Sentence examples for lesser spirits from inspiring English sources

When he was admitted, a number of lesser spirits were already in the presence.

The gods are assembled on the north, east, and west of the altar, and venerated dead and lesser spirits occupy the south wall.

Slave religions usually had a supreme being and a host of lesser spirits brought from Africa, borrowed from the Amerindians, and created in response to local conditions.

Wittily, airily, Wilde proclaimed a new hedonism in which morality was the preserve of lesser spirits; that is to say, of those who were not artists.

The term gradually was applied to the lesser spirits of the supernatural realm who exerted pressures on men to perform actions that were not conducive to their well-being.

Although there are Christian and Muslim converts among the Asante, the traditional religion, based on belief in a distant supreme being, a pantheon of gods and lesser spirits, and the ever-present spirits of ancestors, remains the basis of the Asante conception of the universe.

A lesser spirit, a lesser player, might have been crushed.

Someone with lesser spirit and determination might not have done.

A lesser spirit than Lamb's might have been crushed by the passionate, very unreconstructed rigour of Legat's teaching.

Herself a modern changeling, she was adopted as a baby by the extraordinary Mrs Winterson, whose gargantuan personality and religious superstitions would have crushed a lesser spirit.

Given that, a lesser spirit might hesitate before pontificating about perfectionism, imagining that it might have contours and textures they could only guess at.