He protected hikers and hunters and tree-climbing little urchins like us, and he created the most sacred tree of all, the Master Oak, for us to grow up in. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They painted circles and dots on her head and cheeks—white for Obatala, reds and yellows and blues for the other gods—and crowned her with the sacred stones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Pomp, who begs tales of horror and enchantment, Olakunde recounted tales of the red monkey who with withered lips enounced sacred knowledge to the oracles of Oyo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I chipped his sacred religious item into long splinters using a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have taken a sacred vow, and vengeance is mine,” he said, unyielding. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was a compound, Fjerda’s ancient stronghold, home to an unbroken succession of kings and queens, repository of their greatest treasures and most sacred religious relics. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had watched, but my eyes were blind to its sacred vision. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Sierra could hear the spirits still humming their sacred harmonies, calling out her brand-new name. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were most sacred days, when much of the ordinary business of life was suspended. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oracles all had special sacred places, caves or grottoes or specially built temples, and there were all sorts of far-out things connected with them like sacred fires and mystic vapors and magical statues. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ours is the closest thing to a sacred mission the modern world knows. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wondered if that burning mark was based on a real sacred owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he says anything at all, even a simple thing about a car or a plumbing repair, it tends to come out like this—in terms that can be interpreted as sacred. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of one mound, like a one-eighth scale model of Stonehenge, was a ragged circle of wak’a: sacred stones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s their sacred duty to help the Pandavas fight the Sleeper one last time.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would have to purchase his wisdom of life with sacred death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yield freely to the sacred frenzy ... the die is cast, and I am writing the book—to be read either now or by posterity, it matters not. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a place for marriages and sacred ordinances, not an everyday churchgoing experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘Behold your most sacred statue, the Athena Parthenos, wrongly taken by the Romans. I return it to you now as a gesture of peace!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But Latinus, locked in his palace, was not available for the sacred rite. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sympathize with those whose hearts were pained, as mine was pained, when Mr. Max so cynically assailed our sacred customs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle made me a beautiful wooden box in which I placed her chewed-up pencil, a lock of her hair my mother had cut, her toenail clippings, and other really sacred items like that. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She used to tell me about the Black Hills, which were sacred to the Sioux Indians. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“We do know that it was to Sandwich the most sacred and maddening of his visions. For he could never see the outcome, although it came to him many times.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While conditions varied from plantation to plantation, the majority of slaves lived a twilight existence in which no area of human relations or personal dignity was sacred. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"There is another reason, a reason more important, more passionate and, yes, even more sacred than all the others," he said, no longer seeming to see me, but speaking to himself alone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips widened into a skeletal smile as she said to me, "You, Sikander, have broken the most sacred law of Kurnugi. The living are not permitted in the netherworld." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Tiber was Rome’s river, on which the city depended for water—for life itself—and as such, of course, was sacred. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Djel, the wellspring, who fed the seas and rains, and the roots of the sacred ash. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their tribal governments had three branches: a civil administration, a military, and a branch that dealt with the sacred. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Such areas are considered sacred, and the people treat them with reverence. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"He should look a king in the sacred city. Doreah, run and find him and invite him to sup with me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tucking his sacred Yearbook into his robes, he ran first left, then right, as if he couldn’t decide which frightened crowd he wanted to join. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Mortals get crazy ideas. They don’t know the statues are sacred to Zeus, but they know there’s something special about them.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends for ever. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Medieval sites were often associated with holy springs or wells that had been considered sacred in pre-Christian times. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I feel sorry for you, Brekker. There is nothing sacred in your life.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We go from aspirant to novice drüskelle in the ceremony at the sacred ash.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Most of the Sun Maidens would become wives to noblemen, or servants to the sacred mummies, or weavers of the finest cloth worn by the Sapa Inca. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And of all possibilities—to find the critter most sacred to Mercer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I give you my sacred word it was not a hot tomato.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then, as you speak the sacred words, you place your offerings in the fire. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had prayed earlier that morning, but now I whispered the words again in our sacred language, asking the Holy People for protection. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sharp pop pop pop came from the base of the sacred tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We stood there like that for a while feeling each other’s hearts beat with love for our sacred homelands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouldn’t have entered the tomb, she shouldn’t have strayed into the sacred places of the dead when she was so stained and tainted by her crimes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Stanton delivered a stirring speech about the “sacred right” of women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Before Perotin the subject of rhythm in sacred music is a thorny one. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His words would take hold of me and lift me far away, to the sacred mountains and the hot jungles and the first conversations our ancestors had with the sun. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

On those few occasions when secular Sacramento took up the sacred calendar they got it all wrong. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brandished his sacred staff with the crook on top. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then, the forest was so dangerous that hunters observed a sacred ritual before their outings. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlour, and he too ordered his shopman to “come out of the gangway” as my sacred person passed. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They placed it in a sacred temple near the center of the city next to a statue of Mark Antony as the new Dionysus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

"The Kingsguard is a Sworn Brotherhood. Our vows are taken for life. Only death may relieve the Lord Com-mander of his sacred trust." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To bury the dead was a most sacred duty, not only to bury one’s own, but any stranger one might come upon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, giving commencement speeches was an important, almost sacred springtime ritual. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I have...I have been given a sacred task by the Elf King. I will not...” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“This is different. My first taste was with my dad. I’ll not take that away from his dad. That moment is sacred. No beer for him.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Sorrowful Men were an ancient sacred guild of assassins, so named because they always whispered, "I am so sorry," to their victims before they killed them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was made into a saint, and fragments of her bones were considered to be sacred relics. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“The lamp was lit. The Sleeper will start to awaken. It is my sacred duty to guide the Pandava brother who lit it.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were four pairs of boy and girl twins, each made of one of the sacred stones: white shell, abalone, turquoise, and jet stone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

First she lit the candles and the incense and the sacred fire, and put the fire-bowl on the floor in front of the altar. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the rain and dying light, I couldn’t see any sign of new houses, certainly not on or near the sacred ground. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The couple participated in sacred ceremonies, dressing and acting as the new Dionysus and Athena, the patron goddess of the city. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Truly I am in a sacred cosmic womb, a place where everything is born, and it is my sweet luck to behold its living core. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Religions bring the sacred into our lives with Gothic churches, Muslim mosques, Hindu ashrams, Torah scrolls, Tibetan prayer wheels, priestly cassocks, candles, incense, Christmas trees, matzah balls, tombstones and icons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have traced the beginnings of theater back as far as 2500 BCE, to the ancient Egyptians and sacred plays involving the myth of the god Osiris and his wife Isis. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The performances were sacred; the spectators, too, along with the writers and the performers, were engaged in an act of worship. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smeath in metamorphosis, from frame to frame, naked, exposed and desecrated, along with the maroon velvet chesterfield, the sacred rubber plant, the angels of God. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She listened intently, muttering sacred prayers along with profanities below her breath. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not true. Even animals—even eels and gophers and snakes and spiders—are sacred.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lender the opening fingers of the dawn; Alkinoos, the sacred prince, arose, and then arose Odysseus, raider of cities. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could only build or buy a home outside of our sacred homeland. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no seafaring men of Phaiakia perceived Odysseus passing through their town: the awesome one in pigtails barred their sight with folds of sacred mist. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sacred mission of the Triple Alliance, Tlacaelel proclaimed, was to furnish this vital substance to Huitzilopochtli, who would then use it for the sun, postponing the death of everyone on the planet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The gate between the rampant wolves was wrought iron, bearing the symbol of the sacred ash and bordered by a high, spiked fence that circled the Ice Court’s grounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On . . . the sacred name . . . of Jesus,” I went on. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had not been a sacred duty, performed reluctantly for the sake of Fjerda. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Snakes played some part in the cure, just what is not known, but they were held to be the sacred servants of Aesculapius. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm continued to praise the sacred grove, and presently he became aware that he was not alone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most rational Thanksgiving he had ever spent, and he took a sacred oath to spend every future Thanksgiving Day in the cloistered shelter of a hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Many before him had tried and failed to decipher the lovely hieroglyphics, a word that means “sacred carvings.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told these worries to hush, that it was my sacred duty to be well rested and refreshed when the evening’s festivities began. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted one down with more reverence than he’d ever felt for the sacred texts at the abbey, blew off the dust, and began to read. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The third labor was to bring back alive a stag with horns of gold, sacred to Artemis, which lived in the forests of Cerynitia. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was terrified I would meet a Christian who would shout at me, “What are you doing here? How dare you enter this sacred place, you defiler? Get out, right now!” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As this was such a grand occasion, I decided to take the Special Sticks down from their sacred perch and use them for my practice-pad warm-up. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victarion had seen such men in foreign cities, tending their sacred fires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cassie and me had taken a sacred oath with poison berry juice and blood. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mutual respect is a sacred value for all fencers, at every level. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In Ortygia, an island which formed part of Syracuse, the greatest city of Sicily, there is a sacred spring called Arethusa. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Inti’s rays showed strong and true, the power of the sacred drink overcame me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Master Nkrumah’s journal would be considered invaluable because of its age, almost sacred. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Only the football players were privy to that sacred knowledge. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mars’s sacred animal was the wild boar, not the serpent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In 1095 Pope Urban II rallied the Christians of western Europe to set out on a great mission to take back those sacred lands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Arethusa plunged down and emerged in Ortygia, where the place in which her spring bubbles up is holy ground, sacred to Artemis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time later they were rescued by the flour Aurelianos, whose crosses of ash inspired a sacred respect, as if they were caste marks, stamps of invulnerability. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He did not know our sacred language well enough to do this. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she wanted to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in a sacred Native American ceremony somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate seeing her fat hands on this thing that is sacred to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just that looking around this room and at this beautiful boy standing in the doorway, I feel like I’m encroaching on something sacred. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In this way the sacred mission of the Triple Alliance became translated into a secular mission: to obtain prisoners to sacrifice for the sun, the Alliance had to take over the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Using his thumb, he drew the sign of the cross on my forehead with sacred oil and said a prayer for my soul. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With crack on crack of thunder, he let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in sacred fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the water. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They died between the sacred walls of the church of God, and they were discussing the eternal meaning of love. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, no enemies had ever been able to invade their sacred islands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I have a sacred task. Maybe that is protecting me against these—Specters.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The revolutionary element he introduced into the sacred music he wrote at Notre-Dame was something he’d clearly learnt from the troubadours, who had in turn picked it up from Spain: rhythm. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I might even welcome the chance to stop missing Jen. But it would be a mistake. I swear to you, in the name of everything that’s sacred—in Jen’s name—I’m on your side.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cow and the peacock were sacred to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no objections to C.P.’s elevation at the next meeting and so he donned the scarlet robe and repeated the sacred oath of leadership. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he came into our home, he immediately fixated on the house as a monastery, the bathroom as the most sacred monastic cell, and my mom as the Abbess. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘The lack of ghosts is eerie. Back in ancient times, Delos was sacred ground. No mortal was allowed to be born here or die here. There are literally no mortal spirits on this whole island.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then sacred night came on, and I went inland to high ground and a leaf bed in a thicket. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also knew it had become a kind of sacred value. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, I knew that that if I died alone, without the benefit of sacred rites, I’d plunge straight to Hell, and my torments would go on forever. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

For a bull to be chosen as the Buchis bull, it had to be a specific color and have special markings on it, and when a Buchis bull died, priests gave it a sacred burial. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“We’re breaking the most sacred law in Harare. Mwari knows what will happen on the other side—and you keep going on about the subway. Pay attention!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man they inspired was sacred far beyond any priest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had the ring of the sacred grove in them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

"It was presumptuous of me to even suggest another school. I guess one's college is really a kind of mother and father . . . a sacred matter." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold those images in your mind and repeat this sacred prayer after me. ‘ Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When the Paqo and I had said our goodbye, I had thought that he was the one who would be making the sacred journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was all Jesse could do not to grab them and tell them how to behave in so obviously a sacred place. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They are Navajo voices speaking strongly in our sacred language. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Freedom Writers also hold sacred the memories of those robbed of of a long life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would sit on a throne before the sacred fire, surrounded by swirling mystic vapors, and people who wanted predictions would write their question on a slip of paper and drop it in the fire. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the old-timers considered this sentimental and some thought it wasteful and to some it was sacrilegious since there was no provision for it in any sacred volume. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ready to break Milo’s neck, but Milo was Vice-Shah of Oran and his person was sacred. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At noon, the Council of Cloven Elders held an emergency meeting in their sacred grove. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“From the moment I stepped into this sacred place, I knew it would be thus!” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were hungry and they killed the sacred oxen. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of promises, a “sacred compact had been made when the nation was founded in 1787, compact which brought us together mutually to relinquish a share of our interests to preserve the remainder.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet no mosque, church or temple ever felt so sacred to me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I would like a chain,” said Brangwain Spurge, “to hang the sacred box holding the gemstone around my neck so I can carry it with me.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Erysichthon had the wicked audacity to cut down the tallest oak in a grove sacred to Ceres. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apollo enveloped him in a cloud and carried him to sacred Pergamos, the holy place of Troy, where Artemis healed him of his wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pervading atmosphere of sorrowfulness in much of Josquin’s music, whether applied to sacred music or secular songs of unhappy love, is typical of his strife-filled time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The Fiery Hand. The Lord of Light’s sacred soldiers, defenders of the temple.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dead are not superstitious, not as a rule, but they watched her as a Roman Augur might have watched the sacred crows circle, seeking wisdom, seeking a clue. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The cypress was sacred to her; and all wild animals, but especially the deer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already it was time for the sacred drink? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The solemn procession wound its way through the sacred grove homeward to the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As with Gothic churches, which had plazas for the outdoor performance of sacred mystery plays, the mounds had greens before them: ritual spaces for public use. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You claim this child whom you sired against our sacred oath?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sacred place given to them by their gods and they knew how to survive and be happy there. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could tell our children and our grandchildren about the way our sacred language helped this country. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are superior and inferior races in the world,” said the Japanese politician Nakajima Chikuhei in 1940, “and it is the sacred duty of the leading race to lead and enlighten the inferior ones.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The Indians hold it sacred, and why not, on the day that we can get Lucas to eat a bowl of atole then he shall be cured. Is that not sacred?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The marriage bed was sacred. If there was any place you could talk to Juno . He took a deep breath and called, ‘Juno!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Monteverdi brought all the tricks he was learning composing madrigals and sacred choral music into his telling of Orpheus’s descent into the Underworld to rescue his recently lost lover, Euridice. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That required a different amulet, the ouzait, shaped like the sacred eye of the god Horns. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I cannot allow you to take this dragon. It is my sacred duty.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I’ll stop “desecrating” this sacred book and put it back in your trunk now. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

"Place a pinch of sacred ash from the temple on your turban every morning, and as you do so, remind yourself that you must be firm with him." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For so many years I had been in schools where I was told never to speak our sacred language. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my sacred duty to help the head priest pull the Sun God back to the world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to call it forth, concentrating on the sacred stone and what it might have to say, but there was nothing. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But I did not do so, for I had always obeyed my mother— whose love for me was as certain as the firmness of the sacred earth beneath my moccasins. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There is no need for me to tell you that the value of this award is not wholly in the sum of money it represents—but the sacred trust and faith that goes with it.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I reminded her that a doctor’s confidence was sacred, but that you were grievously anxious about her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Here, ma’am. Oh, let me do something!” cried the boy, hurrying from the next room whither he had withdrawn, feeling that their first sorrow was too sacred for even his friendly eyes to see. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been sent on to bid her make all ready for the sacred rites. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What victory, comrade? Have we not drive the enemy off our soil—the sacred soil of Animal Farm?” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And a thief of the worst kind, because the things he’d stolen had been sacred: from me the right to know I had a brother, from Hassan his identity, and from Ali his honor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You have completed five rites on the sacred passage to warriorship. Now the time has come for you to undergo your last,” Father Olufemi continued. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But when Felicia returned to Palmas Street with her sacred stones and her tureen, her seashells and the implements of her saint, neither her mother nor her children were there to greet her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fatiguing, but nothing was sacred to the Kerch except trade, so she’d gone out of her way to make the risk much higher than the reward when it came to disrespecting her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to speak our sacred language here. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll be talking and laughing and carrying on like normal, and then, BOOM, we get all serious and sacred and start talking like some English royalty. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I trust one day you will appreciate the near sacred power of education,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Referring to them as sacred might feel uncomfortable, because the First Amendment of the Constitution tells us that this nation legally mandates separation of church and state. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there nothing sacred in the game of basketball, Reggie? The refs have definitely lost control today.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Students didn’t let up for one minute, chirping on about my folks, my mother’s teaching, and things I considered personal and sacred. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what sacred cow I had bumped, but it was better to find out than to hang like a thread over an open fire. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the leaded windows look sacred and holy The other people are old and sit hunched like martyrs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘Since Gandalf’s head is now sacred, let us find one that it is right to cleave!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But this was the eighties, when nothing was sacred—except, of course, the making of money and the protection of glass-house empires at all expense. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know green was the sacred color of the Aztecs?” he asked. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“A toadstool in a dream is an important message from the spirits, New Voice. They are telling you that someone special to you will be making a sacred journey soon.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was, she thought, like a cursed temple, still beautiful to look at—the shell of something sacred—but benighted within, and none but ghosts could ever cross the threshold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The mighty sky river lowered breath by breath, its sacred light following a path it had known since before the time of the ancestors. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The thin winter snow was already gone from the high peaks, and the sacred mountain was a dusty, dry blue color. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The Villac Uma has sent this sacred drink for you, Marked Girl,” she said. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. All my life I encounter sacred subjects. But very few with you. I suppose you must have them too.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dany cupped her fingers and lifted the sacred waters over her head, cleansing herself and the child inside her while the khal and the others looked on. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then, when Marshall discovered that the wooden base of the Diana statue was hollow, and one side was a little loose, they had a perfect secret vault for the storage of sacred records. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“July First, the Kalends of July, sacred to Juno. That’s when Mother wants to destroy those stupid demigods and really rub it in Juno’s face. Besides, I’m not paying overtime for those gladiator ghosts!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At last the Greeks learned that there was a most sacred image of Pallas Athena in the city, called the Palladium, and that as long as the Trojans had it Troy could not be taken. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to remind myself that I had sworn a sacred oath to stay. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She loved being in the library, the almost sacred silence you could find there, the way it felt like another home. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There was no one, even in her order, who had her skill at seeing the secrets half-revealed and half-concealed within the sacred flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I was seeing things I had no right to see—sacred things. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around, taller mountains loomed like strong guardians protecting the sacred space. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was a rare thing, a sacred thing, a thing devoutly to be hoped for. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, walking on my toes and trembling terribly, I passed through the green baize door and entered the sacred precincts where the Headmaster lived. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I held on to my sacred language while learning the words and the ways of the whites. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We remembered that the language that now could be of such great use, our sacred language, had been passed down to us by our elders. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A holy or sacred place; a building or room for religious worship. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ninth resolution read: “Resolved, that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Reverend had entrusted me with adult-size jobs, and my grandfather had instilled within me long ago a deep sense of sacred honor in doing God’s work. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “It is a mixture of aca and koka and other sacred plants. Drinking it will begin your journey as a shaman priestess.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the origin myth of the United States, these documents have sacred status. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The person who was special to me, the person who was to take the sacred journey, was me, not my teacher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was a sacred time; I felt happy and fulfilled taking part in my people’s customs and ready to make the transition from boyhood to manhood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not pleasant, but I could feel its sacred power. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Or would it be the belief that every life was sacred, and that MDR potentially threatened more lives than any other infectious disease? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He threw his great hands round Arete’s knees, whereon the sacred mist curled back; they saw him; and the diners hushed amazed to see an unknown man inside the palace. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished all the Incan people could rejoice on this sacred night with such a bountiful celebration. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A few weeks back we had officially begun the sacred holiday with the pledge of our sacrifices for Lent. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red priest rested by day but kept vigil through the dark horns, to tend his sacred flames so that the sun might return to them at dawn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For him, the Hole is a kind of sacred high place, where insights are birthed and clarity comes to visit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Rachel’s switch made perfect contact with the sacred apparition’s behind. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And there was a sacred sector, a complex of temples and palaces, the tallest clearly the emperor’s home here in the city. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Marriage is a sacred unity....Each family is represented through its head,” Dahlgren said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Where somebody has died is a sacred place. Even the dust is sacred.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her plumage bloomed as she inhaled deeply and said, “And this is where young Nathan comes into play. He will return to the Third World to gather sacred medicine in your stead.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Latin’s great theatrical charm, its sacred power, was that it could translate human aspiration to a holy tongue. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between those events, school often stopped or flowered as routine bowed to the sacred. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying next to a real person who was really ministratin’ was somehow sacred. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They take their sacred vows of poverty to heart. May God always look kindly on him and his kind.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was with other Navajos and we were speaking our sacred language together. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But school and learning were just as sacred to Mother. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Though I swallowed the bread he’d given me, I knew I’d sworn a sacred oath to which I was forever bound. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked again at the doors of the sacred halls but I was too afraid to enter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With utter disregard for the Indigenous ways of thinking about the land, both sacred and nonsacred, the colonizers viewed all the land and resources they saw as things to own and to exploit. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

No steel was permitted within the sacred confines of Vaes Dothrak, beneath the shadow of the Mother of Mountains; she had to rip the heart apart with teeth and nails. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Basque established their secret sacred fishing grounds off the coast of Newfoundland twelve hundred years back. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At the temple the priest—or priestess, he added graciously—would pass the paper over the sacred fire, and do whatever other stuff he could think up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Paqo had just said that the emperor was making a sacred journey to Sacred Sun City, but I had never met the emperor. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But these were sacred figures in rich velvet capes and glittery robes and shepherds' cloaks beautifully stitched to look ragged with patches by the Carmelite nuns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Within Bengali families, individual names are sacred, inviolable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She has gone on a sacred journey to Beyond. She is as the wind, able to travel to all times and places. She will return when her journey is complete.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It made me proud that our sacred language was so important to America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kick him out of this sacred hogan at once!” the horned toad screamed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We knew beforehand that Miss Whitlaw did not have any money she could lend out, for Robin’s college money was sacred and untouchable even if we were inclined to ask. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh ...” I felt like one of Apollo’s sacred cows—slow, dumb, and bright red. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It says here that the quetzal was sacred to the Aztec and Maya people,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It showed an owl, Athena’s sacred animal, with an olive branch on one side and a Greek inscription on the other. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘No longer, hapless one, may I behold yon day-star’s sacred eye; but for my fate no tear is shed, no . . . no . . .’ ” “ ‘No friend makes moan.’ Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Most of our families were still poor because of the government livestock reduction of our sacred herds. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia knows that good charms and bad are hidden in the stirred earth near its sacred roots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was over, Kendra wanted to applaud, but the moment felt too sacred. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Although, as I have explained, I tried to be careful when I spoke our sacred language, that Friday I had been caught. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would protest as well the diminished sense of the sacred in churches today. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early one morning they hired a boat to row them into the Ganges River, a waterway sacred to Hindus. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It is my sacred assignment,” Seed Collector said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Animals were sacred to me, and even if we had to go a year without eating meat, they were never killed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the Declaration also said that “property is an inviolable and sacred right.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It must have once been part of a temple or sacred dwelling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama came and went, Angeline, too, and sometimes they brought Omakayas to the big lodge with the endlessly burning sacred fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Evidendy an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of The Lord of the Rings. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was fine seeing the presidents, I’ve got nothing against the presidents, but you’d think the Sioux would be mighty sad to have those white faces carved into their sacred hill. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the most sacred spots in Garden Heights, second only to Christ Temple. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Wolves were sacred to his kind, bred for battle like their enormous horses. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It was the sacred code of the insider.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We will forever worship on sacred and holy ground. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“In that, Hubert outranks me. But there is also sacred power, given by God to man. In that, I outrank Hubert. By a very great deal. He knows this.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No one,” it repeated until it sounded like the ringing of a temple bell signaling something sacred, some great happiness, a moment freed from attachment. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“This man made a sacred vow to let us go,” I said loudly. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was the first to cross the invisible barrier and enter the sacred gates. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

According to this story, if a Catholic priest dressed in his sacred garments solemnly said the right words at the right moment, mundane bread and wine turned into God’s flesh and blood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Infosys campus is reached by a pockmarked road, with sacred cows, horse-drawn carts, and motorized rickshaws all jostling alongside our vans. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

No. I knew I was meant to take this sacred journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Now that we were no longer stringing beads, I entertained Tanu after supper by reading Tagore’s poems aloud, although the older widows said I would have done better to read the sacred verses. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken his shirt off to bathe, and I could see draped over his left shoulder the sacred thread given to Brahman boys when they come of age. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had used the power of the Uncles, of nature and animals and streams and flowers, a sacred power, for truly horrible things. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a dwarf before, but I knew they were special people, sent to the earth marked for this sacred life of duty to the nobility. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She pronounces this word with awe, as if it’s the name of something sacred, and I repeat it silently to myself: chintz. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He enlists the aid of the sacred ota stone, as well as the shrunken head of a doll, a ball of powdered eggshell, and the eggun, a vertebra from the spine of a goat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Romans would find that auspicious—the first day. of the month named for Julius Caesar. Juno’s sacred day. Yippee.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a human before her, casually spouting sacred secrets. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But on Sundays they got all dressed up only to go to a church where there was no incense, no sacred body and blood, and no confessional box. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, some of the Carter Cowboys felt more than ever that there was something sacred about them, something invincible. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even today there are scientists opposed to the popularization of science: the sacred knowledge is to be kept within the cult, unsullied by public understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years in Chicago, our date nights had been a sacred part of every week, an indulgence we built into our lives and protected no matter what. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With me living forty-five minutes away, Tumblr is supposed to be sacred ground where our friendship is cemented. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The surge in carol composition around this time, notably in northern Europe, was partly inspired by an earlier Italian tradition of tuneful sacred songs welcoming the Christ-child’s nativity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But they did believe in something that had become just as sacred, Ector High School. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The low sound in her throat is something sacred. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You kill the sacred cows of the sun god for hamburger meat?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They say red thread is special, sacred; though I, myself, after having spent so much time with it, know it for what it is. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

A chorten is a religious monument, usually made of rock and often containing sacred relics; it is also called a stupa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She said the dead body was sacred, it having been a house for the mind and soul, and as such it deserved proper respect. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly, as part of a great procession, though only the puppy could be seen, slowly forward carrying the queen’s wreath to the sacred grove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But, despite the fact that some of those other children spoke our sacred language differently, what we were doing made me feel happier and more peaceful. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there are similarities in their idioms, particularly when it came to sacred music, they chose quite different career paths, which inevitably transformed their styles. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They both managed somehow to keep the giggles buttoned in until they got out of the sacred place. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then we can all retire; high time we did; the light is going under the dark world’s rim, better not linger at the sacred feast.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Fortunately, this place is sacred to me. By clearing away those ghosts, you have purified it and given me a moment of clarity. I will be able to speak with you - if only briefly.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It is you and such as you that have let the barbarians onto the sacred soil of the fatherland.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It requires the energy of all the people, and it is a sacred task that honors the gods.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Whatever spell she was under, whatever sacred moment this was, I didn't want to risk breaking it. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She also ironed their clothes, which she rarely did except on the sacred holidays. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Always, in the near distance, sacred drums were sounding. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A simple request that suddenly feels like I’ve been charged with a sacred duty. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You are lucky the spirits have touched you so. Every girl here wishes she were the one to have been marked in such a sacred manner.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time in ancient Greece, there was an enchanted pool. This pool was sacred to Salmacis, the water nymph. And one day Hermaphroditus, a beautiful boy, went swimming there.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But it seemed as if he had violated some sacred public trust. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Milo, who had been gullible enough to volunteer for it, the position of mess officer was a sacred trust. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Celia overturned the tureen with the sacred stones and crushed Felicia’s seashells under the heels of her leather pumps. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For me, they’re like the most sacred kind of mural. My personal source of power—ancestry.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And how could I explain to Grandma that learning to drive was kind of a sacred thing, and you don’t want your kid sister and your grandma along? A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were going into battle for our Navajo people, our families, and our sacred land. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then taking her on board they went where she directed and reached the sacred grove where the Fleece hung. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing we didn’t have before. Apparently everyone takes some sacred oath not to reveal more information than that. Totally ridiculous.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

By speaking one word in our sacred language I had just proved to my teacher that I was as hopeless as the rest of my people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you come, Bear? Can you walk? Were going to leave Great Wexly. The steward swore a sacred oath to let us go.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And there it is—the right to break the black body as the meaning of their sacred equality. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Many spirits, some kind and some mischievous, hovered near us at such a sacred time, and one of them may have tried a trick of some sort. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Good God, what is there that is sacred to me?—such things change pretty quickly with us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he interrupted and said that we should never cheer after hearing sacred text recited. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He would be killed — thrown into a pit of poisonous snakes or fed to hungry jaguars — before he would be allowed to enter such a sacred place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And then the whole sacred grove came apart. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men were drunk on clotted mare's milk, yet Dany knew no arakhs would clash tonight, not here in the sacred city, where blades and bloodshed were forbidden. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To them, nothing was safe, nothing was sacred. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was crystalline white in the clear, blue sky, but still there was the darkness of shadows in this sacred spot. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tribal chieftain said that he felt sorry for the tribesmen, but that the Tradition was sacred. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"There was smoke and noise and sacred activity constantly going on up there, but the peasants didn’t know what they were doing." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neck has a steroid rage, screaming about Motivation and Identity and sacred School Spirit. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You have disturbed our sacred rituals. You cannot look upon our mysteries and live.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My sisters all looked towards me, expecting I would chide my husband for making light of sacred things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like many medieval pilgrims, Constance believes that her prayers will be heard if they are spoken in a sacred place — in this case, by a holy well. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She asked instead for barley-water flavored with mint, the cooling draught of the reaper at harvest time and also the sacred cup given the worshipers at Eleusis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must go to the Taurian country, the Delphic priestess said, and bring away the sacred image of Artemis from her temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked into the temples, I could see the holy sadhus sitting in long rows, bare chested, their heads shaven, holding sacred lamps and accompanying their chanting with bells. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

What a person said to the rock was sacred and private. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if I drank the sacred drink and didn’t go to Beyond? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Each city too had a public hearth sacred to Hestia, where the fire was never allowed to go out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of their friends and families watched as that bus headed southeast in the direction of Tsoodzit, Mount Taylor, the sacred peak that marks the southern boundary of Dinetah. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fem. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the sacred threshing-floor, when they are winnowing, she herself, Demeter of the corn-ripe yellow hair, divides the grain and the chaff in the rush of the wind, and the heap of chaff grows white.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother is sacred to me. I thank her for the little she did for us,” Lourdes says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They moved me tenderly, as they would a sacred mummy, and placed me on a heap of luxurious weavings in a private room. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The Irish chap and I had read a lot in common and we laughed at the same sacred things. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of wooden beams, the walls were made of the four sacred stones—white shell stone, turquoise, abalone, and jet-black stone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She found in the outer court a beautiful lad in priestly attire intent on purifying the sacred place with water from a golden vessel, singing as he worked a hymn of praise to the god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

April said it would be just the thing for a firepit for building sacred fires. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was framed in gold and set up on a tiny dais like it was sacred. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“The city limits. Inside is a sacred ‘safe zone.’ The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alex looks over to find Henry’s expression careful, waiting, and he realizes this is the same as when Alex took Henry to the lake house—the most sacred place he has. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Others, not quite so benevolent, believed his actions had let down a community where the role of black leader was a precious, almost sacred commodity. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m guessing these are the dragons of Ares. That’s one of his sacred animals, right?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And because the Koran, the sacred book of Islam, is written in Arabic, scholars throughout the Muslim world learned to read Arabic and to share their knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was also the construction of a landscape of sacred power, built in an atmosphere of ecstatic religious celebration. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her letters to him include phrases like sacred resolve, proud accomplishments, and unparalleled in history. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“By all of Heaven’s sacred saints, I pray not.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Until then, he said, they had a sacred obligation to stay strong, live as long as possible, and never consider suicide. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The screech owl is one of Hades’s sacred animals,” Nico said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I walk up the three steps to the altar and step over the small railing that separates the masses from all that is sacred. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Many creatures were sacred to him, chief among them the dolphin and the crow. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And every year if there are worthy initiates, the drüskelle gather at the sacred ash, where they may once more hear the Voice of God.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You admit that I could destroy your sacred chamber!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As everyone knows, cows are sacred to Hindus, so it was a serious thing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And now you have brought a pest that will eat our sacred crops!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“He’s gathered all kinds of mantras, sacred words that will help you. But, be warned, he’s still awful...” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the temples in this area, Khouy says the soldiers mutilated its animal guards, and either knocked or shot off the stone heads of the gods, riddling the sacred bodies with bullets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his final piece, Parsifal, of 1882, Wagner turned the theatre into a temple, the plot into a sacramental ritual and the leitmotifs he bestowed with sacred power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Even the rulers of Terabithia come into it only at times of greatest sorrow or of greatest joy. We must strive to keep it sacred. It would not do to disturb the Spirits.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord, bless and protect this woman who has brought us her child to perform this sacred duty.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like its ancient predecessor, whose red marble halls were now the haunt of bats and spiders, the Meereenese pyramid boasted three-and-thirty levels, that number being somehow sacred to the gods of Ghis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A sacred choral work could navigate through the religious texts and order of service as ordained by the Church. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He carried no weap-ons here in the sacred city, save his hands—yet his hands were enough, big, hard, dangerous, his knuckles covered with coarse dark hairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She moved with a feline, predatory grace, and I understood why the lion was her sacred animal: It was all about languid power. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Who ever heard of opening the Games without the sacred fire from Olympus?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gathered in the center, around a sacred drum used to commune with Wah’Kon-Tah, were several male musicians and singers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he did start up again, his voice was all low and hushed, like he was talking in a church or a hospital or some other sacred site. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This is not a game, son. It is a sacred river to be treated with respect.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is a very sacred puberty ceremony, for example, of adolescent girls running in different directions to pay respect to nature. Christy Turlington Burns on the Trips That Matter 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

At the time of her death she was preparing an anthology of Russian sacred music for Oxford University Press. No?lle Mann obituary 2010-07-13T17:21:00Z

"Religious books are like a road we choose, or not," Khan says carefully, tip-toeing into sacred territory. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

Then, with sacred devotion and characteristic precision, Mark Kuhn’s rituals will begin once again. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

He recorded more than 60 albums of sacred music, won a Grammy - best gospel recording in 1965 for his album "Southland Favorites" - and was one of the nation's best-known Christian singers. George Beverly Shea dies; sang at Graham crusades 2013-04-17T03:24:13Z

The “Empowering Interiors” section of the show illustrates the tradition of depositing sacred objects and texts inside Buddhist statues to endow them with supernatural powers. Spellbinding Treasures From Japan’s Kamakura Period at Asia Society 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

They work the land together and gaze out at the horizon, and at the end of the day, Octavio gives Tato a wad of cash and a precious life lesson: “Work is sacred.” Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

A sex date is a sacred time to practice erotic spontaneity. 5 secrets to great sex 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Their initial function was to prop up a part of the Erechtheion, the sacred temple near the Parthenon that paid homage to the first kings of Athens and the Greek gods Athena and Poseidon. Caryatid Statues, Restored, Are Stars at Athens Museum 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

"In any other country in the world," says Hamilton, "this would be treated as a sacred space." When John Ruskin and John Everett Millais took the high road 2010-06-20T21:01:00Z

We’ve already done a lot of circumambulating, negotiating temples and sacred objects in a clockwise direction. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

The walls of the shelter, like those of the Gothic cathedral before it, reverberated with polyphonic music from a world beyond pain: not sacred, not quite, but certainly exalted. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

I had eased into sameness the very differences and contradictions that sacred ritual is meant to contain. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Bacigalupi's use of water as sacred currency evokes Frank Herbert's "Dune." Amid a real drought, thriller 'Water Knife' cuts to the quick 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Carved stones, foundations and windows precisely trace the sun’s travels and line with sacred peaks like Salkantay. Hiking to Machu Picchu past sacred Inca peaks 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

"I really wanted to challenge the notion that quilts are sacred and made by saintly grandmas," she says. These quilts with messages about gun violence and racial injustice issues aim to discomfort 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

The language is essentially tonal, with lush, thick chromatic harmony and more austere modal passages that evoke the heritage of sacred music. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z

If anything, this scene pays tribute to the reality that several sacred Hindu spaces – even if this excludes the "Bhagavad Gita" itself – do indeed sing of the sexual. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Begin at the summit of the Capitoline, the most sacred of Rome’s seven hills and the center of the ancient city. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

A third episode available for review takes Ms. Fox to Arizona, where Apache activists are fighting to keep Oak Flat, an area they consider sacred, from being destroyed by an open-pit copper mine. Viceland’s ‘Rise’ Relives the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The bearing of witness is sacred, even in profane circumstances, because of this connection. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

He feels it’s his sacred duty to continue the male line. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z

“It’s the idea of the person who reveals the sacred,” says Moulton. Aliens, abstraction and Thomas Kinkade: An L.A. exhibition summons the spiritual and the fantastical 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

After all, there are only so many times you can stab a sacred cow. Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #metoo 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Back on the road I passed a water well, doubtless one of the “sacred wells” that Synge mentions in his account. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z

Which brings us back to the original question: Is nothing sacred to these men? 'South Park' guys make 'really different' Broadway 2011-03-22T17:59:15Z

He wrote about “aura,” the unique presence of the work itself, which carried vestiges of sacred resonance from an earlier age. Perspective | What Mona Lisa with her feet up says about art after coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Augustinian canons, Franciscan friars and unwashed clothes also filled the sacred space. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Turkey is a Muslim country and green is a sacred hue. A meditation on green -- the color, not the sustainability shorthand 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

It’s always been considered sacred, especially to the Ojibwa, its early inhabitants who believed it the resting place of the great spirit and the first land to appear after the great flood. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“I had to be careful because the movie is a bit of a sacred text, and I don’t really do sacred,” Mr. Minchin said. Tim Minchin Puts Emotion on Broadway. Just Don’t Call Him Sentimental. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Her “conspiracy of witches” alleges that the moon mission was a secretly sacred journey for “practitioners of secret female technologies.” Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Oxford draws pilgrims to sites both secular and sacred. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The more celebrated pilgrim sites such as the source of the Ganges at Gaumukh, the Cow's Mouth, he had revisited many times, measuring out the sacred geography of India with his footsteps. India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L Eck – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z

I don't know precisely what it was but there was something sacred: everybody knew this was a film by Raul as well. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z

The Toronto International Film Festival's sacred mission — and one that has earned it preeminence among North American movie bashes — is to present the coolest stars in the smartest pictures. Moneyball at Toronto: Brad Pitt Hits a Solid Triple 2011-09-10T14:05:00Z

A single shoe from an orphanage, the replica of a 400-million-year-old “shield fish,” and a Byzantine-era sacred bread mold are just a few of the items on display. Istanbul's Islands Get a Museum of Their Own 2010-09-23T10:00:00Z

And all of Christian Wisconsin was free once more to say the sacred words. Santa Trump’s yuge Yuletide load: War on Christmas finally over! 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

He also won two Grammy Awards that year, in the sacred and gospel performance categories, for a single with “Let Me Live” on one side and “Did You Think to Pray” on the other. Charley Pride, Country Music’s First Black Superstar, Dies at 86 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

Family dinner, once a sacred priority, was the first victim. The empty nest: What I learned during my daughter’s first year away 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

The National Historical Collection includes a range of material reflecting interpretations of sacred and secular histories that may not be demonstrable in fact. What became of the Mistake Creek massacre? 2013-07-04T06:12:57Z

These earrings are a gift from Peru, they are of a sacred mythical bird. The Far Out Freestyle Fashion of Byron Bay, Australia 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

The most sacred to me are the recipes from her Italian family. A Mother’s Cookbook Shares More Than Recipes 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

His sacred songs, which harness private intensity to public piety, are little masterpieces. Les Talens Lyriques ? review 2010-12-07T22:40:00Z

In attempting to limbo beneath the radar, many buildings are compressed into bulky hulks that, while preserving the sacred skyline, destroy the experience at street level. Should views of the Gherkin be protected? 2013-06-18T12:59:20Z

The first is the famed Buddhist sacred Temple of the Tooth, in the very center of town. In the Hills of Sri Lanka’s Tea Country 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

“Nothing was sacred to this rampaging beast,” the show’s narrator says, as the camera zeroes in on a badly mauled Bible. ?Bad Dog!? on Animal Planet - Review 2011-09-09T17:17:53Z

“This cathedral is monumental and very lofty, and the phoenixes now have a sacred quality.” Xu Bing Installs His Sculptures at St. John the Divine 2014-02-14T22:56:02Z

He described music as a sacred space in which he felt he could breathe and flourish. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Released to commemorate  the 100-year anniversary of the Armenian genocide, "40 Martyrs ..." captures sacred chants, some thousands of years old, recorded by sound archivist Jason Hamacher. Record Store Day 2015: 10 of the oddest records to chase at the shops 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Salsa is a misnomer, and a high degree of lack of respect for rhythmic and sacred religious patterns that all have their proper names,” he said. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

As a rock musician, he drew inspiration from the spontaneity of jazz, he said, connecting “the band and the audience in a sacred kind of way.” The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

One of the most persistent myths about Bach is that his work is marked by a fundamental conflict between the sacred and the secular. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

In the process, he exposed cracks in the seemingly sacred Baby Boomer model of life, where work is supreme and travel and hobbies are deferred until retirement. The World According to Tim Ferriss 2011-03-25T21:44:29Z

Much the same thing happened in music, as new secular forms emerged from variations of sacred material. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

I think one’s own individual experience is sacred. The Origins of 'Privilege' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

The timeless stillness of sacred space expresses shared history and shared promise. Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Of course, the “St. Matthew Passion,” which tells of Christ’s last days on earth, is a church piece, a sacred oratorio. Review: An Intimate ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Has a Shattering Effect 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

“Our natural resources are sacred to us,” she said. For This Tribe, Saving a River Means Saving the Sturgeon 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

This solo of sacred movement wove together, both fearfully and joyfully, the human and the divine as expressed through the body of Ms. Ramaswamy.  Review: Ashwini Ramaswamy Goes Solo at the Drive East Festival 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Designations like Avi Kwa Ame, she explained, could help travelers see that America’s beloved national parks and Indigenous sacred sites are essentially two sides of the same coin. ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

“You’ve got to realize, the crowns are considered quite sacred, and even filming them is seen as if it could devalue them in some way.” It’s the Ultimate TV Prize: An Unscripted Queen Elizabeth 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

In 1978, Melissa Ludtke, of Sports Illustrated, brought a lawsuit against the M.L.B., which was resisting her right to report the baseball beat with equal access to locker rooms, clubhouses, and other malodorous sacred places. In Praise of Doris Burke, Basketball’s Best TV Analyst 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

His art is the purest of pure, and there is something sacred and beautiful about it. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The epic saga of a heroic Chinese monk’s pilgrimage to India with a Monkey King, a pig spirit and other disciples in search of sacred Buddhist scriptures was first published in 1592. Anthony C. Yu, Translator of the Saga of a Chinese Pilgrimage, Dies at 76 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

In his “Missa Charles Darwin,” for example, Gregory W. Brown replaces the original sacred Latin prayers with texts culled from “The Origin of Species,” “The Descent of Man,” and Darwin’s correspondence. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

“The Apollo, in a sense, is church. It’s a sacred space and a gathering of community in Harlem.” Showtime: 18th Tribeca opens in Harlem with ‘The Apollo’ 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

He wrote operas and other stage plays, patriotic compositions and sacred music when not teaching. Mozart museum seeks to debunk evil Salieri poison myth 2014-01-30T15:48:12Z

He sings, “I stumble into town just like a sacred cow/Visions of swastikas in my head/Plans for everyone/It’s in the white of my eyes.” How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

He repeated it: “That music is sacred! That music is sacred!” Talent vs. Buzz: the Push-Pull of Coachella 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

On a recent afternoon, the sacred enclosure was full of adults gaping at the ceiling, babies in strollers and tour guides with flags on sticks. A Woman Now Leads the Vatican Museums. And She’s Shaking Things Up. 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

We perform sacred acts for, with and among strangers all the time. He Asked Permission to Touch, but Not to Ghost 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Guided by a historian’s sacred principles, she lets the story emerge from the thorough research she documents. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

In classical legend, Hippocrene, the fountain on Mount Helicon created by Pegasus's hoof, is sacred to the Muses and inspires whoever drinks from it. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z

They may be internalizing the stress of the pandemic, the election and, now, a violent mob breaking into a place that’s sacred to our country. Perspective | Don’t shy away from talking to kids about the Capitol riot. They know more than you think. 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Nationalist pride and the increasing strength of the Georgian Orthodox Church are intertwined with a revival of its ancient polyphonic sacred music, repressed during the Soviet regime. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

The work abounds in other contrasts — between sacred space and the street, for instance, between artisanship and mass production, and between associations with high and low status. Michael Queenland spins trash on the ground into clever canvases of the living 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

The good ones succeed through hubris, through the arrogant assumption that a great novel is not a sacred artifact but rather a lump of interesting material to be shaped according to the filmmaker’s will. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z

Graham imagined the women as kachina dolls, sacred wooden figures carved by the Hopi. Bringing Back the Spirit of Early Martha Graham, Stark and Pure 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Parables sidestep binary logic, polishing instead the lush intricacies of the sacred, where “the body-that-is exists always in anticipation of and conversation with the body-that-will-be.” The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Snell said: “I just felt it was a sacred moment. I realized then, I really want this.” A Reassessment, 24 Years in the Making 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Her adaptation of “Parable of the Sower” is deeply rooted in the African-American sacred music that might be called her family inheritance. A Prescient Sci-Fi ‘Parable’ Gets Set to Music 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

It consecrates the soldier’s sacred purpose as surely as the one Dürer painted on his Virgin Mary, mother of sorrows. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

It was that love — sexual, sacred — that inspired him to make the series, the first he has created for television. To Make ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

There they are, small tomes, some of them cheap paperbacks, carefully fitted into transparent, wall-mounted cases, like sacred relics or votives. Review | A French exhibition of Francis Bacon turns him into that pseudointellectual dude from college 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Nobody fetes London as the battlefront of Europe and America, or organises bus trips around Berwick-upon-Tweed to mark the sacred ground of perfect equilibrium between Scotland and England. Back from the brink: new breath for tourism in Istanbul 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Like how his work designing the restaurant Nobu Downtown found creative ways around architectural restrictions or how the Spanish Steps in Rome are designed to pull the eye toward the sacred. Designer David Rockwell offers a guide to his creativity 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

While remaining generally faithful, his movie ventures to alter what is for many a text practically as sacred as the Harry Potter novels. Arts & Leisure: David Fincher Directs ?Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? 2011-12-07T13:42:28Z

Some defer to others: they are commenting on sacred texts. Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z

For far too long we’ve lived with the comfort the movement’s sacred story provides, that the suffering of a single generation of activists — great as it was — redeemed the soul of America. African-Americans in the New Deal 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

A Mormon sacred book finds its way into a leading character's rectum. At the Tonys, 'Book of Mormon' favored to win big 2011-06-12T12:04:11Z

I was lost in it like I was performing a sacred act and it brought me back to some of my oldest and most comforting memories of playing with play dough as a child. These two super-simple artichoke appetizer recipes are perfect for the holidays — or this weekend 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z

“When you occupy that sacred place as a leader but act as though you’re in show business, that can be extremely disturbing.” The Past Lives of Shirley MacLaine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

We advocate for a campaign that recognizes and respects the identities and sacred values of each side of the debate. Can neuroscience help settle the gun control debate? 2014-01-09T13:45:00Z

That’s a defensible choice when adapting what many see as a sacred text of Holocaust literature. | 'The Diary of Anne Frank': On PBS, Ellie Kendrick as Memoirist in Secret Annex 2010-04-09T22:10:00Z

Improvisation, also a vital skill until the mid-19th century in Western classical music, is an integral element of both folk and sacred music in Georgia and further complicates transcription. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

Mr. Obama says he’s a Christian, but he supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life. Why does the left wing ignore atheists? 2012-08-08T13:36:00Z

“There’s no American recipe that’s sacred to us,” said Burgess, who used to work in IT management. Virginia bakers travel 3,000 miles to prove their prowess with a British hand pie 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

For northern Plains Native Americans, the word describes a sacred person who does things backward and plays an important role in medicine ceremonies. Half Acre Beer renames Heyoka as Senita after complaints 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

And the answer that I give is that it’s atmosphere, and that sacred music can and should be like sacred architecture, where it’s a space in which you are encouraged to look upward. The Renaissance’s Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

In Tajikistan, bread is sacred and never attacked with a knife. Top Cheap Bites of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

She also recorded rock, novelty and sacred songs. Big band singer Margaret Whiting dies in NJ at 86 2011-01-12T22:42:15Z

Not a ruin, of course, but a fortress and a shrine, a sacred spot where embattled traditions can survive in troubled times. Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes 2010-09-06T22:55:00Z

When the Jews went to clean up and rededicate the ransacked temple, they needed eight days to prepare sacred oil for the temple lamps and candelabras. There’s no better time to fry than Hanukkah. Do it the Federal Donuts way. 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Nothing is sacred to him, and the more cheerfully he can reflect the many layers of cultural depravity the better. What is Paul Rudnick Doing Writing Young Adult Fiction? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Likewise, the Bible describes several important figures, including the prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah and the Christian Apostle Paul, as having being called to their sacred tasks since their time in the womb. What the Bible actually says about abortion may surprise you 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

It is a contract, a sacred pact between filmmaker and audience. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

For Monteverdi the church was theater and theater a sacred space. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Almost in unison, they described their most sacred duty to the show in three words: ‘Don’t Break It!’ The New Hosts of ‘Radiolab’ Remodel a Landmark 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

One of the striking things about the post-1960s era is how unimportant sacred art and architecture has become in our culture. ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z

The song “Boom” has something to rile up everyone: “nothing’s as sacred and reviled as the womb,” “plastic passes for food,” “the market crashes” — there’s even a mention of the writers’ strike in Hollywood. Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

I just feel marriage is a sacred situation between a man and a woman. Dr. Laura's dinner with gay, black friends 2010-08-20T08:15:00Z

If ever there were a marriage of the sacred and profane, this is it. New York Has Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment, With Arias and Dancing 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

As in most of northern Italy, aperitivo culture is sacred in Turin. Roberto CoinVoice: A Weekend In Turin: The Perfect Winter Getaway 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

For Palestinians, East Jerusalem is a symbol of their national struggle and home to Islam's third most sacred site, the al-Aqsa mosque, and the nearby glittering Dome of the Rock. Fifty years after Six Day War, Jerusalem retains much of its old look 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

There is also a late-12th-century French version of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark that presents the sacred words in large script, surrounded by columns of annotations. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z

While researching links between cancer and Port Radium, Ms. Beyha and others discovered that uranium taken from the sacred Great Bear Lake was most likely used in the bombs that detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

There was also a flotilla of sacred boats that made their way to the temple, according to the transcriptions. Egypt unveils renovated ‘Avenue of the Sphinxes’ in Luxor 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Much of the music closest to Marshall’s heart was sacred: New England shape-note songs, Bruckner motets, the gamelan music of Java and Bali. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The byzantine brew mixes the sacred and the profane. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

And while there are wonderfully odd details in his major altarpieces and sacred works, their primary impact is a sense of great order, balance and canny construction. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s a chance to discover the beauty of the country’s north and visit many historical and sacred Indigenous sites. Boots on! Five of the best multi-day hiking trails across Australia 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra performed Edward Elgar’s “The Apostles” in 2017, and they follow it up here with the second oratorio from the sacred trilogy that British composer planned but never finished. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Alma and Baya, in their little pod, live according to the dictates of their sacred books, the instruction manuals — though they have confidently, comically misinterpreted a significant piece of advice contained therein. Review: When a Stranger Knocks at the Airlock 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Gertrude Stein once wrote that Ezra Pound, one of the sacred monsters of literary modernism, was “a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, if not, not.” | 'Film Socialisme': On a Mediterranean Cruise Ship Steered by a Godardian Crew 2011-06-02T23:04:32Z

Highlights and high points: The Temple of Pythons, a sacred shrine inspired by the legends of King Kpasse, is home to dozens of royal pythons that slither freely within the temple’s venerable walls. In Benin, up close with a serpent deity, a Temple of Pythons and Vodun priests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

He’s an amateur among professional actors of the sacred. Review: Art for the Soul in ‘Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

My own view on the matter is: I’m Jewish, and also temperamentally more inclined to ponder secular details than sacred mysteries. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

He put together a glossary of all the obscure references in the libretto — like “the water of Castalia,” a sacred spring in Delphi — and sent it to the chorus. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

And if “I Wanna Be Your Dog” seemed like a punky, unruly song for a concert that always starts with the sacred chanting of Tibetan Buddhist monks, Mr. Pop pointed out what “d-o-g” spells backward. Music Review | Tibet House Benefit: Boisterous Bliss in Celebration of an Iron Tiger Year 2010-03-01T05:55:00Z

Nothing was too precious for Hadad’s biting wit — not even the sacred cows of Mexican culture. Astrid Hadad, 'Lady Gaga of Nixtamal,' is part of thrilling start to PST's performance fest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Once a week, he gathers with other old-time music aficionados to practice the sacred tunes and secure them for many tomorrows. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

"We consider the park a sacred place where we pray for the victims of the atomic bombings," he said. No more 'Pokemon Go' at Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

The seal is broken, and her loyal knight, Link, shatters his sacred sword while defending her. To Meet Sky-High Expectations, Tears of the Kingdom Goes Vertical 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

“We Jews got a painful history that we choose to convey in minor keys,” Shelly croons at a sacred ceremony as a critique, not an endorsement. The "Transparent Musicale Finale" is a fitting eulogy for a wacky, messy series 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

But he turns them into sacred elements: plywood, aluminum, Plexiglas. Thinking Outside Judd’s Boxes: His Legacy Still Shapes Artists 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

What’s so sacred about silver-screen history that it can’t endure a fancy slap of intentional revisionism, in which studios see the light of diversity long before it could be clearly seen? Review | In Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood,’ the old studio system gets a rousingly revisionist wake-up call 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Craig keeps the vice president waiting while he retreats into his “coding hour,” which is sacred and falls whenever he feels like it. The TV Watch: Nerds Get Their Due on ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Veep’ 2014-04-04T00:00:25Z

But let the sacred and the secular, the idealistic and the hedonistic, the political and the aesthetic, the local and the global all affirm their part in her music. In a Hometown Send-Off, Aretha Franklin Belongs to Everyone 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

"This is almost like a sacred text," Jackson said. Where everybody knows your name: 'Cheers' coming to stage 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Misconceptions of modern powwows as sacred spaces bemuse the Ojibwe singer. Upending Expectations for Indigenous Music, Noisily 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

When I’m bent over my keyboard muttering sacred names, it means something quite different. Work Advice: How to handle a boss who puts religion first at the office 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Be mindful that temples and shrines are places of worship for local residents, as well as places to protect sacred objects. 36 Hours in Niseko 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Bach, Mozart and Handel, among many other composers, wrote sacred music for churches that is typically played now in secular settings. Preview: Sacred Music Foundation celebrates religious music's classical roots 2010-07-26T22:58:00Z

“At once sonic and disruptive, these poems pull together everything in a world where nothing is sacred,” she said. Kemi Alabi wins First Book Award from poets academy 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

“There’s nothing sacred at SNL — except maybe the words ‘Mohammad’ or ‘Allah.’ Pat Boone Accuses 'SNL' of Anti-Christian Bias 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

But he looks around at 11 million acres of former Plains land controlled by Native Americans, to whom the animal remains sacred, and sees possibilities. Where the buffalo now roam: Local ranchers help put them on the comeback trail 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The origins of the idea of Indian sacred geography seems to lie in India's ancient pre-Vedic religions where veneration was given to sprites known as nagas or yakshas. India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L Eck – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z

“We’re taught that Shakespeare is a sacred thing, with the iambic pentameter and all that stuff,” he continued. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Despite its a cappella spareness and its sacred character, this music is in no way austere. Music Review: Musica Sacra at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle ? Review 2011-10-16T22:47:40Z

Religious reliquaries, holding bits of sacred flesh or materials that have touched such flesh, are genuine sizzlers: physically seductive, spiritually radioactive. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z

