Decalogue

Example Sentences

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An artist as imaginative as Toles can certainly get plenty of creative mileage out of this repellent character trait without doing violence to the Decalogue.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2019

Basic principles of ethics remain the same, from the Decalogue to the writings of John of Patmos.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

The chapters are structured rather confusingly around the media in which the Decalogue has been wrought between the mid-19th century and the present: stone, paper, stained glass, and film.

From Slate • May 15, 2017

In the first week alone I dropped 15 pounds, re-watched Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue, built a sustainable small-yield garden for my daughter, and learned knife throwing.

From Time • Aug. 27, 2014

Date.—It is much disputed what the original compass of the Decalogue was.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various