Sentence examples for sacred character from inspiring English sources

And in the United States, Sunday has lost its sacred character.

In addition to their utilitarian role, they are endowed with a sacred character.

(Antcher died in 1992, at 93). "Everyone adored him; he was a sacred character".

Despite its a cappella spareness and its sacred character, this music is in no way austere.

The holy oil manifested to all that the king was under God's protection and now had a sacred character.

The earliest literature is of a sacred character and dates from about 1400 bc in the form of the Rigveda.

The words came but in written form only, dressed in strength and glory, borne in those sacred characters that symbolized for me the essence of the divine.

In many sacrifices, branches or leaves of sacred plants, such as the kusha plant (a sacred grass used as fodder) of the Vedic sacrifice and the Brahmanic puja (ritual), are used in rituals such as the Zoroastrian sprinkling (bareshnum), or great purification, rite, in which the notion of fertility and prosperity is combined with their sacred characters (see purification rite).

They weren't sacred characters; they did all the things we did.

In truth, the idea of the inevitability and even the quasi-sacred character of the French-German relationship is one of the platitudes that have been shaken with the exposure of some of the European Union's existential fibs, and the linked fragility of the European Union's common currency.

"As soon as we make contact with the sacred," a character says toward the end of "As a Friend," Forrest Gander's first novel, "we're face to face with death".