Sentence examples for ordinary secular from inspiring English sources

Scialabba was a member of Opus Dei, and subsequently lost his faith under the pressure of ordinary, secular education (at Harvard, in the late sixties and early seventies).

In ordinary, secular fiction, a writer who "takes things down to essentials" is reducing language to increase the amount of secular meaning (or sometimes, alas, to decrease it).

What makes the current protests so different is that ordinary secular voices, repressed for so long by both religious and secular authorities, have finally broken out.

"The state has merely chosen not to fund a distinct category of instruction," one that was "not fungible" with ordinary secular studies, he said over biting dissents from Justices Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

I was quite shocked the first time I saw it in an ordinary, secular book, as if I had bumped into a bishop in full fig at the supermarket".

Sid Ganis, a Hollywood producer who grew up in the same building as Sanders, described their neighborhood as an enclave of "ordinary secular Jews," adding, "Some of us went to Hebrew school, but mainly it was an identity in that it got us out of school on Jewish holidays".

Such amazement is still felt by many ordinary, secular-minded residents of the city.

Erasmus' Enchiridion, on the contrary, was directed toward the spiritual life of ordinary laymen pursuing secular careers in the secular world who needed spiritual guidance (Tracy 1972 65).

It's about ordinary comforts and secular exultations, and about people whom, even when they are different from us, we could imagine being.

Eventually the guardians decided that since the two boys had only a small inheritance and, being born out of wedlock, were not eligible for an ordinary career as secular priests or for membership in many professions, entry into a monastery was their only realistic option.

But even beyond the money given to churches, religious people appear to give more to ordinary charities than secular folks do.