(superl.) Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.
(superl.) Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(2) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(3) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.
(4) There's apparently a 30-seat cinema in Paris that's played The Holy Grail for three decades.
(5) Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, as Iran raised the prospect of direct military intervention to protect Shia holy sites.
(6) The Holy Father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today, 25 February 2013, and that he will appoint an apostolic administrator to govern the archdiocese in my place until my successor as archbishop is appointed.
(7) Speaking in 2001 at the launch of Death in Holy Orders , her 11th Dalgliesh novel, James explained that her success was founded on the belief that plot could never make up for poor writing and that authors should always focus on the reader.
(8) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
(9) And not just the Muslim holy sites, he adds; Palestinians are more visible in the west of the city than previously.
(10) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(11) O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, said: “I am confident that the decision of the Holy Father is fair, equitable and proportionate.
(12) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(13) Hitler chose to stage Nazi party rallies in the city due to its connections to the Holy Roman Empire and the Nuremberg laws, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship, were passed here.
(14) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(15) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(16) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
(17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(18) The fear that Israel was planning to alter the status of the holy place Arabs call Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the Jews the Temple Mount set off the violence.
(19) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
(20) The IAEA team is likely to visit an underground enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran, which is carved into a mountain as protection from possible airstrikes.
Santon
Definition:
(n.) A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to play Champions League football – with Newcastle if possible.” If that delighted Alan Pardew’s successor, the bad news is that Santon’s departure with a view to completing a £3m transfer in May further reduces Carver’s defensive options.
(2) Any disappointment in seeing the club trim their wage bill by returning Davide Santon to Internazionale on loan while failing to recruit the centre-half and striker he wanted was offset by the realisation that Moussa Sissoko was not going anywhere.
(3) 3.17pm GMT 88 mins: Flamini does well to intercept Santon's pass to Ben Arfa.
(4) Hopefully the fans will be a little bit patient but I have to admit myself that my patience is wearing thin – very, very thin indeed.” Allardyce, anxious to sign the West Ham United striker Diafra Sakho, is understood to be angry about the failure to solve a problem position at left-back by signing Santon and described the £3m move’s collapse as “a huge disappointment”.
(5) But in a short statement the club said the deal for Santon – who made more than 90 appearances for Newcastle – was off.
(7) The hapless Santon was on the line and in a position to deal with the downward header, yet made a hash of his attempted clearance and saw the ball bounce over the line off his standing leg.
(8) Arranged in a narrow formation lacking the width usually afforded by their indisposed full-backs Mathieu Debuchy and Davide Santon, Newcastle laboured.
(11) At Eskdale, he took a circuitous route via Irton to Santon Bridge and then doubled back through Irton to the Bower House pub.
(12) The fact that it was Davide Santon lining up a free-kick from 22 yards soon afterwards was an early reminder to Newcastle fans of Cabaye's absence, made crueller when Santon failed to get his shot over the Norwich defensive wall.
(13) After watching Santon once again pick the wrong pass as he sashayed past the technical area, Mourinho wandered over to Pardew, pointed to the Italy left-back he once dubbed "my Bambino ", smiled and seemed to say "it's me".
(14) Courtesy of a deflection, Adebayor's shot whizzed fractionally wide but within minutes the subsequently withdrawn Santon was again deceived, this time by Paulinho whose drive was very well repelled by Tim Krul.
(15) Read more A history of problems resulting in assorted operations on the 25-year-old’s right knee explain why a player mentored by José Mourinho during the first of Santon’s two spells at Inter has never fulfilled his extraordinary teenage promise.
(16) JJ Newcastle United Ins None Outs Davide Santon (Internazionale, loan), Gael Bigirimana, Kevin Mbabu, Shane Ferguson, Remi Streete, Haris Vuckic (all to Rangers, on loan) John Carver arguably needed an extra striker as well as a centre-half to replace the long-term injured Steven Taylor.
(17) Sunderland have pulled out of a deal to sign the former Newcastle defender Davide Santon from Internazionale .
(18) As a preliminary step to using human hepatocytes we have compared the toxic response to chemical toxicants of primary cultures of fresh rat hepatocytes and rat hepatocytes cryopreserved as previously described (G. Powis, K. S. Santone, D. C. Melder, L. Thomas, D. J. Moore, and T. J. Wilke, 1987.
(19) Brandon was encircled by sand; Santon Downham was engulfed, its river choked entirely.
(20) He could also have done without losing the versatile Davide Santon to Internazionale on loan but at least the manager has avoided the worst-case scenario.