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
At breakfast, I’d pore over every word on a cereal box as if it were holy writ.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019
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
Ron: The key was to get him to use the holy writ as a springboard and improvise.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2014
The greatest show on earth and the baby elephant in evening clothes prancing down the aisle like the behemoth of holy writ!
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
