Sentence examples for the superstition that from inspiring English sources

But we also hate the basic principles that our childhood religion propagates: the utter lack of thought freedom, the superstition that determines religious rituals, the way women are treated as secondary citizens, and most important, the community's refusal to seriously question itself.

Partly it was modesty, but there was also the superstition that pride would attract misfortune.

"And the superstition that as a family we think it brings us luck," says Daniel.

During rehearsals for the Broadway run of "Heights," Miranda developed the superstition that he would die before opening night.

Having been born in a small Irish town he understood the superstition that toasting with water is considered bad luck.

"In Alaska, he heard the superstition that a woman who eats the heart of a bear will give birth to a male child".

Those on the other side may celebrate "our" freedom from the superstitions that were rampant before the Enlightenment.

"I am afraid of Thursdays," he said, reflecting the superstitions that emerge in a place where death can visit anywhere at any time.

Head on up to the hill itself to see the cross erected in 1851 to dispel all the superstitions that had grown up, then back to where you started via a grassy stretch of the old trunk road.

These resonate in the changeling children of folklore – cuckoos in the nest placed by malevolent fairies – as well as the superstitions that historically led to infanticide in the case of multiple births in some parts of the world, as described in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

It consists in showing that our happiness and well-being lie not in a life enslaved to the passions and to the transitory goods we ordinarily pursue; nor in the related unreflective attachment to the superstitions that pass as religion, but rather in the life of reason.