Sentences with phrase «highly superstitious»

Sivocci, who was highly superstitious, finished ninth in the Targa Florio in 1922, but when he returned for that famed road racing event in 1923, he wanted luck on his side so he used green and white colors to paint a pair of Quadrifoglios on the nose of his Alfa Romeo RL.
Legendary (and highly superstitious) New York Giants manager John McGraw once brought a talentless but pertinacious Kansan named Charles Victory Faust onto the team because a fortune - teller had prophesied that Faust's pitching would win the Giants the pennant.

Not exact matches

Whether it be naive and almost superstitious, or highly spiritual and morally developed, prayer is natural to man.
Yet, Wakanda was also portrayed as extremely superstitious and highly patriarchal.
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