All 11 Uses
sacrilege
in
The Fountainhead
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- You'll be committing only a mean little indecency, but he's committed a sacrilege.†
Chpt 2.5
- On the morning of November 2 the New York Banner came out with the column "One Small Voice" by Ellsworth M. Toohey subtitled "Sacrilege."†
Chpt 2.12
- We cannot condone an outrageous sacrilege.†
Chpt 2.12
- On the following day "Sacrilege" appeared in the Banner and set the fuse.†
Chpt 2.12
- Then he read aloud Toohey's column "Sacrilege" and asked him to state whether he had written it.†
Chpt 2.12
- Ellsworth Toohey is right, that temple is a sacrilege, though not in the sense he meant.†
Chpt 2.12
- I remember: a sacrilegious church or some such object that gave the Bible brigade a howling spree.†
Chpt 3.3 *sacrilegious = disrespectful of something others consider important -- especially something sacred
- One doesn't love God and sacrilege impartially.†
Chpt 3.4
- Except when one doesn't know that sacrilege has been committed.†
Chpt 3.4
- And it was the Banner that had begun and ended the destruction of the Stoddard Temple.... The New York Banner, November 2, 1930—"One Small Voice"—"Sacrilege" by Ellsworth M. Toohey—"The Churches of our Childhood" by Alvah Scarret—"Are you happy, Mr. Superman?"†
Chpt 3.8
- "Sacrilege" by Ellsworth M. Toohey—"The Churches of our Childhood" by Alvah Scarret—editorials, sermons, speeches, statements, letters to the editor, the Banner unleashed full-blast, photographs, cartoons, interviews, resolutions of protest, letters to the editor.†
Chpt 4.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(sacrilege) disrespect of something others consider important or sacred
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)