Example sentences for: blasphemous

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

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

  • Schoenfeld, by censuring some kinds of Holocaust speech and failing to offer other kinds that would be acceptable to him, strongly implies that it is, indeed, a religious topic, for which some words are not just inaccurate or inappropriate but blasphemous.

  • It would be culturally blasphemous to draw too close a parallel between an advertising symbol like Joe Camel and a tragic figure like Mayakovsky, who shot himself the year after he wrote his drama about the interplay of freedom, pleasure, and risk.

  • 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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