Sentence examples for superstition over from inspiring English sources

Is San Francisco Choosing Superstition Over Science?

Curiously, Richmond accepts after not much deliberation, only to be taken aback by the village's widespread superstition over a long-standing legend that every 25 years a candle touched by an angel brings about a miracle. .

Superstitions take over behaviour because our brains try and repeat whatever actions precede success, even if we cannot see how they have had their influence.

Rowland says they came close with 1310, their first apartment together, but superstitions over the number 13 made them rethink it.  .

These may look like classic examples of superstition triumphing over science.

Tragedy and superstition hang over the characters like a mist, and the sea laps against every page.

Advice that runs counter to cultural practices is resented and in the absence of authority, myth and superstition take over.

His book Folk Medicine, which evidenced his pathetic renunciation of science for superstition, sold over a million witless copies.

Of course the "Macbeth" curse is hardly the only superstition hanging over the black-magic-laden world of the theater, a profession in which open incantations of blood lust ("Break a leg!") are routine.

Since access to healthcare and government schemes is very difficult in remote villages, superstition takes over.

Thomas Jefferson, an avid weather-watcher, devoted himself to the triumph of reason over superstition, the new world over the old: "The American experiment would prove that men can be governed by reason and reason alone".