Sentences with word «scrupulosity»
Many priests would no doubt regard daily confession as alarmingly excessive and a sign of scrupulosity, not to mention it being impractical.
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Both women say they suffered from a form of obsessive - compulsive disorder known as scrupulosity.
In scrupulosity, the obsessions have a religious or moral underpinning.
The exhibitions Richardson has organized for the Gagosian Gallery — beginning with «Mosqueteros» in 2009 — are blockbuster events brought off with the same invigorating scrupulosity we know from the biography.
«Only the disease of scrupulosity,» she answered back.
The danger of moral scrupulosity has been pretty much eradicated.
When I first read the Confessions I was irritated by what I took to be Augustine's scrupulosity (the redoubtable «pear tree incident,» for example) and outraged at his characterization of sex as slavery.
If we're pulled out of this direction the result is «desolation and low spiritual morale, darkness, doubt, depression, scrupulosity».
That the scrupulosity of purity may be carried to a fantastic extreme must be admitted.
Yet here we run into a very serious difficulty, since there is always the danger of becoming overly introspective and of falling into the error of «scrupulosity,» against which all masters of the Christian life of discipleship have warned.
Common themes are aggression, sex, scrupulosity, and contamination.