Holy Writ

Example Sentences

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His hubris is that, like Mao, he now seeks to become a man-God, whose thoughts are holy writ.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

But in the nation’s early years, when democratic norms had not yet come to be regarded as holy writ, the presidential loser could, and sometimes did, make just that claim.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2016

The businessman is Michael Stone, the author of “How May I Help You Help Them?,” which, for those in the customer-service industry, has the status of holy writ.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

Ron: The key was to get him to use the holy writ as a springboard and improvise.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2014

And he must have both sense and wit, And be possessed of strength and grit, Then strong as proof of holy writ, For to survive he is most fit.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James