Sentence examples for sacred force from inspiring English sources

The Soviet Union may have gone, but the reverence for the state as an almost sacred force in Russia remains.

For Durkheim, sacredness referred to those things in society that were forbidden or set apart; and since these sacred things were set apart by society, the sacred force, he concluded, was society itself.

The energy required for this endeavor comes from sexuality -- not the sexual act, but that sacred force within us that links the lowest with the highest in the erotic continuum.

The occurrence of human sacrifice can usually be related to the recognition of human blood as the sacred life force.

Basic to both animal and human sacrifice is the recognition of blood as the sacred life force in man and beast.

On Tuesday, "the problem took place when some people tried to enter in the enclosure of sacred fire ritual by force and that led to some disturbance," said Rakesh Jaiswal, the head of the Hindu sect's disaster unit.

Paden believed that a myth must explain something in the world with reference to a sacred being or force, and dismissed any myths which did not as "folktales".

The masks representing beneficent and maleficent sacred or holy forces in religious dances particularly in Buddhist monasteries of Nepal, Tibet, and Japan and in many other societies constitute another category of sacred representational objects.

If Mr. Sadr emerged from the negotiations with a deal that allowed him to say he had met American troops and their Iraqi allies in battle for Shiism's most sacred shrine and forced them back, many Iraqis say, he would significantly enhance his claim to be the principal tribune of Iraqi resistance to American military occupation.

The academic Jeremy Dibble (in his biography of the composer John Stainer, a friend of Müller) has written that the election "amply foreshadowed the ensuing battle between contemporary sacred and secular forces in the university, the anachronism of Oxford's systems of academic election and the burning need for reform".

It's a scene that foreshadows Verdi and verismo, a moment of pure righteous passion, of the moral force of sacred justice — and what Mozart and Da Ponte top it with is dramatic and moral shock.