| Freedom or Sacrilege dealt with contrasting stances on the issue of Welsh church disestablishment but where he came down in favour of the freedom obtained under the latter. |
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| Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism. |
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| He also stated that to mix the psalms and uninspired hymns together is sacrilege. |
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| Intervention by authority was necessary for very serious sins such as adultery, murder, and sacrilege. |
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| At the synod a catalogue of John's crimes was presented, ranging from rape to sacrilege. |
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| On paper, it does sound like sacrilege for this screen goddess to wear a silly hat, get drunk, and make a public scene. |
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| A beard and a mustache have been added to the face of the devil in the picture, so that the killer is guilty of sacrilege no less than murder. |
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| For the Actionists, as for the artists cited above, there is no notion of sacrilege or blasphemy. |
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| He figures this 'mangia cake' won't understand the sacrilege of beer and pasta. |
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| It would be sacrilege not to visit the famous Minoan palace at Knossos, which is within an easy drive of Fodele. |
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| That we can still think of wringing out a song from all this is worse than heresy, blasphemy, sacrilege. |
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| This noble, chivalrous gesture must have seemed like sacrilege or blasphemy to them, and they were probably afraid of the spirits of the dead. |
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| It is a sacrilege to his fawning American fans to think that he can do any wrong. |
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| In Hinduism, then, the wanton destruction of forests is not just something merely inexpedient, it is a sacrilege. |
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| At the grave risk of committing sacrilege, let's tread some dangerous ground infested with landmines. |
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| If not, come to gawk at a level of sacrilege no other religious culture would even dream of condoning. |
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| He was even prepared to utter what would once have been considered sacrilege. |
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| She could tell he considered such sacrilege a bad omen for their expedition inland. |
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| Some might consider this sacrilege, but the contrast with Shakespeare's play, Othello, is striking. |
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| The four knights tried to drag him outside, to avoid aggravating their sacrilege by defiling the sanctuary. |
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| It is heresy, sacrilege, a pockmark upon the face of our National Pastime! |
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| Rejecting a person begging for protection counted as sacrilege. |
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| Likening him to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela is sacrilege. |
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| But the stilted dialogue and bizarre narrative conceits pale in comparison with some of the sacrilege being committed here. |
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| In this respect, sacrilege as it may seem, Netanyahu may actually most closely resemble Yitzhak Rabin. |
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| His gesture is so bold it has a whiff of sacrilege, not just of art-world rebellion. |
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| Clodius was a bitter opponent of Cicero because Cicero had testified against him in a sacrilege case. |
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| Heading to the Grand Canyon State knowing that I wasn't visiting its main attraction felt like sacrilege. |
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| The Sun God insisted that Zeus punish the men for this sacrilege. |
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| Meanwhile, the city of Amphissa began to work lands that were sacred to Apollo near Delphi, a sacrilege that gave Philip the opportunity to further intervene in Greek affairs. |
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| The wine was destined for a monastery and the church cried sacrilege. |
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| When Caligula wanted to place a golden statue of his deified self in the Temple in Jerusalem, the potential sacrilege and likely war were prevented only by his timely death. |
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