Open spaces again, nothing profaning them, not even electric pylons.

But for profaning some of the most important Rituals and rules, the punishments are fierce.

Had nuclear winter come about, it would have been the ultimate profaning of nature, the rape and slaughter of Gaia.

Unfortunately, Turkey does not have a monopoly on such events: the profaning of religious monuments and cemeteries also exists in countries in the European Union.

To the question as to the permissibility of profaning the Sabbath to save human life he answered, "The Law says (Ex.

We often witness acts of intolerance: the profaning of Jewish and Muslim cemeteries, anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic talk.

In Ms. Armstrong's narrative, the Crusaders' brutality was a terrible profaning of the holy city, one "which permanently damaged relations between the three religions of Abraham."

Or it could have been added to the water cruet-in emotional terms, not as serious a profaning of the sacrament as tainting the wine, but the effect would be the same.

Phryne, the hetaera from 4th century BC Greece and famed for her beauty, appeared before the Areopagus accused of profaning the Eleusinian mysteries.

"It is part of the vulgarizing and profaning of America," said the Rev. Cecil L. Murray of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles.

The Socialist Government of President Francois Mitterrand immediately began an offensive against the National Front and its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, accusing them of inciting racial hatred and, implicitly, blaming them for the profaning of the old Jewish cemetery at Carpentras.

The true scoffer demands sterner stuff, though, and in the cold light of economic science he can see that government is not merely susceptible to corruption; government is corruption, a vile profaning of the market-most-holy in which some groups contrive to swipe the property of other groups via taxation and regulation.

But two guys taking on a profane world can only do so much at a time.

No one in this profane city had even taken them away with the dead woman.

This might have been thought profane, but it was not at the time.

In the ideal state of things nothing should be profane.

He was certainly the most profane man we ever had around the laboratory.

She would rather have let him die than touch his profane body.

It sounded profane coming from the mouth of a child.

Thus, profane space gives man no pattern for his behavior.

At the same time, it's like a sacred image made profane.

I believed these words, but in a wholly profane way.

Probably the act of me screaming - the behavior itself - may have been very profane.

Now there were others, as well, some too profane to appear in print.

"You're using loud and profane language in a public place," the chief said.

He is coarse, profane and funny, sometimes all at once.

Feed that to a minister and he'll tell you it's profane.

He is also well known for his profane language in morning editorial conferences.

Despite being the youngest of his friends he is consistently the most profane.

He was primarily concerned with religious art and profane subjects.

A few of the messages used profane or obscene language.

In this case the profane word was censored during broadcast.

A good bit of the material is quite profane.

The language is frequently profane and the action can get raucous.

The very word was profane, and the idea of it made his gorge rise.

A few steps beyond is India, where the sacred and the profane always meet.

The Tale is immediately remarkable for its use of profane language.

They know he's going to try to profane the ritual.

Only the living, it is held, can profane the sacred.

But what, exactly, is profaned by putting words on clothes?

Let me die, that never more may I profane the earth with evil!

No man was allowed to profane these mysteries on pain of death.

I could not have profaned that meal by paying attention to anything else.

He was a human obscenity who profaned the earth with every step.

"It is she who has profaned all we hold most holy.

It is not profaned with a drop of oil or any substitutes.

To speak in a louder voice would somehow profane what lay around them.

They were only waiting for an opportunity to profane the symbol of Christianity.

You profaned it by drinking the blood of its keeper.

Blood and death to all who profane my sacred altars.

She knelt outside the circle, still not profaning it with her presence.

Did no one realize that they were profaning sacred rituals?

It was a serious matter to profane a tomb.

I will not profane a conversation about beauty by mentioning what was paid for this one.

These priests have the power to make thousands forget their temples were profaned.

It is immoral to profane the memory of the dead", he said.

"Our sacred ritual being profaned by a bunch of kids on the radio!"

He is not speaking to anyone in particular, other than perhaps the God whose name he has just profaned.

But privately they profaned it with plottings, a sort of industry just in their line.

My heart bled to see the amulet profaned, as I thought.

It was my duty to come, at whatever effort, to warn those who profane the tomb.

"I remember," he said, "that the marriage has been profaned."