Sentence examples for powerful taboo from inspiring English sources

"There's still a powerful taboo about talking about menstruation, and being able to laugh about it is a big change".

They grind and sculpt them into a moistened bolus that is delivered, via a Rockettes chorus line of sequential contractions, into a self-kneading sack of hydrochloric acid and then dumped into a tubular leach field, where it is converted into the most powerful taboo in human history".

Sure enough, we follow our food from the smelling, the tasting and the swallowing, inexorably downward, "via a stadium wave of sequential contractions, into a self-kneading sack of hydrochloric acid and then dumped into a tubular leach field, where it is converted into the most powerful taboo in human history".

This is one of our few powerful taboos.

Despite these powerful taboos, the girl had somehow managed to become pregnant by Kirkpatrick and was said to have given birth to his child.

For all the powerful taboos around the drug, it's also worth pointing out that if they die in hospital, most people reading this article will end their lives – just like the street junkies of Paris – on heroin.

While open racism against blacks remains among the most powerful taboos in American politics, Americans feel more free expressing worries about illegal immigrants and dislike of Islam, survey research shows.

Guilt, shame and humiliation are the price of trivializing one of society's most powerful taboos.

Cú Chulainn's geasa included a ban against eating dog meat, but in early Ireland there was a powerful general taboo against refusing hospitality, so when an old crone offers him a meal of dog meat, he has no choice to break his geis.

The strategy broke powerful religious taboos against suicide and the murder of innocents.

Green belt land is protected by a political taboo more powerful than even the 60 year-old legislation that still defines it, and Goldsmith, Khan, Pidgeon and Green Party candidate Sian Berry are pledged to keep things that way.