blasphemy
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We’ve got two big threads this week: creeps in the House of Representatives and blasphemy.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
She also represented those accused of blasphemy -- an incendiary charge in Pakistan -- as well as Afghans who face crackdowns by the authorities.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
There cannot be, since blasphemy depends on the acknowledgment of the sacred.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
Laws against blasphemy were first codified by India's British rulers and expanded in the 1980s under Pakistan's military government.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2024
Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Saban had asked in 2012, complaining about the hurry-up revolution even before he’d beheld the extent of Malzahn’s blasphemies.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2021
He spoke blasphemies other chefs recognized as hard-won truths.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
As vividly portrayed by the veteran mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer, the agonies and blasphemies of the prioress were painful and even shocking to witness.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2013
Unlike Luis Bunuel, who also deals in curiously reverential blasphemies, Downey lacks the ruthless, rigorous intellect that gives depth to such flights of fantasy.
From Time Magazine Archive
She must go forward, amid accumulating errors, and absurdities, and blasphemies: amid opposing arts and sciences, and knowledge, she must go steadily onward,—onward to the precipice!
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
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