Sentence examples for worldly authority from inspiring English sources

Sutherland juxtaposes varieties of obviously poetic diction — declamatory, violent, meek, sarcastic — with actual voices of worldly authority, voices that feel menacing in their general tone of understatement.

Every summer, all my friends would go on package holidays to Spain and would come back bronzed and with brightly-coloured hair braids, speaking with worldly authority about paella and knowing all the words to Whigfield.

Inspired by a rousing call by Pope Urban II at Clermont, France, four years earlier to rescue the Holy Land, these first historians wrote, the crusaders and their conquest of the eastern Mediterranean coast proved that God had smiled on western Europe and the worldly authority of Rome.

With the exception of the papal primacy, he never gave up the main tenets of the faith in which he had grown up, but he changed his mind on details and arrived at an amalgam of his own in which transubstantiation and clerical celibacy mingled with radical views about the worldly authority of the church and man's ability to seek salvation without the aid of priests.

Who's got the worldly authority to stop you?

First, the Wahhabism they have carefully cultivated preaches passive acceptance of worldly authority.

The devastation that passes over his face in the rejection scene from "Henry IV, Part 2" — "I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers" — hints at Welles's own humiliation by worldly authorities.

The devastation that passes over his face in the rejection scene from "Henry IV, Part 2"—"I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers"—hints at Welles's own humiliation by worldly authorities.

Those allied with the new resistance movement, refusing to be bound by worldly authorities, became known as "Protestants".

(The ancient Gnostics would have said such a system is "archontic," meaning kidnapped by worldly "Authorities of Darkness" who strive to keep us all asleep).

Understanding this exotic vocabulary made me feel more worldly somehow, an actual authority on all things American.