Example Sentences

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Accompanied mostly by a humming organ and layers of manipulated voice, his elastic style conveys lines that ponder lovelessness and godlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2017

But in Dayton, a tidy town of 7,200 people tucked in the east Tennessee foothills, the bristling fear of a creeping godlessness is just one of a spectrum of reactions to the statue.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2017

Seven liberals, whose lives interconnected across two centuries through shared readings, relationships, and concerns, were so far from godlessness that the pursuit of truth and virtue dominated their lives.

From Salon • May 16, 2015

Our children are bilingual in the native languages of each parent: they speak both fluent kale and Vienna sausage, Mormonism and godlessness, gay and military, left and right, brown and white, Manhattan and desert.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2013

I made no secret of my godlessness and afterwards regretted it.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul