Sentence examples for sacrilegious that from inspiring English sources

What a bother!" she had exclaimed in an outburst so sacrilegious that it became immortal.

It would be offensive to Muslims who believe that all pictorial representations of Mohammed are inherently sacrilegious, but that is by no means a universal view in Islam.

Mark Nelson, whom Long Wharf audiences saw most recently in "A Doll's House," is strong and virtuously stubborn as Ari Lev, the father, but he is even more enthralling as Jacob Kahn, a passionate artist who becomes Asher's mentor and passes along sacrilegious wisdom: that art itself is a religion.

The New York Times reported, "The Islamic State has said it regarded artifacts as sacrilegious vestiges that deserve to be obliterated.

The pope compared the abuse to a "sacrilegious cult" that drove its victims to drug addiction and suicide and told six victims from Britain, Ireland and Germany that the church should "weep" and "make reparation" for their suffering.

The bodies of sovereigns previously interred in the royal tombs at Ambohimanga were exhumed and transferred to the tombs in the Rova grounds, a sacrilegious move that degraded the status of Ambohimanga as a site of sacred pilgrimage.

"We find that sacrilegious; we find that almost blasphemous," Pekka said, when I asked him about that perception.

"I know it's sacrilegious to mention that, but it's going to be 80 years old next year.

It feels slightly sacrilegious (or should that be sacrilicious?) but surely some inventive and entrepreneurial county has given it a whirl.

"We started as a small group of faithful who wanted nothing to do with politics," says a man calling himself Abdullah, who says he is a member of Boko Haram ("Western education is sacrilegious"), the group that claims responsibility for some but not all of the attacks.The original members were mostly ethnic Kanuri fishermen from Borno state, bordering Lake Chad, which is rapidly drying out.

It seemed almost sacrilegious but then that was the whole spirit of the journey - breaking barriers, opening new spaces.