Sentence examples for great sinners from inspiring English sources

"People who carry out attacks on Id al-Adha are great sinners," said a prominent mullah in Kabul, Anayatollah Baleegh.

I had several ideal distant models, such as Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," whose protagonist investigates the murder of his father only to discover that he himself is the murderer; "The Monkey's Paw," by W. W. Jacob, the perfect story in which everything that happens is accidental; Maupassant's "Boule de Suif"; and so many other great sinners, may God keep them in His holy kingdom.

We can even find such lessons in the works of great sinners.

Remember, many of the Saints originally started out as great sinners.

(The phrase may suggest Baudelaire or Rimbaud, but it is actually the French title of an overlooked 1949 Robert Siodmak film, "The Great Sinner").

When, near the end, Simic comes out and says, "I'm a great sinner," while we don't really take him literally, we know exactly what he means.

Apart from that, he was struggling to make sense out of movies like "The Woman in White" (from Wilkie Collins) and "The Great Sinner" (from Dostoyevsky).

The now-tremendous vine-encompassed hackberry starred with the ivy-flower, shades the tall tower; And a great sinner lyeth here under the sycamore.

"You must choose Doran's way and peace, or my way and war", Ellaria says menacingly in the preview clip, before Cersei reveals "a great sinner in our very midst".

Yidam describes his father as "a great sinner" who "loved to fight in the war" and who "killed many Chinese".

And the greatest sinners have stayed away.