Sentence examples for world of superstition from inspiring English sources

The demands of the church and the spiritual needs of men, in a twilight world of superstition and violence, transformed biography into hagiography.

These were philosophers who confronted a world of superstition and feudalism and sought to expose it to the clarifying light of reason.

What looked like the road to progress, from the ancient world of superstition up to the sunstruck heights of the Enlightenment, had been the opposite, a descent from Olympian reason to the quicksand of modernity: liberal "relativism," "nihilism".

This collection, more than anything else, illustrates how Tradescant straddled the worlds of superstition, myth and the new sciences as he displayed 'the hand of a mermaid' and 'a goose which has grown in Scotland on a tree' alongside a prism and other mathematical instruments.

That kind of confidence is unusual in a racing world full of superstition.

It provides a window onto what the music critic Greil Marcus has called "the old, weird America," a world of magic, superstition and deep feeling.

He fancied himself the son of God and he could barely convince twelve men to follow him at a time when the world was full of superstition.

The judges said the legendary love story of Patroclus and Achilles was "told with all the intensity and accuracy that this world of violence and superstition and romance deserves".

"The Witch" is a film that attempts not to simply mimic a world of primitive technology, superstition and beliefs, but rather to conjure it completely.

Its typically a big, international conservation foundation versus a bunch of small-minded opportunists, like poachers or hunters, who hurt the natural world in the name of superstition or sport.

In many ways it is fitting that the restaurant world should be so full of superstition because one of its oldest forms of triskaidekaphobia – fear of the number 13 (there is no agreed answer as to when and why the superstition about this number began) – is the idea that if 13 people gather at a table, one will be dead within a year.