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Altar in sentence

143 examples of Altar in a sentence

As an altar boy, I breathed in a lot of incense, and I learned to say phrases in Latin, but I also had time to think about whether my mother's top-down morality applied to everybody.
I want to be a great parent, and I will not sacrifice them on the altar of great accomplishment."
One is the altar tablets of the 15th century, and the other is about 100 years ago, Malevich's abstract compositions.
So this brother, he sacrifices the joys of his life and the happiness of his sisters at the altar of so-called honor.
And they said, "Well, we can take you there, but you can't go inside because that's the sacred altar, where we do sacrifices every year to keep up those annual cycles of fertility for the fields."
And we stand in the far end by the entrance, far from the altar and from the gated enclosure intended for the clergy and we peer into the distance, looking for a beginning.
All of this brings us to the yawning archway of the altar wall, where we see Michelangelo's Last Judgment, painted in 1534 after the world had changed again.
Fleeing for your lives, you come to a room you passed before with five hallways, including the one to the altar and the one leading back outside.
There's just one problem; the inscriptions told of the altar's curse: the spirits of the city's King and Queen possessing intruders and leading them to their doom through deception.
We had 10 minutes left, and my pastor called us out of the pews and down to the altar because he wanted to be praying when midnight struck.
And as she made her way to the altar, I snuck right in behind her, because I knew for sure that my grandmother was going to heaven.
I had knelt faithfully at the altar of the American Dream, praying to the gods of my time of success, and money, and power.
You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end, from a world where people spoke in tongues and saw suffering as a necessary act of God and took a text to be infallible truth.
If you come to the south of the intiwatana, you find an altar.
Climb Huayna Picchu, find another altar.
[Yoruba: Freeborn Ijebu-Ode son,] [of true Ogbogbo Clan,] [whose wealth and resources surpass all that Europe ever had,] [whose altar is filled with gold.]
And you also get a sense of visual movement in the space, because every one of the elements is changing in a pattern, so that pattern leads your eye towards the altar.
I think that's one of the main changes, also, in architecture: that we're starting to look now not for some ideal form, like a Latin cross for a church, but actually all the traits of a church: so, light that comes from behind from an invisible source, directionality that focuses you towards an altar.
We no longer worship at the altar of character, of kindness, but of innovation and people who create shareholder value.
As the sun rises on a fall morning in 55 BCE, Camma lays two pigeons on the altar at the center of her village.
The Allegra Albert romance was a delight to watch unfold, most REAL men are shy when it comes to wooing the woman of their dreams and had I had Hitch's advice I would probably have got my wife up the altar in half the time.I read the first comment on this film that appeared to suggest that this movie was played safely and good have had a few more laughs.
The premise is simple: At the altar where he is marrying Mathilde Seigner, the groom, Vincent Lindon, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Catherine Deneuve, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.
A number of brides are mysteriously murdered while at the altar, and later their bodies are stolen en route to the morgue.
Behind them, on an altar, a woven basket opens and a figure painted emerges and begins imitating a snake, finally biting one of the dancers on the neck.
Brides are dying at the altar, and their corpses are disappearing.
the lunatic almost had an altar of Brett in her home that could have proved her sick obsession.
Brides are dying at the altar and their corpses are vanishing.
In pondering the reason for existence of Downey's character's significant screen-time in the movie, I decided that either the director had liked his character and unnecessarily increased his screen-time (unlikley, as the director didn't change anything else about the script he actually needed to) or that his character was going to be sacrificed on the altar of bad plotting.
Young brides drop dead at the altar after saying "I do".
An eager local cub reporter(Luana Walters)realizes that each missing bride wore the same rare orchid to the altar; an orchid in which Dr. Lorenz would be most knowledgeable.
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