Sentences with phrase «for sacred relics»

Not exact matches

While trying to sell the horse, a monk offers him a packet of magic beans — sacred relics from the story of the prologue — for the horse so that he may escape the treacherous Roderick (Stanley Tucci), who is engaged to Isabelle and has diabolical plans.

And for Miles» father Morris, a prominent publisher, it is books — perhaps, as Auster so deftly illustrates here, the most sacred relics of all.

When a nun is burned alive on the sacred ghats of Varanasi, and the stone she carried is stolen, an international hunt is triggered for the relics of the early church.

Once again, Link struggles against his nemesis, Ganondorf, for control of the sacred relic known as the Triforce.

If her dental bridge also looks like a sacred relic, she liked to save things for her art, like a broken ceramic cup.

On the other hand, «face time» (for the sake of face time) is, for better and worse, more than simply an antiquated relic of a simpler time — in some cases it may seem an almost sacred element of firm culture.»