Their patients’ experience may be quieter, more sorrowful, but it is no less sacred. Dying is hard. Death doulas want to help make it easier. 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Treat your time in bed together as sacred. The secret to... sex in a long-term relationship 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

MoscowNew cultural venues add a dash of the sacred and profane. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

"Nancy's memory is sacred to us," she said. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z

She even discussed it as a “sacred object” when asked to speak in a religious studies class. Sacred or Sexist? After a Brazen Theft, Seeing de Kooning in a New Light. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Armstrong, an acclaimed religion scholar, uses a wide lens in her latest book, focusing on the role of sacred texts, or scripture, across a variety of faiths. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Ship of Fools is the brainchild of two Brits, Simon Jenkens and Stephen Goddard, who met in theology school and who hold among their sacred values a belief in self-examination. Bible verses that atheists love 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

There are no exotic orchids, sacred lotuses or colorful sunflowers in “Perennials,” a six-artist exhibition at Montgomery College’s King Street Gallery. Review | In the galleries: Six artists go deep into the weeds 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

I’m a pretty open book about most things in my life, but I have a problem with the culture of everyone needing to know everybody’s business and nothing can be sacred. Lukas Gage on the Audition That Went Awry, ‘You’ and Writing His Own Ticket 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Last September, Marston fulfilled a long-held dream of leading the project to plant a sacred healing garden commemorating those lost to gun violence in the neighborhood. As food scrap collection peaks, New York community compost sites face evictions 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

We commit to the sacred concept of “me time” and nod in agreement when our friends rhapsodize about the joy of hygge. “Smart Watch”: From “Sally4Ever” to “This Is Us,” there... 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

Most have had a sacred rope, a shimenawa, strung across the entrance. From Kyoto to Tokyo, along Japan’s ancient Nakasendo Way

A few years earlier, he had eulogised “the black oasis, ancient Africa the sacred”, in his lyrics. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

Has she defiled the sacred rule of the 12-step universe, where recovery is supposed to be shrouded in anonymity? A Wealthy Family’s Battle With Drugs Laid Bare, but to What End? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

And here, in this sacred conclave of olive oil producers in a small farmhouse on a hillside — and throughout Tuscany and more rugged regions to the south — it was almost a religion. Italy’s Treasured Olive Oil, at the Source 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

These conversations should focus on getting each side of the debate to recognize and respect the identities and sacred values of their opposition. Can neuroscience help settle the gun control debate? 2014-01-09T13:45:00Z

No sacred cow is too delicate for this foursome to rope into a rodeo of spoofery. Theater J’s ‘Oy Vey’ gets political 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

He fears that adjusting means sacrificing something sacred. I came home to a sleeping country 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z

What was once held "sacred" on Food Network is now performed by any person who desires to do so across social media, from Twitch to TikTok. The appeal and allure of the rotisserie chicken guy 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

To those fussy few, I’d offer this challenge: Just try to find a show that better promotes that most sacred of conservative American values — free enterprise. Review | Netflix’s fresh take on ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ celebrates the best qualities of a new generation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Central Library’s sacred geographical “California Fiction Index” — subject of the first feature I ever wrote for this paper! — shows only three novels set even partly in El Segundo. Critic at Large David Kipen on El Segundo in literature 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Morris disapproved strongly of an operatic staging of a subject he regarded as his sacred property. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

Carolina: the sacred figure behind the gaudy tapestry of my public life. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Rome, in a sense, has been sacred ground right from the start. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Sculthorpe also said that he was seeking the "sacred in nature" by embracing native Australian music. Australian composer Sculthorpe dies 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

It's a 007 adventure for the WikiLeaks era, with nothing secret, nothing sacred and a bunch of Cold War skeletons rattling merrily in the closet. Autumn movie preview: how this year's Oscar contenders warn of America's fall 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z

So Beautiful," and Simon defines it on "Love is Eternal Sacred Light," an electric-guitar romp punctuated by harmonica, congas and cymbals: "Love is eternal sacred light/Free from the shackles of time. Review: `So Beautiful or So What' is vintage Simon 2011-04-11T18:25:06Z

Inspired by Walt Whitman’s dictum “Resist much, obey little,” Abbey became an aggressive watchdog of Arches and the surrounding Utah canyonlands held sacred by the Hopi, Navajo, Ute and Pueblo of Zuni tribes. President Trump, Please Read ‘Desert Solitaire’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Though it’s now owned by the state, the solid rock island is still considered sacred ground by the Ho-Chunk and Dakota people who once lived here. In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Another group of sacred Hopi masks was gaveled away at a Paris auction Friday, over the objections of tribe members and the U.S. Sacred Hopi tribal masks are again sold at auction in Paris 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Nothing is sacred; medical records, even a person’s precise location at any given moment as determined by cellular tower triangulation technology, can be had for a price. ‘Hack Attack’ Puts a Spotlight on Rupert Murdoch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

“There’s something about that experience that was sacred.” Ann Dowd Sails Around New York Harbor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

We were talking about the word “sacred,” what it meant to her. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

As students of history will recall, the Tudors were of two minds about religion, and by extension, fashions in sacred music. Music Review: Stile Antico Choir at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-12-19T22:40:59Z

Foundation to produce a tour highlighting Lusitano’s sacred works with an ensemble composed entirely of vocalists of color. A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

And here we also have Rembrandt early, middle and late, erasing the line, as he consistently did, between high and low, sacred and profane, the gross and the transcendental. ‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece,’ a Portrait of a Biblical Betrayal 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The same upbringing that ensconced him in the sacred steel gospel tradition, as it turned out, also blocked a lot of outside influences, including some pertaining to his own lineage as a musician. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z

Ms. Shin has anticipated that problem by ending the book with a not-to-be-believed scene set in Rome, where Mom is compared to the most sacred of maternal figures. Books of The Times: A Mother?s Devotion, a Family?s Tearful Regrets 2011-03-30T22:25:15Z

Consisting of 11 movements for a cappella choir, it is on a scale with the great sacred works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, though in a slightly more advanced idiom, and is quite simply beautiful. Classical Playlist: Carlos Kalmar, Alexander Lingas and More 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The Basiani, founded in 2000 and affiliated with the Georgian Patriarchate, offered a wide range of its country’s sacred and secular music as part of ’s Bach and Polyphonies series at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z

We met several French astronauts and we were like touching something sacred almost. Q&A: Eva Green on playing an astronaut in ‘Proxima’ 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

“I do believe this is a sacred space,” Sen says, “and it does what it needs to do to keep the dance going.” Inside one of the few places where dancers still perform, founded by a glamorous disco impresario 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

He taught me that the space between the television screen and the child’s face is sacred. Yo-Yo Ma Tries to Bring Us Comfort and Hope 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The Hopi tribe will be extremely saddened by the decision, especially since the judgment recognises that these masks have a sacred value. Paris auction house sells Hopi masks despite tribe's objection 2013-04-12T16:23:01Z

Their performances are like secrets or sacred rituals on which small groups of spectators are allowed to eavesdrop under carefully controlled circumstances. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z

The producer of "Jerusalem 3D," the Imax documentary on the sacred Middle Eastern city, wasn't interested in making a political film. 'Jerusalem 3D' zooms in on power of ancient city with Imax intensity 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The difference in how these spaces are used is as vast as the difference between a megachurch and a sacred shrine. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

Berls’s book club meets there, a sacred space for the printed word. Looking to unplug in your own house? Here’s some inspiration 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

I even got to spend time alone in the sacred interrogation room. ArtsBeat: Ain't It Strange: Patti Smith on Her 'Law & Order' Experience 2011-06-20T14:22:22Z

It is basically a sacred drama, consisting of recitatives, arias, a couple of duets and a chorus to end each of the two acts. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z

"There’s a quickening that occurs inside the body when you connect with a sacred object." A Celebrated Antiques Dealer's Treasure-Filled San Francisco Home 2014-01-28T05:00:00Z

Though composed in a formal structure, the piece unabashedly draws from seemingly disparate styles: the tango, propulsive jazzy dance rhythms, Oriental-tinged melodic writing and even explicit references to the sacred Latin hymn “Dies Irae.” Review: New York Philharmonic Explores Israeli Musical Identity 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Midday bacchanals are a divine communion, and a necessary exhale connecting one to sacred places where Dr. W.E.B. H.B.C.U. Homecomings Are Canceled, but Students and Alumni Will Feast Anyway 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

In a school music class, her voice was noticed, which led to singing in a church choir and learning the sacred repertory of Schubert, Mozart and more. A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

But this playful homage to Washington might be seen as something more serious: a protest or sacred ritual in which unilateral power is equalized, quietly, via a simple artistic gesture art. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

They oppose the telescope because some Native Hawaiians believe Mauna Kea’s summit is sacred. Jason Momoa visits protesters blocking new Hawaii telescope 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The colorful work incorporates texts from Psalms 1 and 130 and names of birds like dyaramak, which means sacred kingfisher, from an Aboriginal language. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z

Another recent series, called “Soul Culture,” for which Cox manipulates photographic portraits in Photoshop, draws on the formations and repetitions found in fractals and sacred geometry. An Artist Shares Her Most Striking Images of the Decade 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Coco Palms overlaps with native Hawaiian history, because it’s on the most sacred land on Kauai, where the kings and queens lived, and where several burial sites and temples are. In ‘Cane Fire,’ When an Image of Paradise Creates Loss 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

The LA band played their taut, frill-free 1991 Black Album, a sacred text of metal, in reverse track order: as ever, applauding it felt like clapping a piece of high-tensile industrial machinery. Download festival – review 2012-06-11T10:03:00Z

The wide, flat stump, surrounded by a cast-iron fence, is the sacred place where mediums are said to best receive messages from the spirit world. This (maybe) haunted New York hamlet is a center of the U.S. spiritualist movement 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

“There are surprisingly few legal sources of sacred art on the market,” she said. Museum of the Bible Returns Ancient Gospel Looted From Greek Monastery 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s sort of a crime scene and sort of a sacred site,” Ms. Chipaumire said. Nora Chipaumire’s Dance About Miriam Makeba Comes to BAM 2012-09-11T21:54:24Z

But it is Pri’s prayers to Shakti that create a more tangible path as this finely embroidered tale beautifully unfolds, much like the sacred pashmina. Can India Be Her Homeland, Even if She’s Never Been There? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

In one scene, Nazis invade the ghetto’s synagogue and begin mishandling sacred texts and manuscripts. Review | Lisa Scottoline’s latest novel, ‘Eternal,’ is not a thriller but is thrilling nonetheless 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Not because people stopped getting married, but because marriage stopped being seen as a sacred union – couples instead started developing on their own terms.” A graphic history of sex: ‘There is no gene that drives sexuality. All sexuality is learned’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Yes, he’d seen the footage from the recent Met Gala red carpet with its over-the top interpretations of the exhibition’s’ sacred and secular themes. What’s Faith Got to Do With It? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Inside were Lakota cultural objects and belongings that had been returned after more than a century on the other side of the country: moccasins, sacred pipes, ritual clothing, beaded leather bags. As Plundered Items Return to Wounded Knee, Decisions Await 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

The Brits despite that old urban myth like teeth have the most advanced palate and a wider choice than anywhere else in the world and have never been afraid to improvise on other sacred dishes. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The archaisms, in Beatrice's speech, for example, would have seemed fitting in so deeply sacred a context. Poem of the week: From Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy 2010-08-16T09:35:00Z

For Red, jazz is the one true gateway to the sacred. ‘Interior Darkness’ for those who love horror — and even those who don’t 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

And two, it’s because I’ve known people who I call “sacred monsters,” like famous art people and such, who are so uptight about always doing everything the same way. | Mark Flood: Mark Flood, Houston Artist, at Luxembourg & Dayan 2012-07-06T16:00:00Z

I didn’t change anything in the lyrics, I felt like that was sacred. Music: Bob Dylan Assembles ?The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams? 2011-09-23T19:16:45Z

“When we talk about visiting Grand Canyon, Death Valley or Yosemite — all of those spaces are sacred to tribal people.” ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Goncourt project, however, has faced little criticism — a sign of literature’s sacred place in French culture and of the belief in its life-changing virtues. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Still, in many homes the act of brining remains a sacred ritual of Thanksgiving. The Rise and Fall of Turkey Brining 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

“We said, ‘Put your logo and your branding behind the ticket counter, but the band above is sacred and belongs to the airport.’” Jane Davis Doggett, Who Helped People Find Their Way, Dies at 93 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

The plane is a sacred place for players to be able to relax and get away from the noise. Andre Iguodala on the Business of Basketball 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The sacred arrangement of stones, a National Historic Landmark, sits on a summit almost 10,000 feet high. In Big Sky country, a pandemic-era fly-fishing getaway 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg offers the Mikinak-Keya Spirit Tour, featuring indigenous guides that use drumming, singing and ceremony to introduce the seven sacred teachings of First Nations peoples. Museum Tours for People Who Don’t Like Museum Tours 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

"A delay would allow the creators of these sacred objects the chance to determine their possible rights." French court rules Hopi mask sale to go ahead 2013-04-12T11:25:40Z

Constitution, believing the semi- sacred document speaks for itself as it offers timeless values above partisan politics. 'The Oath': Jeffrey Toobin on clashing agendas on Supreme Court 2012-10-04T19:59:04Z

One of my most sacred possessions is a copy of “Facades” given to me by the photographer Editta Sherman in 2013, the year she died, when she was a hundred years old. Bill Cunningham’s Favorite Muse 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Although he considered himself a functionalist, Mr. Abraham said he believed in the role of the architect as a creator of sacred spaces and as an explorer of the gloomier chambers of the human soul. Raimund Abraham, Architect With Vision, Dies at 76 2010-03-06T06:27:00Z

Whether dance takes place in an actual sacred space — like a chapel — or not, there’s something about it that, if it is going well, engages us deeply. Dance audiences are too caught up in the performance to be rude 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

As the boys say, “We haven’t kept our tomb sufficiently airtight, and our sacred objects are perishing.” “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

As if to underscore the point, he closes the album with a sober, chiming soliloquy, interpreting Thelonious Monk’s “ ’Round Midnight” as if by sacred rite. Review: ‘Press Enter,’ From the Pianist and Composer Romain Collin 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

Christmas is not just a time of nostalgia, then, but a time when the sentiments of our choral tradition and our winter festival – both secular and sacred – go happily hand in hand. The music that makes Christmas 2010-12-16T23:30:00Z

He invests the rituals, grandeur, wonder and hardships of both spheres with a powerful sense of the sacred. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z

We speak, of course, of a sacred Thanksgiving tradition for millions of Americans: Before the turkey and football, they curl up on the couch to watch the National Dog Show. How the National Dog Show became your favorite Thanksgiving tradition 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

There are the sumptuous burials of 37 sacred macaws, the gorgeous, red, blue yellow and green parrots, brought here from southern climes, and likely bred for their rainbow of resplendent sacred feathers. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

One reason cultural capital ties literary novelists in knots is its abolition, in Bourdieu’s words, of “the sacred frontier which makes legitimate culture a separate universe.” Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z

According to witness statements and court testimony, Blythe Brown led the massive research effort, supplied countless notes and suggestions and offered an invaluable “female perspective” for a book immersed in “the sacred feminine.” Ex-wife of ‘Da Vinci Code’ author alleges he led double life 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

But at least it doesn’t shy away from the sacred side of Christmas. Weathering a Blizzard of Christmas TV Programming 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The show's choreography was "made up" by Valk from "some facts and clues" but also YouTube excursions through sacred dances from other cultures. A clear channel to the Shaker past: Woosters' 'Early Shaker Spirituals' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

With their aura of the sacred, superhero movies have also acquired an air of the sanctimonious and a fixation on doctrinal purity. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

Best chant: Jack White, leading fans at his Sunday farewell performance in a chant of “Music is sacred!” The (highly biased) Coachella 2015 Awards: The best of the best 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

She’s the kind of writer the heroine of “The Friend” laments doesn’t exist anymore — one who views writing as a sacred calling rather than an exercise in self-promotion and branding. With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

A sung Mass begins at 5 p.m. with music by the 16th-century sacred music composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The Season of Joyful Noises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Meili mountain, considered sacred by the local people, towers over the vineyards and blocks the sun: During the crucial ripening period, the vineyards are in sunlight for only about six hours a day. Coming to America: A ‘world-class’ wine born near Shangri-La 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

“I coined the term ‘breast stupas’ for my work in 2001 because it’s kind of like a combination of the sacred and the sensual,” she explained. This Thai Artist Marries the Sacred and the Sensual 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

This is particularly true on “Newermind,” which shows artists struggling with how to handle a sacred text. Critic?s Notebook: Paying Tribute to Nirvana and the Strokes 2011-08-02T22:42:15Z

Listeners and scholars who speak of Bach’s works as “sacred” versus “secular” generally understand these terms to mean “religious” as opposed to “nonreligious.” There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

“Hey, I was about to graduate from college,” she added with a chuckle, “and my weekends were sacred.” Finding Romance in Her Spare Time 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Patel gets to make the most of this when, at his lowest point, he spontaneously cracks Kirsten's sacred text, peers at a page and bellows, "So pretentious!" HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Everything is sacred but signifies nothing, such as Lenin’s embalmed corpse, still creepily lodged in its mausoleum in Red Square. Missed connection 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cunningham highlighted the grove’s role as a replacement for sacred places lost. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

On the site were the ruins of a small library, a sacred spring and a cave shrine. Along the Mekong River, a Timeless Place Where Time Marches On 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Like Borat, the online world is profane and disorderly and constantly agitated; the wife, on the other hand, is imagined as sacred, eternal, controlled. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

But this troupe’s special sacred magic is in making sure that the sense and sentiment of every line register clearly, even for those uninitiated in Shakespeare. Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ Presented by Shakespeare & Company 2012-07-30T22:19:52Z

Was he a traitor by renouncing his sacred oath to defend the United States and joining the Confederate Army? Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media are anxious to service these obsessions, and so every launch of a sacred object is lavishly reported. iPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

They spoke of their family’s 6:30 p.m. dinner as a sacred time. The Trumps take their first official trip, and the world gets its first real look at the Trump marriage 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Yes, he helped secure the sacred status of many areas of American wilderness. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Unlike a lot of other people in our profession where film is the ultimate goal, theatre is sacred to her. Peter Dinklage: ‘Tyrion has a sense of humour'’ 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Part of its willingness had to do with Bolton’s agreeing to separate the papal attire from the fashion frocks, the sacred from the profane. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Some events are held in sacred places, including Alamo Square and La Villita — the city’s historic arts village and first neighborhood — and others in balmy backyards.One popular celebration takes place on Monday night. In Transit Blog: In San Antonio, Viva la Fiesta! 2013-04-22T22:24:13Z

Today, I still know only a fraction of the nearly 500 pieces of Schütz’s that survive: motets, madrigals, sacred concertos, oratorios and more. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

But as ever, the reactionary music fans' kneejerk defence of their sacred cow was even less edifying. Public Enemy are rubbish? If only more classic albums got this treatment … 2012-07-17T11:43:03Z

As well as leading choral workshops, the Sixteen gave three concerts, devoted to the sacred music of the gothic revolution, Tudor England and Renaissance Italy in turn. The Sixteen 2010-04-06T21:05:00Z

For many golfers Michael Murphy’s 1972 novel, “Golf in the Kingdom,” is practically a sacred text. A Mystical Novel of Golf Makes It to the Movies 2011-07-25T16:29:48Z

Outside the perspective of the sacred texts, in the field of bioethics, donation is not condoned, nor is it necessarily seen as pure evil. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z

One really unfortunate, negative effect that social media has had is it's breached a really sacred trust of comedy clubs. Comedy Central's Kent Alterman 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

We in my profession — in numbers almost inconceivably large, embarrassingly vast — are assassinating trees, squandering valuable pixels, disgracing our sacred language, by using a three-word phrase that is never warranted and always stupid. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Journalists, beware. Use this phrase and he’ll call you out. 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

And then there’s Ireland’s sacred mountain, Croagh Patrick, a.k.a. the Reek, in County Mayo. Climbing the summits of Irish literature

Since its founding in the mid-1970s, the Wooster Group has been performing acts of blessed profanation on sacred texts, including Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” and Racine’s “Phèdre.” Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The problem is, that for many rock climbers the moody gritstone edges represent an almost sacred altar of movement. Rock climbers scale heights of indignation at poet's Cultural Olympiad trail 2012-08-01T15:39:00Z

Aunties Aunties play a sacred and important role in Native culture. Jana Schmieding Navigates Single Life With Indica and Stevie Nicks 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The secular and sacred holidays melded together by the medieval period and went on to be celebrated in England and Ireland among non-Protestant Christians. History of Halloween: The origins of the holiday 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

“I think it was the appropriation of sacred music,” he said. What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

For Muslims, the city is sacred as the point from which the Prophet Muhammad, after a miraculous night flight from Mecca, began a tour of heaven. Jerusalem as a Place of Desire and Death, at the Metropolitan Museum 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

It's an interesting choice for the artwork, because it alludes to the tension in much soul music between the sexual and the spiritual, the sacred and profane. New band of the day: Holy Other (No 994) 2011-03-30T15:50:56Z

The idea of such sacred items being sequestered behind glass in museums has been a third rail for tribes since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990. Traditions Revived at a Tribal Culture Camp 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

She was, to borrow the title of one of her novels, a kind of sacred and profane love machine. Review: ‘Living on Paper,’ Seven Decades of Letters From Iris Murdoch 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

We might then put these great works in a new category, no longer relics of a sacred past, but harbingers of a new, humanist future. Perspective | What Mona Lisa with her feet up says about art after coronavirus 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

In his view, the tortoise is as sacred as, say, the Taj Mahal, a position I support. In ‘The Whispering Land,’ a British naturalist collects travel tales — and animals with tails — in Argentina 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

I thought he was going to tell me it was a sacred place in Utah or at least the hills in New York where Joseph Smith discovered the golden plates. | Inside the Los Angeles Mormon Temple Visitors' Center 2012-11-06T16:52:10Z

And, finally, “Why was this sacred to you?” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Or are these meant as sacred relics that might be displayed as such elsewhere, thus opening up a small amount of new space in these rooms? Perspective | The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

That communion, after all—between player and listener, in which both parties create something extraordinary together—is just as sacred. Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

She also believed that questions are sacred, and that her faith was strong enough to stand up to questioning. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Charms abounded, especially in Edward Johnson’s “Eliza Is the Fairest Queen,” with its studiedly fawning text: “Eliza’s breast is that fair hill,/Where virtue dwells, and sacred skill.” Music Review: Sounds Both Skin Deep and Soul-Piercing 2010-09-24T21:57:00Z

And in its sacrilegious way, this makes “Fleabag” one of the television’s most sacred works of, if not humanism, then maybe the church of the human heart. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

"We see our seeds as relatives, as ancestors that have deep stories embedded in them," Nelson explains, noting that seeds are sacred in many cultures. Why heirloom seeds matter 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

In one vignette, the Tapman discovers “the sacred sands of India,” preserved in a pouch deep in the bowels of the National Archives. Dancing is Tapman’s strength, but production values are his Kryptonite

“The idea that there is some sacred text that an audience is receiving is a fallacy,” he said in an interview in his office, where a big sign reading “Yes” hangs over the desk. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

One of TV's sacred rules is that you can never count out a character until you see a body. Why the latest "What We Do in the Shadows" twist makes sense in The Great Resignation era 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

The “Spectacular” jumbles the sacred and the secular, the old-fashioned and the newfangled. Big Critic, Little Critic? Me, My Daughter and the Rockettes 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

The film-maker-subject relationship is “this sacred space”, said Cooper, “and I really do think that that sacred space was allowed to exist and flourish and be so trusting because I’m trans”. Man Made: behind a powerful documentary about trans bodybuilders 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

He talks of the "sacred" element of their existence and survival – does that translate to a spiritual, even religious impulse in him? Anthill: how biologist EO Wilson turned science into best-selling fiction 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Powell's Books in Portland, Ore. Not all sacred places, though, are thin. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z

Others, such as the NBA player Patrick Patterson, have claimed that Space Jam is “the perfect movie” and is too sacred to ever replicate. Space Jam at 20: 'The perfect movie' or one of modern cinema's biggest follies? 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Unusually, the sublime and sacred first half was shared between Renaissance composers and the 20th century’s Durufle, alternating from one to the other with each piece. The King’s Singers rule with vocal artistry 2014-02-16T22:25:25Z

The dances we do are not ceremonial or sacred. Round (and Hoop, and Eagle and Deer) Dancing on First Avenue 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Every village makes a pilgrimage to the coast, taking sacred temple objects for cleansing and blessings. Bali’s New Year’s Day – time to stay in, turn off the lights, and keep quiet 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Outside of Florence, it’s the longest non-mortared wall in America and it’s on this sacred Native American site. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z

When the museum reinstalled objects, such as the monumental carved poles and ceremonial masks and weavings in its Northwest Coast collection, it worked with Indigenous leaders to hold rededication ceremonies recognizing their sacred value. What a Museum Wants to Be in the 21st Century 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Ray's regard for the accoutrements and atmosphere of these gestational chambers borders on the sacred. Painters Fred Reichman and Eleanor Ray, attuned to the humble beauty of the everyday 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Here, music may be sacred, but only as much as social media. Talent vs. Buzz: the Push-Pull of Coachella 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The sixth, Graham Chapman, died in 1989, though his sacred name and image is evoked throughout. Up to Its Old Tricks, Monty Python Reunites 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Audiences and critics embraced its signature blend of modern dance and devotional gestures to convey the struggle between the sacred and profane. Thirsty for Wisdom of the Body, Finding It in Dance 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Suddenly, it was all theater, a new kind of sacred space. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

But at a festival that prides itself on its open ears, this was also one of the few available ways to shock: kicking down the wall between the secular and the sacred. Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

“They protected the sacred space of the temple against outside evil forces.” British Museum to Return Looted Antiquities to Iraq 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Old styles become sacred texts used for indoctrination. Critic?s Notebook: ASAP Rocky, New York Rapper With a Hint of Elsewhere 2011-10-12T22:28:45Z

It was Blythe who convinced him to explore the idea of the sacred feminine, the Holy Grail and Mary Magdalene. The Many Sides to Dan Brown 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps most sacred and important is the connection to, and communion with, oneself. Review | At 22, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with cancer. Now she’s delivering a hopeful message when we need it the most. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

And as for the question of whether Barnes’s will should be broken, is a will necessarily the most sacred document in the world? Film: Requiem for a Jumble of Artworks 2010-02-19T22:41:00Z

In that case the artist was a person apart, a senior lawman who inherited the responsibility of keeping the sacred images fresh. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is 2011-03-06T22:30:00Z

This makes Sparks sacred — to Wright, to the hundreds they’ve influenced, to the countless that adore them — because they represent the unsolvable problem of how to be loved at one’s most natural. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

"I call on the auction house to consider the importance of these sacred objects to the Hopi Nation," Rivkin said in a statement. French court rules Hopi mask sale to go ahead 2013-04-12T11:25:40Z

At the Thanksgiving table, the turkey is sacred. A Brilliant Thanksgiving Strategy: Make Sides Quickly, or Ahead 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

The brightest moments here are the most ambivalent ones, on songs that merrily undermine and poke holes in all the sacred institutions: marriage, love, sports. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z

The scene is a forest grove sacred to the druids, depicted here by a tangle of tall, branchless trees. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Machu Picchu is not Disneyland; it’s a sacred place and it should be regarded like that. Do Machu Picchu from your sofa, thanks to Google Street View 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Her parents — who gave her the name Merry because she was born on Christmas Day — saw no separation between sacred and secular music. The Unstoppable Merry Clayton 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

“I can’t remember what bands we saw, but I remember it stunk. The festival was in a cow pasture, which nobody ever mentions in rhapsodic stories about that sacred gathering.” It’s the Anniversary of Everything! 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a tribe that is very zealous about their sacred lands. The Carpetbagger: A Mexican Director, a Maori Tale 2013-12-06T13:30:46Z

There we were in Naples, like so many before us, suspended between the sacred and the profane, the silence of the cloister and the chaos of the world. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z

“There is something kind of sacred here,” Mr. Bell said. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Its members have experience; they know that life is sacred with or without God or any other defined moral source. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Country music's love of the sacred and the profane means it's almost uniquely placed to deal with the fallout from mistakes. Readers recommend: songs about mistakes ? the results 2010-12-09T23:02:00Z

