Sentence examples for on a superstition from inspiring English sources

"The divorce between liberalism and professionalism as educational missions rests on a superstition: that the practical is the enemy of the true," he writes.

You hear the details of Emily and Craig Scott's lives, and you wonder if starting off on the wrong foot — Emily says she always puts her left skate on first, owing to a superstition — or being forced to start off on the wrong foot means that you will never get yourself straight.

I knock on wood, a superstition which makes all wood into chips of Christ's cross, the cross of a man I don't believe is sitting at the right hand of God directing traffic or interceding in my life.

Gjon knows it's a superstition based on nothing, a lie, but it's one powerful enough to secure his bridge forever.

If our justificatory problem is not simply what morality requires, but whether morality ought to be paid attention to, or instead dismissed as a superstition based on outmoded metaphysical theories, then obviously the parties to the agreement must not employ moral judgments in their reasoning.

I imagine someone had wings and Rolling Rock prior to the Huskies' epic victory over Duke and mentioned it on the Boneyard, and thus a superstition was born.

Lears emphasizes the paradoxes: gambling is immoral and voodoo is a superstition, but trading on margin and going to confession enjoy social approval.

Nice touch, that: having a superstition-themed episode on the night of the election.

If this is too hard for you to do at once, work on proving just one superstition wrong at a time and see how far you go.

In Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (1705) Masham sets out to defend reasonable Christianity from Deism on the one hand and superstition on the other.

His Caprichos were an attack on superstition and clerical overreach; he even left his own country rather than serve an anti-liberal king.