Sentences with phrase «as superstitious»

The horseshoe arch was originally designed as a superstitious and symbolic emblem to provide protection and bring good fortune into the home.

The same thing happened from 1910 to about 1954, but climate scientists weren't as superstitious or stupid back then.

Agamemnon sacrificed his only daughter to fix the climate, and humans are obviously just as superstitious as we were in his time.

Ch 6.5 Training Your Intuition Intuition is often either knocked as superstitious (by Logic Brain types) or embraced as a mystical power (by Creative Brain types).

New Deal Used Cars, the scrappy underdog, is run by kindly but simple Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), whose small sales staff includes Russell as corrupt Rudy Russo, Gerrit Graham as superstitious sex addict Jeff, hyper intelligent dog Toby, and clueless mechanic Jim, last seen in Spielberg's 1941.

MS: Are you as superstitious as Jeff, your character in «Used Cars?»

Their closest neighbor, Colm Donnelly (Michael McElhatton), tries repeatedly to meet with Adam and Clare — to warn them about tampering with the trees — but they rebuff him as the superstitious village kook.

The clear path for the Cubs either worries you as a superstitious type, thrills you as a positive type or makes you excited about the huge pile of baseball that somebody is about to step into.

There they were the object of considerable hostility from Greeks and Romans who regarded them as superstitious, exclusive, and — in the words of Tacitus — hostile to the human race.

Both groups wanted to differentiate their beliefs about God from those of popular religions, which they regarded as superstitious.

I believe in the truth of Astrology but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic.»

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

Not exact matches

(sorry, I probably should have put G.Z. first in that word grouping, such as «Ground Zero / Mosque» since Ground Zero is more important... or is that an immature and silly SUPERSTITIOUS thing to worry about?

If I say, «Mediaeval documents attest certain miracles as much as they attest certain battles,» they answer, «But mediaevals were superstitious»; if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles.

«Practitioners of Falun Gong, as well as other Buddhist, folk religionist, and Protestant groups deemed «superstitious» or «evil cults» face long jail terms, forced denunciations of faith and torture in detention, and the government has not sufficiently answered accusations of psychiatric experimentation and organ harvesting.»

Indeed, some of our assumptions are just as preposterous and superstitious, just as irrational and absurd.

At this present time the Church is taken very seriously in atheist - Communist countries, and hardly ever looked upon as a mere hangover from a superstitious past.

As modern knowledge advances and hitherto insoluble problems are solved, a good deal of religion will be seen to be based on false premises, to be inadequate for modern conceptions of the universe, or to be little more than a collection of superstitious taboos.

Where the Eternal does not come to heal such a sufferer, what happens, with the aid of cleverness, is about as follows: first, the sufferer lives for some years by an earthly hope; but when this is exhausted and the suffering still continues, then he becomes superstitious, his state of health alternates between drowsiness and burning excitement.

Because faith can so easily degenerate into superstition and self - deception, it calls upon skepticism as its ally in its unceasing attempt to purify itself from superstitious and deceptive elements.

They took along with them four principal priests, who made their laws and instructed them in their rites, and ceremonies and in the most superstitious, cruel, and bloody sacrifices ever known, as will be seen farther on in this account, where the sacrifices are described in detail.

It may well be said here that we have gleaned the best; much is repetitious, meaningless (to us at least), superstitious, crude, even savage and licentious, but if God is where the Good, the True, the Beautiful are found, who can deny that among these people there were those who saw something of His face as they «sought after if haply they might find him?»

He knows, loves, and serves not God but his own species through reading novels and journals, visiting art galleries and museums where altarpieces are admired as artifacts from a superstitious age.

Many Christians appear to be worshiping the Bible as a Holy book, which seems blasphemous and superstitious to me really.

J. D. Myers sheds the religious and superstitious garb off of prayer and makes a simple, provocative, and liberating claim: Prayer is talking to God as you would talk to a friend.

There are no superstitious preparations before traveling among Muslims, such as the custom of choosing a lucky day to travel by the use of diagrams or by drawing lots.

Because of the peculiar customs of the Jahriyah sect, which are judged to be superstitious, they are regarded as heretical by the other Muslims.

Prayer is a perennial fact about men as men; and one might say that insofar as sophisticated moderns have assumed that prayer is an outworn, superstitious practice, they have by that token ceased to be men and have contented themselves with being a rather sophisticated variety of simian.

It also retains strong elements of pre-Islamic Arabic paganism, such as worship at the Ka» ba or holy house of Allah at Mecca and many superstitious, even magical practices.

He gives an account of himself in close accord with the superstitious folk image of the Jew as ritual murderer, poisoner, and ruthless enemy of humanity» but especially of Christians.

Once sealed, the tombs were perhaps the least likely of all places to be disturbed, for in Egypt as elsewhere, there was a superstitious dread of the dead and anything connected with them.

Both shows are ready to see an innocent child as tainted irreversibly by its father's crime — a superstitious and inhumane view that, fortunately, has no place in The Innocents.

His goal was to promote «a universal rational religion that eschewed meaningless, superstitious rituals, and focused instead on a few simply moral principles, above all to love one's neighbor as oneself.

Just as it surely might have been cleared up in the Logic what «transition» is and means, before going over to write three volumes describing its workings in the categories, astounding the superstitious, and making so difficult the situation of one who would gladly owe much to the superior mind and express his gratitude for what he owes, but nevertheless can not over this forget what Hegel himself must have considered the matter of principal importance.

The Roman Canon Law, still in force, had all sorts of superstitious regulations about the consecrated bread, that it was not to be touched by anyone other than a priest, that if one of the breads was dropped various purificatory rules had to be performed; now instead of simply lifting the rules, on the contrary, they almost compel everyone to touch the Sacrament, with a kind of compulsive hysteria, as far removed from the Gospel as the Roman rules themselves, though in the opposite direction.

In the end, his fear of the misrepresentation of the Jews and the bad effect it might have on his relationship with the emperor was greater than his superstitious fear of Jesus or his duty as a judge to administer justice.

As materialists dismissed the soul altogether, Christian thinkers felt the idea more and more to be an intellectual embarrassment, associating it with denigration of the body and a superstitious view of creation.

It is exactly such a sentimental and superstitious understanding of miracles - namely, as God's arbitrary violation of the natural order to heed clamant human request - that Alyosha is required to surrender.

Anyone Named «Luck» Receives Free Wayback Classic Cheeseburger on May 13th To superstitious Americans, Friday the 13th is known as the unluckiest day of the year.

The reason I didn't is because when we go on bad runs I try to change my routine up as I'm a very superstitious person, its probably silly but I do it anyway.

If the superstitious attitude about November is to be believed, it naturally follows that we could be stung through complacency as we start December.

My only concern about Welbeck and it's a completely superstitious concern is that he wears the number 23 shirt... Think of the last 2 players to wear that shirt, Bendtner and Arshavin, look how they turned out... Really hope it's different with Welbeck as I'm sure it will be!

Hah yeah, I saw him hop over the foul line an inning back as he was walking back to the dugout, instantly made me think that he was being superstitious (about the perfect game he was throwing)!

Included in the stash of superstitious belongings were old headbands that she no longer wore, as well as the Sac Joaquin Section runner - up medal from one of Granite Bay's last losses, which came way back in November 2012.

The cycle might continue, as if a superstitious thought about something good happening might bring on a heartbreaking outcome.

I actually went so far as to become oddly superstitious about it.

Before he became prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli described the Irish as a «wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race [who] have no sympathy with the English character».

I sometimes make superstitious choices but disguise them as tradition or unassailable preference.

Almost overnight, the perception of alchemy became conflated with an unforgiving view of the protoscientific world as one populated by mystics and superstitious fools.

People are superstitious and think they are bad luck or are scared of them because you can't see them as well in the dark (which makes me laugh).