Sentence examples for sacred vow from inspiring English sources
In its narrow sense, the term is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction.
A group oath recited by both Rollo Maughfling and Arthur Pendragon goes, "We swear by peace and love to stand / Heart to heart and hand in hand / Mark, oh spirit and hear us now, / Confirming this, our sacred vow".
Freedom is a wonderful thing, but the culture of contingency means that the marriage bond, which is supposed to be a sacred vow till death do us part, is now more likely to be seen as an easily canceled contract.
I was, in other words, subject to the power all great cinema has to some extent, and which the best children's stories have in spades: the ability to speak to the viewer both directly and to what I have made a sacred vow never to refer to as the inner child.
On "Heroin," Cale's viola screeched and jumped behind Reed's obliterating junkie's journey, with his sacred vow, "Herrrrrr-o-in, it's my wife, and it's my life," and his cry into the void, "And I guess that I just don't know".
7. Let love in Let this be your sacred vow to yourself: that you now and forever more deem yourself a worthy servant to the truth of these times.
As with other Plains Indians, the Sun Dance was the major religious ritual, involving long preparation, sacred vows, prayer, and self-sacrifice.
He called on all Indians to take sacred vows to disobey the Rowlatt Acts and launched a nationwide movement for the repeal of those repressive measures.
When he was driving around Chicago mobilizing priests and pastors on those cold nights, would he really have compelled them to do things that violated their sacred vows?
The sacred vows of motherhood are debased in several of the best films in MOMA's series, including "My Name Is Julia Ross," a terrifyingly claustrophobic drama by the audacious stylist Joseph H. Lewis, from 1945.
Which is the one potentially fatal chink in the body armor of intimacy, in the unconditional this 'n' that, in the sacred vows, the pledging of troths, in the forever anythings.
