Sentences with word «fakir»
A fakir is a religious mendicant or ascetic who leads a life of poverty and detachment from material possessions in order to focus on spiritual pursuits. Full definition
Another example is the Society of American Fakirs at the Art Students League of New York City, a group of students who, between 1891 and 1906, annually produced parodies of the works of artists they were supposed to revere, like John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins.
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The two Italians are similarly connected by their ironic evocation of religion, evident in Cattelan's eyebrow - raising installation with a buried fakir at this summer's Venice Biennale.
Tonight's lecture at the Morbid Anatomy Museum suggests that this dates back to Weimar Berlin's era of anarchy and decadence, where fake fakirs — religious ascetics who live solely on alms — got by with their gnarly nails and pins piercing.
For example, at Tatta in Sind (the ancient port of Pattiala at the mouth of Indus), there is a fakir community which calls itself by an Aramaic name, something like «Bartolmai», and claims to have been descended from St. Thomas's converts and to have books and relics to prove it.
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fakir / / lacazette (and fakir are a double act that are lighting up the french league atm) / higuain this would take us to within touching distance of the c / l semis or even final if all bond in right COYG
amour scout Brian McDermott was at the Lyon game on Saturday watching until it, fakir and Lacazette.
The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing his possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.
The League has put on some legendary parties in the past — Fakirs» Balls, Dream Balls, and 140NOW — and this...
The League has put on some legendary parties in the past — Fakirs» Balls, Dream Balls, and 140NOW — and this one promises to be a fabulous evening of dancing, performance, costumes, and over-the-top FUN.
Therein the weight of authority is that astrologers, conjurers, fakirs, magicians, mediums, and all variety of pretenders to supernatural power, and who assume to sell the same for money, are amenable to the criminal law of false pretenses.
However, selling in the mail, the court has held that, based on 18 U.S.C.A. S1341 (Frauds and swindles): Therein the weight of authority is that astrologers, conjurers, fakirs, magicians, mediums, and all variety of pretenders to supernatural power, and who assume to sell the same for money, are amenable to the criminal law of...