Sentence examples for imposes taboos from inspiring English sources

It imposes taboos that make certain ideas indiscussible.

Human cultures have actually shown a strong aversion to placentophagia, and some have even imposed taboos against the practice.

This is due to the earlier cultural practice of imposing taboo on words which had served as names for a deceased person.

Like Virginia Woolf (who makes a cameo appearance), Elinor thinks that since women are outside the political process the war doesn't concern her, and she imposes a taboo on herself: the war is not to be acknowledged, in either her art or her life.

The other narrative insists that religious satire and the right to ridicule and mock religion and other ideas is an inseparable part of life in a democracy, that in a democracy nobody has a right to impose its taboos on society at large.

The tragic consequences of the antisemitic myth of "Jewish Communism" should impose no taboo.

Empson, in the same period, beginning in the fatal nineteen-forties, became the most articulate critic of a morality reduced "to keeping the taboos imposed by an infinite malignity," in which the reintroduction of human sacrifice as a sacred principle left the believer with "no sense either of personal honour or of the public good".

If everyone imposed their own taboos, journalists would be reduced to commenting on the weather.

Muslem and Hindu fundamentalists impose the harshest of taboos and the cruelest of punishments.

Since June, dozens of women have led a campaign to try to break the taboo and impose a new status quo.

But imposing blanket losses on creditors is still taboo.