ecclesiastics
Example Sentences
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“So many disloyal actions on the part of ecclesiastics are born of the lack of a sense of having been shown compassion, and by the habit of averting one’s gaze, the habit of indifference.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2019
But everybody comes across as human here: the conniving ecclesiastics who propel Henry into war, the fatuous French Dauphin, the speechifying Welsh Captain Fluellen and Henry's disreputable old chums from his wild youth.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2012
The gold canopy, the procession of ecclesiastics, the charming boys’ choir.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2010
The unruly story lines did not go unremarked upon by early ecclesiastics trying to create systems of Scripture-based faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
The richly-decorated barge, filled with venerable ecclesiastics, gliding between the osier-fringed banks of the yellow Tiber, with its distant line of churches and palaces, would make a fine subject for a picture.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
