sanctity
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The race to gamify and financialize everything—death and destruction included—proliferates a nihilistic culture, one that rejects the sanctity of human life.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
This study of extravagance and sanctity made Handel seem utterly relevant in his attempt to thwart early 18th century censorship and say something important.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Purity is usually associated with ideas about cleanliness, sanctity or avoiding contamination – so finding that it is associated with negative views about wealth gives new meaning to the phrase “filthy rich.”
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2025
Addressing parliament, Mitsotakis emphasised the need to "preserve the sanctity" of a place "of memory for the dead... who allowed us to be free and to offer this freedom to our children".
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
It reminded me that even the dead possessed HaShem’s sanctity and divine beauty and that no manner of defilement could take that away.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Vocabulary lists containing sanctity
"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This Week in Pop Culture: April 6–12, 2019
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The Handmaid's Tale
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