churchly
Example Sentences
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“Beyond Belief” is far more schematic, to the extent that the various chapters—nine, to be exact—focus on aspects of the game that correspond to churchly concepts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
That theme, explored with light wit and deep humanity, makes this unabashedly churchly novel strikingly relevant to our conflicted political era.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022
In later generations, many Americans would share the Transcendentalists’ conviction that personal enlightenment could supersede churchly doctrines, and followed this faith into diverse forms of self-help and alternative spirituality.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It opens in churchly quiet, with Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim exchanging rueful intimacies about the end of a love affair.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2016
On the exterior of the southern wall is affixed an immense Calvary, which is theatrical in the extreme, and is not dignified nor churchly.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
