Angered by the expectation of Latin writers either to document ghetto life or to "dabble in magic realism," as he put it, he was known as a contentious man with a philosophy founded on the sanctity of self-expression, and he wrote with a voice that was lyrical, insistent, irrepressible and often scathingly satiric.
Intervention, evolution, conversation, learning — all are intrusions into the hermetic sanctity of the self.
His poetry, partly confessional, partly metaphysical, held as its highest value the sanctity of the private self.
True Islamic values are based on peace, the sanctity of life, concern for the needy, the improvement of self and the worship of God.
Everything these men say about each other must be the truth, demonstrable, self-evident and buttressed by the sanctity of their faith.
Gore placed country over ego, national interest before self-interest, and belief in the sanctity of law instead of personal ambition, even though he was cruelly deprived of own, rightful place in history as our forty-third president.
It was in his episcopal bearing, his ecumenical voice, his air of injured sanctity; and his infinite powers of self-delusion.
What "#DaddyWillSaveUs" offered, instead, was a vision of society whittled down to individual self-obsession: a belief in the total sanctity of individual rights and freedoms, taken to the greatest possible extreme.
Given that their notion of "traditional marriage" demonstrably involves boogieing on down at public expense in the name of networking, recent events invalidate both their self-appointed moral authority over marriage and the sanctity of the institution itself.
Hinduism feels so strongly about the sanctity of all life that it opposes the killing of anything, for food or even, at times, for self-protection.
Arguably, sanctity of life is related not only to its intrinsic value but also to some of its qualities, such as self-consciousness, ability to establish relationship, and ability to derive pleasure [ 30].
