Sentence examples for sacred of from inspiring English sources

"We embrace the sacred of the environment," he said.

Then there is the matter of the hamburger, that most sacred of Southern California foods.

The sect revered the number 7 and its square, but the most sacred of numbers was 50.

If Rembrandt was challenged by the most sacred of subjects, he was certainly not put off by the profane.

The era of easy credit has begun taking its toll on even the most sacred of borrowers, religious institutions.

For that reason especially, all couples, regardless of sexuality, deserve equal access to the most sacred of institutions.

Depending on whom you talk to, they are the most sacred of relics or the most profane.

Grief-stricken after his mother's death, Thubron set off on a grueling pilgrimage to Mount Kailas, "the most sacred of the world's mountains".

"There is a difference between breaking the rules and breaking the most sacred of all rules," said Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia.

A notorious scofflaw, Caravaggio painted the most sacred of subjects with a harsh realism never before witnessed by the Catholic Church.

Divorce, therefore, was allowed, but only within strict limits, so that "the most sacred of contracts should not become the toy of caprice".