Sentence examples for was a transgression from inspiring English sources

Of course, camp was a transgression when Sontag wrote about it.

The visit also drew criticism from Saudi Arabia, whose cabinet said that Mr Ahmadinejad's trip had violated UAE sovereignty and was a "transgression".

It was a transgression on two counts: as a woman Mrs. Helal was not supposed to work, and her female students were not supposed to learn.

Writing about his grandfather was "a transgression I had a lot of trouble with," says Carrère, but one he was convinced he had to go through with.

In Miss Shoemaker's Stalinist homeroom of a bygone generation, Peter's sin was a transgression comparable to one that would trigger metal detector alarms to scream at today's school entrances.

Where previously authorities saw little harm in fairly neutral coverage of a country so far away, the fate of the carved and polished red Labrodorite Lenin was a transgression too far and they suddenly developed cold feet.

Not every perk is a transgression.

That's a transgression Ahmadinejad may not survive.

A transgression on one of them is a transgression on all.

-- Margaret O'Hora, Albany Yes, as transgressions go, yours is minor, but it is a transgression.

She added: "In parts of England now it's a transgression even to consider her as a human being.