Sentence examples for profanation of from inspiring English sources

The proclamation commanded the prosecution of those guilty of "excessive drinking, blasphemy, profane swearing and cursing, lewdness, profanation of the Lord's Day, and other dissolute, immoral, or disorderly practices".

"It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God".

On a platter A poet's pale and glaring head, A parrot's screech, a monkey's chatter, And profanation of the dead.

The exception is a marvelous Ernst, "Profanation of Spring" (1945), on loan from a Long Island collection.

This "profanation" of the Nuremberg rallying grounds aimed to keep them available to history while denying them the dignity and sacredness that the Nazis had longed to create.

France's prime minister, Manuel Valls, called for respect for French law after "the intolerable aggression toward firefighters and unacceptable profanation of a Muslim place of prayer".

"I accept that this symphony is of an almost inconceivable strangeness, and that the schoolmasters will no doubt pronounce an anathema on these profanations of the 'truly beautiful'.

According to the statistics, Christian graveyards were the main target of vandals in 2010, with 214 recorded Christian desecrations, versus 12 profanations of Jewish cemeteries and seven of Muslim cemeteries.

The artists explain in their video below that part of their motivation was to confront materials that lie within a religious context with the "spirit of profanation," by which they mean "taking something from the realm of the sacred and bringing it back down to its material sense".

Once all of Saudi Arabia was placed on a par with the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, traditionally closed to non-Muslims, the presence of American soldiers anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula (even if their presence was with the permission of the Saudi government) could be depicted as a profanation, a violation of the Prophet's deathbed directive to "banish the pagans from the Arabian Peninsula".

Henry James was especially fierce in guarding the sacred domain of fiction against profanation by the ungainly chimeras of historical fiction, which he flatly labelled "humbug".