Sentences with phrase «on superstitious»

Depending on the superstitious bent of the buyer, I could be in big trouble.

Trial lawyers, it turns out, are as dependent on superstitious rituals as pro athletes, writer Mary Flood tells us this week in the Houston Chronicle, relying on good luck charms along with legal skills in hopes of success in the courtroom.

But these claims border on the superstitious.

her daughter Kasia Adamik, they powerfully capitalize on the superstitious perception of women being close in touch with nature to call out for environmentalism.

Collaborating to adapt Olga Tokarczuk's novel Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead (not yet in English) and directing with her daughter Kasia Adamik, they powerfully capitalize on the superstitious perception of women being close in touch with nature to call out for environmentalism.

(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.)

This little fact destroys omnivore theory based on superstitious false belief that animal protein (meat) makes us smarter.

- Christianity is a false belief system based on superstitious myths.

Egoism rests on a superstitious absolutizing of self - identity and consequent absolutizing of nonidentity with other persons....

Not exact matches

Traders» superstitious fears about Friday the 13th are based somewhat on history.

It may seem superstitious to superimpose meaning on the timing, but maybe the only way it wouldn't was if he had passed right on August 9 of that year.

(Well, the character Mud is kind of Christian on personal evil, while being superstitious.

As modern knowledge advances and hitherto insoluble problems are solved, a good deal of religion will be seen to be based on false premises, to be inadequate for modern conceptions of the universe, or to be little more than a collection of superstitious taboos.

It is a kind of submarine life in which faith sometimes mysteriously takes on the aspect of doubt, when, in fact, one has to doubt and reject conventional and superstitious surrogates that have taken the place of faith.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

And even if temporal help is the most absurd and unreasonable of all expectations, yet one would sooner whip up his superstitious imagination to hope for it than to lay hold on the Eternal.

It took on a ritualized, even superstitious tone.

They took along with them four principal priests, who made their laws and instructed them in their rites, and ceremonies and in the most superstitious, cruel, and bloody sacrifices ever known, as will be seen farther on in this account, where the sacrifices are described in detail.

Some Evangelicals wondered whether Catholics were really Christians, thinking that the Catholic emphasis on the Mass, Mary and the saints tended toward superstitious idolatry rather than biblical Christianity.

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

kermi: A link was posted to livescience.com yesterday that would have educated you on what are actual vestigial, however I'm guessing that given that it is actually based on solid evidence and not superstitious mumbo (aka the bible) you didn't read it.

The clever people who understood reality from imaginary were apparently looking down on those naïve folk who still had superstitious worries.

His goal was to promote «a universal rational religion that eschewed meaningless, superstitious rituals, and focused instead on a few simply moral principles, above all to love one's neighbor as oneself.

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

Hence, his incredible statement that the growth of the superstitious search for and veneration of relics in the Middle Ages «bordered on excess and credulity.»

After four months of desperate attempts to save my faith, I came to the sad conclusion that my faith was based on an ancient superstition; a superstition not based on lies, but based on the sincere but false beliefs of uneducated, superstitious, first century peasants.

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.

In the end, his fear of the misrepresentation of the Jews and the bad effect it might have on his relationship with the emperor was greater than his superstitious fear of Jesus or his duty as a judge to administer justice.

Anyone Named «Luck» Receives Free Wayback Classic Cheeseburger on May 13th To superstitious Americans, Friday the 13th is known as the unluckiest day of the year.

The superstitious man then went home and placed a 1200 euro bet on McIlroy to win the Masters, who is favored 11/1.

«I was going to put some money on Rory to win The Masters this year anyway, but I'm pretty superstitious so when this happened instead of putting $ 120 down, I decided to go big and put $ 1,200 on through my Betfair account.

The reason I didn't is because when we go on bad runs I try to change my routine up as I'm a very superstitious person, its probably silly but I do it anyway.

It looks like P.K. Subban is very superstitious and the Cup they had on hand for this was actually a replica.

A birdie on No. 9 gave the superstitious one a share of the lead with Matsuyama at 7 - under — until the 25 - year - old from Japan buried his birdie on the par - 5 10 to retake the lead.

The Europa League draw on the 13th of Friday for those who are superstitious gave Arsenal a ghastly baddest draw against Atletico Madrid.

Im guessing that @rahman is one of those superstitious fans who believes if he comes out saying Arsenal will win, would put the mockers on it.

Dennis Haysbert's Cerrano character was based on the Alou brothers and some of the Latin ballplayers who were known to be a little superstitious.

It's all superstition, sure, and won't have an actual influence on the series, but, like with the Red Sox streak of failure from 1919 until 2004, sometimes its easier to be superstitious than it is to admit that your team spent a century running itself like they deserved to lose.

I am not a superstitious person: I do not try to avoid black cats, I step on cracks in the pavement, and I avoid breaking mirrors because it's just plain impractical.

Whilst we are too nervous and superstitious to predict the score we have some ideas of things that may happen not on the pitch, but in the commentary booth.

For anyone who is superstitious with dates I am happy to relate that in the past twenty years we have played five FA Cup ties on January 6, and haven't lost any of them.

She is so lucky, knock on wood, I'm literally knocking on wood because I am that superstitious.

The cycle might continue, as if a superstitious thought about something good happening might bring on a heartbreaking outcome.

Whoever said we are a very religious country forgot to tack on that we are also a very superstitious country.

When our news team visited the crime scene on Monday, a strange development was noticed: human excreta was found near the very spot where the victim was discovered, a development some superstitious residents believe is meant to foil attempts to track perpetrators of the heinous crime.

«I'm not really a superstitious person at all, but I enjoy watching»30 Rock» and «Parks and Recreation» on Netflix.»

Whenever there was an opportunity to make a wish, whether it was my birthday or the superstitious 11:11 on the clock, I always made the same wish: «to be thin.»

She practices, teaches, and writes about feng shui on her website Feng Shui With Me in a way that is easy to implement right away, without resorting to dubious and superstitious cures.

I don't know if I'm superstitious or it's my Irish surname Boland, but I always like to wear a touch of green on St. Patrick's Day.

She is a superstitious lady and there should be no black or white in the household on Chinese New Year.