Sentences with phrase «heretical act»

Even in this day and age of anything goes, that is a quietly heretical act.»

A heretical act such as the Chapman brothers» defacements of Goya in 2003 paradoxically revealed the way in which art history has continually, and indelibly, impinged on the here - and - now.

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By declaring and conducting jihad on their own, al - Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram, and other such groups act as heretical usurpers.

Wisest: Ray Hollenbach with «Bring the Script to Life» «Would it be too heretical to suggest that the words of the Bible on the printed page are not really the word of God until we act upon them?

[Johnson] boldly and simply stated that he would have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which drew boos, as did his heretical opinion that drivers licenses might be a legitimate state function.

Although the heretical «maximalist» Stella divided critics, his extravagant flights into literal space extended his definition of paintings as objects and seeing as a physical act.