Sentence examples for sacred act from inspiring English sources

Treat writing as a sacred act.

Members of the women's groups said the photos belittled the sacred act of birth and invaded the mother's privacy.

"I felt as though I was transcending the ingredients and performing a sacred act," said Stephane Audran, who plays Babette.

But in an area where frying is a sacred act, La Mora does it exceptionally well, as evidenced by the delicate zucchini flowers and baccalà fritters.

In Brahmanic Hinduism a saṃskāra (sacrament) is a sacred act that perfects a person and that culminates at the end of a series of saṃskāras in a spiritual rebirth, a symbolic "second birth".

Remembrance, which may seem a modest contribution in the moment, is a sacred act with long-term payoff — a singularly human gift that keeps on giving, year after war-fatigued year.

Those present experience, as spectators, the fortifying and beneficial influence radiating from the sacred acts.

Ritual behaviour, they held, entails an attitude that is concerned with the sacred; and sacred acts and things, therefore, are nothing more than symbolic representations of society.

As FBI Director James B. Comey described on Monday, the Russians "were unusually loud in their intervention," violating our sovereignty by meddling in one of our most sacred acts as a democracy and not seeming to care if they were exposed.

"Driving when I'm alone is one of the most private, sacred acts of the day," said Mr. Paterniti, the author of "Driving Mr. Albert," a memoir of his road trip across the country carrying the brain of Albert Einstein in a Tupperware bowl of formaldehyde in the trunk of his Buick Skylark.

So days like today used to be about reconsecrating sacred acts of sacrifice and renewal.