Sentences with phrase «votaries of»
To comment on that miserly sum, we can only echo Brewster's cry of 1830: «And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science?
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For the votaries of Pakistan (like for those who supported an independent Bangladesh later), it was a new beginning, the birth of a nation.
It is true that such efforts met with stout opposition from the conservative votaries of the faith.
He caught there what we would see played out, with a venomous, unbending force a year later, as the votaries of same - sex marriage would seek to bring down the hammer of the law on such luminaries as bakers and florists.
Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth.
As he goes on to say in Federalist Number 39, the republican form is also demanded by «that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self - government.»
Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and unbaptized libeler of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»
Jerry is known as a man who guards a buck as closely as he guarded the opposition's top scorer, and he is a bargain hunter of the first order — a devotee of garage and estate sales, a regular at auctions, a votary of flea markets.
The early Baroque artist's dramatic depiction of a votary of Bacchus was rediscovered only a few years ago in a courtyard in Austria.
Not exact matches
These gods of the boutique can come from anywhere — native North American religion, the Indian subcontinent, some Pre-Raphaelite grove shrouded in Celtic twilight, cunning purveyors of otherwise worthless quartz, pages drawn at random from Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, or that redoubtable old Aryan, Joseph Campbell — but where such gods inevitably come to rest are not so much divine hierarchies as ornamental étagères, where their principal office is to provide symbolic representations of the dreamier sides of their votaries» personalities.
A fundamentalist ideology in any religion generates hatred, suspicion and fears, in the minds of its votaries, towards other religions.
It brings its votary from the chill periphery of things to the radiant core.
It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness.»
The collection opens with a tribute to MKO Abiola, the martyr of June 12, with «votaries» toasting to his ultimate sacrifice and golden memory: «To justice, wisdom and freedom...» — big sounding cant, to usher in — «Happy democracy in Nigeria.»
It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness.