Example Sentences

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Saban had asked in 2012, complaining about the hurry-up revolution even before he’d beheld the extent of Malzahn’s blasphemies.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2021

He spoke blasphemies other chefs recognized as hard-won truths.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015

As vividly portrayed by the veteran mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer, the agonies and blasphemies of the prioress were painful and even shocking to witness.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2013

George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies."

From Time Magazine Archive

Where the expression is unblameable in its own pure and genuine signification, he enters into it, himself, like the evil spirit; he possesses the innocent phrase, and makes it bellow forth his own blasphemies.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George