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Example sentences for: superstition

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We meet the young hit men who guarded the kidnap victims, and odors of fatalism, superstition, and barbarism waft upward from the page, in an unmistakable indication that we are in the presence of the grimmest poverty.
And as for sewing on Sunday, the old superstition stated that if a person sewed on Sunday, the devil would make the sinner rip every stitch with his/her nose.
It's a metaphor for our vainly putting our faith in modern technology instead of centuries-old superstition.
Village festivals and processions bear witness to the heavy rural attachment to religion and even pagan superstition harking back to ancient times.
Michael Novak, a theologian at the American Enterprise Institute, sums up the basic premise of this approach, saying that without lively attention to reason, Judaism and Christianity fall into sentimentality, superstition, and self-parody.