Sentences with phrase «as sacrilegious»

We thought it was an interesting element in the background, but the company thought it may be perceived as sacrilegious.

Purists may declare BMW using an FWD layout as sacrilegious, but that alone does not determine the fate of a car.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as sacrilegious and callous, the gruesome murder of two Catholic priests and worshippers at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Ukpor,...

There have been reactionary times when the past laid its dead hand oppressively upon the present, when all old things were glorified and all new things were hated, when the new iron plowshares were preached against as sacrilegious.

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As Suhag Shukla, director of the Hindu American Foundation, explained to us in a 2016 interview, practicing secularized versions of these ancient techniques is not sacrilegious.

Or are you one of the ones who thinks it's sacrilegious to spell «God», as if God would be fooled by the use of «Gd» instead.

I admit that referring to any television viewing as «sacred time» is a bit sacrilegious, especially coming from an Episcopal priest.

As a practicing Popsiclebyterian, I have to object to the use of the Holy Tongue Depressor with a naked guy painted on it for this sacrilegious art show.

President Muhammadu Buhari referred to the perpetrators of the Mbalom attack as «gunmen» and assured «the people of Benue, and all Nigerians» that the government would «ensure that the assailants are apprehended and brought to justice for this vile and sacrilegious act.»

More than two weeks after the Eid el Kabir celebration in Nigeria, the conduct of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, during an Eid prayer in Ado - Ekiti, seems to have gathered a sudden storm following a condemnation by the President of the Muslim Rights Concern, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, who described his action as «highly sacrilegious and unduly provocative.»

The statement read in part, «The killing of any Nigerian in circumstance such as this is bad enough, but the killing of two reverend fathers in one fell swoop inside a church during Mass is most sacrilegious, provocative, a deliberate assault on the Christian Faith and an open invitation to a religious war from which we pray merciful God to deliver Nigeria.

As a record standing almost entirely on nostalgia, sure, it gives schmaltzy»70s dance music a fine, not - sacrilegious update and sets it to a pleasant neon glow, but it's a trip through history that's almost more educational than immersive.

While he tries to maintain his cover as a deaf mute and stay on the straight and narrow, the nuns» increasingly wild (and totally sacrilegious) behavior threatens to send him over the edge.

What seemed ingenious, a tad sacrilegious, on the printed page comes off as just plain dopey on the big screen, despite some wonderful Mathew Brady - inspired tableaux by veteran photog Caleb Deschanel («The Natural») and an amiably awkward performance by Benjamin Walker, who as Lincoln resembles a young Liam Neeson.

Some may also find the intentional revisionist history of the glam - rock story and its participants (David Bowie, Iggy Pop, etc) sacrilegious, though by this point it should be evident that Haynes is not interested in events as they actually happen.

All this may seem sacrilegious to the purists, but like the Cayenne, those folks need to view the Panamera as just another extension that allows Porsche to continue to develop and build those beloved 911s and Boxsters and the like.

For a brand like Lamborghini, such ambitions would be unthinkable ten years ago because deviating from the rich heritage of building some of the greatest sportscars ever (Miura, Countach) into something as crass as SUVs is sacrilegious to traditionalists.

I know a lot of people view this title as a classic, and it might be slightly sacrilegious to view it as an amusing diversion, but that's my response, and it's the reason I'll keep it in mind when making manga purchases on my tablet.

But sacrilegious as it may sound, a +8.2 % YTD gain for the S&P 500 isn't all that extraordinary... Sure, it's within spitting distance of the market's average annual return, but that doesn't mean much — history confirms annual returns tend to rack up in just a few months, with the market faffing around for the rest of year.

There's exploding sheep, banana bombs, kamikaze pigeons, and sacrilegious holy hand grenades, all taking chunks out of the level as they go off.

Delight as word spreads across the Internet that a «sacrilegious crime» has been committed, meaning you dominate headlines.

Together, they give chase in hopes of cornering the cantankerous Koopa King, hopping between Kingdoms to lay objection towards the sacrilegious ceremony and return Toadstool to her previous position as the Mushroom Kingdom's most eligible bachelorette.

The resulting heterogeneous, even sacrilegious, collection of photographs is hung edge - to - edge in a carefully specified non-chronological order, a strategy of visual leveling that forces us to search out connections from one image to the next, confronting and contemplating the human form as our ancestors have done for thousands of years.

For painting and sculpture stalwarts like Rosenberg and Greenberg, however, citing Pollock's practice as license for Happenings would have seemed sacrilegious.

In the post-Pop world of his early career, the idea of calling a lampshade a work of art was sacrilegious; colors such as pastel pink or eau de nil — signature Chaimowicz hues — were anathema.

This is almost sacrilegious to say within living memory of the recent national celebration of hockey known as «Hockey Day in Canada».

Phang got a pained expression on his face, as though it was somehow sacrilegious for Vu even to be referring to the organization's enterprises.

More importantly, the update solves this sacrilegious mistake of Samsung representing chocolate chip cookie emoji as crackers: