Sentence examples for our deities from inspiring English sources

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We want to see our deities and to know them.

Or What Would Oprah Want, because they are our deities.

We are all too infatuated with our deities, but Clemens is not the point here, nor is Bonds, as obnoxious and dishonest as I think he is.

"If we stay in the house [instead of the shed], we get ill because our deities don't approve of it," explains Gita Rokaya, another woman from Sofalta's mountainous village of Sanigaun, in the western district of Jumla.

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For the rest of us, it boils down to useless private chats with our deity of choice: If this is a mistake, if we get a call tomorrow inviting our senior to enroll, we will never again a) snipe at people who talk in movie theaters, b) pretend we're busy when certain relatives call, or c) apply make-up or shave while driving.

Bhutan's constitution kicks off with: "Blessed by the Triple Gem, the protection of our guardian deities, the wisdom of our leaders, the everlasting fortunes of the Pelden Drukpa, and the guidance of His Majesty".

In our world, Faraday, Newton, and Bohr were literally our scientific deities: we added others to that pantheon later in college.

The worship of the mechanical was, to Carlyle, something akin to religious delusion ("our true Deity is Mechanism"), one he compared to seventeenth-century New Englanders' belief in witchcraft.

Each week, we tend to our own deities in these pages, and sometimes that devotion might blind us to better stories elsewhere.

The abstract problem of an allegorical society governed by gods is solved by suggesting that our new deities could be rock stars, supermodels and footballers.

During my tenure, I once heard a tough-talking activist suggesting that government functionaries should be mandated to swear with our local deities such as Ifa, Ogun, Sango, Amadioha or Udo, so as to stamp out corruption.

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