Decalogue

Example Sentences

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An artist as imaginative as Toles can certainly get plenty of creative mileage out of this repellent character trait without doing violence to the Decalogue.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2019

Basic principles of ethics remain the same, from the Decalogue to the writings of John of Patmos.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2018

Joselit, a professor of Judaic studies at the George Washington University, is strongest on the significance of the Decalogue to the American Jewish community.

From Slate • May 15, 2017

In the first week alone I dropped 15 pounds, re-watched Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue, built a sustainable small-yield garden for my daughter, and learned knife throwing.

From Time • Aug. 27, 2014

All may be summed up in these words of the Decalogue: “Thou shalt not kill.”

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul