(n.) An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
(n.) An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
(n.) The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
(n.) Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
(n.) Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(2) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.
(3) Apichatpong Weerasethakul: 'My country is run by superstition' Read more According to her lawyers, she was charged for writing “ja” – the Thai equivalent of “yeah” – in response to a private Facebook message critical of the royals.
(4) Whether or not his challenge can be met is irrelevant, for it pegs the legitimacy of any positive argument for religion on a zero-sum game against his construction of "pure" rationality – the singular force for Good untarnished by superstition.
(5) A letter in which Albert Einstein branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" has been sold at auction in London for £170,000 to a private collector, smashing the world record for a letter by the great scientist.
(6) They are left in the realm of faith, ignorance, superstition, taboo.
(7) At the time that printing came onto the scene in western Europe in the mid-1400s, the medical community was struggling in the depths of superstition, and little rational medicine was being practiced.
(8) Just as the Victorian science revolution played havoc with religious superstition, so the information revolution can now play havoc with political falsehood.
(9) The congregation then stands to sing Superstition by Stevie Wonder .
(10) First of all, folk cults are usually suppressed by a nominally communist government which officially, in good Marxist fashion, dismisses all religion as superstition.
(11) The influence of the Japanese superstition that females born in the year of Hinoe-Uma (Elder Fire Horse) possess undesirable characters and should not marry on the fertility of the Korean immigrant population in Japan was examined and compared with the influence of this superstition on the Japanese in Japan and the Korean population in Korea.
(12) The sale will be watched carefully because a letter in which he branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" that went on sale in May smashed the record for an Einstein letter by fetching £170,000.
(13) eneath the jokes, the headline fodder, the superstitions and devilish charm, there is another side to Cellino.
(14) Clearly, the Japanese folk superstition played an important part in discouraging Koreans in Japan from having a child in 1966.
(15) I mean, it was sort of like his superstition, because all players are always superstitious.
(16) From colourful language to bizarre superstitions and unexpected decisions, the anecdotes are myriad.
(17) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
(18) This fact is consistent with the superstition that women born in the year of Fire-horse are ill-fated.
(19) What makes this all so dangerous is that it not only corrupts policy debates, it undermines serious journalism – and science and history and all other rational disciplines – by rendering their output mere arguments, no more or less credible than someone's dogma, superstition or gut hunch.
(20) No-one thinks that the French and Hungarians, who seem to have integrated anti-GM superstition into their cultural DNA, are going to change their minds anytime soon.
Zombie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) The business described it in a since-deleted Facebook post as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport”.
(3) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(4) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
(5) Up against the continuing might of animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 , as well as fellow debutants including romantic drama The Choice and horror-comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , the 50s-set tale of a major film star gone missing scored just $11.4m (£7.9m) to open in second place.
(6) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(7) Nor are Hay Day, Plants vs. Zombies 2, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Sims FreePlay, Angry Birds Go, or anything with “Saga” on the end.
(8) • Internet fridges: the zombie idea that just won't die
(9) ), there are practical concerns about functionally turning one's phone into a zombie in the undead Zuckerberg army: Leviathan212 04 April 2013 6:48pm Sounds like an absolute horror.
(10) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(11) However, what Warner has helped create is a "zombie policy" – currently politically dormant but waiting to be given the kiss of life in the future.
(12) Also prompting hyperventilating zombie headlines was a leaked “secret” Labor options paper on climate policy – which basically said only what we already knew – that Labor would have an emissions trading scheme of some sort in combination with other policies (the same ones that could help meet the renewable energy goal) as well as things like vehicle emission standards.
(13) It’s a trope that often plays an important part in the narrative of zombie stories.
(14) Microsoft statisticians estimate that owners of the new console have already dispatched more than 60m zombies, driven 3.6m miles and earned 43m fit points as they explore some of the 22 titles available at launch.
(15) Presumably, becoming a zombie involves some sort of widespread, systematic brain damage in which baser survival instincts take over, and motor and language areas are damaged, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the zombie doesn’t remember .
(16) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
(17) But, unlike most of the bizarre things said about this place, the zombies at least make sense.
(18) Back when it suited Green, he emphasized that Assange has not been charged with any crime, that there is far from any certainty that he would be, and that extradition to Sweden is merely for him "to be questioned" on these allegations: exactly the "myths" and "zombie facts" which he now purports to bust.
(19) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(20) The TV series was part of a “zombie-like revival of the defunct empire”.