When politicians use religious rhetoric, many secular-minded Americans view it as either alarming superstition or mere pandering, a cheap and easy way to appeal to what remains a highly religious electorate.
Further, there is no reason to think that his reasons for rejecting superstition or for denying a normative significance to nature were specifically scientific; in discussing these issues he does not even raise empirical considerations, much less specifically scientific ones.
I'm usually the last one out of the changing room, but again, I don't know if that's a superstition or me just being lazy.
But whereas Samuel Beckett, say, in Waiting for Godot, makes a joke of it (putting the critic at the bottom of the slush-pile, below moron, vermin, cretin and sewer-rat), for Hughes it's more a superstition or phobia - no joking matter.
You hear the details of Emily and Craig Scott's lives, and you wonder if starting off on the wrong foot — Emily says she always puts her left skate on first, owing to a superstition — or being forced to start off on the wrong foot means that you will never get yourself straight.
Whether it is a superstition or faith, commercial establishments generally take advantage and set up makeshift shops in the surrounding area selling various things that you can offer the idol.
By luck, I'm not talking about leprechauns, superstition or even freakish bounces of an oblong ball.
Those close to him say it may have been superstition or, after coming so close to dying during the war, a refusal to contemplate his own mortality.
Thanks to superstition or history or both, no one here seemed willing to declare a trend.
