Sentence examples for unclean world from inspiring English sources

The mission of the church, in the Donatist view, was to provide a holy alternative to a unclean world.

Eggleston's world is somehow unclean, however bright and tart the colour.

He goes on to explain that certain religions around the world declared pigs "unclean" and made them taboo out of economic necessity as much as anything.

The alarm, exaggerated or not, is a source of concern for city administrators who, like Mayor de Magistris, are anxious to shed the image of a chaotic and unclean city presented to the world's news media during the trash crisis of recent years.

I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips" (Isaiah 6 5).

The city, once known as the World's Playground, had become unclean and unsafe.

Who could you count out in the ancient world... women, children, lepers, unclean, adulterers, tax collectors, prostitutes?

The backwardness of China's health care sector was on display during the SARS outbreak, when the world saw images of poorly equipped, unclean facilities.

The meetings in the two movies are conspicuously different in look and intent, yet the characters seem to be gasping the same unclean air as they shed light on a shadow world of power, greed and dirty tricks.

Mothers of newborn children are considered both as participants of the sacred by having brought forth a new being into the world and as persons who are ritually unclean (e.g., among the Israelites and Zoroastrians), probably because of the presence of blood at birth, the loss of which may symbolize the loss of some of the life-sustaining force.

As far as the free world is concerned, these men are as unclean as the lepers of Jesus' day.