Sentence examples for its stigmata from inspiring English sources

Mr. Crompton ends the book "at the moment when executions finally cease in Europe," promising both the fading of homosexuality's stigma and the slow healing of its stigmata.

"Remember when rouge spelled 'hussy,' when lipstick meant 'brazen,' when nail polish branded you 'common'?" An ad for Eternol Tint oil shampoo said, "Lipstick was once considered daring... so was tinting your hair... .. Advertisements did whatever they could to promote the notion that aging was unwelcome and gray hair its stigmata.

"The Order," a murky ecclesiastical horror film, may be the nadir of the subgenre that produced "The Exorcist" (at its high end) and "Stigmata" (at its middle-to-low end).

Its Latin plural, stigmata, refers to Christ's crucifixion wounds, suggesting that there may be a spiritual value to being disgraced by society.

It removes the stigmata of cirrhosis and its implications of alcohol abuse.

The cellist Eric Jacobsen provided a compelling focus to Vincent Ho's "Stigmata," spinning its microtonal smears, glassy hisses and throaty growls into a ruminative strand.

Does one get anypoints for not yielding to the unforgiving demands of our culture and its disdain for the stigmata of age by letting one's DNA play itself out?

It's as if McClane got, in that scene, his stigmata.

Blood flowed from his stigmata, as the nail went in.

It removes the stigmata of a poor prognosis.

The "Beat Generation" and its artists display readily recognizable stigmata.