mammon
Example Sentences
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A: Some of the most prominent modernist structures are churches and banks, which, in regard to what you are designing for, are almost opposites: God and mammon.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2017
As ever, faith follows mammon, and mammon, faith.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2016
But for Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University, the conference's obsession with the present, and with mammon, is short-sighted.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2016
Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.
From Time ● Mar. 27, 2014
Of old it was said, 'Thou canst not serve God and mammon.'
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker
