Example sentences for: stigmata

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

  • It includes Jan Van Eyck’s St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata and works by Roger Van Der Weyden, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hans Memling, and François Clouet.

  • In Stigmata , for instance, an unquiet dead priest is desperate to notify the world of a suppressed "fifth gospel," which, when revealed, will expose the greed and false pretenses of the Roman Catholic church.

  • In Stigmata, Patricia Arquette plays a frenetic party girl, who, of all the people in the world, is judged to be the best candidate for mouthing lost Aramaic scriptures as unseen nails are hammered into her appendages.

  • First a young hairdresser in Stigmata collapses on a crowded dance floor as an invisible crown of thorns is pounded into her head.

  • Certainly since Erving Goffman's seminal work on stigma in the early 1960s, stigma (plural stigmata) has been recognized as “an attribute that is significantly discrediting,” and it is known as a potent and painful force in individual lives [15].


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