sanctified

Example Sentences

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It is a lovely, gorgeously sung performance, sanctified by the suffering it embodies, of a woman who fought tirelessly for a husband who did not know how to love her back.

From Washington Post

The result was an ethnic nationalism sanctified by religion as it established a new "holy trinity" of "freedom, order and violence," meted out variously to in-groups and out.

From Salon

“Our Father, who art in heaven! Thy name be sanctified, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,” the person wrote.

From Washington Post

A single woman and her single loss, formally re-cast and sanctified within art, is also about all of us, mourning the whole world at the same time.

From Los Angeles Times

To conflate artistic and human worth is wrong — except when art is sanctified by popular success.

From Salon