Sentences with phrase «by superstitious»

Black cat adoptions have increased - in spite of black cats and kittens often being ignored by superstitious people - and being named after characters from the film.

«You don't have to have your life ruled by superstitious fear.»

The Hallow / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Corin Hardy, Screenwriters: Corin Hardy, Felipe Marino)-- When a London - based conservationist is sent to Ireland to survey an area of ancient forest believed by the superstitious locals to be hallowed ground, he unwittingly disturbs a horde of terrifying beings and must fight to protect his family.

Kurt Russell is the epitome of the smiling mercenary selling lemons to suckers with dirty tricks and phony promises, aided ably by his superstitious buddy Gerrit Graham.

Not to do so is to remain captured by the superstitious morality associated with the terminology foisted on us by Christianity.

Not exact matches

It's all goofy medieval superstitious bullshit created by middle eastern goat herders 2000 + years ago to try to describe what they didn't understand.

The Company Savage by Martin Page (1972) takes an amusing look at US society through the lens of an anthropologist studying a primitive, superstitious society.

I can prove beyond reasonable doubt that the bible is nothing but a bunch of fairy tales written by uneducated, superstitious barbarians.

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.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

In remarks that have been frequently cited by his detractors, Spong complained that African Anglicans had «moved out of animism into a very superstitious kind of Christianity» and had yet to face «the intellectual revolution of Copernicus and Einstein that we've had to face in the developing world.»

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.

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.

Besides I've read your «rulebook» and found it to be a poorly constructed mishmash of superstitious nonsense written by ignorant primitive men.

This superstitious understanding of consumer religion becomes even more noticeable in other devices used by broadcasters to obtain contributions.

The mark of such superstitious magic, we may say, is still here; but the arrogant intent of magic is prohibited by the very commandment.

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.

Hartshorne does ask why Anselm chose his formula, «That than which nothing greater...» and answers, «I suppose because he takes it for granted that by «God» is meant the universal object of worship, and if God could have a superior, then only the ignorant or superstitious would worship Him» (p. 26).

Not only has daily life been transformed by science — for example, we no longer look to the realm of the sacred for a framework to organize our lives — even Western religion itself has become more rational, less «superstitious.»

Some superstitious and belief: by eating Tang Yuen, we will be one year older, instead of waiting for the Chinese New Year, where the starts of a new year in a Chinese Calendar.

Van Gaal, who was quoted by the Daily Star, said: «It's strange because I'm not superstitious, so we have to change that feeling also with Wayne.

The superstitious among us will be comforted by two things ahead of this match.

I feel like I might jinx myself by saying this (because I'm a wee bit superstitious though I don't like to admit that), but the garden is in a decent place.

After the 1991 Gulf War, a Tel Aviv psychologist found that Israelis in cities attacked by SCUD missiles were more superstitious than residents of SCUD - free cities.

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

But if you're superstitious or not this is a trend you shouldn't let pass you by, a piece incorporating the eye motif should definitely be worked into your accessories collection.

She was very old - fashioned and superstitious, and once, tried to «prevent» my 13 month old cousin from being left - handed by hitting her hand, repeatedly, with a water bottle.

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground.

Superstitious locals believe the woods are inhabited by baby - stealing demons — a concept Adam dismisses until strange things begin to happen in and around the home where they're staying.

(In Altman, even friendship is contingent: the two meet by chance at a casino and stick together only on a superstitious hunch that they may bring each other good luck.)

When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by murders of young boys, superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local witch (Florinda Bolkan, A LIZARD IN A WOMAN»S SKIN.)

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.

And these children are now rendered invisible by the DOE's superstitious game of musical chairs under the auspices of students» best interests.

«Anything Helps» sees a homeless man try to raise money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book; and in «Virgo,» a newspaper editor attempts to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope.

In Taiwan - described by author Ed Lin as the most superstitious place in the world - the entire month of August is «ghost month,» dedicated to commemorating the dead.

But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic - materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable - loving, primitive ages of humanity.

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).

In Plutarch Caesar, who is himself superstitious, is frightened by the prodigies of nature and by Calphurnia's dream, whereas she «until that time was never given to any fear or superstition.»

Definition of a Superstitious Behavior: Accidentally or unintentionally reinforced behavior where a behavior is reinforced but the reinforcement occurred by random chance instead of in accordance with a specific contingency.

I should have been more trusting, but I am suspicious by nature, superstitious and paranoid.

That is not skepticism: it is the superstitious denial of reality by a true believer who refuses to accept the scientific evidence which refutes his belief.

Science is wisely seldom distracted by all this supernatural / superstitious irrelevance.

For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.

Also, by religion's focus on supernatural / superstitious beings or realms, I am not endorsing their view that they exist.

All this superstitious claptrap you toss around by investing the number with extraneous properties pulled out of your butt is mere annoyance.

So, how could it be possibly surprise anyone that superstitious fears about global warming would not be used as a political weapon against America by secular - socialists and the UN?

He also likened belief in carbon «pollution» to the superstitious beliefs of primitive civilizations, illustrating his point with a 1933 newspaper article describing a drought in Syria that was blamed by locals on yo - yo toys.