Sentence examples for to be defiled from inspiring English sources
And it is the Swedish-born Strindberg's horror of, and fascination with, need in all human beings — the need for authority, the need to be defiled or overcome — that gives his work its peculiar lasting power.
None of them is to be defiled.
Turn ye not unto the ghosts, nor unto familiar spirits; seek them not out, to be defiled by them.
Many Sunnis regard the Alevis as infidels and believe that to share their food is to be defiled.
To touch pitch — even with the antiseptic steel of the mortuary drawer intervening — is to be defiled and to put all their ragged peace at risk.
When asked if he would prefer "the law to be defiled by government and not crime," he answers with an apparent irrelevance that masks a flailing insight, "I would like a little more pity".
Medinsky has been an eager contributor to the Kremlin's new conservatism, and, in mid-January, his ministry said that it had prepared a resolution (which did not mention "Leviathan") that would ban from public distribution films believed to be "defiling the national culture, creating a threat to national unity and undermining the foundations of the constitutional order".
This week, it was the viral, but apparently fake story of Shanell Rivers, a black barista who was supposed to be defiling white people's drinks in disgusting ways.
But in the course of three minutes that can never be unseen, the Union Jack goes from being one of the last remaining symbols of a once-feared empire, to being defiled beyond redemption through a single sequinned vest.
Slobodan Milosevic, the late dictator, set Serbia's murderous nationalist tide in motion on April 24 , 1987 when he went to Kosovo to declare that Serbian "ancestors would be defiled" if ethnic Albanians had their way.
He also notes that when Jesus' accusers delivered him to be crucified on Thursday morning they would not enter Pilate's courtyard because they would be defiled and would not be able to eat the Passover that evening (John 18 28).
