(n.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.
(n.) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government thinks that this will be a hub of disease, there’s nothing like that,” Baale Emma told me in 2014 at the height of the Ebola scare.
(2) He went straight into another movie, Becket (directed by Peter Glenville , 1964), with Burton, and he elected to do Brecht's Baal on the London stage as it was the kind of rogue play no one else would touch.
(3) An acquaintance of mine, meanwhile, tried – briefly and without success – to resurrect an interest in the unfashionable Phoenician deity Baal.
(4) She and Gaskill took their style to Stratford for Richard III (with Christopher Plummer, 1961), set on a wooden floor and backed by a sinister metal grille, and staged the British premiere of Brecht’s Baal (1963), framing Peter O’Toole in a cyclorama enclosing beautifully stylised bare trees and gappy buildings.
(5) You become aware of a colossal idea,” he wrote after visiting the International Exhibition, showcase of an all-conquering material culture: “You sense that it would require great and everlasting spiritual denial and fortitude in order not to submit, not to capitulate before the impression, not to bow to what is, and not to deify Baal, that is, not to accept the material world as your ideal.” However, as Dostoevsky saw it, the cost of such splendour and magnificence was a society dominated by the war of all against all, in which most people were condemned to be losers.
(6) He appeared in the German movie Christiane F (1981) and wrote music for the soundtrack, and his lead role in the BBC’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Baal (1982) was accompanied by his five-track EP of songs from the play.
(7) At this moment he appeared to me the way every celebrity I have met in the flesh does, like a living pagan idol awaiting sacrifice, a puff-faced Baal.
(8) Last week, the group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple , an act that the UN cultural agency, Unesco, called a war crime aimed at wiping out a symbol of Syria’s diverse cultural heritage.
(9) The strong language comes a day after Isis was said to have destroyed the temple of Baal Shamin in Palmyra, which was begun in 17AD and was expanded under the reign of the emperor Hadrian in 130AD.
(10) One of them is Emmanuel Shemede, crowned in 2005 as the Baale of Adogbo Village.
(11) The temple of Baal Shamin was built in the first century AD, a house of worship dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and the sky, who evolved into a major deity worshipped during the time of Queen Zenobia and her husband Septimius Odaenathus, the King of Kings of Palmyra.
(12) We have voted against this deal because we think there is a much better way to spend billions: in renewable energy,” said Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, a group of Shell investors supporting green energy .
(13) Simon Maghakyan Denver, Colorado Armenia is wiping out Azerbaijani cultural heritage | Letters Read more • Gertrude Bell, that great traveller, archaeologist and poet, on first seeing Palmyra in 1900, wrote: “The towers, the avenues of columns and the immense Temple of Baal are the loveliest things I have seen since Petra.” Let us pray that most of this beautiful oasis city can yet be saved, so that future generations can still have the chance to wonder at its architecture and ponder on its symbolism; for example, its tolerance of diversity 2,000 years ago.
(14) It then destroyed the Temple of Baal Shamin , a first-century structure expanded under the Emperor Hadrian’s reign.
(15) The destruction of the temple of Baal Shamin, which was confirmed by activists, is the first major incident of destruction in the city since it was seized by Isis after a week-long siege in May.
(16) Baale Shemede’s house is built from wooden planks, and rises, like every other structure here, on stilts out of the brackish water.
(17) The Baale thinks politicians’ first terms are periods of respite: no one wants to needlessly alienate critical voting blocs when there’s a second term to be won.
(18) Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities Read more Isis proceeded to do just that, destroying the ancient Temple of Bel and the smaller Temple of Baal Shamin last year, as well as beheading Palmyra’s former antiquities director, Khaled al-Asaad .
(19) Then it blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin, built in AD17.
(20) Baal, an early play by Bertolt Brecht, which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in February 1963, had never been performed during his life.
Deity
Definition:
(n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
(n.) A god or goddess; a heathen god.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roots Manuva, an artist we admire and whose opinion we trust, has declared that "her works are truly of upliftment and betterment", as though she were a religious deity sent here to heal the sick and solve society's ills.
(2) An intriguing merging between Olympian and local deities had occurred (the Romans being relaxed and pragmatic about that kind of thing, unless the Christians were involved).
(3) They were the virtuous rebels who rose in the name of all kinds of folk gurus and deities, including Mao Zedong, to fight corrupt officials and evil rulers, and restore morality.
(4) It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent."
(5) Men dressed as Hindu deities, with tinsel crowns and tridents, wait for their turn on the stage.
(6) In Stratford there has long been only one resident deity , and experts calculate this to be both the date he arrived on this earth and, 52 years later, departed it.
(7) In this myth Chubb is the prophet of a deity who looks like a young boy and loving boys has spiritual significance.
(8) His Asylum debut, Warren Zevon (1976), bristled with west coast rock deities - including Glenn Frey and Don Henley, of the Eagles, and Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, from Fleetwood Mac - though he seemed hell-bent on sabotaging the hedonistic myth of the golden state.
(9) This possibility has now been eliminated.” Updated at 1.57pm GMT 1.38pm GMT The god of zero Jenny Rohn, a cell biologist at University College London and Guardian science blogger , recalls a childhood encounter with a terrifying Mayan deity.
(10) "They would be a deity if they managed to get things right the whole time.
(11) Gallup found that 42% of Americans believe a deity created humans in their current form.
(12) Chapters in the classical texts of Ayurveda describe varieties of severe mental disorder (unmada) arising from a particular humoral imbalance (dosa) or arising in association with specific demons and deities (bhuta) that produce distinct character changes and symptom patterns.
(13) Realising that he had momentarily departed from the new road less travelled, Gove recovered his serenity by giving thanks both to the Great Deity of Parliamentary Escapes and the sublime wisdom of Jon Anderson.
(14) While that remains possibly the most momentous stunt ever pulled by a studio and elevated Hiddleston to the status of semi-deity, Marvel maintained the highest standards with Saturday’s show.
(15) Their show features the vivid stag and buffalo dances, by which the monks invoke the guardian deities of the Tashi Lhunpo monastery; also the dance of the lord of death which evokes Buddhist philosophy.
(16) The omnipresence of the minarets and the muezzin's call – particularly around 5am – are a vivid reminder for the non-devout of the dominant deity's importance.
(17) An acquaintance of mine, meanwhile, tried – briefly and without success – to resurrect an interest in the unfashionable Phoenician deity Baal.
(18) He features in many of Perry’s works, from his first tapestry Vote Alan Measles for God (2008), in which the red, roaring teddy brandishes a suicide-belt atop the Twin Towers, to an intricate other-worldly shrine in which Alan Measles sits likes a Hindu deity.
(19) Debt, the deity of the nineties and much of the noughties, is now anathema to the man in the street.
(20) More than a means of transport, Air Force One is a propaganda tool, and its effectiveness depends on the implied presence of a deity.