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Example sentences for: profane

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Critics praise Mamet's departure from his trademark profane and sharp-edged films, but the reviews have a dutiful air about them: "a pointed examination of the price of seeking justice" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) ...
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
Dramatic arrangements for doing this are famous--the head-flattening, the neck-lengthening, the tooth-filing, the lip-stretching--all the irreversible ways of completing the human body that were called "barbaric" by restless people bent on scientific understanding, political and intellectual enlightenment, or plain old empire, holy and profane.
To profane something, in other words, one must believe in it.
Edokko quarrel in a language all their own, an earthy local dialect as profane and expressive as Brooklynese.