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416 examples of Sacred in a sentence

Look for the sacred awe.
Well, religious ritual and rites were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary, to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants of that sacred, revelatory encounter that birthed the religion in the first place.
Like going to temple or a mosque or a church, or any other religious institution, movie-going is, in many ways, a sacred ritual.
A sense that they were simultaneously icky and sacred.
I recently sailed on the Hokulea, named after the sacred star of Hawaii, throughout the South Pacific to make a film about the navigators.
You run down to the base of the sacred mountain, Antakillqa.
It's kind of like an Andean Woodstock: 60,000 Indians on pilgrimage to the end of a dirt road that leads to the sacred valley, called the Sinakara, which is dominated by three tongues of the great glacier.
You place the cross into the ice, in the shadow of Ausangate, the most sacred of all Apus, or sacred mountains of the Inca.
But more importantly, it was linked in to the Andean notions of sacred geography.
The intiwatana, the hitching post to the sun, is actually an obelisk that constantly reflects the light that falls on the sacred Apu of Machu Picchu, which is Sugarloaf Mountain, called Huayna Picchu.
The sacred river, the Urubamba, or the Vilcanota, which is itself the Earthly equivalent of the Milky Way, but it's also the trajectory that Viracocha walked at the dawn of time when he brought the universe into being.
These really are a people who live and breathe the realm of the sacred, a baroque religiosity that is simply awesome.
This little boy will never step outside of the sacred fields that surround the men's hut for all that time, until he begins his journey of initiation.
We were able to, because we had trained people in filmmaking, continue with our work, and send our Wiwa and Arhuaco filmmakers to the final sacred lakes to get the last shots for the film, and we followed the rest of the Arhuaco back to the sea, taking the elements from the highlands to the sea.
And here you see how their sacred landscape has been covered by brothels and hotels and casinos, and yet, still they pray.
James Madison wrote, "If there is any principle more sacred in our Constitution, and indeed in any free constitution, than any other, it is that which separates the legislative, the executive and the judicial powers."
It had to be open, welcoming to people of all faiths, walks of life, backgrounds, or no faith at all; a new form of sacred space with no pattern or models to draw from.
How do you design sacred space today?
And how do you even define what's sacred today?
And of course, that this temple belongs to people, the collective, of many cultures and walks of life, many beliefs, and for me, what's most important is what it feels like on the inside; that it feel intimate, sacred, and that everyone is welcome.
This violation of the sacred hospitality tradition greatly angered the gods.
They challenge us and force us to look at one another for who we truly are in the hopes of possibly connecting our souls, and for that reason, they are sacred.
When you're a little bit older, like my tiny personal self, you realize that death is as sacred as birth.
So it's sacred; it's important to us.
Sacred son of air, father of fury, heat dancing vigorously between perfection and beauty.
Now, culture isn't just about language, food, clothing and music, but gender relations, ancient monuments, a heritage of sacred texts.
And what about the large number of people across the globe who can't point to a monument from their past, who don't possess a sacred written text, who can't hark back to the past glories of a civilization or empire?
This very same word can also mean "slave" and dancers were in fact known as knhom preah robam, or "slaves of the sacred dance."
So, if anyone wants to join, the basic idea is, whether or not there is a God, there's something important and beautiful about the idea of sacredness, and that our rituals can be sacred.
The Sabbath can be sacred.
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