It was in a book – which therefore made it sacred, true, and brimming with mystery. Season's readings: The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore 2010-12-13T15:23:00Z

Josephus, whose life spanned all three Flavian emperors, would have come to the Domus Flavia to pay homage to his patrons and perhaps murmur a prayer before the sacred scroll they had cached here. Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Ma said into microphone, calling it “a sacred place.” Perspective | Yo-Yo Ma’s concert at the border was a beautiful prayer amid an ugly conflict 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Marriage is so sacred and holy to Mormon life. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: Q. and A. With the Creators 2011-03-21T05:01:44Z

The entire sculpture will be dismantled and burned in a four-day ceremony beginning Friday in the Fort Snelling area, a site that is sacred to the Dakota people. Emmett Till’s Coffin, a Hangman’s Scaffold and a Debate Over Cultural Appropriation 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Instead, it testifies to the vitality of an archetype embodied in different ways by Toby, Gilliam and the Man of La Mancha himself: the fool who mistakes his blundering errand for a sacred quest. Review: ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Brings Him Back to Life 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Though the museum focuses on the 1927 sessions, it uses that story to tell ancillary narratives about the role of sacred music and life in Appalachia at the time. In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

They swept through monasteries, melting down copper urns for shrapnel, ripping up floorboards for firewood, sitting on sacred scroll paintings and eating boiled yak hide torn from temple drums. The Chinese Town That Became the Self-Immolation Capital of the World 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

A book filled with sacred truths and epiphanies. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

And the dying takes a good while, during which both men enter what Davy calls “their real world. The secret one. The sacred one” of their friendship. The Language of Friendship, as Heard in a Dublin Pub 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

In a gallery designed to evoke an early Byzantine church, visitors will stand under a golden ceiling dome in front of a 10-foot altarpiece surrounded by a soundtrack of sacred Byzantine music. A Eureka Moment, Recreated in Film 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

In this context a standing ashtray becomes almost a sacred object, just as the firehose in a modern museum looks not like a firehose but an esthetic conundrum. The Ideal Conditions for Sound Art and Office Productivity Aren’t So Far Apart 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Which is cool, because we've been waiting for someone to knock down the sacred cow that is Jack White for years. New band of the day: The Orwells (No 1,519) 2013-05-24T15:02:04Z

As the faiths spread, translations of sacred texts were needed; complex “polyglot” editions developed in which translations might appear in columns beside the original text or interwoven between its lines. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z

Sometimes, the iconoclasts slathered sacred images with white paint, according to Joseph Leo Koerner, whose 2016 book “Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life” should be read by everyone interested in these artists. Review | After 450 years, the frighteningly modern visions of Bruegel get the showcase they deserve 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Northern Californians are known for viewing life through a spiritual lens, one that, for some, embraces notions of sacred energy and good vibrations—prompting more than a few dubious outsiders to raise an eyebrow. A Celebrated Antiques Dealer's Treasure-Filled San Francisco Home 2014-01-28T05:00:00Z

“It celebrates and builds on the loss of these somewhat sacred spaces we found growing up going to arcades at the mall,” Mr. Miller, 39, said. Nintendo 64s and Vintage PlayStations as Home Décor 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Like “Volto Santo,” the two secular panels capture multiple transmutations from lifeless to living, with intimations of the sacred, all rendered in a moment of perpetual simultaneity. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Surely, they were meant to be seen as honoring Becket with their attention, encircling him within sacred history. Art Review: Stained Glass at the Cloisters 2014-02-28T00:07:01Z

A passionate and often excitable writer, Almond can be a bold and incisive critic, but also occasionally trollishly provocative, as though tipping sacred cows was an end in itself. Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z

Nine months later, a delicious drink is born, its initial tasting typically described as a sacred experience. Review: In ‘Our Blood Is Wine,’ Raising Glasses to Tradition in an Ex-Soviet State 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Historians push back against the obliteration of chaos, time and shame, but talented novelists have also offered their creative gifts in this sacred process of remembrance. ‘The Book of Aron,’ by Jim Shepard, is a masterpiece 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

“I was invading a sacred space,” he said. Psst. Kid. Wanna Teach Some Yoga? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

Dust collected from the site, stored in a plastic fruit-juice bottle, serves as both an odd historical object and a still-potent sacred relic. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop

“The emotional complexity is what is the most sacred to me,” she says, laughing. Tales of shipwreck, war and nightclub dancers all at the National Book Festival

And so for me, DMX helped me marry the sacred and the profane in a way that was so liberating, man. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

“These are sacred spaces that people want to dismiss as being hocus pocus or magic—something that is not real,” she says. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z

Earshot Jazz’s annual celebration of the beautiful, uplifting and swinging sacred music composed by the great jazz-band leader Duke Ellington in the last years of his life. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Dec. 16 2012-12-13T00:52:06Z

Mr. Nelsons, who professes a particular fondness for Slavic repertory, captured well the weird atmosphere of this work, which oddly mingles bouncy rhythms with sacred tunes, Western and Russian. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

The reptiles were sacred, David explained, and must be treated with respect. Personal Journeys: Hiking Deep Into Dogon Country in Mali 2010-03-05T04:11:00Z

Lock up your daughters and hide those sacred cows, Britain's baddest bad boy is back in the standup special "Russell Brand: Messiah Complex." TV This Week Nov. 23 - 29: 'The Whale: Revenge From the Deep' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Lindelof favors gathering his heroes in sacred spaces at the end of their journeys. "Watchmen" finale: One last reveal explains all those eggs and the crushing weight of legacy 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

But in some areas of Italy and in immigrant cultures abroad, the practice forms an almost sacred familial bond. Italy bishop says 10-year ban on godfathers will help stop Mafia spread 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

For affluent, white-collar Americans, higher learning is something close to sacred. Is Meritocracy to Blame for Our Yawning Class Divide? 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

“When you say the name of Allah, they will be ready,” Fram says regarding the sacred prayer. Sustainable halal meat is making inroads in Muslim communities 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Walls were seen decorated with hieroglyphic inscriptions and images of sacred animals and afterlife items used by ancient Egyptians. Egypt displays recently discovered ancient tombs in Saqqara 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

The sacred head of the Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial gets shot off by an especially unsympathetic Decep. Transformers: A 'Moon' to howl at 2011-06-28T05:19:00Z

This troupe — and “Rise” itself — treats art as “sacred,” a word that the characters use fairly regularly. Review | ‘Rise’ is a good-enough version of the old standby: Appealing kids put on a show 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Jordan is an appropriator, but in a far worse way than some Coachella festival bunny wearing a sacred Indigenous headdress as a costume. What makes "Beef" so seductive? Understanding the intimacy of rage sheds light on that ending 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z

These godlings were associated with natural features of the landscape, such as pools and sacred springs and the roots of banyan trees, and were believed to have jurisdiction over their own areas. India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L Eck – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z

There will be sections devoted to the plant's medicinal and sacred uses, its political history and its creative associations. Oakland museum addresses online buzz over plans for first marijuana museum exhibit 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Tehillim” and “Traveler’s Prayer” contrasted how Reich has approached sacred text over the past four decades. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

She nostalgically refers to the birds from her home as “sacred.” A New African Tradition for Hanukkah 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Campbell is posing exciting and enduringly relevant questions here, about the price for women of achieving and sustaining professional success in a male-dominated world that sees motherhood as sacred. Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in ‘Apologia’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tao has an ability to draw you inside his austere, meditative world; if you go willingly, you realize that the body is a sacred place. Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater Performs 2 Meditative Works 2014-02-21T23:02:01Z

Mr. McGregor remains intensely responsive to the slightly strange fusion of sacred text and tone, with jazzy undercurrents in “Chichester Psalms.” Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Recently, Disney apologized for and pulled a Maui costume–which featured a brown tattooed bodysuit–in response to criticism that it constituted full-body brownface and disrespected the sacred tradition of Maori tattoos. Disney Makes Its Maiden Voyage to the South Pacific 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Like Protestants elsewhere, the Anglicans preferred comparatively short, direct, often chordal — but not necessarily simple — sacred settings. Music Review: Stile Antico Choir at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-12-19T22:40:59Z

As the secular leader of Christendom, and a devout Christian himself, he saw it as his sacred duty to preserve the Church and the spiritual unity of his people. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

White parents saw their glorification of a racist emblem not as worthy of reflection and correction, but as a sacred ritual to defend with self-centered fervor. White flight from reality: Inside the racist panic that fueled Donald Trump’s victory 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

These musicians we loved so much, who had been our sacred texts on dark nights of the soul, were dying, while we were dying on the inside. Notes from a Hollywood divorce: 'We had a primal connection. But we hung by a thread for years' 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Some supplant others: sacred texts of one faith argue against those of another. Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z

Although it’s not divine revelation, the show, like many sacred texts, highlights men and women whose human frailties do not define them. Can "Game of Thrones" teach us about the meaning of life? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Because it’s this sacred movie, and it’s scary to take on those guys. Who’s Afraid of Female ‘Ghostbusters’? 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

It is a meditation on grief and healing, on values held sacred by her family and the life well lived. Nina Sankovitch, Allaying Grief Through Books 2011-08-12T20:52:47Z

Now I live in a world where Washington's prophecy has been realized, and where the statistics that I held sacred are being spat upon. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

In addition to the motif of a “sacred, healing powers of a mysterious place,” there were numerous nods to Australia, a significant continent in “Lost” lore. 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Do You Believe in Miracle? 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

No one has a right to make unsubstantiated assertions, or vouch for the truthfulness of unsubstantiated assertions on the basis of “sacred” texts, without expecting objections from thinking folk. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

As we went to press, no.The critics said "Rich, sprawling, uplifting, disquieting... this breaks crucial, sacred ground in American movie-making." Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z

“Flourishes of the sacred and profane,” her website promised of the performance, and she delivered all that and more. Review: Maya Beiser Offers a Concert of Both Rock and Reverence 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

In recent years, tribes have been on the front lines of environmental activism, most famously in opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline and the risks it posed to water, land and sacred cultural sites. Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

It is alleged that they were behind what happened next, a terrorist attack during a sacred event. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z

In a separate case last year, the Annenberg Foundation bought 24 items considered sacred to the Hopi Native American tribe at a private auction in Paris for $530,000, in order to return them. Zuni Petition European Museums to Return Sacred Objects 2014-04-08T15:03:12Z

The government halted work on part of the 1,172-mile project in September because of protests by tribes that say the pipeline would disturb sacred land and pollute waterways. Government seeks new path for controversial oil pipeline 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

In other words, throughout the entire story of modern art, there has been a tension between the refusal to treat art as some sacred treasure and the need to preserve what's important. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

We read about our “dance of adjustment,” our “sacred beginning,” our need to “practice mindfulness.” 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

For millenniums, the sacred city of Varanasi in northern India has been the site of ceremonial cremations believed to release the deceased from the reincarnation cycle. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

There is more of that in Western notions of the sacred than we’re likely to acknowledge. Perspective | Great cathedrals burn, collapse and crack. Notre Dame can survive this. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Virginia brought us ketchup, made us our first masks and then showed my mother her sacred Mardi Gras craft room, where the shoes for the Krewe of Muses were gilded in a den of glitter. My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Partner 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

“There’s something sacred about that, like being on top of an ancient burial grounds,” said Mr. Story, the editor. Dinner at Ralph’s 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

The church founder, Joseph Smith, introduced the idea approximately two decades after he supposedly uncovered the sacred golden plates of the Book of Mormon on a hillside in upstate New York. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“If I forget the difference,” he asks, “in the name of all things sacred, what shall men remember?” Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z

The soundless stillness that spills from Yaegashi’s intimate abstractions has nothing to do with the silent authority of solemn situations or sacred spaces. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

“I think that what was the lost in the presentation of ‘Return’ was a sacred and profane element of the African-American cultural expression,” he said. The Ballet World Needs Robert Garland. Why Isn’t It Calling? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

The idea that this was an inauthentic rendition of this sacred music was a bit of a joke, considering how his persona and mythos were so constructed. Savage on Beefheart 2010-12-22T13:46:32Z

One thing is certain about the new ownership: Disney intends to make as much money as it can on “Star Wars,” no offense to your sacred childhood memories. ‘Star Wars Rebels’: In visuals and in spirit, it’s a new hope

Can these potent excavations and the greenery that surrounds them ever fulfill their dual mission as sacred ground and secular hangout? Gravity's Rainbow: The 9/11 Memorial Manages a Delicate Balance Between Grief and Consolation 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

Much of the programming dealt not with the paradise implicit in the sacred music, but with mourning, and with remembrance as a path to hope. The Salzburg Festival Opens in Search of Elusive Peace 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z

The consort even wears the horns of Hathor, the Egyptian goddess associated with Isis, who together with her brother Osiris and their son Horus made up a divine trinity that was sacred to the Egyptians. Deep rising 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Typically, the choir's performance will blend the sacred with the secular, the metaphorical with the direct, in songs composed from the 12th to 15th centuries. Medieval Women's Choir sings of spring 2011-05-19T19:59:09Z

“The water dropping from these is considered sacred” by pilgrims who say it can impart “knowledge of the past, present, and future,” Mouhot wrote. In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The concept of sanctuary was important in Polynesia, and many such sacred places were once found in the Hawaiian islands. Top 10 national and state parks in Hawaii 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

But break out the thesaurus, because even I could not deny that I felt something holy, sacred, ethereal all around me that morning. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Music fans can choose between six-foot-long sacred flutes and a souvenir of the world’s most famous drummer. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z

In the Black Sabbath tradition, they’re into the intersection of the sacred and profane, but the overriding message is at once more violent and obscure. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z

The record that made Mahalia Jackson “the Queen of Gospel” was sacred music through and through, but pop by default — it sold millions of copies. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

“I hung on every word you said, about Memphis, about it being sacred ground.” | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z

In the Walker show he has included some sacred cows, like Willem de Kooning, as a reminder that they weren’t always accepted. John Waters, the Artful Dodger 2011-06-23T23:10:08Z

These pieces are grand to emphasize the distance between the sacred and the secular, the church hierarchy and its congregants, God and you. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The boundary between the sacred and the secular was rather more porous in classical antiquity than it is today. The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans 2013-03-23T16:49:06Z

What the French traveler and diplomat Alexis de Tocqueville described as "individualism" had a profound influence on biblical interpretation and the way laypeople read the sacred text. Cherry-picking the Bible and using verses out of context has been done for centuries 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

It was there, Mr. Hamilton said, that Mr. Rubell “saved every single item” he kept from Studio 54, including drink tickets, party invitations and its sacred reservation book. Studio 54 Memorabilia to be Sold at Auction 2013-01-16T13:00:00Z

“The theater has a tradition in which the text is sort of sacred,” Hodge said. British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

He is joined by "sacred steel" guitarist Robert Randolph and the Family Band on a double bill sure to rock your soul. 13 top entertainment picks for the week of Aug. 19-25, 2012 2012-08-15T21:04:08Z

But, in addition to their sacred role as an ark for endangered book culture, libraries already offer most of the services that society can’t or won’t otherwise provide. How to weather the Trump administration: Head to the library 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Some of the most overtly erotic texts become sacred, devotional pieces,” Mr. Agnew said. Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Like her performance and video work, Davis’s sculptures do not ascribe to distinctions between artist and hobbyist, sacred and amateur. The “Terrorist Drag” of Vaginal Davis 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

"This is something people either consciously or implicitly recognize as sacred." Marimba ringtone halts New York Philharmonic 2012-01-13T04:17:05Z

There was obviously great care given to these burials and, quite likely, some sacred connection here. The ancient art of burying your dog 2014-04-06T14:00:00Z

Anyway, he explained, the tefillin creates a spiritual connection between mind and heart when you pray, and to do so in the land of my ancestors would be especially sacred. Lost in Jerusalem 2012-01-13T15:42:55Z

Hundreds of people watched from the remote site on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona that led them past roadside vendors selling traditional jewelry and about a dozen protesters who consider the area sacred. Wallenda walks tightrope high over Ariz. gorge 2013-06-24T16:08:11Z

Their kid-group nights are sacred to them, and I don’t believe it’s just the snacks. A kids club where parents die 2012-10-02T19:54:00Z

Tenemos's title derives from the Greek for a sacred piece of ground – complementing, Kapoor said, the locally worshipped turf of the nearby football club. Anish Kapoor sculpture nets high praise 2010-06-10T14:59:00Z

There is something sacred in the human connection between the performers and the audience. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z

Juxtaposed with the gold, these suggest felt or velvet backdrops for golden relics, whether the crowns and chalices of Europe or the sacred figurines of Asia. In the galleries: Nature’s serenity 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

There’s still something sacred about the communal experience of the cinema. Screening out Netflix is the real danger to future of film 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

In the third section, “The Bird Song,” Ms. Sarukkai translated into dance a poem about a bird, a metaphor for the spiritual journey of pilgrims in the sacred city of Benares. Dance Review: Malavika Sarukkai at the Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-11-18T23:04:26Z

With each offstage death the sound of the swooshing blade slices through the sacred music. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z

Many movies – from the sacred to the profane – do the same. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

The concept behind Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India was to let nine individuals from different sacred traditions tell their own stories. Author, author: William Dalrymple 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Inheritances became a kind of sacred space, a gathering, a ritual. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

‘In jealous rage his master hurled him down / Headlong from Pallas’ sacred citadel’. Leave Stephen King alone: “Misery,” income inequality and the connection between jealousy and creativity 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Our weekly get-togethers were sacred to me, and I'm not sure whether it's time to just grieve for them. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A plus-1 for divorced sisters’ girl time 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

The building committee, advised by the Rev. Gilbert Sunghera, an architecture professor at the University of Detroit Mercy and consultant on the design of sacred spaces, met with a dozen architecture firms. Teach, Pray, Live 2011-04-17T04:00:06Z

Two members of Britain’s Parliament have become the latest people to condemn Jay Leno for a joke that appeared on NBC’s “Tonight Show” and suggested that a sacred shrine in India belonged to Mitt Romney. ArtsBeat: Leno Joke Draws Fire From Two Members of British Parliament 2012-01-26T16:17:18Z

After years of intense lobbying, he persuaded Hopi priests to let him photograph their sacred Snake Dance at Old Oraibi. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The real allure of the chahar bagh is in its opposing forces, how something so sacred is also so pleasurable, which is perhaps the essence of paradise. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

This retrospective of photographs from the past decade represents the sacred, the profane, the horrifying and the silly. 27 beautiful books to grace your coffee table ? or someone else's 2010-12-18T01:33:05Z

Ms. Taylor led me to Enchanted Mesa, a pine-clad expanse that is a sacred site for the conservation movement, which was inseparable from the vibrant intellectual and scientific community. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Pooping was my sacred time, and I wasn’t about to bid it farewell. Rachel Bloom: The First Time I Used the Potty for Real (I Was 4) 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

“Protecting water and our sacred places has always been at the center of our cause,” Standing Rock Chairman David Archambault II wrote in a New York Times Op-Ed. Dakota pipeline protesters confront the “black snake”: “We’re living by the fire” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Thomas’s monologue is a combination of sacred and fleshly imagery, with lofty biblical cadences wrestling with the nagging patterns of daily speech on petty subjects. | 'Misterman' : Cillian Murphy in ?Misterman? by Enda Walsh - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:06Z

On Saturday, Newby applies his talents at a different “pitch,” when he debuts as a soloist for the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra’s annual concert of Duke Ellington’s sacred music. Stephen Newby spreads Duke Ellington's sacred message | Concert preview 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

And for both, dance is powerful but not sacred. | Dance: Joyce Theater Goes to the Dog 2014-05-09T23:01:51Z

It’s as if, she said, “there’s nothing sacred about a Black woman’s body.” In R. Kelly verdict, Black women see long-overdue justice 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

The New Orleans native also taught her son how to fill the dishes that would complete the sacred space. How Jake Smollett turned his passions for food and design into a career 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Green and blue-green colored stones were used as luxurious gifts, offered in sacred ceremonies and commercially traded. For curators, the quest to build 'Golden Kingdoms' for Getty exhibit leads to stunning surprises 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

In turn, the Beach Boys made falling in love sound both sacred and tragic – their joy tinged by sadness, their despair lifted by hope. Beach Boys mix nostalgia, surf, melancholy at Chicago Theatre 2012-05-22T06:54:00Z

Such parallels charge us to treat bodies as sacred, like altars. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

“For us, it’s personal. This is a sacred burial ground. But for them, it’s history,”?Samuel Bullard said. New book helps explain events of 9/11 to children 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

However, they are well-preserved and protected and remain sacred to Native Americans in the area. On the rocks, with ice: Utah’s national parks just as spectacular in the offseason 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

It seemed sacred to us, and we couldn't help but channel those emotions, everybody on the crew and on the set. Quentin Tarantino unchains America's tormented past in "Django" 2012-12-24T13:08:23Z

The chorus sings Latin versions of three psalm texts; the music looks back to the heritage of sacred vocal works, yet through an austere contemporary prism. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

A sacred trust between the deliverer of the news and the viewer. The Newsroom: not so great, not so wise 2012-07-04T18:33:49Z

She darted among the shelves and offered nutshell biographies of the Holy Trio, sacred figures in her discipline of Advaita Vedanta. For the Saxophonist Zoh Amba, Free Jazz Is Gospel 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

We chattered and laughed and put the world to rights and shared thoughts sacred, silly and profane. Stephen Fry Just Perfectly Summed Up Everything Wrong With Twitter 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

I've always found The Affair's notion that such a sacred wound absolves you of responsibility, deeply offensive. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

And maybe that’s why reality TV is still considered such a nuisance: it keeps chipping away at our most sacred clichés. Virginia Heffernan: Mining Reality 2011-04-04T02:01:13Z

There was a period of time," Kaplan says, "when neither of us could be near either painting because it was secret/sacred business. Seattle couple's passion builds 'Ancestral Modern' show at SAM 2012-07-25T21:49:04Z

Mr. Bernstein has wise things to say about the tension between the sacred cause of artistic achievement and the lures and pressures of having a career. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

“My plants are sacred to all religions,” he said. Smells like heaven: Israeli farm recreates Magi's gifts to Jesus 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

“You don’t just drift across into the tower footprints. ... You are entering somewhat sacred ground within a very important and even sacred site as a whole.” A New Story Told at Ground Zero 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Beginning this week, an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims around the world will be observing their religion’s most sacred month, Ramadan. 9 things everyone should know about Ramadan 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

The Getty is also planning to borrow drawings, textiles and other artifacts that Europeans bought or were given at the caves, including a ninth-century printing of the Diamond Sutra, an ancient sacred text. Getty Center to Recreate the Cave Temples of Dunhuang 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

It’s such a sacred event, the city even passed an ordinance requiring cruise ships to leave port before sunset to ensure the view isn’t blocked. Best Places in the South 2010-02-17T21:30:00Z

Mr. Yousif kept us moving through the shadowy chambers — highlighting one enclosure where priests’ robes were kept and another that housed sacred texts. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Six male editors rejected her proposal, informing her that "women regard cooking as sacred." Give up on that sourdough and embrace the tao of "I Hate to Cook" 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

“It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred,” Ms. Witherspoon says in a voice-over, borrowing directly from the book. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

As the knights in trench coats congregate for their sacred ceremony, a floating vault appears with jumbled letters and symbols like the riddles of the universe. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z

“There were … sacred … rocks — I dunno, they were ancestors, who knows — they were sacred,” said Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence offends with story about 'butt-scratching' on sacred rocks 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Free speech is indeed a sacred right, but it should not be confused with a license to be offensive. Perspective | Miss Manners: You’re not being ‘canceled,’ you’re being criticized 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

He was wearing a mask, a trademark hat and a variety of colorful fabrics wrapped around his plump frame like the sacred garments worn by a priest. Perspective | Greg Tate showed me what being a writer in America could mean 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The ensemble specialises in madrigals, Monteverdi's in particular, and their approach adapted well to the sacred theatre revealed in these richly ornate religious pieces. La Venexiana/Cavina 2010-05-17T21:30:00Z

But the manner of learning both sacred and folk music has significantly changed. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

And, let us not forget, on the main stage of Glastonbury, the sacred site, D appeared twice in succession. Stewart Lee: If Damon Albarn is serious about the occult, shouldn't we call him Damien? 2011-07-09T23:06:00Z

The route encompasses the Spanish Peaks, a sacred spot for many tribes, including the Comanche and Ute, who believed that summer thunderstorms were a magic act performed by rain gods living in the summit. Just in time for summer: 49 new National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The very fact that his daily clothes and accoutrements have to be in keeping with sacred tradition can fascinate, too. An AI-generated ‘Balenciaga pope’ fooled us all. How much does it matter? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Rocking the boat is not just a right; it’s a sacred duty — no matter where it leads. ‘The Boat Rocker’: Ha Jin’s timely novel about freedom of the press 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

And in all of this we are not transported to another time and place or some sacred realm. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z

She works alone, keeping her studio space sacred. A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

But the kitchen can also be a sacred place, one in which black women converse on their own terms as they planned to nourish their families. How I learned subtle power of learning and loving to cook 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

“Today we consider scores as sacred texts, but they were really working documents.” Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ Returns to the Scene of a Disastrous Opening 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Mostly, though, this was a vital, often ebullient performance that reveled in the degree to which Monteverdi wove the drama of his operas and madrigals into his sacred works. Music Review | Boston Baroque: Praise of Mary at Eventide Resounds Across 400 Years 2010-03-08T07:50:00Z

The center is now sacred ground for D.I.Y. punks two and three generations removed from its founding. ABC No Rio Fondly Recalls the Saturdays of Its Gritty Youth 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Apparently, he also wanted to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca, the most sacred building in Islam. The Infidel is not Islam's Life of Brian 2010-04-12T09:50:00Z

Over the next few weeks we will follow, among others, Tom, sisters-in-law Maria and Sophie with their tasteful training bras, and glassblower Charlotte Sale towards the sacred Liberty retail space. Britain's Next Big Thing 2011-04-12T21:00:00Z

In this story of stifled desire, Hampton has also crafted a metaphor about the risks of inviting guests into a sacred place, a fitting end to this gem of a collection.— New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Flow would seem a natural concern at sacred life moments, like weddings. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

"To the bill's many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians' deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God." Men, we need to stay in the pro-choice fight — in Alabama and beyond 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

He also horned in on — or recreated — sacred, esoteric moments that, Wilson said, Curtis knew were not supposed to be photographed. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Double Exposure’ and the negative/positive legacy of photographer Edward S. Curtis 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

As one of 200 Tribal Historic Preservation Officers in the United States, Ms. Odegard, 38, advises federal agencies on how to protect sacred sites in public areas. Immerse Yourself in Indigenous Culture 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

The work is a success, marking the contours of the landscape, but a map can't tell you what the places mean, and which ones are sacred. Your Last Breath ? review 2011-08-15T17:00:00Z

When you introduced the Eagle Dance tonight, you mentioned the difference between sacred and social dances. Round (and Hoop, and Eagle and Deer) Dancing on First Avenue 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

What the program notes call “a sacred pilgrimage which seeks the mystical connection between the divine and the human,” I approach as a secular viewer, seeking aesthetic transcendence. Review: Keeping the Dance Fires Burning at the Joyce 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Bach’s 1727 masterpiece St. Matthew Passion is one of the greatest pieces of Western sacred music ever written. The Week Ahead: Miro show, Miley Cyrus, improv fest 2014-02-12T22:16:32Z

Yet, what once seemed unthinkable is suddenly palatable in Europe: The continent’s art treasures more and more are losing sacred status as an inheritance belonging to the people. Seeing a Cash Cow in Museums’ Precious Art 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

She believes the 26 poses contain a “sacred geometry” that has been handed down from “the ancients”. 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

When eight pages of that sacred work that had been thought lost were discovered in the J. Paul Getty collection in 2010, a lawsuit ensued. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

INDIO, Calif. — “I hope you all realize that music is sacred,” Jack White said, near the end of his headlining set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday night. Talent vs. Buzz: the Push-Pull of Coachella 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

It was a lot of work to find and cultivate that thing that is sacred. I came home to a sleeping country 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z

Even the pilgrims, it seems, were observing one of the most sacred Riojan traditions: the siesta. Cultured Traveler: Beyond the Vines in Rioja, Spain 2012-10-19T17:23:02Z

A Mesoamerican survey of noteworthy scale, containing more than 100 sacred objects, this exhibition does valuable double duty. What to Do in New York City in April 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Being unfiltered — while brazenly insisting that nothing is sacred — clearly enticed the publishers of Philipps’s memoir, “This Will Only Hurt a Little.” Review | Phoebe Robinson, Ellie Kemper and Busy Philipps are here to brighten your days 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

“You don’t become a shaman because you went to Peru, bought a poncho, sang some sacred songs and learned how to make a booming batch of ayahuasca,” he writes in his book. The Shaman of Instagram 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

“But burning sage and sweet grass has become a fad and has been culturally misappropriated,” he added, and those substances “are sacred to us.” Mo Brings Plenty Was About to Quit Acting. Then Came ‘Yellowstone.’ 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

A sacred spot nearby is the place in Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” where, “Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.” Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

When Sean replaced his temple garments — the sacred underwear he’d promised to wear day and night — with boxers, I couldn’t take it anymore. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z

Bellanger said Benton-Banai also helped launch the International Indian Treaty Council, which advocates for the rights of Indigenous nations to govern themselves, and for the protection of tradition, culture and sacred land. Benton-Banai, co-founder of American Indian Movement, dies 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Kiribati islands, captured with awe-inspiring drone footage, are sacred to the residents. These Movies Haunted Me at the Human Rights Watch Festival 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Even in small scale, the ethereal composition brought to mind the depth of sacred music. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z

"Then you make them and it could be anything. It could be the greatest movie ever made or ... you just don't know. It's kind of precious and sacred." Reese Witherspoon has a lot invested in 'Wild' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Passing reference is made to the Mormon founder, Joseph Smith, and his supposed discovery of sacred tablets on a hillside in New York state in 1827. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z

A little awkwardly, there is a sacred component to this profanely violent world, too, a crucifix in a corner and a large Madonna materializing in that DJ booth. ‘Romeo’ at STC review: Alan Paul lays his scene at Fair Verona Fashion Week 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

There’s something sacred about this noise we sometimes make together with our bare hands — its vast percussive mass blurring into a shimmering affirmative blast. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The figures’ buttery flesh and midaction positioning make these genre scenes uncannily lifelike, and Valentin’s religious pictures, too, relinquish sacred precision for the realities of the flesh. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

At his deepest, most characteristic level, Barker has always been a maker of highly personal mythologies — mythologies at once violent, erotic, sacred and profane. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

As with all prophets, there was something vaguely reactionary in his message—a call back to some vaguely sacred standard. What Israel Meant to Amos Oz 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

Just a few months later, he says, “that’s no longer possible. And for us, we’ve never released a film that wasn’t built around the sacred and committed power of theaters and exhibition.” Perspective | With theaters shuttered, virtual cinema has saved the day. For now. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Powers made dozens of rectangular blocks in similar dimensions, adopting this sacred Chicago geometry as his own. He Lost Fingers in an Accident. Now It’s Inspiring His Art. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

A 14-CD set includes six discs of sacred and secular Jewish music, including a potent one titled “Cantorial Jewels” that highlights the Jewish prayer heard at the symposium. Critic’s Notebook: Singing in the Rain in Tribute to Richard Tucker 2013-08-29T22:07:53Z

His aesthetic, where he sometimes looked like the lead soloist in a rock-and-roll choir, served as a reminder that the sacred and the profane are intertwined. Perspective | Little Richard would have been the first to say his style was fabulous. He was right. 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

In other cultures, sacred sites are often sacred not because of what is built there but because of the persistence of religious devotion. Perspective | Great cathedrals burn, collapse and crack. Notre Dame can survive this. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

“I Heard the Voice” was a regional hit that established King’s group as one of the finest in Memphis, at a time when the city was much better known for secular rather than sacred soul. A Gospel Revival in Memphis Breathes Fresh Life Into Sacred Sounds 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

It is this visual vulnerability that prompts most schools of Islamic thought to prohibit images of sacred figures — prophets, angels, Allah — and in a few extreme cases, images of any living being whatsoever. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The atmosphere was to create the power of the role of a pope beyond the sacred and the religious,” she said. In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

But even to a nonbeliever, the allure of a sacred lake high in the Himalayas was irresistible. In the Himalayas, Journeys of Faith and Flowers 2013-05-31T18:19:51Z

And yet the thought of using turmeric only as food or drink, completely stripped of its power to bless, to invoke sacred meanings, is not harmless either. Golden milk, Hindu pilgrimages and a state mental hospital: A personal history told through turmeric 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

The profane has the power to disrupt; not because a word or a body isn’t sacred, but because profanity acknowledges other knowledges and possibilities held in languages and bodies that are unwelcome in the temple. From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

It is WAnon, because W is even farther to the right than Q on your sacred canvas, the computer keyboard. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I come bearing good news, QAnon. Meet WAnon, the new Mr. Right. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

The conspiracy is the Roman Catholic church's closing of ranks for 1,700 years to cover up the way priests have used their positions of sacred trust to assault young boys placed in their charge. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God – review 2013-02-17T00:05:38Z

“It’s just this moment that is slipping through your fingers as it’s happening, and it can never be created again. And that’s what feels so sacred about it.” Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

Another calls it “the Holy Grail of Hollywood sites” and others have hailed it as “iconic”, “legendary”, “of monumental significance” and “sacred ground”. Silent witness: the Hollywood alley with the five-star reviews 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

What seemed ironclad and sacred earlier in the day now looms like some tiny and abstract prohibition scarcely worthy of our attention. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

Movie theaters are sacred spaces of a type, but at their best they’re inhabited ones, not isolation chambers. | Movies: An Unfortunate Return to Reality 2013-07-18T21:30:30Z

Happily shifting gears from the sacred to the mercantile, we peered into stalls and shops along central Kathmandu’s narrow back streets. A breathtaking Himalayan journey to ‘the rooftop of the world’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

We stare through the flames, past the boundary of our sacred space, to the patina of white looming over the white sky — Mount Adams, close and huge. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

Yet another reason libraries are sacred and must be defended. The Library of Things, the Inconstant Gardener and How We Lived Then 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

As Eck writes in her conclusion: "The affirmation of the everywhere of the sacred – this is the peculiar genius of the theology given expression in the landscape of India." India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L Eck – review 2012-07-27T07:00:02Z

But these voices, distinct in tune but united in harmony, are singing shape-note music, a sacred form of choral music that dates back more than two centuries. Shape note singers keep American tradition alive 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Image: GLA The dome of St Paul's cathedral has been the most powerful planning force in London's development for the last three centuries, as the sacred axis mundi to which all else must bow. Should views of the Gherkin be protected? 2013-06-18T12:59:20Z

Likewise, being in a sacred relationship with another human being does not require complete understanding. I’m pansexual. Deal with it 2012-08-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, the crew was on the verge of being beheaded for allegedly violating that most sacred of laws. "What We Do in the Shadows" revels in the fecklessness of vampires who fail upward 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

But in that theater, it felt vital, even sacred. Can Art Change the World? With Song, Dance and Cowboy Clichés Two Shows Offer Different Answers 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

It was a sweet life there on that sacred land. Melissa Lucashenko: 'If I live to be 100, I’ll never forget the first day I visited my daughter on that ward' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Art to him is an almost sacred calling. | 'The Woodmans': Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Suicide 2011-01-18T23:30:09Z

In the basement of the society’s Ganesha Temple, an hourlong yoga class ended one recent Sunday morning with a long exhalation of the sacred syllable “om.” Hindu Group Stirs a Debate Over Yoga?s Soul 2010-11-29T20:09:00Z

I distinctly remember leaving the theater feeling as if I had witnessed a work that successfully established a dialogue between the sacred and the mundane, between the invisible and what we grasp with our senses. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a 10-minute battlefield speech about fidelity and betrayal, delivered in pointed Björk-ese: “Family was always our sacred mutual mission / Which you abandoned.” Björk’s ‘Vulnicura’ is a rewarding listen, if you can handle the heartbreak 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

"We sang with you, we clapped with you. We worshipped you right there in the theater," which became a "sacred space," Washington said. Kennedy Center Honors Gala salutes five legends of film, music and stage 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

You realize there’s no sacred book on gift giving, right? Our Infertility Is No One’s ‘Fault’ — and None of Your Business 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

The closing ceremony, by contrast, featured the usual sacred cows – the Who, the rump of Queen, Take That, Annie Lennox – emitting the usual methane. The best pop music of 2012: Kitty Empire's choice 2012-12-15T20:00:01Z

I was very tempted to add that Hortense, the sacred dressing-room girl, was adamantly not a part of the lawsuit, that she had even sent me a supportive note. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

The parents of my grandparents were actors, in a time when actors were not allowed to be buried on sacred land. Javier Bardem: Sinister? Me? 2012-10-12T22:00:17Z

By breaking the sacred community oath of not turning on one another, that cannibalism becomes even harder to stomach. "Yellowjackets": Eat or be eaten? It's called being a team player 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

The Rose Ceremony: The Bachelor decides to desecrate Bali’s most sacred temple with their Rose Ceremony, because they can. 'The Bachelor' Watch: Fireworks in the Fantasy Suites 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

As the story goes, they needed purified, sacred olive oil to light the lamps in the Temple but found only enough for one day rather than the eight days needed to purify more oil. How latkes took over your Hanukkah table — and how to get out of that rut 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

This is partly, I imagine, because Mr. Bean happily grinds sacred cows of political correctness into hamburger. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z

The church ran similar campaigns in the US to coincide with The Book of Mormon, named after the text sacred to the faith, published in 1830 by its founder, Joseph Smith. Book of Mormon not a problem for the Latter-Day Saints 2013-04-07T16:54:05Z

There are also drawings and photographs featuring anti-apartheid leaders, such as South Africa's Nelson Mandela, who called Gandhi a "sacred warrior." Houston art exhibit showcases Gandhi and history of nonviolence 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Taboo, a Polynesian word that Sigmund Freud translated as “holy dread,” most often referred to an action that was both sacred and forbidden, consecrated and dangerous. This Library Has New Books by Major Authors, but They Can’t Be Read Until 2114 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Even in Africa, the sacred songs and rhythms that Mr. Alorwoyie teaches are struggling, with the drummers and dancers of Ghana’s national ensemble earning salaries that barely sustain them. A Servant of Rhythm From Ghana, in Texas 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

We gambled away everything sacred, sucked our friends and families dry, ordered more rounds on our maxed-out credit cards and sucker-punched anyone who tried to tell us how fast our chips were falling. Critical Shopper | Calvin Klein: Critical Shopper: What Comes Between Brooke and Her Calvin Kleins? China. 2010-03-24T17:28:00Z

There is no marker, but this is a kind of sacred ground, the site of an unlikely spiritual revival happening today. Till Seth Do Us Part 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

A similarly situated and sacred Black Rock sits on the northwest coast of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. In Hawaii, local legends enrich, inform the visitor experience 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

What I feel is a sacred journey together and great endless love. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Where the group’s 2019 LP spun racial disharmony into a sacred celebration of Blackness, the new record envisions an alternate universe of infinite possibility. Damon Locks and the Black Monument Ensemble’s Spiritual, Funky Escape 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

"To act as if theatre is sacred kills the humanity of the actors and the audience." Noises off: a 'bloody weird' fringe, and killing a sacred cow 2012-08-24T10:43:47Z

For Sohu, based on sacred dances, the company will be joined by members of the BAM Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble. Living the Golden Life: DanceAfrica Welcomes Ghana to Brooklyn 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

On two floors of evocatively dark galleries, the museum recreates the atmosphere of the processions with videos and touch-screen monitors, as well as displays of sculptures, sacred objects and elaborate costumes. Overnighter: Modern Art Amid Ancient Stone in Cuenca, Spain 2011-01-28T19:55:00Z

He hesitates as if approaching a sacred altar of sound, and then surrenders to his solitude, allowing himself to be haunted by their absence but not diminished by it. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Indeed, he adds, Lincoln ultimately was able to redefine democracy “precisely because he had experienced culture in all its dimensions — from high to low, sacred to profane, conservative to radical, sentimental to subversive.” Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

In China, the Church of Seed rises from sacred Mount Luofu like a Bond villain’s lair. Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Thubron sustains his reputation as one of the greats of contemporary travel writing; his transcendent prose places the reader directly on the path to Kailas, culminating with the final glimpse of the ultimate sacred site. 'To a Mountain in Tibet': Colin Thubron's pilgrimage through a land stalled in time 2011-04-13T21:38:03Z

A strong acrobatic class is the best way to get New York type-A personalities on the mat, and then the class is peppered with song and chanting and philosophy and ancient sacred texts.” Heavy Metal Rocker Now Lifts Spirits as the Yogi Raghunath 2012-11-14T21:39:45Z

Freedom of speech must be held sacred, especially in these reactionary times. ArtsBeat: The Doors Light One Last Fire in Response to Morrison's Pardon 2010-12-22T19:51:09Z

The reason sacred images in churches and abbeys had to be destroyed was that they set up saints as false gods. What makes art a target for attack? 2013-07-08T16:23:22Z

Something old and ancient and sacred survives in the spoken word, which is fascinating for those of us who are word-workers. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

“Then this is the most beautiful locker room I’ve ever seen,” I whispered, for I felt as if I were in a truly sacred place. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Broadcasting guidelines required both main networks to screen not only sacred song anthologies, but also live church services, and late-night “religious and ethical” discussion shows. Crooked preachers and sexy priests: has TV got a problem with Christianity? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Miracle — how to even talk about the sacred? Hiking Through History, With Your Daughters 2013-04-17T16:26:43Z

“The New World is also the Old World,” she writes of the sacred site that predates European settlers by thousands of years. Every December, Frommer’s publishes its best places list. This year will be different. 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

That place is New York City, sacred ground for any hip-hop fan and an especially mythical site for an artist who learned the craft from afar. Jovanotti, Italian Rapper, Brings His Act to New York 2012-10-03T22:23:44Z

For a few final moments — for this visit — we drink in this sacred beauty and camaraderie. For a Seattle writer, trips to the Olympic Peninsula made time to reconnect with outdoors, others 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

“These landmarks are sacred and historically and culturally significant to the Creek and Cherokee people, and to the Native communities who hold these landmarks and this land sacred,” U.S. Vandals mar ancient petroglyphs in north Georgia mountains 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

There are the handsome mosaics in the lobby, solemn paeans to communications technology, and the building catches light throughout the day, like some kind of sacred mesa. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Pacific Chorale is joined by Southern California Children’s Chorus and members of Pacific Symphony for sacred and secular favorites. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Dec. 10-17: Michael Tilson Thomas and more 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gardiner, one of the few living conductors who has performed and recorded all the sacred cantatas, many of them repeatedly, hatched the notion of a ring. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Later, the TV program mentions India, where cows are sacred and “no one eats them.” David Duchovny’s first novel is a witty, madcap fable starring troubled cow, a Jewish pig and a suave turkey 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

So unlike the American house museum, which one expects to be a homestead expressing the ongoing investment and engagement of the owner, the apartment museum is both sacred and ephemeral. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

“You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness,” one researcher tells Pollan, “and you will bump into the sacred.” Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Among the items on display are sacred manuscripts and gold taken from the Battle of Maqdala 150 years ago, when British troops ransacked the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II. Ethiopia says British museum must permanently return its artifacts 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Rather than depict sacred stories, the Swedish-bred artist prefers topical ones, many of them personal. Review | In the galleries: Six artists go deep into the weeds 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Pamuk’s usual themes are on display: the East-West dialectic, the tensions between modernity and tradition, the relationship between secular and sacred, with Istanbul as both a backdrop and muse. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

It’s thinking that your image of a film or a character is so sacred that you can’t see it rethought for any reason. Back off, men—they’re scientists: New “Ghostbusters” trailer gets slimed by sexist trolls 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Why would you knowingly disrespect someone's culture and sacred artifacts and brag about it later? Jennifer Lawrence offends with story about 'butt-scratching' on sacred rocks 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

This week he released a two-disc set, “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning,” dedicated, as its title suggests, to distinct but intertwining strands of country tradition: the profane and the sacred, the honky-tonk and the church. Marty Stuart Preserves Country in New Music and Photos 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Some things are just too sacred to mess with. Felicity Cloake: my week as a vegan 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Could the word be too sacred to Lucas for him to subordinate it to the profane cinematic image? What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Her eyes lower as she looks at the brightly beaded ason she’d removed from her altar, a sacred rattle made from dried gourd that serves as an instrument of power for a Vodou priest. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z

“I got everybody together and I said, ‘Look, I’m not preaching to any of you, but we’ve been handed a sacred trust,” he said. A ‘Salute to the Beatles,’ with a little help from musical friends 2014-02-04T19:53:18Z

There is nothing sacred about the ingredients I have listed in this recipe. Plan your weeknight meals around this plant-based, budget-friendly superfood 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Italian composer, sacred oratorio master and priest Giacomo Carissimi responded to the tumult of the mid-17th century by setting the deeply moving stories of biblical prophets — and their sacrifices — to music. Carissimi's 'Prophets' at St. James Cathedral 2012-01-12T21:17:04Z

She sang arias and sacred music mostly, but with time a few Broadway numbers crept in, a few Christmas carols. 'I've just gotta sing' 2010-03-24T07:00:00Z

The show’s venue and repurposing of sacred imagery caused the British media “to freak out,” says Findikoglu. Meet the Young Designers Making Catholic-Inspired Fashion 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

With crisp design and informative text, this volume, which covers 11,000 years of religious buildings and architecture, looks at sacred dwellings worldwide, what they have in common and what sets them apart. 19 big holiday book gift ideas: mystery, history and local titles 2013-12-13T20:53:23Z

“The National Academy’s actions violated one of our most core beliefs: that the collection is sacred and not a fungible asset,” Ms. Feldman said. Sanctions Are Ending For Museum 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

These may be simple words, ordinary people, but the music tells us that this is a sacred moment. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

"Through the very fact that I write sacred music, my concern with music and God take place all the time," he said. Obituary: Sir John Tavener 2013-11-12T17:29:21Z

"Within the music world this place is sacred ground," said Craig, in her 15th year as Caffe Lena's only paid full-time employee. Good folk: Iconic NY coffeehouse marks 50th year 2010-05-18T14:46:00Z

But beyond the landscape, the Badlands are a sacred place to the Oglala Sioux. In the Badlands, Where Hope for the Nation’s First Tribal Park Has Faded 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Certainly there was nothing of the faux sacred about these performances. LSO/Gergiev – review 2013-04-02T16:45:01Z

We’ve already done a lot of circumambulating, negotiating temples and sacred objects in a clockwise direction. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

He has asked Abramovic to do a lecture that will only be open to women, part of his current project of finding ways to have men "understand the sacred humility of recognising a woman's space". Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z

I would be in violation of a sacred human stance in place since pets, thousands of years ago, first took up residence in human households. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z

That this interplay between background and foreground is a basic tenet of gospel indicates Spector’s own indebtedness to black sacred music. Mariah Carey’s Christmas Miracle 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Nguyen still mourns “the sacred exchange of energy in a live music setting.” Perspective | The first great Zoom music video has arrived 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

And so to be around those women, for me, was this sacred space. “To Live in the World, and Not to Hide”: An Interview with Janet Mock 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Within a week, shards of the sacred glass were selling on eBay to the highest bidder. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

And, sniffing the air, those of us who scrape a living by firing rocket-propelled grenades at safely tethered sacred cows, backed off. Unseen Swells: 'I come not to slag off Coldplay, but to bury them' 2010-06-15T11:31:00Z

The Ukrainian Chorus Dumka, an amateur ensemble that specializes in secular and sacred music from Ukraine, opened the concert with the Ukrainian national anthem. Carnegie Hall Musters Stars for a Benefit Concert for Ukraine 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

The next day, Whitman abjectly asks forgiveness for crossing a sacred boundary. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Thus the run-down city of Dublin could become sacred space if you cared and knew about those names. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

“When I set a sacred text, I enter it with all my heart. But I’m more a supporter than a specific believer. I have a problem signing on dotted lines.” The Composer Who Owns Christmas 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Her domesticity was limited to the sewing of wild oats and the barbecuing of sacred cows – entire herds. My hero: Mae West by Kathy Lette 2013-04-12T15:00:05Z

So, has Christmas really been unmoored from its truly sacred origins and recast as a cash-register-feeding tribute to the gods of the marketplace? The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z

The holiday is full of paradox: sacred and secular, giving and gorging, loving others and suffering them. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z

Seated at his preferred Bösendorfer concert grand, Schiff seemed not so much directly channeling the spirit of Schubert as delivering a sermon based on sacred texts. Review | Andras Schiff graces the faithful with a recital akin to a religious experience 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Half of that is the narrative I’m creating, the quotes and sacred text. Rev. Roxy Is Serious About Marriages and Helping Make Them Work 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

These works, of course, raise questions about the relationship of the sacred to the profane. ‘Love Me Tender’: artistic meditations on money 2013-03-07T21:58:14Z

Mr. Denk played troubadour songs and excerpts from sacred works by several medieval composers, in his own arrangements. Review: Jeremy Denk and His Piano Take a 600-Year Tour 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

They were all intentionally kept because written or printed words containing Hebrew are considered sacred and Jewish law forbids their destruction. 'Sacred Treasure' tells engaging story of early Hebrew documents 2011-01-06T22:03:06Z

Mr. Baker introduced listeners to familiar classics and to little-known fare, from early swing music to the sacred works of Duke Ellington to experimental jazz-classical hybrids from the 1940s to the present. David Baker, jazz scholar, composer and conductor, dies at 84 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

As Todbaum becomes one of Hollywood’s “sacred monsters,” Sandy rises, too, understanding that his early history with Todbaum keeps his own manager’s phone ringing. Jonathan Lethem on Hollywood Collaborations 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

A sacred tunnel discovered in the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan is filled with thousands of ritual objects and may lead to royal tombs, the lead Mexican archaeologist on the project said on Wednesday. Filled with artifacts, ancient Mexican tunnel may lead to royal tombs 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

There are long sections with symphonic heft and athletic fingerwork, but many movements are brief, direct transcriptions of sacred music. Liszt’s ‘Harmonies,’ More Intimate Than Ever 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

But I do think she redeemed herself by holding the bash after the ceremony at that most sacred of Christian sites: Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Justin Bieber gets baptised in a bathtub 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

He was one of a group of Young Turks who set the tone with their "shared belief in the nearly sacred mission of Bell Laboratories and the importance of technological innovation." 'The Idea Factory': Bell Labs, the fountainhead of innovation 2012-03-22T20:07:04Z

We were shooting on sacred land inside a Native American reservation, and we couldn’t take vehicles — which meant that all the gear had to be hand-carried in. Action! Vivid Moments on Set, Relived 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The subjects seem, at first, like a motley mix of the pedestrian, the sacred and profane. In ‘Autumn,’ Karl Ove Knausgaard Shows His Sweet Side 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

There's a real reverence for these characters and the stories; they're sacred to a generation of people. Melissa de La Cruz loves fairy tales so much she'll turn them inside out 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

This statue of Herakles-Vajrapani depicts him as a faithful defender of Buddha, wearing the head of the Nemean lion he famously slew and holding his sacred sword at repose. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ojih Odutola’s hope is that visitors will surrender themselves and their imaginations to the exhibition completely, enabling a kind of sacred experience. Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Mesmeric Alternate Universes 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

“It was seen as intruding on these sacred halls.” Uffizi Gallery, Bastion of Tradition, Evolves (Slowly) With the Times 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

The result is a strong culinary heritage that even the edgiest chefs hold sacred — and, of course, draws food worshipers from around the world. The Resilient Spirit of Basque Country Extends to Its Restaurants 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

Young girls in saffron and white satin wraparounds, with head-dresses of coconut palm fronds and marigolds, danced in the temple complex to sacred tunes played by gamelan troupes. Nearly 50 years on, turtles, caterpillars sacrificed in Bali ritual to ensure peace on Earth 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

"It is a splendid choir," said the Rev. Jerome Weber, a Roman Catholic priest who reviews sacred music for Fanfare, the respected classical music magazine. Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs 2012-06-28T10:16:04Z

She also suggests the uncertain position that relics and reliquaries hold — still perched between not-art and art, sacred and secular, medieval and modern. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

The two events followed an online petition asking Christie’s to stop the sale of sacred artifacts of the Taíno, an Indigenous people of the Caribbean whose descendants can now be found throughout the Antillean islands. Taíno People Want to Stop Christie’s Sale of Artifacts 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

“The land is extremely powerful. There’s a reason why it’s a sacred place,” she said, over very good coffee at a cafe called Hundred Monkeys. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Snake maidens” showered cornmeal on the reptiles, which were then released “in the sacred earth-mouths in the rock,” Pepper reported. Antiques: George Hubbard Pepper Retrospective in New Orleans 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z

For all the episodes of tension, this work conveys over all a reflective, almost sacred tone. Music Review: Strife of ?64, in Somber Tones 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z

It’s easy to see why lost albums can feel like potentially sacred totems—the proverbial missing puzzle piece in our scramble to feel whole. The Intoxicating Promise of John Coltrane’s “Lost Album” 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

She described her relationship with Elverum, whose first wife died of pancreatic cancer, as “very sacred, very special.” Michelle Williams finds love, marries after Heath Ledger death 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

A few hours earlier — a more innocent time — Iowans had come together to do their sacred duty. In Iowa, a drama becomes a farce 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Benedict praised Muti's `'intense interpretation" of Vivaldi and hailed his `'sensibility for sacred music." Pope enjoys concert conducted by Muti at Vatican 2012-05-11T18:09:12Z

A grieving young father tells the story of a girl with waist-length eyelashes, who raised sacred things by planting pages of the Bible in the earth. New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The tribe declared a sovereign right to improve the property and said it is protecting an ancient and sacred hot mineral spring. Desert dust-up over demolition of tribe's Spa Resort in Palm Springs 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Wodehouse has a sacred value in my life, having been an inexhaustible source of pleasure since my childhood. London Theater Journal: On Artifice and Oxygen, Earnest and Jeeves 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Kent, he added, “gave us the freedom to just be those people — that it wasn’t a sacred text, that this was about human beings, not a dried-up historical piece.” Filming Eugene O’Neill When the Elements (and Investors) Don’t Cooperate 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

A traditional structure found in or at the entrance of Shinto shrines, the gate often serves as an entrance to a sacred space. ‘Weathering With You’ Review: Letting the Sun Shine In 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

The world is very precious, it’s very sacred. Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

But this production has a stunned respect for the sacred and profane attraction that animates these two, as well as a wondering awareness of what Whitehands describes as “the harm love can do.” Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

I admire the simplicity of Johnny's delivery and arrangements and the moral ambiguity in his storytelling; sometimes sacred, sometimes profane,always entertaining. 'I have a tattoo of Bruce Springsteen wearing 3D glasses on my leg' 2011-02-08T11:56:00Z

But the film also serves as the clearest statement of Glee's sacred mission. Glee The 3-D Concert Film: The Church of Latter-Day Songs 2011-08-12T09:45:00Z

Around the world, birds of prey have been venerated as gods, royalty, warriors, sacred messengers, protectors and prophets. Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z

The US ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, tweeted: "I am saddened to learn that Hopi sacred cultural objects are being put up for auction today in Paris." Paris auction house sells Hopi masks despite tribe's objection 2013-04-12T16:23:01Z

Correa describes these meandering pathways, which occur throughout his buildings, as a "universal impulse" with deep sacred routes, common to all religions. 'Architecture has become too mundane' 2013-05-15T06:58:36Z

His fieldwork takes him to every continent, digging inexhaustibly into cultures for their foundational and sacred stories. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Then I did several more of his works, major sacred works. Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z

A day after the Senate acted in unusual bipartisan agreement to pass a small piece of the president's jobs bill aimed at helping veterans, Obama said that to support veterans was "a sacred trust." Veteran's Day hoops on USS Carl Vinson 2011-11-12T02:36:00Z

In brief remarks, Zinoman called the conservatory building “a hopeful and sacred place to train artists, actors and directors.” Not even a pandemic could stop this D.C. artistic leader from building the acting school of her dreams 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

I was signaling that I understood her desire to be sacred, rather than profane, and as important to who she is, and who she will become, as my own desire has been to me. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

For such critics, "Jesus Christ Superstar" seemed to pose a threat simply by juxtaposing the sacred narrative of the Bible with the profane atmosphere of the rock concert. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

Still, they stood in awe of the sacred structure, with its stark white steps, intricate and brightly colored awning and golden Buddha in its crown. Overnighter: Valle de Bravo, an Upscale Refuge Near Mexico City 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z

Bach and most of his contemporaries, however, don’t seem to have understood sacred and secular to be mutually exclusive categories. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The result is three rooms with a coolly sacred feeling. At Seattle’s Museum of Museums, a pseudo-religion generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

May there be no end to the heavenly hit parade of sacred songs. The Museum of the Bible: The last place in D.C. you might expect to hear Queen, Kanye and the Clash 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Trevor Noah’s debut as the host of “The Daily Show” was a mostly smooth one–funny enough and assured enough to fend off any charges that he was violating Jon Stewart’s sacred space. Trevor Noah first “Daily Show” was definitely strange — but it could be exactly what we need 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Getaway is proposing the opposite: “This is a sacred place where you do no work,” Staff said. With no contact and substantial space, Getaway’s tiny houses were ahead of their time 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

It pits Hiddleston's Norse god against the Time Variance Authority, a sprawling yet surpassingly orderly cosmic bureaucracy dedicated to preserving the so-called "sacred timeline." How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

In the show’s final section, “Rulers and Patrons,” we’re squarely in the world of enactments in which the secular and the sacred, beauty and brutality, terrestrial and celestial rule are surreally entangled. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Maybe we’ll do an issue on sacred journeys or places around the world where people go for not just religious or spiritual retreat. A Look at Smithsonian Journeys’ First Edition 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The title of “Lingui” is Chadian word that translates as “common thread” or “sacred bond.” Abortion drama from Chad stirs Cannes Film Festival 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Was she worried about treading on what many readers consider sacred text? A Provocative New Novel Reimagines the Anne Frank Story 2013-08-30T22:06:01Z

So, in that way, they can step further away from this sacred/profane thing and towards a wider spectrum of experiences and emotions. Will Oldham barest interview: “I trust that there are people every day, finding their way to the pieces of work that are going to be important in their lives” 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Tales of angsty alpha males who see the light are a cinematic sacred cow, yet lacking in clarity of vision or a cohesive world, “The Beta Test” comes out looking as confused as its antihero. ‘The Beta Test’ Review: Paranoia in Hollywood 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

En route to the Hill Country, stop in Kandy to visit the sacred Temple of the Tooth. A backpacker’s guide to Sri Lanka: a one-month itinerary 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The comfort in her own sacred ritual — writing about him — is insurance, its own celebration. In her new memoir, Elizabeth Alexander deals with loss of her spouse 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

This encounter, the confession of private horrors within the formality of an office cubicle, affords a delicate, almost sacred moment. Review | ‘American Dirt’ offers a thrilling adrenaline rush — and insights into the Latin American migrant experience 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

“The stage is a sacred place,” she said. The Past Lives of Shirley MacLaine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

"A sacred space within the Garden," reads the PR, "a respite from the party, a place of contemplation, of memory, of grief, of happiness; it can be all things to all people." Secret Garden Party 2013: what to look out for 2013-07-25T16:02:32Z

I drove south that morning and then west, stopping briefly in the plaza of a scrubby pueblo, where some bare-chested locals dressed as kachinas seemed to be readying for a sacred ceremony. | Pursuits: Guy Trebay on the Joys of Driving 2012-05-20T05:34:44Z

A traditional staple on the Pacific Northwest coast, salmon is considered a sacred food. Sean Sherman’s 10 Essential Native American Recipes 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

In his telling, death does not come off as tragic or sacred. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z

Their broader goal is to create a cultural beachhead -— one that might inspire law students to plunge into tribal sovereignty issues, for instance, or architecture students to become attuned to sacred sites‌. Indigenous Founders of a Museum Cafe Put Repatriation on the Menu 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

But, he added: “The sacred also has a way of breaking into the profane.” Is this the cultural moment of the ‘hot priest’? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

While reformers and repeal advocates saw abortion in terms of public health and rights, opponents framed the issue in terms of human life, the “sacred” life of the fetus. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z

But one thing has brought them together: A faith in the sacred produce of the earth. How a small Amish farm co-op came to supply D.C.’s top restaurants 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

The smashing of sacred relics conjures society’s most archaic reactions: in this case, imprisonment, public shaming, flogging, concerns of Satanism, witchcraft, hysteria. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z

In many cultures throughout history, people have stacked stones to mark paths, to consecrate sacred places or as meditative acts. Getting Personal With Iman 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

For humans, the heart and soul is the one-room Dog Chapel that Huneck built as a sacred place where we could honor the dogs who now live only in our memories. In Vermont, a haven for dogs and the humans who love them 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

As the coronavirus ravaged the world, Helen Frederick thought of the Ramayana, the sacred Hindu epic. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

She relates to pop music in the ways those shows do — treating it as a historical inspiration pool and also a sacred text. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z

In dusky colors often shot through with opalescence, they picture ordinary objects on flat surfaces — a shoe, a bowl, a paper bag — as if they were sacred relics. Art in Review: Victor Pesce: ‘Selections: 1978-2010’ 2013-07-04T23:36:18Z

The tribe’s main focus is potential contamination of the Missouri River and destruction of sacred burial sites. Dakota pipeline protesters confront the “black snake”: “We’re living by the fire” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

But all attempts to safeguard a sacred truth are doomed to failure when a story is significant enough to be retold. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Identity understood from this perspective verges on the sacred. Art Review: The Jewishness Is in the Details 2013-09-05T21:45:53Z

“My plants are sacred to all religions,” he said. Smells like heaven: Israeli farm recreates Magi's gifts to Jesus 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Religious celebrations — what with sacred slaughters, a stress on all things kosher, ritualized consumptions — are a particular point of tension for Jews who eat vegan. I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

But the most sacred place seems to be the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. Christmas in Key West: Deck the halls with kitsch 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

One of the most sacred outings I shared with my father was going to Blockbuster every weekend. I was a chronic masturbator 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Some Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. 11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Today, however, you can have your own “Messiah” however you want it: as a fancy concert experience, a spiritual sacred occasion in church or homey sing-along. 'The Messiah' from opposite ends of the economic spectrum 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Gadsby punctures the myth of the great man and his sacred reputation, pondering the treasures we will now never have from those clobbered in their wake. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”: The stunning Netflix special that made Louis C.K.’s comedy irr... 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

A lofty claim, though one befitting a reigning interpreter of this repertoire: Gardiner, 80, a scholarly flag-bearer of the historically informed performance movement for a half-century, has virtually set the standard in Bach’s sacred music. What Is John Eliot Gardiner’s Musical Empire Without Him? 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Calculating the rightful measure of respect for the dead is as sacred for us as it was for the ancients — around whom the mysteries of death were surely as, if not more, spiritually complex. Perspective | John Lewis’s death was loss for us all. But the powerful Capitol service for him was a blessing. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

That is the case with Bach’s sacred cantatas, the focus of this year’s Bachfest Leipzig, which ran from June 8 through 17. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The bell — another marker of Gates’s interest in the sacred, and of the role that the church played in his upbringing — will serve as a gong for the events program throughout the summer. A Chicago Roofer’s Legacy Finds a Home in the Serpentine Pavilion 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

We were also reminded that war asks difficult questions of people: it asked a young Jaime to choose between father and king and to break a sacred oath to save a city. Game of Thrones: season three, episode five – Kissed by Fire 2013-04-29T12:14:00Z

As Zoboi moves farther along the timeline of American history, she rejects the belief that Blackness is rooted in suffering and focuses on the sacred refuge of community. The Pillars of African American History: Ibi Zoboi’s Kwanzaa Picture Book 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

This was one of the Dogon tribe’s most sacred villages — the site of a festival in honor of one of the main gods of the Dogon pantheon that takes place once every 60 years. Personal Journeys: Hiking Deep Into Dogon Country in Mali 2010-03-05T04:11:00Z

In a recent interview, Lawrence told a story about “butt-scratchin’” on rocks that are considered sacred to native Hawaiians, while shooting The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in 2012. Jennifer Lawrence offends with story about 'butt-scratching' on sacred rocks 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Some will fear, Mr. Luhrmann acknowledged, that he is violating a sacred text. Baz Luhrmann Puts ?The Great Gatsby? Into 3-D 2012-01-16T22:51:46Z

They didn’t expose the shibboleths of dress or kick over any sacred cows. Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada Make Civil Discourse Look Lovely 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Now I know it was the robust poetry doing its job inside the prose — that natural convergence of sacred and profane. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The quiet and most intimate act of holding and reading a collection of poems — especially these days when our brains are overworked and we are inundated with noise — should be protected and kept sacred. ArtsBeat: Poetry Profiles: Alice James Books 2014-03-26T19:43:37Z

If that’s not horrible enough, the mountain is sacred to Native Americans, who are outraged over its desecration. Walking in a fecal wonderland 2012-10-03T19:37:00Z

Anniversary of the act of Congress that created the museum, which also required a process that human remains, funerary or sacred objects of Native Americans in Smithsonian storage be repatriated to tribes. National Museum of the American Indian celebrates 10th anniversary

“Then I searched through sacred scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up, and it’s much better now.” On Eating Alone in Paris 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

A font of innumerable interpretations, the original tale reaches a climax with the battle of Dan-no-Ura, during which the Heike clan is defeated, the child emperor drowned and a sacred imperial sword lost. ‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a profoundly powerful story, in large part because it’s a sacred one, built on a fundamental faith in sacrifice and suffering as the route to redemption. African-Americans in the New Deal 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Their mission to play down-in-the-gutter rock and roll starts to seem like a sacred creative duty, their determination to wring every last drop from their fading career a noble rage against the dying light. The self-publishing travails of Ted Heller 2013-07-24T12:08:35Z

The ensemble, singing in close harmony, presented sacred and folk music displaying polyphonic devices ranging from simple drones to intricately interwoven melodies, which often crossed or combined to produce harmonies pungent to the Western ear. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z

This is a story in which sacred statues can weep or kill, depending on their moods. John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries’: One writer’s beginnings 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Lenny was knocking over all kinds of sacred topics, and we all were called 'sick.' Bob Newhart celebrates 50 years in show business 2010-05-12T16:39:00Z

The festival is seen by legions of fans as a sacred shrine to Richard Wagner, who set it up to showcase his works 134 years ago. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

“Against Empathy” is an invigorating, relevant and often very funny re-evaluation of empathy, one of our culture’s most ubiquitous sacred cows, which in Mr. Bloom’s view should be gently led to the abattoir. Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

Although Mr. MacMillan’s faith gives his work a Catholic hue, he sees himself as part of a widespread search among composers for the sacred in contemporary music. A ‘Stabat Mater’ for the 21st Century, Colored by a Composer’s Faith 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Other reports said Barbadian pop star Rihanna played the maid of honor as a priest chanted Hindu hymns around a sacred fire. Russell Brand, Katy Perry wed in India 2010-10-23T19:38:00Z

Where do the lines between ‘satire’ and ‘censorship’ intersect or is nothing sacred when it comes to the theater?” Sheen Center Cancels Event Featuring Neil LaBute Play about 'Mohammed' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Because even if we are celebrating a little differently this year, some holiday traditions remain sacred. A Sweet, Simple Menu of Thanksgiving Recipes for Two 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Almost immediately, we stumbled into a clearing, where 10 men sat around preparing and drinking palm wine, the soft, delicious liquor used in several sacred rites. In Senegal, a Coastal Region Sees a Resurgence 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

"These are all associated with sacred springs today," he said. Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa, or a cemetery? 2013-03-16T13:49:02Z

For instance, lighting the menorah turns the mundane act of lighting a candle into something sacred. Light the candles, strike a pose for Hanukkah yoga 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

“The only thing that is sacred is free expression,” Ms. Rhazoui said. Charlie Hebdo Staff Prepares Next Issue 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

There are sacred sites under the city and in all directions. Letters: Letters: The Scene in Santa Fe 2010-02-19T03:25:00Z

At the Anna Akhmatova Museum, that sacred place which houses the apartment where the poet lived with her husband, his ex-wife and his family, I joined the director and her colleagues. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The most visited sight in Poland, this is considered sacred ground, a symbol of Polish royalty and independence. Krakow: The heart and soul of Poland 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Because he asked for my consent, over and over. So sex felt like a sacred act, and then he disappeared.” He Asked Permission to Touch, but Not to Ghost 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

His first major footprint is on the fourth-floor home and accessories floor of Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue flagship, where the sacred and the profane are now commingling cheerfully. At Tiffany, the Fifth Avenue Face-Lift Starts at Home 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Though Griffin's vocal arabesques in Duke Ellington's "Come Sunday" pointed to an obviously polished singer, her fluttering fingers, quivering vibrato and heroic stage poses proved a tad narcissistic for sacred music. A flawed celebration of Mahalia Jackson's centennial 2011-05-21T14:55:00Z

But for decades before then, the church hosted dance luminaries, and it has become a kind of sacred space for the art. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

But this year, Drake is committing his most bothersome crimes in the more sacred space between his persona and his sound. Started from the bottom, now he’s insufferable 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

See also Sarah's defence of the cause: "We're fighting for God's green earth and daytime and Christmas and Easter eggs and all that's sacred and good." True Blood: season two, episode nine 2010-04-23T22:10:00Z

Yet this death gives the boy a sacred, or unholy, mission. Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: A Re-animated Delight 2012-10-04T12:00:18Z

Ultimately, it reduced the R&B — once the center of black social and political culture, and the conduit that brought the energy of sacred music into the secular realm — to an accent. R&B Blossoms, With Hip-Hop in the Rear View 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

And now a federal appeals court in Washington has denied the tribe’s petition to ban pipeline construction near its sacred burial sites. Dakota pipeline protesters confront the “black snake”: “We’re living by the fire” 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

You could call satire the voice of the Enlightenment, a way of talking about the world that questioned everything, including — make that specializing in — sacred cows. The war on laughter: What the Charlie Hebdo attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with satire 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

But it is to another specimen that he wants to direct my attention: a tree sacred to Japanese lore, the katsura. There’s a lot more to winter trees than meets the eye 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Our hair is a sacred thing,” said Ms. Davis, the writer. Does Anyone Own the Cornrow? 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

In doing so, the series provokes the viewer into questioning sacred cows of our culture, including some of the sacred cows of feminism itself. Nobody has to “man up” here: Feminist shows “Jessica Jones” and “Transparent” are also a win for men 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

As we watched, mesmerized by white-clad figures carrying out this final celebration while sacred cows roamed among them, one of our number quietly floated her husband’s ashes off the stern of our boat. From Delhi to Kochi: A couple’s 23-day adventure in India 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

“To continue to evolve, and to maintain the sacred traditions of the different arts … that’s what Tlingits would have been doing regardless of a Western imposition or not. It’s what I do with poetry.” Tram conductor gives Tlingit lessons on ride 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Words like “magical” and “wondrous” and “sacred” pop up more often than you wish they would. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

When it comes to banning books, nothing is sacred. Ban the Bible? The top 10 banned or challenged books of 2015 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

“I keep it like sacred things. I trust so much his creativity. I knew that one day he would be successful.” A Lover’s Impact on David Wojnarowicz, for All to See 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

In these artworks, the commonplace can be strange and even sacred. In the galleries: ‘Micro-Monuments’ that take on a global perspective 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

“I can’t even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own + with others, I hold it all sacred,” he said. Rostam Batmanglij Leaves Vampire Weekend 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Materialistic joys are beyond this group, whose most famous song " 'Tis the Gift to be Simple" articulates a sacred creed. The Wooster Group finds grace in 'Shaker Songs' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Virelles is a Cuban-born pianist who uses understated dissonance and darkness to interrogate — and, sometimes, explode — the sacred traditions of his home country. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

As macabre as it seems, it’s also a sacred site. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z

We deny its sacred character–and I don’t mean what’s heard in church on Sunday, but the exalting sounds from concert halls and nightclubs on Saturday night. Hurricane Katrina and the Healing Power of Jazz 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Merging the sacred and the profane, the bloody and the batty, “Love Exposure” tunnels into serious topics — warped parenting, sexual intolerance and the way religious cults enslave damaged souls — with a hilariously blasphemous shovel. | 'Love Exposure': ?Love Exposure,? Directed by Sion Sono ? Review 2011-09-02T04:33:03Z

Classified as an “entheogen,” a sacred earth medicine that “generates the God within,” it is possibly the most powerful psychedelic known to mankind. Fear and loathing in the five-star rehab: Inside the controversy around ibogaine, the psychedelic drug that just may cure addiction 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

To believe in the sanctity of life is to treat every living person as if they are sacred and holy and have value. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

I longed to see her fictional deputy engage with the Sikh elder who argues that the sacred temple is a long-cherished challenge to racist abuse. Theatre review | Behud (Beyond Belief) | Belgrade, Coventry | Michael Billington 2010-03-31T01:35:00Z

Invocations of quasi-religious experience — Comic-Con as “sacred space,” plot points and character traits as “canon” — are commonplace at the panels. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

He just can’t get over the notion that being a sniper for the Stars and Stripes is his sacred mission. Review: In American Sniper, Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper Are Right on Target 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

So will central themes such as the enduring sting of antisemitism and the push-pull between the sacred and the sinful. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The most sacred Islamic site is the Kaaba, the monumental black cube in the courtyard of Masjid al-Haram, the great mosque in Mecca. Design: It's a World of Black Rectangles 2010-12-12T18:30:00Z

“Too many believers and nonbelievers alike now read these sacred texts in a doggedly literal manner that is quite different from the more inventive and mystical approach of premodern spirituality,” Armstrong writes. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Lance started assembling “Goodbye, Babylon” when he realized that most reissue compilations overlooked sacred music. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

In Bhutanese culture, Phobjikha is a sacred valley and the cranes are birds from heaven. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

The central problem the drama faces is that Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter are so far removed from the sacred monsters they are playing. Burton and Taylor warmly reviewed 2013-07-23T10:16:52Z

"And that's just a fundamental difference in the way that we look at. Who has been entrusted with the sacred responsibility of raising our children? Is it the parents or is it the government?" Kirk Cameron slams public schools for "grooming, for sexual chaos and the progressive left" 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Jarzyna strains to elevate proceedings to an existential plane, with a script increasingly burdened by pronouncements on God and the sacred. TEOREMAT - review 2010-10-17T20:46:00Z

Hahn, a 20-something from Bern in Switzerland now living in Canada, turns everything he touches into a sacred ritual. New band of the day – Cyril Hahn (No 1,470) 2013-03-13T16:02:06Z

He lived a nomadic life, moving between towns, taking photographs of horses and sacred landscapes, then selling them to Native Americans at annual pow-wows like this one. On a Native American tour through the badlands 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

It often ends up in the vicinity of the body — whole or in scattered parts, sacred or profane — in ways that creep up and shock you. Art Review: At Hauser & Worth, Ziolkowski?s U.S. Solo Debut 2010-07-05T21:52:00Z

As parishioners continue to abandon their pews and churches close, sacred objects are reshuffled, discarded, or sold. My obsessive quest to solve the mystery of a missing Virgin Mary 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

This iconoclastic film, out of circulation for decades, parodies the veneration of sacred effigies with kisses. Cinematic smackers: the most significant kisses in film history 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

He hit American pop like a fireball in the mid-1950s, a hopped-up emissary from cultures that mainstream America barely knew, drawing on the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the carnal. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

But the consensus that Beyoncé somehow sullied sacred ground is as predictable as it is puzzling. Alan Freed or Beyonce? False debate rages around Rock Hall 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

There remains no more adept fuser of the sacred and profane working in pop, and no one else who, time and again, will unflinchingly assess — at his own peril — the costs of audacity. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Just as the communists’ ideology became a form of religion, religion has become an ideology, used by the godless state to justify both its sacred status and its right to break its own laws. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

“Now, you don’t need to visit the Metropolitan Museum to see what Nepali sacred artworks are there,” Thompson said. Citizen Activists Lead the Hunt for Antiquities Looted From Nepal 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

He has swamped politics with the values of reality TV, bent on stoking his fanbase, distracted by showbiz ratings on Twitter and perverting self-evident truths once held sacred for the sake of his ravenous ego. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

A March 1910 issue of the Spokane Press dedicated a front-page, above-the-fold story to describing the "sacred fluid" that was being served to lines of patriotic Irishmen at a First Avenue bar. The curious history of green beer on St. Patrick's Day 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Franchising, a sacred concept in today's Hollywood, was second nature to Edwards. 10 Pink Panthers at Tiffany's: Farewell to Blake Edwards 2010-12-19T14:10:00Z

“Don’t shoot the messenger” is close to a sacred principle. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Because Rouen was heavily damaged in World War II and then rebuilt, the town offers an odd yet compelling juxtaposition of sacred history and modern architecture. Overnighter: Near Paris, a City of Flaubert and Joan of Arc 2013-08-08T19:59:58Z

Singing in Sanskrit while accompanying herself on organ, Coltrane beautifully combines two great sacred music traditions: Hindu devotional songs and Black American gospel. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Francis also took another swipe at the government's population control efforts, saying the family was under threat from "insidious attacks and programs contrary to all that we hold true and sacred." Pope Manila Mass drew record crowd of 6-7 million: Vatican 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

My major outrage was the abuse of sacred symbols and sacred texts. ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

It is a common point of view in Irish literature, this transformation of nostalgia into a sacred elegy. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

One includes temple jewels from southern India, finery intended to adorn Hindu divinities and sacred stones known as linga, which represent Shiva. Capt. Linnaeus Tripe photo exhibit at National Gallery of Art

These, too, are sacred emblems: radical icons of a nameless new religion. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

“And I wanted to use it,” Ahigian says, “because it’s the most sacred plant in Hawaiian mythology.” Hawaii’s Next Wave of Natural Skin-Care Brands 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

The Arty Assassin's mission is to slay sacred cows and praise musical genius. Blog jam: The Arty Assassin 2012-05-28T11:36:45Z

The worlds of opera and sacred music collided in the best possible way Saturday afternoon at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall during the Choral Arts Society of Washington’s season finale. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

“I hold sacred what goes on between a writer and an editor during the process of creating a work,” she wrote, “and I will never spill what happens in that ‘room of our own.’” Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

At these times I now think about protecting what is sacred. How do you pronounce your name? 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful part of the UK, home also to some of the true sacred and pagan sites in Scotland. 10 of the best horror movie locations 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

They are simultaneously sacred texts and works of art, three illuminated Byzantine-era manuscripts that are more than 1,000 years old and that for decades have been part of a heralded collection at Princeton University. Church Leaders Sue Princeton Over ‘Stolen’ Manuscripts 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

The plot is filled with sacred allusions — the Flood, angels, Bethlehem, a crucifixion, a deus ex machina and more — but they’re all skewed. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

But he also wrote a wide range of other sacred music, and this interesting two-disc set explores his 1584 settings of the Old Testament Song of Songs. Palestrina: Cantica Salomonis – review 2013-07-27T23:05:22Z

It also showed the hill started as a sacred site, where people came bearing stones; they may have believed they possessed healing powers. David Attenborough's big dig 2010-10-25T21:01:00Z

Maybe there was an oak tree or a little sacred grove or a spring that's gone now. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

My attraction to this most sacred and private portion of the garden is as much about finding out who someone really is as it is about seeing what they have planted. Outdoor Décor 2012-06-04T17:20:06.327Z

If you ask an early-music fan to describe Renaissance sacred music in general terms, you will probably hear about seamlessly flowing Masses and motets, usually for five voices. Music Review: Huelgas Ensemble at White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-11T23:05:06Z

In one gallery there are sacred relics once viewed only by the royal family and its guests. Museums: In Turkey?s Museums, Sacred and Secular Interweave 2010-05-25T22:26:00Z

Going to the movies used to be a cherished, almost sacred, communal experience. Why allowing texting in movie theaters might have been a brilliant idea 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

This allows the panels to close, concealing the sacred image within. Review | There has never been a U.S. show devoted to Venice’s first great painter, Paolo Veneziano. Until now. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Colorfully decorated blankets bearing multi-vocal texts hang in the gallery's entrance -- the collages are described by Emin as using the "sacred fabrics" of her family's clothes and household furnishings. Exhibitions: Tracey Emin's adults-only retrospective 2011-05-20T10:14:01Z

The Lord’s Prayer isn’t suggested anywhere in the Big Book yet the Toronto Intergroup allows it as if it were written and prescribed in the sacred, unchangeable text of the Big Book. My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z

They also banned logging in Belleau Wood — not because the trees were deemed sacred, but because they were so full of bullets and shrapnel that cutting them would be dangerous for the lumberjacks. Where Americans Turned the Tide in World War I 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The viewer may share in his despair, as he’s caught once again between the sacred and profane. La Dolce Vita at 60: the fame, the fortune, the fountain 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Bach, Vivaldi was a leading composer of operas and sacred music as well. Dmitry Sinkovsky plays violin, sings and conducts as part of Vivaldi project at Seattle Symphony 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The sacred monster of the title, Mr. Hanks explained, describes musicians whose peculiarities and social lapses we tolerate for the sake of their artistry. Music Review: Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival at Symphony Space 2012-04-03T20:54:23Z

“To lose how wonderful and sacred performance is, that’s quite disastrous, really.” FKA twigs Lives Large, in ‘Congregata’ and Beyond 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Piano likes this sort of split: He often talks about making spaces in his museums for both the sacred and the profane. Can 11th-hour updates save Renzo Piano's design for troubled Academy Museum? 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

Researchers believe the cave was never permanently inhabited by humans "but was instead of a sacred character" and "used for shamanist ritual practice". Cave given world heritage status 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

As a composer, beyond his works for piano, Liszt was the inventor of the orchestral tone poem and an inspired songwriter, and he produced a body of sublime sacred choral works. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

But the lovely thing about France is that all this started with a book: an object which, in our land, remains sacred. The cry of my conscience about my family's Nazi collaboration 2011-01-12T08:30:01Z

“We are all sacred, and we all belong, so let’s just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked,” he said. Tony Awards 2018: ‘The Band’s Visit’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Prevail 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

On the music front, an evening of sacred music by Stravinsky in 2008 was the first major musical production. The Park Avenue Armory, Indisputably Big 2011-12-21T21:04:21Z

“There are no contemporary documents, only later chronicles by monks, hagiographic legends of his conversion, which served as the sacred myth legitimizing his descendants.” The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

The program of Renaissance sacred polyphonic music focused on composers from what is now western Belgium and northern France, whose skills were much in demand throughout Europe. Music Review: The Tallis Scholars Sing Comp?re and Mouton 2010-03-29T21:18:00Z

Later, he went backward to go forward, bending his own compound language toward sacred or ancient musical traditions in Cuba and Brazil, West Africa and India. Steve Coleman Plays His Sax at the Stone 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s like, ‘Did you learn nothing from the sacred texts of your elders?!?’” The return of the going-out top 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z

Was it a burial ground, a magnet for crusty rave-ups, a sacred zone where our bearded forebears chillaxed old school, or a mystic portal to the celestial superhighway? Stonehenge enjoys a moment in the sun at summer solstice 2012-06-21T09:04:49Z

At the mosque at Chandgaon, Bangladesh, Kashef Chowdhury separates sacred and profane by simple geometry, a circle set in a square, and a cool marble interior that contrasts with the jungle outside. Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

People need to be able to articulate for themselves what is sacred. Can neuroscience help settle the gun control debate? 2014-01-09T13:45:00Z

Many flesh-and-blood executives share similar misgivings about pilot season, which after more than a half-century remains a sacred but extravagant custom of the TV biz. Few TV pilots will land on next fall's schedule 2011-05-06T13:01:05Z

There is a scene early on in George Romero’s horror classic “Dawn of the Dead,” from 1978, in which a great tide of zombies converges on a once sacred American institution: the shopping mall. Ling Ma’s “Severance” Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

“This is a sacred place,” he kept reminding his small group, which included a trio of asthmatic Australians who couldn’t stop coughing in the musty, damp air. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z

Mr. Nelson weaves in references to different forms of art: theater, of course, but also sacred music, poetry and the installation art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z

The qualities you want in someone watching your kids are honesty, humility and appreciation of the sacred trust you’re placing in them. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Your sons’ friend’s family has guns, and you have questions 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Like previous Nashville iconoclasts they are changing country from the inside, upholding its songwriting traditions while tweaking its clichés and tipping its sacred cows. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z

But it does reflect, almost blindingly, the central Ludlam tenet of creative line blurring — between classical and pop, beautiful and ugly, sacred and profane, male and female, professional and amateur. Review: Charles Ludlam in the Cosmos Where ‘Queens Collide’ 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Noirishly tinged footage of the blubbery contestants training with their “stablemasters” accompanies a little-known history of the sport, its scandals and its sacred place in Japanese culture. | 'Freakonomics': A Best Seller as 4 Films Tied Together With Talk 2010-09-30T22:59:00Z

Saul gets his kicks elsewhere, like slaughtering modern art’s sacred cows. Peter Saul Doesn’t Want Any Advice 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

From Zimbabwe comes throbbing pop star Thomas Mapfumo and from the American folk/world tradition the Campbell Brothers, whose infectious "sacred steel" guitar music is a religious experience in more ways than one. Earshot has Keith Jarrett, other hot headliners 2011-10-13T18:30:06Z

Hardly surprisingly, the Queen strongly identified herself with Richard, the king who looks for a sacred king in the mirror but finds only flesh and blood. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z

However, I guess I prefer to think that there was some greater sacred design, even if unintentional, behind the placement. Faith of a mustard seed: My almost spiritual journey towards making the perfect homemade mustard 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

I thought about how reading every night to my sons was a sacred ritual. Perspective | It’s because of my dad that I love to read. I thought I’d found the best way to thank him. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

And the novel’s canonical status, the way it’s practically the sacred text of American lit, makes it an ideal specimen for the show’s peculiar form of magic: it brings the book back to life. Heard Any Good Books Lately, Zelda? 2010-09-30T17:16:00Z

That home is treated as sacred, symbolically demarcated and protected from the polluting influence of the "default world," as they call the outside. Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

An assassination, an uprising and masses of people rallying to defend their sacred dome from attack. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z

“For them, nothing is really sacred, and everything can be laughed at.” Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

He added, "Human life is more sacred than land or resources." Russia, Ukraine war: Faith leader says 'human life more sacred than land or resources' 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

It takes a few seconds for the stage to come into focus, but once it does, you soon realize you’re in the presence of a someone with a special, sacred magnetism. Review: Dressed Up in Saran Wrap and Ready to Dance 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The installations also allow context, including a gallery designed as a Byzantine chapel, with a cross and sacred vessels. Cleveland museum marks another project milestone 2010-06-25T19:07:00Z

And yes, most of us had to become "adept at extemporizing poetic toasts" before drinking because in a way by doing so we acknowledge our appreciation to the sacred tradition of wine making. A Fierce Toast From Alice Feiring’s Drinking Horn 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Especially one treated as sacred tribal idiom by so many. Hello, Paris Fashion! Couture Returns With Pieter Mulier’s Alaïa Debut 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

A fan switched on, sending the sacred flame that is the centerpiece of Act I flickering upward; the ropy vines of a primeval forest were pulled down taut with weights. Bolshoi Ballet Carries On Amid Acid Attack Scandal 2013-01-28T23:03:44Z

“People interact with both and embrace the sacred nature of creation.” On a Once-Hidden Estate, a Sculpture Show With Deep Emotional Resonance 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Woe to the performer who takes liberties with words that he views almost as sacred texts. Music Review: Michael Feinstein and Barbara Cook at Feinstein?s - Review 2011-12-01T23:43:15Z

My grandfather used to say to me, "There is always sacred music in the garden when the neighbours are listening to Songs of Praise with their windows open". Living Wild by Bear Grylls 2010-05-24T23:05:00Z

There it is, the tension between the profane and the sacred, between the height of our ambitions and the depths of our desires. 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me': David Gates' signature riffs 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Picking up where the events of the season finale left off, the so-called sacred timeline is branching out of control, a factor pushing the TVA's core stabilizing mechanism beyond its capacity. It's impossible to tell where in the multiverse "Loki" is going. Thank the gods 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

Shooting Reagan was a vicious approach to her, its aim to shock her out of her distance and her stardom, and to barge into the sacred aura of her fame. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z

All of this makes Tapestry something of a sacred record. Christine Tobin weaves a new Tapestry 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z

“It challenged sacred cows of our industry, and I think we all need to be held accountable for the work we do.” ‘A Level of Abuse’: Laying Bare Theater’s Dirty Secrets 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Klausen describes the images via text, revealing their subtleties and symbolism, sumptuous visual riffs on sacred geometry, alchemy and classical philosophy. Pearl Jam poster artist Brad Klausen has a new book: 'From a Basement in Seattle' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

A new excavation begins next week, and Tabolli said that it would concentrate on expanding the archaeological site to better understand the context around the sacred pool. These Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

After 40 years of pop culture presence, Madonna has become, Olivier Bouchara, head of editorial content for Vanity Fair France, said in a news release, “a figure as disturbing as she is sacred.” Madonna Will Never Go Gently 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

He returned to Toronto and, after earning a bachelor’s degree in sacred theology and a master’s in philosophy from the University of Toronto, taught at the University of St. Thomas for a year. John Bradshaw, Self-Help Evangelist, Dies at 82 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Each religion aggressively reinterpreted its predecessors, accepting its sacred texts but radically altering their implications and meanings. Exhibition Review: Abraham?s Progeny, and Their Texts 2010-10-22T22:50:00Z

Faced with the prospect of yearly visitations, and the attendant risks of routine and overexposure, Monteverdi’s sacred masterpiece is well suited to the challenge. Music Review: Worth a Reprise at Age 401 2011-01-04T01:02:28Z

The law safeguarded the rights of American Indians to practice their religion and access sacred sites. Benton-Banai, co-founder of American Indian Movement, dies 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

That’s when the F.B.I. got involved, collaborating on a transfer of the sacred statue, with permission from its lender, from the museum to Nepal’s embassy in Washington that is taking place this week. Dallas Museum of Art to Return Sacred Statue to Nepal 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Hozier's set showed that he had the sacred part down pat. Hozier takes a worshipful L.A. to an actual church 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Like a true memorial,” she wrote, “‘Blind’ holds sacred the thousands of lives lost.” Maurizio Cattelan’s New Work Pays Visceral Tribute to the Pain of 9/11 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

The area, known as the Volcanic Tablelands, is held sacred by Paiute-Shoshone tribal members. ArtsBeat: Ancient Petroglyphs Stolen and Defaced by Thieves in California 2012-11-19T18:55:26Z

No cow – whether it's Radiohead or Kylie - is too sacred, even if the cow has every reason to be scared. New band of the day ? No 814: Ergo Phizmiz 2010-06-23T14:34:00Z

Hollywood Nightmare No 1" and I, the writer, became daunted by the madness, my sister sought to steel my nerve by quoting sacred text from the La-la Land bible: "Remember, it ain't show art. Django Unchained: is its portrayal of slavery too flippant? 2013-01-10T21:00:04Z

That’s part of the reason why “The Star-Spangled Banner” seems so natural and true and permanent and sacred to us today. Is the National Anthem Racist? Beyond the Debate Over Colin Kaepernick. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Reminiscent of the shape of Kaaba, the sacred Muslim site in Mecca, the piece is at first glance an imposing minimalist construct. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Going His Own Way, a Pakistani Artist Arrives 2010-10-13T13:00:00Z

They were certainly not fools – they knew that translating a sacred text is just the beginning: you need to apply and interpret it. The King James Bible's language lessons 2011-02-18T12:59:49Z

The interlude is a premonition of her career, which imprinted on us the power and the anguish in sacred and sexual love. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

And it certainly won't be because our village of four stops needing one another, stops needing sacred space. Our group chat is a sacred space to talk openly about being Black in America 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

In “Offertorium,” a rarely performed solo to sacred Schubert music that Mr. Morris made for himself in 1988, we get the recently retired company veteran Lauren Grant, a marvel of unaffected clarity. Review: More Mark Morris Video Dances, More Postcards to Fans 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Yet discussing how she prepared the role, how she plays it would mean intellectualizing it, distancing herself from it, violating something veiled, even sacred, at the core of what she does. How Annette Bening Puts It All Onstage. But Keeps Something for Herself. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Still, feeding is a sensual and sacred ritual. Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

Detailing her fight against “the machine, the manufacturers of myth, the gaslighters themselves, the sacred men of Hollywood”, McGowan detailed a troubled childhood while outlining her thoughts on misogyny in Hollywood and wider society. Brave: Rose McGowan's memoir details 'rape' by Harvey Weinstein 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

"To use what is most sacred about our church and sacred to Biden, to punish him or try to bully him into changing his views on abortion rights, is very troubling," she said. On abortion, "religious leaders should be asking for your forgiveness" — not the other way around 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Caring for each other is a sacred contract. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Caring for an elderly parent? Been there. Now be there for the caregiver. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Without that type of consultation, culturally important sacred objects will continue to be offered at auction to anonymous buyers and collectors.” Despite Legal Challenges, Sale of Hopi Religious Artifacts Continues in France 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

“My art is birthed from the deeply challenging and sacred act of giving myself permission to be emotionally transparent,” she said. Sarah Bahbah Turns Her Lens on the Millennial Condition 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

In the Magnificat and two of Bach’s sacred cantatas, the ensemble was never less than polished and skillful, with well-chosen tempos and precisely calibrated swells. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z

The harmonic language combines tart modern, milky Impressionist sonorities with echoes of modal French sacred music from earlier times. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z

Then there is the matter of the hamburger, that most sacred of Southern California foods. Cultured Traveler: Los Angeles? The Valley Is Way Cooler 2012-07-19T20:12:06Z

“I mean, DC is a place where people go to work. It’s a company. It’s not sacred.” Veep’s Anna Chlumsky: from My Girl to the White House 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Leadership in all its forms is a sacred trust in a democracy, almost like an anointed priesthood. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

Every culture has its sacred, celebratory days when feasts are made and consumed, when the grown-ups are making a special effort, when the whole family assembles, when gifts are exchanged. J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

The novel has an epigraph taken from a Red Army veteran named Zinoviy Pinsky, who was quoted, in 1995, in the Times: “Nothing can be more sacred than remembering the dead.” An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Crystal, who doesn’t seem to notice, believes ardently in savoring the moment and in treating every activity as a sacred ritual. Movie Review: In ‘Crystal Fairy,’ Young U.S.Tourists Aim for the Mystical 2013-07-11T19:35:45Z

Bells were part of sacred ritual, and large bells were often rung to broadcast the Mass outside of the church. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Yet even as travelers began collecting historical and scientific mementos, not just religious items, the things they brought home had echoes of sacred objects. Souvenirs 101 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Dressed in traditional Beninese attire, I performed a solo routine in front of a crowd of delighted locals who laughed at my attempts to emulate the sacred rhythms of Sogbo. In Benin, up close with a serpent deity, a Temple of Pythons and Vodun priests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

In three subsequent videos that will appear over the next week or so, I will play and analyze other moments: one from a song; one from a 20th-century sacred work; and two from operas. ArtsBeat: Musical Moments: What Moves Us? 2012-11-16T16:00:23Z

The Asturias region in northwestern Spain is home to dramatic mountain scenery, sacred sites and even an extensive network of ancient Roman gold mines. 52 Places, Virtually 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

That is why eggs, of which quiches are made, are sacred to her followers. Theater Review: ‘5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche’ at SoHo Playhouse 2012-10-22T04:40:05Z

Suddenly, the most sacred genesis tale of Modernism — the invention of abstract painting — has acquired a female actor who actually got there several years ahead of the revered triumvirate of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

When he told me this, it made sense: adoption is very rare in contemporary Japan, where bloodlines are usually held sacred. Motherlode Blog: Why I Won't Adopt 2012-02-23T16:25:44Z

“It was a sacred place in Mesolithic times, when the Egyptians were building the first pyramids, and we’re not sure yet what exactly went on.” Climbing the summits of Irish literature

Not about the sacred format of the album, but about the way we increasingly treat music as a disposable lifestyle accessory. How do you listen to music? 2011-01-18T16:20:17Z

The city was as profane as it was sacred. Sacred and profane 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The effects, indeed, of these sacred and fabulous records are different: the one shedding over the mind a pleasing serenity; the other, a sombre melancholy. Cumbria is the place to boggle your Hallowe'en mind 2012-10-29T10:33:55Z

Noninterference in other cultures is the most sacred principle of all. As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

But there’s also penumbra of envy to it, that at least he had plenty of the sacred to go around. La Dolce Vita at 60: the fame, the fortune, the fountain 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Keeping your identity sacred while also being able to do what you want, as an individual, I get it,” Gordon adds. How ‘The Big Sick’ makes arranged marriages, Muslim families and a coma perfect rom-com material 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

New Delhi is a sacred destination for street food. Perspective | One country, endless dishes: A love letter to Indian cuisine 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

To a Pintupi viewer, they function like Homeric epithets — jogging the memory, reiterating sacred knowledge. Can We Start Appreciating Indigenous Art on Its Own Terms? 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

The sacred vows of motherhood are debased in several of the best films in MOMA’s series, including “My Name Is Julia Ross,” a terrifyingly claustrophobic drama by the audacious stylist Joseph H. Lewis, from 1945. Richard Brody: Women Onscreen in Two Film-Noir Retrospectives 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

This was a sacred place and I was fortunate to be sharing it for the first time with my family. On an Arizona Road Trip, Miles of Family Firsts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Green: What was very exciting was the travel to those very sacred places, like Star City. Q&A: Eva Green on playing an astronaut in ‘Proxima’ 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Baseball is sacred, especially when a game is contested endlessly in a near-empty stadium in the middle of the night on Easter. Books of The Times: Baseball According to Beckett: A Game That Wouldn?t End 2011-04-24T21:07:26Z

The ensemble, a young, thoroughly drilled male vocal quartet founded in 2006, split its program between sacred and profane views of love. Music Review: New York Polyphony at American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012-02-17T22:15:25Z

For seven years in a row, we came together on Halloween to share a sacred tradition with one another. Saw too much: why the horror genre doesn't need a torture porn comeback 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

The film tracks Hiyori’s life inside and outside the ring — a sacred space that is traditionally reserved only for men. Netflix's best new releases in October, from the "Breaking Bad" movie to "Big Mouth" 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

But some of the fabric pieces feature interlacing forms that resemble plush versions of yoni and lingam, the sacred Hindu embodiment of female and male. Review | In the galleries: Erika Cleveland’s ‘Healing Dolls’ are playful in their duality 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Spinning on an axis of anxiety, “Huesera” raises the provocative idea that motherhood can feel akin to a curse stripping one of stability and sacred autonomies. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“I’m drawn to people whose lives have a certain mystery — mysteries that aren’t going to be solved, that are too sacred to be solved.” Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z

In it, he was transported to a sacred mountain and shown the most elaborate stupa he’d ever seen: tall, multileveled, glowing and pocked with niches that sheltered divinities. Art Review: ‘Golden Visions of Densatil’ Opens at Asia Society 2014-02-20T23:13:05Z

“I think it’s the way I relate to the work. This is my zone. This is my oasis. This is almost a sacred space.” From Punk Band to Portraits for a King to Gagosian: Honor Titus Breaks Out 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Little is sacred to Michael Garin and Mardie Millit, a smirking musical comedy team whose show, “Sleepless in September,” has been playing intermittently at the Metropolitan Room for the last four months. Music Review: Songs in Several Languages, Wisecracks Spread Throughout 2011-01-18T23:45:40Z

Dance music, party music, proudly local community music, black music, sacred music. Perspective | Go-go’s fight against gentrification is just getting started. This is what it sounds like. 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

Fosse’s direction and choreography won Tony Awards and became so sacred that after “Pippin” closed in 1977, no one tempted fate to remount the show on Broadway — until now. In ‘Pippin,’ How They Make Its ‘Magic’ 2013-04-19T14:16:21Z

Santa is still, by everybody, held to be a sacred image. Ho, Ho, Homicide: Killer Santa Is Back in ‘Silent Night’ 2012-11-25T01:00:06Z

Forcia hopes that the Native American community in Minnesota will be able to choose a replacement statue, and that the site will become what he calls “a sacred spot for our people.” Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

“This is a hugely significant cultural landscape. It’s a sacred space for many people,” said Commissioner Beth White, who encouraged museum officials to listen to the public. Smithsonian’s $2 billion plan that includes gutting Haupt Garden criticized 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

“These are the things and events that happen,” the president tweeted, “when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.” Anti-Trump Republican Adam Kinzinger accepts his fate, whatever it is 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Certain books in the Bible are shared by Judaism, and some stories also appear in different forms in the Koran, the sacred text of Islam. For Easter the Eastern Orthodox way, fasting comes before feasting 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

It is a postmodern vivisection of Modernism, analysing the dream and the machine, war as the old lie and a new liberation, and rituals sacred, profane and banal. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

The work, in its shift from sacred to secular, from brimming confidence to the slimmest thread of hope, is harrowingly effective. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

I was mystified: by her compassion, by the level of attention paid to my body — as if it were fragile, or sacred. Modern Love: Single, Female, Mormon, Alone 2011-01-07T17:04:40Z

He speaks of its “sacred and mythic dimensions.” Books of The Times: ?Extra Virginity? by Tom Mueller; a Word on Olive Oil - Review 2011-12-07T21:50:14Z

The audience enters a haunted yet sacred space: a high school auditorium where scenic elements for a school production of “Our Town” occupy the stage. 'Ripe Frenzy,' a play about a school shooting, provokes thought with lyricism and restraint 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

But it’s unlikely that such niceties will be observed by a party and administration that has made the shredding of once-settled norms and sacred traditions just another day at the office. Perspective | RBG and the empty triumph of liberal pop culture 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

He created “Grace,” a rapturous masterpiece in which the secular and sacred meet, for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1999 as a thank you to its founder. For Ronald K. Brown, ‘Grace’ Endures and Brings ‘Mercy’ 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

"To find the sacred river Alph, to walk the caves of ice," sings Lee. Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z

And in the meantime, that whole sacred individuality argument is exactly the same one used to justify the “Why should my insurance premiums go to fixing your vice-induced diseases, oh, foul sinner?” one. Do smokers and the obese deserve insurance? 2013-01-28T20:39:00Z

Brotherus uses the sacred space where artist and model meet to elide those roles, claiming both for herself. Peek Inside Artists’ Studios in the Exhibition “A Room of One’s Own” in New York 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

This sacred and profane oratorio of angel-winged songs about heaven, hell and a talk-show host has taken a while to find a berth in Manhattan. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Second, I block off periods of downtime on our calendars, and keep those moments sacred. We're Endangering our Kids' Imaginations 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

One of the things this show does really well is it makes it clear that there is no one sacred text. "I bake for every emotion" — Zoë François on finding connection through cake 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

In discussing these sacred matters with other members of your tribe, you may find that you have remembered certain aspects of the same performance differently. The Mythic Performances That Are Keeping Me Company 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

As conceived and realized by Assayas, Maria is a sacred figure whose divinity Assayas doesn’t dare to puncture behind the scenes. The Enemy of Youth 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

There may be no concept more sacred to queers than “Pride.” How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

“By absorbing Jesus’s death into Aboriginal myth, Weatherby suggests that it, too, has sacred significance and is for his people,” Ms. Jones said. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Under the federal law known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, sacred items, objects of cultural significance, funerary items and human remains must be repatriated to tribes. Peabody Essex Museum Gets Set of Native American Artifacts 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Representing both sacred and profane forms of intoxication, these sculptures by Kesang Lamdark put in a nutshell the main themes of “Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond,” the Rubin’s first foray into exhibiting contemporary art. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

Art is a way of knowing, of seeing and feeling, the borders that separate work from leisure, the sacred from the secular, the ordinary from the exalted, passivity from action, life from death. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Life is sacred even if it isn't in the womb! A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

It was a sacred ritual: Woolworth’s for a hot dog and a visit with the pet parakeets and goldfish. Luis Alberto Urrea: By the Book 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

In Washington, he worked with the Chief Seattle Club, which provides “a sacred space to nurture, affirm and renew the spirit of urban Native peoples,” according to its website. Tram conductor gives Tlingit lessons on ride 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Shapiro, who started in the music business as the owner of the former Wetlands Preserve club in Manhattan, talks about the Capitol as if it were a sacred obligation. Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y., to Reopen 2012-08-05T22:19:00Z

In myths, the unknowable reflects the sacred nature of the gods, whose existence transcends the boundaries of space and time. Science can’t tell us everything: Faith, physics and the origin of the universe 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

The bittersweet realization that something sacred was drawing to a close began to sink in. A Chinatown Loft Party in the Spirit of Warhol’s Factory 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Maybe every space is sacred, every moment holy. Perspective | Aretha Franklin’s voice was the sound of an America we’re still trying to become 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

And it is only fitting that a movie concerned with the power and beauty of drawing — the almost sacred magic of color and line — should be so gorgeously and intricately drawn. Movie Review | 'The Secret of Kells': Outside the Abbey?s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z

But in this book he wrestles with another kind of art — art that is deeply self-conscious, inward, sensitive and committed to extending a tradition of art as a sacred calling. Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Looking forward, we call to further neuroscience research into how we process sacred values and how certain issues become immune to resolution. Can neuroscience help settle the gun control debate? 2014-01-09T13:45:00Z

The trouble is that he aims to replace both sacred dogma and secular law with his own conspiratorial farrago. Inferno by Dan Brown – review 2013-05-19T07:00:02Z

He uses an enormous orchestra and chorus, but deploys them judiciously, guided less by dramatic momentum than by atmospheres both sacred and profane. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Previous volumes covered the secular songs, madrigals and psalm settings; these two discs concentrate on the sacred motets. Sweelinck: Cantiones Sacrae, etc ? review 2011-08-25T22:00:02Z

As rock singers are wont to do, Win Butler played to the crowd, calling Seattle “a sacred music town,” name-dropping Kurt Cobain and Neumo’s and weighing in on the city’s tech boom. Arcade Fire’s over-the-top show anchored by the band’s older material 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Under the director Jon-Sesrie Goff’s gaze, these places are sacred, even as they remain haunted by a nation’s grievous racial history. ‘After Sherman’ Review: A Family Reckoning 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

The program’s four works explored Ms. Saariaho’s interests in medieval arts and sacred texts from all religions. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

But for performers, the no-safety-net experience is still sacred and magical. Can a live "30 Rock" succeed? 2010-10-14T16:40:00Z

This park, on the Big Island’s western Kona coast, protects one of the most sacred and significant archaeological sites in the Hawaiian island chain. Top 10 national and state parks in Hawaii 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

The couple is not married, but for a gay union, there could hardly have been a more sacred ceremony. The Met Opera Has a Gay Conductor. Yes, That Matters. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Your wife is either too ill to manage her daily life, or she just threw away this sacred thing for the life equivalent of a sunset poster with an inspirational quote. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom’s permanent vacation leaves a big onus for Dad 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

There’s a long, tenuous history of overlap between the sacred and the secular in American music. Churches are preaching the Gospel of Lizzo now 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

According to Walter Isaacson, author of a biography of Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson’s original version used the phrase “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable.” Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z

Which isn’t to say that masterworks of poetry and prose were necessarily held sacred then, any more than they are now. ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Review: The Coens Go Darkly West Again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

With all eyes on me as she snapped photos and told me to “hold it for just one more,” I wanted to melt into those sacred cobblestones. Modern Love: From Humiliation to Appreciation — Modern Love 2013-04-18T18:07:06Z

The Eagle Dance, from the Hopi in Arizona, was formerly a sacred dance asking for rain. Round (and Hoop, and Eagle and Deer) Dancing on First Avenue 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Like other sacred texts, the film invites doctrinal arguments and esoteric inquiries. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mavericks are a perennially appealing subject, furnishing a built-in audience a chance for a collective hero-worship--or, for more skeptical films, giving audiences a chance to tip over their sacred cows. Sundance 2015: Focus turns to mavericks from the not-too-distant past 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Upon moving on to Rome, where opera was banned, he turns to producing sacred music such as "Dixit Dominus." Highlights in the prolific life of George Frideric Handel 2011-03-05T00:37:31Z

The exhibition notes explain the papal extravagances thusly: “Splendor is seen as a symbolic assertion of divine transcendence. Their opulent materials and ornate, intricate embroideries . . . communicate the detachment of sacred worship from everyday life.” Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

In the lexicon of hip-hop, the 808 kick drum and its variations are as sacred as the electric guitar is to rock. Album review: El-P, 'Cancer 4 Cure' 2012-05-21T01:44:00Z

At this height energy is sacred and squandering it, reckless. Childbirth is my extreme sport 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

In a depiction of the deity Ghede riding the sacred bull Bossou, the animal is depicted as black with red stars, all spelled out with sequins. Art Review: ?Testimonios,? Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio 2012-02-09T23:48:36Z

In the tradition of Patanjali, this means “the reading of sacred scriptures.” Yoga isn’t timeless: it’s changing to meet contemporary needs 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

For most people, the coffee maker is a sacred appliance tasked with providing the day's critical caffeine supply. Want better-tasting morning brew? Try cleaning your coffee maker 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

But I know it's sacred territory for horror fans. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

It was an odd but sacred ritual for the essentially single mother and her son, and it’s a scene that is replayed in Mr. Mills’s richly autobiographical new film, “20th Century Women.” A Boy Raised by a Few ‘20th Century Women’ 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

In the final essay, she finds a spiritual mentor, whom Wang pays to teach her about the “sacred arts,” and returns to the idea of schizophrenia as a spiritual gift. Exploring Her Own Experience of Psychosis 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Thomson tore into this middlebrow utopia with unconcealed glee, killing one sacred crow after another. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Lately we’ve been making out a lot,” she sings, spinning her signature, soft-serve swirl of the sacred and profane, “not talking ’bout the stuff that’s at the very heart of things.” Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Haber later discovered that this was in protest of his use of a female soloist to sing sacred texts — taboo for some observant Jews. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

And they were, for Thoreau, deeply and personally sacred. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

When it comes to creative writing, they also feel that is sacred ground. Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

The free Bach concerts, about 60 to 90 minutes long, typically consist of an organ prelude, two or three sacred cantatas and some incidentals. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“There are some sacred places made so by the radiation created by magnetic ores,” he told an interviewer in Playboy in 1970. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The new combat enhancements and crafting elements aside, it still feels like you're playing through a hilarious episode of South Park, where nothing is sacred, and everything and everyone gets skewered. South Park: The Fractured But Whole Review 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a scene that foreshadows Verdi and verismo, a moment of pure righteous passion, of the moral force of sacred justice—and what Mozart and Da Ponte top it with is dramatic and moral shock. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

But the workshop made sure that any identical works were housed in sacred spaces “at great distances,” so only the most determined Tiffany follower would ever see both locations. Antiques: ‘Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion’ at Biblical Art 2012-10-12T05:20:06Z

This is a place, you feel with the same instinct that overcomes you at the real Stonehenge or the Roman Coliseum, where blood has been spilled for purposes sacred and profane. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

There is no place for Estonia in this dispensation, it seems, and the poet has no means to make the case for his "sacred home-lake". Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z

An underperforming artistic director in the United States might not be surprised if they were asked to vacate their office immediately, but job security is almost a sacred right in France. In Europe’s Theaters, Outsiders Tread a Tricky Path 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The sensation of sublime emptiness, of a sacred void, explains the enduring romantic appeal of a place like Death Valley, which I wrote about in last week’s issue. The Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and the Shadow of Trump 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

But on this night he was deeply affecting as Wagner’s clueless youth, who chances upon the sanctuary of the desolate knights of the Holy Grail and is baffled by their sacred rituals. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Bedrock was "sacred ground" to the 9/11 families, and the F.A.C. strongly felt this was the right place for the unidentified remains. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Conversation 2012-06-05T16:40:23Z

He recorded dozens of albums of sacred music and was nominated for 10 Grammys. George Beverly Shea, Gospel Singer for Billy Graham Crusades, Dies at 104 2013-04-17T14:14:18Z

“I wanted to build a framework for myself, for how to keep art sacred,” she said. Maggie Rogers’s Higher Calling 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to be good at it, but here is a lesson: You should think of what is great about America, honor sacred things, be optimistic, and respect our leaders. Style Invitational Week 1425: Picture this — a cartoon caption contest 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

“It’s a sacred tree with a lot of myths around it,” said Garcia. In Oaxaca, a Meal to Celebrate a Pioneering Artist’s Legacy 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

