Sentence examples for sacred premises from inspiring English sources

The Father has a fanatical hatred of the west as a place of irredeemable corruption and opposes the pleas of Voichita and the compassionate Mother Superior to let Alina remain on his sacred premises.

This is perhaps the book's key line, the moral-aesthetic credo behind Sullivan's reluctant vocation as a magazine writer: he takes a subject on his or her own terms, keeps sacred the premise that his subjects are, unembarrassedly, doing exactly what they intend to be doing.

From that philosophical premise, the sacred cannot be dismissed.

And in the "Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas made the case for sacred doctrine on the basis of Aristotelian premises.

The show's unspoken premise is that garages are sacred spaces, temples to male chromosomes.

It's refreshing to see a sacred cow approached with such irreverence, but the basic premise - office workers with repressed emotional and imaginative lives - feels dated and a bit contrived.

This paper is premised on several Australian Aboriginal myths (or sacred histories) from the Georgina River Basin region of Central Australia that concern the Triodia grasses known locally as spinifex (or aywerte).

"A basic premise for dialogue is respect for holy sites that are sacred to religious believers and are a precious heritage for our civilizations," the appeal said.

The premise of their argument is that all human life is sacred, whatever its quality or probable duration, whether it is enjoyed or hated by the person who lives it.

The world premiere of You Killed Hamlet, or Guilty Creatures Sitting At A Play rests on the dramatic premise that nothing -- neither death nor Hamlet -- is sacred.

These three premises make it hard for some common arguments about speech and the sacred to fully persuade.