Sentences with word «superstitious»

Though I believe that a personal God exists... I accept that for many believers, their understanding of Him falls into the realm of superstitious beliefs.

But not superstitious about it.

Or maybe they just weren't superstitious when it comes to tempting the fates, who really knows?

Footballer's are very superstitious people so another defeat would have been a total mind fuk.

Agamemnon sacrificed his only daughter to fix the climate, and humans are obviously just as superstitious as we were in his time.

On the rumors that she was engaged after she wore a ring on her engagement finger at the BAFTAs: «I'm just not very superstitious about rings.

«You don't have to have your life ruled by superstitious fear.»

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.

When you are walking on a sidewalk, with cracks, do you avoid them for superstitious reasons?

This will be my last response to you pogue... most of us do not require your belief in superstitious nonsense to be good people.

Stories passed down from superstitious primitive peoples that were try to make sense of a world without science.

I'm a little superstitious about my writing.

Besides I've read your «rulebook» and found it to be a poorly constructed mishmash of superstitious nonsense written by ignorant primitive men.

Black cat adoptions have increased - in spite of black cats and kittens often being ignored by superstitious people - and being named after characters from the film.

Superstitious locals believe the woods are inhabited by baby - stealing demons — a concept Adam dismisses until strange things begin to happen in and around the home where they're staying.

It was particularly valuable because it was associated with a variety of superstitious practices.

The more superstitious among us attribute ghosts to the things we don't yet understand.

«It's been around long enough that it established itself among superstitious people with no real scientific knowledge,» = > Ok, now you are way off base.

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.

Such an approach assumes that in theory everything can be given a natural explanation and that miracle stories belong to a pre-scientific superstitious age.

I have often thought that the church has an almost superstitious view of baptism.

Chiuri's acknowledgment of Mr Dior's superstitious nature yielded some beautiful astrological and tarot embroideries on taffeta dresses.

The director was a bit superstitious about watching the nominations but her crew insisted they all get togetehr.

However, when you attach this tendency to a brain that's evolved to seek meaning and explanations for everything, even where events are completely random, you get all sorts of unexpected consequences, like superstitious behavior, religious beliefs and stock market crashes.

Or did you simply warp your sweeping statement regarding a bunch of superstitious villagers into a political encapsulation merely so that you could then say:

(sorry, I probably should have put G.Z. first in that word grouping, such as «Ground Zero / Mosque» since Ground Zero is more important... or is that an immature and silly SUPERSTITIOUS thing to worry about?

I felt also at the same time a strong feeling of superstitious dread, as if something strange and fearful were about to happen.»

>> «Should I celebrate my 13th wedding anniversary or pretend it doesn't exist like superstitious people do when building apartment blocks?»

im not saying ur a hex but im mad superstitious when it comes to arsenal games.

«It turns out strategic planning is just superstitious babble.»

Otherwise Prof. Wenger will become superstitious about November, and who wants that?

Within her right but against medical advice, Pat's mother Dolores (Jacki Weaver) pulls him out of the institution to come back to his Philadelphia home to live with her and Pat Sr. (Robert De Niro), a fanatical, highly superstitious Philadelphia Eagles fan who, having recently lost his job, now relies on a home bookmaking business.

According to Dr Lindeburg Kitavans are an extremely superstitious race and are gripped by an intense fear of supernatural beings.

Among his best known roles are Beef in «Phantom of the Paradise» (recently released on Blu - ray), the overly superstitious Jeff in the classic comedy «Used Cars» and Franklin on the animated hit «The Critic.»

Bradley Cooper finally gets the chance to show what he's fully capable of in the best role of his career, and Robert De Niro has some great moments as Cooper's superstitious father, but it's Jennifer Lawrence (already so good at such a young age) who steals the show with a phenomenal performance fully deserving of her recent Oscar win.

It does when moving from superstition, religious dogma, witch - doctoring and superstitious theories of illness: as when we move to the germ theory of disease and a modern understanding biology, because people get cured, and ignorance is vanquished.

PB: There are two thoughts on this, as a majority of people find it creepy or are even superstitious about someone dying in the home or apartment they're living in.

It's unnecessary, and I think it's very clear he did not want people to celebrate his image, or «dates» with only superstitious meaning as that is the strive of religion.

We find people in this day and age are generally less superstitious.

We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.

I must admit, I'm a bit wary of Christians (and other spiritual - type people) who can't or won't consider the uncomfortable possibility that their spirituality is a figment of their own superstitious imagination.

The fact City have underperformed in West London so far this season may be a load of superstitious old nonsense, even though it is a fact.

In Taiwan - described by author Ed Lin as the most superstitious place in the world - the entire month of August is «ghost month,» dedicated to commemorating the dead.