Example sentences for: blasphemous

How can you use “blasphemous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It doesn't do much good to come along and say, well, the encrustation of cut-out porno photos has a decorative quality that recalls Gustave Moreau's overloaded, quasi- (queasy) mystical images of the (last) fin de siècle ? Better would be to compare and contrast it with other art brut and with other blasphemous imagery.

  • A popular Iranian reformer, Abdullah Kouri, was sentenced to five years in prison and a five-year banishment from publishing for blasphemous statements, says the NYT . His newspaper, one of the country's leading pro-democracy publications, was also shut down.

  • Catholics' spin: It's blasphemous "hate mail" to the Catholic church.

  • It would be one thing if Dogma were, as charged, virulently anti-Catholic or even blasphemous.

  • But to remind its masters that it can still bite--and reinforce conservative prejudices that it's pink--PBS periodically aired blasphemous dramas ( Steambath , 1973), Mao-symp travelogues (Shirley MacLaine's The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir , 1975), politically provocative docudramas ( Death of a Princess , 1980), lefty attacks on agribiz ( Hungry for Profit , 1985), homoerotica ( Tongues Untied , 1991), and brazen assaults on logical thinking ( The Panama Deception , 1992).


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