Sentence examples for well sacred from inspiring English sources

What is at stake defines the politics, but more importantly it transcends politics: land as a commodity versus land as, well, sacred.

If the "follow the money" method could be used so effectively to expose Watergate, or our Bank Crisis with its cozy relations to the Senate, or to bring down any abuse of power, I say it should be employed for gaining a clear understanding of the ancient past as well, sacred or not.

She said there were celebratory dances as well as sacred ones.

Marvel at the depictions of human sacrifice, war and terrifying deities, as well as sacred animals and daily activities.

It is home to the legendary women deep-sea divers known as Haenyeo, as well as sacred goddess groves and shamanistic traditions.

The thermal spa as a tourist destination regardless of the pilgrimage associations with the site as a holy well or sacred spring—is not necessarily a European invention, despite deriving its English-language label from Spa, an early resort in what is now Belgium.

The preoccupation with the dead is profane as well as sacred, as when one of Minami's ethically compromised colleagues suggests that he supply the crime lord pressing him for confidential information with the name of a murdered reporter: the departed, he flippantly explains, "doesn't need it any more".

In the basement and other areas of the so-called Erectheum now long disappeared were shrines of heroes obscure to us but venerable to the Athenians with names like Cecrops, Butes, and Erechtheus himself, as well as sacred objects of Athenian mythical past.

Practices include traditional environmentalism, working with local people and NGOs, as well as sacred rituals, including ordaining trees.

He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas.

After a 5AM start, we met at The Chalice Well, a sacred hole in the ground.