Sentence examples for superstition on from inspiring English sources

In Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (1705) Masham sets out to defend reasonable Christianity from Deism on the one hand and superstition on the other.

Below, Wonder performs "Superstition" on "Sesame Street" in 1973.

I remember Stevie Wonder doing Superstition on Sesame Street... that was some good shit".

Lodging in a Lagos slum in 1967, he conveys the misery, terror and superstition on which the packed inhabitants survived.

Professor Johar, whose specialty is studying the effects of superstition on consumer behavior, suggested that when your portfolio is shrinking or your business is tanking, talking to a soothsayer may be "one way of feeling in control".

We do not and we cannot conclude anything about women's performance in traffic on Fridays 13th, or about their accident risk (given certain exposure to risk), or about the effect of superstition on those risks.

"You've Got It Bad Girl" has a stripped-down arrangement with a buzzy organ and insistent drums that don't always serve it well, and while Gray's decision not to approach "Superstition" head-on is admirable, her slow, menacing, sometimes sleepy version is better in conception than in execution.

In 1994, Blanchet studied the impact of rituals, customs and superstitions on pregnancy and child birth in rural Bangladesh.

I did a lot of research on superstition for I'll Give You the Sun.

Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander will be published on July 18 by YalsoUniverecordsress.

They also play on superstition to increase their ranks.