Sentences with phrase «superstitious when»

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

It turns out that we are superstitious when it comes to crying babies and didn't want to jinx the fact that this could be a different kind of baby.

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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.

Where the Eternal does not come to heal such a sufferer, what happens, with the aid of cleverness, is about as follows: first, the sufferer lives for some years by an earthly hope; but when this is exhausted and the suffering still continues, then he becomes superstitious, his state of health alternates between drowsiness and burning excitement.

For instance, one of Hamann's works composed in French is a sardonically fawning open letter to Frederick the Great (whose superstitious servility to the mythology of Enlightenment reason Hamann particularly detested) called To the Solomon of Prussia, a text so savage and unrestrained in its mockery that no one would publish it when it was first written for fear of the state censor.

There is an awareness of old Roman augury and priesthood, back when legislators «derived much of their power from the influence, of religion, or from that implicit belief which an ignorant and, superstitious people entertain of the gods, and their interposition in every transaction of life.»

When Christians say superspiritual things like that, they're just being superstitious.

This may be fine for Protestants who believe that Catholicism simply perpetuates feudal ideas and superstitious belief, but it is not a very helpful point of view when trying to understand the French with sympathy.

I wouldn't call myself superstitious, but I'll still find myself thinking into the sayings «bad things happen in three's» and «when it rains it pours.»

When the tomatoes start to disintegrate (with the help of your wooden spoon) add about half a bottle of good Passata (you could of course use either just passata or canned tomatoes but this works for me and I'm superstitious).

«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.

WHAT YOU DID N'T KNOW: Brooke is extremely superstitious, especially when it comes to volleyball.

When I was pregnant with Laurel I was superstitious about doing anything too much in advance of her birth, but for many reasons, this time around is different.

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.

She quickly addressed the ensuing frenzy, explaining she is «superstitious» about pregnancy and promising, «When the time is right, everyone will know.»

I am a naturally superstitious person, and I remember having reoccurring dreams of returning to my home in Hong Kong when I was younger.

For me this happened big - time during William Friedkin's The Exorcist, when I realized that I was expected to believe the film's superstitious nonsense, that the movie was using its horrors as a sadistic club against sensitive people of faith, especially devout Catholics.

The Hallow / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Corin Hardy, Screenwriters: Corin Hardy, Felipe Marino)-- When a London - based conservationist is sent to Ireland to survey an area of ancient forest believed by the superstitious locals to be hallowed ground, he unwittingly disturbs a horde of terrifying beings and must fight to protect his family.

When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by murders of young boys, superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local witch (Florinda Bolkan, A LIZARD IN A WOMAN»S SKIN.)

When a missile hits their apartment building but fails to explode, Shideh learns from a superstitious neighbor that the cursed missile might have brought in djinns - malevolent spirits that travel on the wind.

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.

I'm slightly superstitious (when embarking on a long and often dispiriting journey like publishing a book, you desperately latch onto any positive signs from the universe).

There is a superstitious belief that many Alolan Dugtrio come out of their burrows on a day when a volcano will erupt.

When you believe in things that you don't understand / Then we suffer / Superstition ain't the way / Very superstitious, wash your face and hands / Rid me of the problems, do all that you can / Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin» strong / You don't want to save me, sad...

The sad part, though, is that as a believer in a higher power, I see Spencer as generally mistaken on ID, and refreshingly correct on CAGW — the fact that he can treat science like science, even when he has some internal superstitious beliefs, represents a potential for growth.

There is nothing «controversial» about the carbon cycle and the cause of the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration except the superstitious belief of some people that they «know» all that needs to be known when — in reality — the carbon cycle is unquantified in all its parts, not understood in any of its behaviouers, and there are many possible explanations for the recent rise.

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