superstitious

For some, Jacques Le Gris became a martyr, a man sentenced to a brutal death by a backwards and superstitious legal system which demonized him.

There are all of these various sorts of iterations that go into people’s minds, some logical, some sort of more superstitious almost.

We humans are notoriously unreliable, superstitious narrators, always scanning the horizon for signs that validate what our hearts have already told us.

When we can barely illuminate our own world, it would be superstitious to imagine that dead men could do it for us.

For artists, that moral sensibility, superstitious or no, ought to be cranked to 11.

Their marriage had begun to suffer, and memories of the polio ballet loomed over the choreographer, known to be superstitious.

These days, Greaves regards traditional religion in general as both dangerously superstitious and exclusionary.

Historically, superstitious investors have feared the 10th month of the year.

And yet there still remains a superstitious belief in prayer, and most surprising are some of its manifestations.

He told how the Korean farmer lived a simple, patient life, while at the same time he was ignorant and superstitious.

They emanated from a credulous and superstitious people in an unscientific age and country.

"Look here, old man, this superstitious nonsense is becoming an obsession to you," it said one fine April morning.

People of limited education, born and brought up in out of the way country places, are apt to be superstitious.