend"—or leaving because of ill health, according to his doting mother.

And if you fall victim to the overconfident superhuman illusion of multitasking, you may find yourself, god forbid, texting and driving at the same time leading to unsafe consequences not only for you, but also the livelihood of those that cross your path.

"I am her son who is of Nature and have drunk deep of the forbidden mystical texts of Shakespeare and the Bible.

In any case, complex syntax and richness of language are forbidden to texts meant to be sung, for music engages too much of the hearer's attention for him to untangle an ambitious construction or relish an original image.

Two new novels for girls, "Epic Fail," by Claire LaZebnik (which is loosely but earnestly based on "Pride and Prejudice"), and "Falling for Hamlet," by Michelle Ray (in which the first-time novelist bashes away at the forbidding old text with impressive and appealing confidence), have at their centers heroines of the old-­fashioned type.

"We are on the horns of a dilemma where we're playing catch-up and the best choice is not necessarily the correct choice," he concedes after bustling into his office, where the first eyes he meets are those of Albert Einstein gazing down from a bookcase crammed with forbidding medical texts and, incongruously, a volume of Ogden Nash.