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Example sentences for: inquisition

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The Inquisition took root in the 1530s, and the Counter-Reformationary Jesuit order gained control of education in Portugal during the 1560s.
Le Monde of Paris, under the striking headline "Hell Is American," was particularly strong in its condemnation of the Starr report, which it likened to the Spanish Inquisition.
Unfortunately, though, all thoughts of tolerance were forgotten, and the zeal with which the Inquisition sought out Protestants was turned on Catholic worshippers.
Titian’s Pietà, a vibrant last work completed by pupil Palma il Giovane, was originally intended for his tomb in the Frari church (see page 131); Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi was meant to be the Last Supper, until the Holy Inquisition complained about its “buffoons, drunkards, dwarfs, Germans, and similar vulgarities”; Tintoretto gives full play to his dark sense of drama in the Miracle of St. Mark.
3) The punditocracy is ignoring the real story (Starr's Grand Inquisition) in favor of salacious sex.