At last, I have the elusive, sacred thing of power I have sought for many long years. Style Invitational Week 1425: Picture this — a cartoon caption contest 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Like its antic ancestors, “Something Rotten!” has a sacred cow to skewer. Review: ‘Something Rotten!,’ an Over-the-Top Take on Shakespeare 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

No place is sacred, not even the workplace. Fly by Night 2011-06-29T21:12:52Z

Mr. Renz accomplished that feat, in one case, by fitting a sacred text to a gigue that originally accompanied a drinking song. Music Review: Early Music New York With Frederick Renz - Review 2011-12-26T22:37:30Z

From where could she summon the ability to turn her back on everything she ever held to be sacred and safe? Stop judging Anna Duggar: Concern trolls want punishment for Josh, not what’s best for his wife 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

As Crane enters Scarborough, there's a burst of Scarborough Fair in the background; when he goes into a church, sacred choral music soars. TV matters: Orchestral overkill 2011-08-03T19:30:02Z

The palace’s Temple of the Emerald Buddha is considered one of the most sacred sites in Thailand. These Are the World’s Most-Visited Castles 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

"Things that are set apart from daily life ... sacred objects." Former death row inmate channels experience and magic into his art, on display at Copro Gallery 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The Liberty Bell," a biography of our nation's "nearly sacred totem," Gary B. Nash provides a stirring historical account of the icon that is America's "Rosetta Stone or ... 'The Liberty Bell': Truth and myth about a national icon 2010-06-16T23:59:00Z

The journey entailed plenty of controversy, as evangelical Christians often considered Tharpe’s style too sensual for sacred material. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Its construction also takes it through sacred tribal burial sites. Shailene Woodley arrested while protesting North Dakota oil pipeline 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Some of the loveliest images are of a sacred arched bridge and another of two young women, dressed in kimonos, whispering delicately to one another. In Transit Blog: In Sarasota, a Glimpse of Japanese History 2014-03-24T15:58:07Z

At first, the audience seemed skeptical, even amused, by the notion of these American cheeses served next to one of their sacred culinary touchstones. How good has U.S. cheese become? Good enough to worry the Italians. 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

This program at Yeshiva University Museum invites children to make their own models of this sacred scroll, using wooden rollers and parchment-like paper. Spare Times for Children Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

On “Unless,” he channeled the ululations of Pakistani sacred music. Atoms for Peace at UIC Pavilion 2013-10-03T06:15:00Z

In the Anthropocene, we should hold sacred our urban parks, community gardens and green spaces and insist that our civic leaders do the same. Earth has entered a new era, new Smithsonian book says. That is not a good thing. 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

This is a loss: we need young, black female intellectuals who can size up rap’s sacred and profane monologues. Books of The Times: A Young Writer Goes Searching for Harlem 2011-01-25T18:58:36Z

“Grandparent” is a sacred role, but the village needs villagers, too. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend’s profanity-laden rants about politics rattles his mate 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

He escapes again, and finds his way to the Ganges, a sacred river that offers him some solace—he desperately misses his mother and brother. Review: A Young Man Searches for His Lost Family in Semi-Effective Lion 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

On the religious side of the holiday season, and indeed across the calendar, there are any number of traditional sweets with sacred meanings. Delving Into the Religious Symbolism of Candy 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

“But neither is Porgy and Bess holy scripture, too sacred to be changed.” ArtsBeat: Paulus Responds to Sondheim 2011-08-11T19:45:07Z

“A city should have a sacred geography,” she recites, “never arbitrary but planned in strict accord with the dictates of a doctrine that the society upholds.” Review: Who Committed the ‘Ohio State Murders’? Who Didn’t? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

A sacred object or sentimental curio should not be absorbed into an industry enamored with surface image, engaged in consumerism and focused on extravagance. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

Tarzian recommends engaging in a meaningful act that honors the person or visiting a sacred place and lighting a candle. You are on vacation and a loved one at home dies. What do you do now? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? My Struggle with American Small Talk 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

Family is sacred to him, and it’s something he has always sought throughout his life. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z

The majority of Americans, whether or not they will ever read it or not, view it as a piece of sacred text, that is genius. We treat the Constitution like a religious text, with women’s bodies on the line 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

But I also still found myself approaching “Little Women” as if it were a wheatgrass shot of sacred women’s fiction. Joy to the world, "Little Women" has come – and the updated classic is a modern marvel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Like the last words of the Passover Seder — “Next year in Jerusalem” — his words ushered the hope, if not the promise, of a return to this family’s sacred ground. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

On the downside, the openings — like Lhasa’s booming population, new business districts and shopping malls — are seen by many Tibetans and interested outsiders as more cultural colonization and exploitation of a sacred land. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z

Some music fans understandably regard the guitars owned and played by George Harrison, in his Beatles career and as a solo artist, as sacred relics that may still contain fragments of their former master’s spirit. New iPad App, ?The Guitar Collection: George Harrison? 2012-02-22T15:44:05Z

To me the stacks are the most sacred space in the library, yet here nobody’s telling you not to talk. Still Life: Butler Library at Columbia Is a Haven for Body and Mind 2012-06-26T16:03:23Z

So why is this most sacred and wonderful of flavors confined to the narrow parameters of foliage season? Chocolate pumpkin cake deserves to be your favorite snack all year long 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

Disputes over art ownership, demands for restitution, and arguments over whether sacred objects should be sold are nothing new. Paris auction house sells Hopi masks despite tribe's objection 2013-04-12T16:23:01Z

Besides, how else can they show the world how sacred their love is unless they go on TV and talk about it? Creepiest moments in Doug Hutchison's TV debut with teen wife 2011-07-15T20:01:00Z

If the show’s concluding fable about the stalking of a sacred blue stag seems a bit metaphorically muddled, it offers a signal image that captures this vibrant show’s distinctive tone. Drawing on the Past, Living in the Present, Dreaming of the Future 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

During his busy years in Leipzig, Germany, Bach often recycled existing movements from instrumental pieces into large sacred scores, Labadie explained. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Piety and the marketplace mingle as people with backpacks, prayer wheels, chic hats and bright-colored underwear troop up and down the ribbon-like highways that lead from one sacred spot to another. Art Review | 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art': On the Road With Seekers at the Asia Society 2010-03-18T23:04:00Z

And if that isn’t bad enough, she’s a devotee of the Objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand, whose “The Virtue of Selfishness” becomes Heidi’s “sacred text.” What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

The majestic monument — a testament to human tenacity — scars land considered sacred by Native Americans. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

She’s written about how black sacred songs serve various functions – such as expressing thanksgiving, talking to God, remembering ancestors, or invoking life after death – and have long served as balm for older black adults. Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

The Chinese themselves weren’t collectors: to them such objects were either sacred and beyond aesthetics, or bizarre relics of an imported religion that had nothing essentially Chinese about it. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z

We climbed atop a huge flat stone that lay before the hawk, perhaps a ceremonial spot for the local Wappinger tribe, for whom this was once sacred ground. A Hike Into the Mystic, or Just a Walk in the Woods? 2010-10-14T21:39:00Z

“Red, white and black was a sacred part of what Meg and I were doing,” White told me. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

As one obituarist asked, ‘Who is going to slay all those sacred cows now?’ It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

“The tarot is sacred,” he said, adding, “It’s all a game.” Possessed: Alejandro Jodorowsky and His Tarot de Marseille 2011-11-11T23:31:31Z

And no type of museum is more social than the presidential house, that hybrid of the sacred and domestic space where the authentic man is conjured up by perky tour guides herding their motley flocks. Where to meet real Americans: Touring presidential homes 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

When he spread out the arrangements across his large backing band on “Work Song,” the mix of spare, wide-open handclaps and precise vocal harmonies did the concert's sacred setting justice. Hozier takes a worshipful L.A. to an actual church 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Many Sami were fearful of the northern lights, Ms. Sarri explained, and believed the aurora was a sacred manifestation of their ancestors’ souls. Viewing the Northern Lights: ‘It’s Almost Like Heavenly Visual Music’ 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

He fell particularly hard for Léonin and Pérotin, two of the first named composers, who in Paris in the late 12th and early 13th centuries pushed Western sacred music into polyphony. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

There was something weirdly sacred about it all, and I thought, Right, if you want to commune with the dead, of course what you have to do is drive across the night to Missouri. My Dead 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

While Buckley’s fiction is well known for skewering contemporary sacred cows, most notably in “Thank You for Smoking,” his previous book, “The Relic Master,” lampooned the excesses of 16th-century religious life in Europe. Review | The timely message in Christopher Buckley’s historical novel 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

“It’s something between Schoenberg and Wagner, and like a sacred opera without linear narration. So you have the freedom to do whatever you want.” Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

"The movie theater is and always has been a sacred democratic space for all," Wood wrote. Elijah Wood slams AMC Theatres' ticket price change, says it will “penalize people for lower income" 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Those competing impulses — what Schrader called his “sacred past and profane present” — suffuse “First Reformed,” but never at the expense of such humanist values as life, death, spiritual discipline and, just maybe, redemption. ‘First Reformed’ will shock you. Thank God for that. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Not to mention the unquantifiable losses we experience as humans—the sudden lack of trust in traditional food sources, the fouling of sacred sites, and the intrusive, painful memories. Confronting my Exxon Valdez horror 25 years later 2014-03-26T23:00:00Z

Water is necessary for the sweat lodge, so important in Sioux worship, and it serves as a purifier and calmer in sacred ceremonies. Why we must respect the sacred at Standing Rock 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

I want a Judaism that also offers positive sources of meaning, for the boundaries between sacred and profane that it creates to enhance and elevate my day-to-day existence in the modern world. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

We don't see them any longer as sacred but as normal people. France loves sex, but not on the front page 2010-05-01T23:21:00Z

The right to control over your own body is sacred in America, except as it pertains to women and as it pertains to pregnancy. "Patients would come 9 or 10 times": What we can learn from the first time abortion was banned 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

It was, and remains, a sacred ground of cultural retention, reinvention and renewal. Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Obama’s election was historic, she said, but the museum will be here forever, serving as a sacred place, a balm for the wounds of African Americans and a “house of healing” for the entire country. 300 volunteers for African American museum: ‘We’re ready.’ 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

He was an artist of both the sacred and the profane. Review: A ’60s View of Warhol’s Soup Cans, at MoMA 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

They are “a sacred kind, a holy species,” she says, deemed to be “radical angels of the heart.” ‘That Kindness’ Review: Nurses Didn’t Sign Up for This 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

The painstaking effort behind the retuning serves an extra-musical agenda: “to split open and decolonize/the sacred 88,” as Mr. Modirzadeh describes it in a poem printed on the album’s inside flap. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z

Besides, I had always taken “Heaven” as a sacred object — everyone knows this is one of the masterpiece songs. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

The popular numbers, some in mildly soupy arrangements, went on a little too long for a listener still craving more sacred or folk material. Music Review: Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-17T22:12:44Z

I don’t know anyone who did this — double digging emanated from old English estate gardens with armies of low-paid gardeners — but the concept reminded us of our sacred duty to dig those beds. The case for the no-till garden 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

In her compulsive oversharing and scornful eye-rolls, she has something of the court jester or sacred clown, allowed to tear through society’s taboos. Being ‘Fleabag,’ From Stage to TV and Back Again 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

St. Francis, he reasoned, would understand why this was sacred. Jim Harrison on spirits, bad poetry and the wonder of nature 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Akhtar’s astute observations of the clashes between old world and new, between secular and sacred, among immigrants might seem familiar to readers of both contemporary and classic literature. Books of The Times: ?American Dervish? ? By Ayad Akhtar ? Review 2012-01-04T22:00:52Z

That’s love bottled up in a single metaphor: sacred, toxic and dangerously addictive but gloriously, painfully endurable. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

At the same time, it’s important to recognize that religious differences don’t preclude the sharing of sacred values. I’m a Proud Atheist. Why Shouldn’t I Tell My Religious In-Laws? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Does the number 15 bus really follow a sacred route? Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z

One crooked lane led to the river temple where albino elephants were cremated, another to the sacred slab upon which Thai royals could be executed. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s silly and yet sacred, a baptism and a resurrection. ‘Hallelujah Anyway’: Anne Lamott’s conflicted message for a conflicted nation 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The show’s title refers to a forest considered sacred in Afro-Cuban lore, but Luna’s primary landscape is interior. Review | In the galleries: Myths and respite at the American University museum 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Perhaps with that in mind, she chose to sing some sacred music here: the Bach-Gounod setting of “Ave Maria.” In Performance: Danielle de Niese Sings 'Ave Maria' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Inspired by Mr. Zorn’s visit to Newgrange, an ancient burial site in Ireland cannily designed to admit daylight on the winter solstice, the piece included passages from “The Song of Amergin,” a Celtic sacred text. Music Review: John Zorn’s ‘Sacred Voices’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2013-06-24T21:20:40Z

Bach's "St. Matthew" Passion, music's most revered work, is not, at its deepest level, sacred music. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

She held attention with calm authority and exceptional discipline, but principally by demonstrating multiple aspects of Indian womanhood, secular and sacred. Dance Review: Drive East Festival Highlights Indian Dance and Song 2013-08-20T21:52:26Z

Every spring, rock, forest and valley, every season, every climate, was sacred. Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

But it also has a wit and quirkiness that serve as reminders that the region isn’t so sacred that you can’t bring a little humor to it. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The god’s mission: to retrieve and redeem the swastika, which was originally a benign and sacred Sanskrit symbol. Theater Review: ‘Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,’ at Under the Radar 2013-01-10T22:16:35Z

But I don’t think that’s the reason that audiences shied from the show, which ran for only nine performances and now resides in that sacred chamber of Broadway immortality reserved for fabulous flops. | 'Anyone Can Whistle': Sondheim Tribute to Politics and Other Craziness 2010-04-10T00:20:00Z

“I’ve always been attracted to sacred spaces — I think everybody is.” Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

This industrious, experimental director is celebrated, after all, for taking an artistic detonator to sacred classics — by authors like Shakespeare, Molière, Miller and O’Neill — and letting the pieces fly. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

It's a surprisingly cool little film, not funny at all but rather seriously torn between the secular and the sacred, a conflict Eisenberg expresses with a neurotic intensity. Holy Rollers ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:50Z

On “Arc,” the sacred singing of Pakistan’s Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was transformed into a series of haunted moans looped into infinity. Eddie Vedder gets most out of ukulele jam 2011-06-29T06:56:00Z

I'm so grateful, when somebody opens up and somebody's willing to tell you their story, let alone come and then participate in the telling of it, that's sacred. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

And most crucially, do they conflict with the sacred doctrines of the Catholic Church? Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z

Its whitewashed stucco was crumbling, and the lack of other outsiders seemed to allow room for more sacred energy. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

They gave me sacred verses to recite and asked holy men to check if anyone had cast the evil eye on me. From a Sale, Lace Undergarments, Never Worn 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

In Patrick Ward's "Poster Power" – printed just as Flower Power was waning in 1967 – there is no distinction between the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the tacky. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

The holidays are celebratory, yes—but also funny, sad, sacred, lonely, maddening, beautiful, and so much else. Sunday Reading: The Holidays 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

“We’re situated next to the tallest building in the country and it’s a relatively small project on a significant piece of — almost sacred — ground,” said Adam LaFortune, one of the Utah students. Carnegie Mellon and Utah Students Imagine Ground Zero Space 2011-12-21T22:56:00Z

It’s a fear, he said, of “the profane breaking into the sacred”. Is this the cultural moment of the ‘hot priest’? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

By the end of the 1950s, advertisers had wormed their way into the family living room, with television and radio networks “owning” times of the day that were previously sacred, like dinner hour. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

If last season Mr. Wang’s show was an in-your-face embrace of the street, this was a smarter, more pointed deconstruction of a wardrobe’s sacred cows. Revolution Is Absent From Runways 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Higginbottom’s inventively arranged program drew on sacred works composed over five centuries, in groups that offered unusual but satisfying stylistic contrasts. Music Review: Choir of New College, Oxford, at St. Thomas Church 2010-04-21T22:26:00Z

It blurs lines between personal and social histories, high and low culture, and ideas of what’s sacred or profane. Tapestry in Seattle cathedral weaves history and mission 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

“It showed us how much we meant to him, and how sacred and precious our young lives were to him.” A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

And though it’s true that playlists and algorithm-crunching radio stations have for some supplanted the start-to-finish album listening session, there are still countless artists who hold the form sacred. Here Are the Best Albums of 2015 So Far 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Are these apparitions decorating these sacred sites or defacing them? ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Feeling a sacred pull in all my secular places. Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind and Fire, shaped the essential playlist of black lives 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Aperitivo culture in Venice is sacred; starting around six o’clock, you’ll see cafes fill with Venetians stopping off for a drink and snack before going home for dinner.  Roberto CoinVoice: How To Explore Venice Like A True Venetian 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

But it turns out that the characters in “Seminar,” even the seemingly burnt-out Leonard, are religiously committed to the sacred, endangered art of the written word. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z

But you want your child to be able to see the sacred in others. How to talk to kids about religion: Spiritual multiculturalism is absolutely essential 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

That sense of sacred fervor and reverent yearning suffuses “A Love Supreme.” Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Treatment begins with a "Sajja" ceremony in which patients take a sacred vow never to use drugs again. Fighting addiction at a Thai monastery 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

They open up space in the culture where we can actually talk honestly about writers whose work is in danger of becoming sacred and critically unassailable. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z

Take Michael Daugherty’s “Red Cape Tango,” the final movement of the composer’s Grammy-winning “Metropolis Symphony,” which balances gleefully on the lines between sacred and profane, still and moving, classical and rock. NSO’s ‘New Moves’ festival closes with Jessica Lang and Leila Josefowicz

As I say, the only thing Cologne does on a large scale is sacred architecture. T Magazine: Grand Teuton 2012-11-12T16:00:53Z

This is a sacred place, which houses the remains of six million Parisians. Porn shoots in Parisian catacombs? Mais oui! 2013-03-15T17:38:00Z

He earned a bachelor’s degree in music at Northwestern University in Illinois in 1952 and two years later received a master’s degree in sacred music at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Virtually all the greenery we use to mark the holidays is an invention of modern times, though the sacred sentiments they express of goodwill and good cheer are deep-rooted and timeless. What you need to know to care for holiday greenery

But for the Thanksgiving meal, the most sacred of secular holidays built around food, the sauce deserves better. Give cranberry sauce the respect — and recipe — it deserves at Thanksgiving 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the couple’s ceremony, which both described as “surreal,” four shaman men played sacred ceremonial instruments, including a conch, and a shaman priest chanted blessings in Mayan. A Destination Wedding With Cultural Significance 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva emphasized Brazil and Mozambique's shared struggles with Portuguese colonialism when he spoke of Brazil's "sacred" relationship with Africa at a conference in Maputo last month. Soap operas give Brazil the edge in Mozambique rush 2012-12-21T15:35:14Z

"A famous artist's signature gives us the romantic notion that their paintings are sacred artefacts that were touched by the hand of a genius." Can you love a fake piece of art? 2012-06-03T23:24:04Z

Mikva, who calls herself “a committed progressive Jew,” mines sacred texts and centuries of religious thought to show that it didn’t, and doesn’t, have to be this way. Three Books That Gaze Upward to Heaven and Inward to the Heart 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

“It feels like the sacred circle is completing itself,” she said, “before I go in this life.” Sacheen Littlefeather, Activist Who Rejected Brando’s Oscar, Dies at 75 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

In the Ifá tradition, every one of the 256 sacred Odù can be represented both by combinations of vertical dashes and by arrangements of cowrie shells or palm nuts on the divination tray. For Two Los Angeles Artists, the Spiritual Is Political 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

We chart our histories through the songs that accompanied our most sacred moments, and knowing better now offers no path to go back and rewrite. Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

A large circular lesion in the gorge wall, framed by ferns and creepers, is Tamatea’s Cave, a sacred place named for an early Maori explorer. Mystic river: Canoeing a living entity in New Zealand 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

Aware that she was intruding on a family’s “sacred space” during the worst moment of their lives, she always took the same approach. What Wendy Rieger learned from Washington 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Every hour passed studying the Bible or the Quran in search of some “sacred” truth could be spent learning about the real world and our universe. They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The shock jock who once held nothing sacred has mellowed in a most dramatic way. Is Howard Stern going soft or just getting sharper? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Another of Moroni’s innovations is the “sacred portrait,” and the three examples known to survive are united at the Frick for the first time. A Cult Favorite Enters the Art Canon 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

For the creators of “Rogue One,” a film designed as a narrative lead-in to the original “Star Wars,” it was a chance to play with characters, vehicles and locations sacred to this series. How ‘Rogue One’ Brought Back Familiar Faces 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“We wanted to record it in one place and we wanted a place that had that sacred spirit of downtown,” Mr. Barr said. For Experimental Jazz Group Onyx Collective, the Only Rule Is ‘No Rules’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The sacred turned to the profane after intermission. iPalpiti dazzles in a superb 'Stabat Mater' at Disney Hall 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

For the band's drummer Patrick Carney, Seattle is an almost sacred tour stop because of the music legacy of our city and how it affected him. Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney credits Seattle music legacy 2012-05-03T20:21:04Z

They dug up a great many bones on the Plains, including those from native people’s sacred burial grounds. The Forgotten Man Responsible for Our Most Iconic National Parks 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Staying home and raising a family was considered a sacred duty, but a growing number of women wanted careers outside the home. Review | A ’50s mom finds her calling as a spy in the captivating novel ‘A Woman of Intelligence’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

He pointed to a 2019 ban forbidding tourists from climbing Uluru, a giant monolith in Australia that is sacred to the Anangu, an Aboriginal group that is the custodian of the rock. The World’s Most-Visited Glaciers Could Soon Be Gone 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

A writer who finds himself in this distress starts to interrupt the sacred sequences on which our language depends. Sticking the world together with words 2010-07-19T09:22:00Z

Indeed, Saturday Night Live managed to wring humor from the star, mocking her sacred status in the culture and her overwrought fans with their “Beygency” sketch. Beyoncé Parodies Reveal the Limitations of Late Night 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

But this is being billed as the official list for any fan's animation "pilgrimage," as the places are known as "seichi," or "sacred spots." Japan choosing 88 animation travel spots to boost tourism 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

"I was amused by how much overlap there was by this supposedly homosocial, sacred, straight male space and the gay space . . . Neither space is interested in addressing intimacy." "The Inspection" and Don't Ask Don't Tell for a queer Black man: "Boot camp is brainwashing" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

At this point, “Seven Up!,” black-and-white and bursting with energy, feels like a sacred artifact, beautiful and odd in detail, to which we return again and again to scrutinize against the passing of time. “63 Up” and the Child in All of Us 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The National Gallery of Art in Washington offers Carpaccio, who also balanced sacred and secular. Museums in the U.S. and Europe Are in Blockbuster Mode 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

When Bennett pleads “So won’t you be/ Be my, be my baby?,” she makes erotic yearning seem almost sacred and maternal. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Generally sacred in subject, not meant to be staged, and organized as unruffled parades of tableaus more than sustained plots, these oratorios were at the time viewed as more populist than opera. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

In a late 15th-century Book of Hours, images of the Virgin Mary and sacred texts are surrounded by marginal figures — monks playing blind man’s bluff and boys playing a form of hockey. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Some paintings of sacred dances, for example, stay in storage covered by shrouds to keep them away from uninitiated eyes. How to move a museum: The Burke, and treasured objects from its rarely seen vaults at the UW, get a new home 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

“Spar Loop” from 2000 uses a supermarket’s logo to create a circular shape, similar to a mandala, likening it to the sacred and opposing it to its origins from the consumer world. At Malevich Exhibition, a Journey of Ideas 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Looks like many would be willing to put a good word for him towards admission to sacred heaven as well. Warren Beatty Wants Six Hours of Your Time. Or More. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

They said it would never sell because “women regard cooking as sacred.” The Simplest Noodles 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

I was amused by how much overlap there was by this supposedly homosocial, sacred, straight male space and the gay space. "The Inspection" and Don't Ask Don't Tell for a queer Black man: "Boot camp is brainwashing" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Advertising dished out plenty of excuses for crossing once sacred consumption boundaries, and the proliferation of commercially packaged goods made crossing them remarkably easy. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z

One might be forced into a kind of detente: acknowledging that while a belief might be sacred, the artifacts related to it are just an assemblage of feathers, leather and fabric. What the Redskins and fashion world share: Borrowing, sometimes badly, from cultures

In fact, sweating is considered sacred in many cultures. In Praise of Sweat 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

For months, I found myself directing a crew to restore this sacred site as best as we could. Mercy and grace: Reclaiming the family home lost to my father's addiction 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

Because of this talent, he has been chosen by the gods for a sacred duty bestowed on one person each generation: to prepare a perfect meal for each citizen of Popisho. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

"That is sacred," says Parker, looking suitably chastised during an interview in a Times Square restaurant after being reminded that he and Stone once dared to call Clooney smug. 'South Park' guys make 'really different' Broadway 2011-03-22T17:59:15Z

Parenthood is a sacred value in Israel, where fertility treatments are fully covered by the state. Three Floors, Three Different Israeli Stories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It is a rare and wonderful confluence of the sacred and the profane. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z

The idea of taking the most sacred words of your culture and reciting them backwards so that you are casting yourself out of that story into a new one, I love that. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

"Everyone adored him; he was a sacred character." T Magazine: Succès Fou 2012-10-03T23:02:54Z

On the Nevada-Idaho border, they stumbled onto a powwow at a Shoshone-Paiute reservation, where they settled in for fireworks, fry bread and sacred dances — and where they ultimately received permission to place a marker. Why two artists surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border ... the one from 1821 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

The single set by Neil Patel had a raked stage with wooden flooring and slats leaning to one side to represent the Druids' sacred forest grove. New roles for Racette and Meade at DC Opera 2013-03-18T16:33:09Z

Indiscriminate slaughter of sacred cows also seems like poor politics, destined to alienate even those sympathetic with reinterpretations of American history. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

The critical consensus was largely that the measures to protect this sacred information were unnecessary. Spoiler alert! How TV and film are trying to protect their blockbusters 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Act II’s clutter of various looted sacred and profane sculptures piled on stacks of packing crates illustrated Caird’s notion that Scarpia is a collector in every sense of the word, kind of like Bartók’s Bluebeard. L.A. Opera's 'Tosca': No gimmicks, just some powerhouse singing 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

And if you’re having good sex, that feels like it’s your own private sacred business. Lena Dunham Interview, Part One: What Girls Is Made Of 2012-04-12T10:45:39Z

His most recognized work, a form of body painting that he calls “the sacred art of the Ori,” draws on those cultural influences and was made famous through its appearance in Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” visual album. A Nigerian Artist Who Uses the Skin as His Canvas 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

The footprint of the temple revealed a sacrificial altar and a sacred inner room not dissimilar from those that would eventually be built in the great temples in Jerusalem. Journeys: An Israeli Oasis as a Passage to Ancient Times 2010-09-12T08:01:00Z

So already it had a sacred feel — theater as a sacred ritual, which was really cool, instead of being like, this has to be entertaining and funny all the time. 8 ways to do Improv Fest 2011-04-21T18:33:00Z

We walked into the sacred circle, no cordon keeping us out. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The theme has changed every week since, waxing sacred or tongue-in-cheek or both. ‘The Leftovers’ Leads Television’s Musical Golden Age 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The problem was that the “safe burials” ordered by the WHO—with its understandable yet singular fixation on biosafety—were insensitive to the sacred dimensions of funeral custom. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

"Even if some country thinks that whales are special or sacred, as long as whales are sustainably utilized that view should not be forced on others," Morishita said. Japan shrugs off embarrassing court loss, vows resumption of Antarctic whaling 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Half a century later, in “The Harvesters,” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, saints have been replaced by farmers, the sacred by the secular, the gold of halos by the gold of ripe wheat. Art Review: New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800, at the Met 2013-05-23T22:47:11Z

Anyway, individual taste is a sacred entitlement of mass culture, and most movies sink into a happily boggy terrain of tepid subjectivity on their way from the multiplex to the Netflix queue. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

Instead, family time became sacred; world issues pushed aside in favor of tales from middle school. In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Quade is searching for truths both existential and sacred in her haunting and beautiful ­debut collection. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

We were on our way to the sacred, uninhabited island of Delos. A chartered sailboat breezes by a cruise liner as the best way to hop the Greek islands 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

The result is a complex labyrinth that sets the Mass in B minor apart from Bach’s other sacred music. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z