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Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and blasphemous, but incomprehensible.
Religious revivals may occur from time to time, particularly when the relatively impious find that their cultural identity under attack.
Yet they knew that the Massachusett Indians, for example, considered it impious and inhumane to deface the monuments of the dead.
The lares, penates and relics of our sacred ancestors have been spared the impious axe of Jacobin tyranny.
The religious zealots see rai music as the apotheosis of a secular culture they consider lewd and impious.
For some time, we had to fear night visits by the impious and being taken by surprise.
After having escaped from his impious people, Abraham went away as God had directed him.
It would need to be hateful, not merely irreverent, comment, abusively discriminatory, not merely impious or irreligious.
Those who witnessed Christ's arrest, his impious trial, his unjust condemnation, his ignominious death, mistakenly concluded that all had ended.
Does that mean, then, that she and her supporters are impious and immoral?
His friends in New York, most of whom are writers and Broadway columnists, take an impious delight in twitting him about this.
Didn't I tell you that, except for you, nobody should be silly enough to accept and pass to others your inhuman and impious reflexions?
For an artist, only trying to depict the Deity could be more impious than drawing Muhammad.
Reactionaries and interclassists, they must, in the eyes of their respective leaders, fight the rest of an impious society by all means.
The other day I had the great joy of being visited by Berlioz, whom I did not know but have always admired under the nose of the impious.
The number 8 signifies the sentence for the impious and the reward for the righteous, and symbolizes accomplishment and the Advent, hence its Marian nature.
This sacred cave, then, certain impious and godless persons had thought to remove entirely from the eyes of men, supposing in their folly that thus they should be able to effectively obscure the truth.
It is clear that Aristophanes wishes to portray Euripides as impious for divinising parts of himself.
When he destroyed the pleasures of the flesh and illuminated the stony minds of the impious, the whole sect of the heretics trembled and the whole Church of the faithful rejoiced.
The recent departure of the hated Ethiopians and the Shabab's own record of bullying the impious and smashing the gravestones of Sufi saints have lost it some support.
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After all, lefthandedness was impious in religion, subversive to discipline in military affairs and unlisted in business.
In her new elevation the mask was quickly thrown aside, and the impious bacha appeared in her true qualities.
After this the impious books of the heresiarch were brought together and devoutly burned in the presence of an immense crowd.
The presumptuous son of Iapetus, by an impious fraud, brought down fire into the world.
But, though almost daily imbruing his hands in the blood of Bruin, Mik-hoo-tah had not become an impious or cruel-hearted man.
In their opinion, it was impious to secularize ecclesiastical property, and turn it aside to profane purposes.
In a country like this, the plea of necessity for crime is glaringly impious.
It seemed to me as if I had been heard, and that my impious prayers were about to be granted.
Do you not recollect that there was one idea which made the impious impious, and the pious pious?
I might have slain him to dissolve the impious bond, yet I obeyed what is written.
The alleged oath is scurrilous, wicked and libelous and must be the invention of an impious and venomous mind.
We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people.
Is it impious to ask how these builders knew the solar year so completely?
It would be impious to strew our mother's bones along the way.
Don't fancy it, impious scoundrel, for that beyond a doubt thou art, since thou hast set thy tongue going against the peerless Dulcinea.
Copperfield,' said Uriah, making his forgiving nature the subject of a most impious and awful parallel, which I shall not record.
This is so impious and abominable that I can never forgive him for it.
That which is sacred in Samoa to-day may be considered impious in Boston.
I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy.
But it were impious to trace any farther the picture of the blasphemer and parricide's deathbed.
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