Sentence examples for rather than consecrating from inspiring English sources
Rather than consecrating the wine and bread as he held them up, the monsignor signed the words first, with unoccupied hands.
Both Giso of Wells and Walter of Hereford travelled to Rome to be consecrated by the pope in 1061, rather than be consecrated by Stigand.
They occasionally suffer from a designer-Zen preciousness, where the writing seems intent on consecrating itself rather than the moment it represents, as in the following: "Here are the instruments of the tea; here is this wild flower.
It is unclear when Deusdedit adopted his new name, although the historian Richard Sharpe considers it likely to have been when he was consecrated as an archbishop, rather than when he entered religious life.
Their duties, however, were generally those of members of a household engaged in everyday affairs, rather than of a caste or sacerdotal order set apart and consecrated for the performance of sacrificial and other rites, functions, and practices.
Other days consisted of variations on this self-destructive theme: work sessions prematurely ended or avoided altogether, whole days consecrated to polishing old prose rather than forging ahead with new.
However, archaeologists in Rome and elsewhere have now begun to adopt a more pragmatic view of Christian treatment of pagan temples; demonstrating that many were renovated, consecrated and then reused as churches rather than smashed to bits.
We may balk at the idea of bishops consecrating factories and showrooms, but we might yet want the UK economy to become a dynamic productive, or manufacturing, one rather than the passive consumerist bacchanalia it has become.
Shook rather than rolled.
Rather than going stiff".
