Sentence examples for might be defiled from inspiring English sources

Moïse, who is twenty-eight when Eberstadt meets him and already growing plump, has "a complicated attitude toward music, as if his own gift lies in a state of untaught purity that might be defiled either by too much use or by exposure to other people's music".

The city's Thirlmere Dam was eventually built and generally accepted as a positive development, but not before it aroused impassioned opposition among citizens throughout the country who feared that part of England's natural and cultural heritage might be defiled by the creation of a "water tank" in the midst of the Lake District.

None of them is to be defiled.

Turn ye not unto the ghosts, nor unto familiar spirits; seek them not out, to be defiled by them.

Many Sunnis regard the Alevis as infidels and believe that to share their food is to be defiled.

She does so because it would be wrong to allow his body to be defiled.

Hot tubs will be defiled, hallucinations will occur, and the moon will be barked at.

In 1999 Stephen's memorial plaque was defiled by paint.

Government by the people has not been defiled".

"The building is like one grand water closet — every hole and corner is defiled".

Eventually, the sacred open space was defiled with honorary columns and an equestrian statue of Domitian.