Sentence examples for is a transgression from inspiring English sources

Not every perk is a transgression.

A transgression on one of them is a transgression on all.

-- Margaret O'Hora, Albany Yes, as transgressions go, yours is minor, but it is a transgression.

It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".

Writing about the impossibility of representing the Holocaust in dramas such as Spielberg's Schindler's List, the great French film-maker Claude Lanzmann (whose monumental Shoah eschewed archive footage for eye-witness testimony) famously declared that "fiction is a transgression" and spoke of his own belief in "a ban on depiction".

More specifically, it is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (EU, 11.12n/115n).

That's a transgression Ahmadinejad may not survive.

Of course, camp was a transgression when Sontag wrote about it.

She added: "In parts of England now it's a transgression even to consider her as a human being.

The visit also drew criticism from Saudi Arabia, whose cabinet said that Mr Ahmadinejad's trip had violated UAE sovereignty and was a "transgression".

It was a transgression on two counts: as a woman Mrs. Helal was not supposed to work, and her female students were not supposed to learn.