Spanish Inquisitionin a sentence
- "Imbuing violence with holy meaning," wrote the historian Iris Chang, "the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition."† (source)
- It was the Spanish Inquisition, here-comes-the-Hindenburg bad kind of history.† (source)
- I hope you're getting the Spanish Inquisition out of your system now.† (source)
- The word conjured up images of the Spanish Inquisition, of torture, the whip and the rack.† (source)
- It was like a page torn from some storybook, from some historical novel about the captivity of Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition.† (source)
- Yeah, devoted-like the Spanish Inquisition.† (source)
- Cold Sassy is the kind of town where schoolteachers spend two months every fall drilling on Greek and Roman gods, the kings and queens of England, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Marco Polo, Magellan, Columbus, the first Thanksgiving, Oglethorpe settling Georgia, and how happy the slaves were before the War.† (source)
- What was this, the Spanish Inquisition?† (source)
- Not when compared to the riots of the Urban Wars, the torture chambers of the Spanish Inquisition, a test ride on the XR-85 moon jet.† (source)
- The Spanish Inquisition had precedents in earlier Inquisitions.
- …he struggles and gets nothing but a boot in his face, to see the mediocrity snatch from him, one after another, the chances he'd give his life for, to see the mediocrity worshipped, to miss the place he wants and to see the mediocrity enshrined upon it, to lose, to be sacrificed, to be ignored, to be beaten, beaten, beaten—not by a greater genius, not by a god, but by a Peter Keating—well, my little amateur, do you think the Spanish Inquisition ever thought of a torture to equal this?† (source)