Sentence examples for holy man's from inspiring English sources

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"I found myself in a holy man's cave and I didn't look back," he says.

He described his vision to John G. Neihardt, a Nebraska poet, in 1930, and Neihardt put it in his book of the holy man's recollections, "Black Elk Speaks".

Patanjali's products are cheap, Ramdev says, because the company sources its materials locally, and because the holy man's legion of followers are an easy market to tap into.

But after living with Mahatma Gandhi in his ashram in the mid-1940s, somethadg happenedened to him.At first he let his hair and fingernails grow long, a holy man's guise that looked odd in a lawyer.

Earhart was saintlike only as a martyr to her own ambition, who became an object of veneration and is periodically resurrected — her unvarnished glamour, like a holy man's body, still miraculously fresh.

Kipling's Kim, he suggests, "may come to provide a model of the anti-fundamentalist agent, with his ability to shed his European identity and to pass convincingly as a Muslim message-carrier, Hindu gallant and Buddhist holy man's hanger-on".

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Devotees prostrate themselves before the dark goddess, goats meet their death and touts, some in holy men's garb, home in on tourists.

It has, however, used more subtle ways of painting India saffron, the Hindu holy-man's favourite colour, such as rewriting school history books.The Gujarat election in December 2002 was a triumph for a BJP following a hardline hindutva campaign.

When accounts of Rasputin's conduct reached the ears of Nicholas, the tsar refused to believe that he was anything other than a holy man, and Rasputin's accusers found themselves transferred to remote regions of the empire or entirely removed from their positions of influence.

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I had previously written a knockabout stage show and sitcom pilot called Ra-Ra Rasputin, which imagines the Holy Man as the world's first pop star.

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