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Adjective
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Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
25 Aug. 2024 -
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.—
Elliott Abrams,
Foreign Affairs,
1 July 2011
Adjective
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
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The rock opera is a secular take on the final days of Jesus, and is written as a somewhat provocative, subversive story, but does not outright mock the teachings of Christianity.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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In the film, Seeger is portrayed as a secular saint — serene and good humored, the troubadour as social justice warrior.—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
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Once lost, now found, Ms. Brady offered the closing prayer as the smell of meatloaf promised lunch for the faithful and faithless alike.—
Moriah Ratner,
New York Times,
24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Jones is 6'4, right handed, physical, and does all that on the worst team in the league, but Leafs fans act like paying him 9.5M is blasphemous.—
Kevin Papetti,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.—
Lola Fadulu,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This unholy morass of statutes, regulations, and court rulings creates confusion and uncertainty for tens of millions of student borrowers.—
Preston Cooper,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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For a while, the march of communism and the rise of the movies proceeded independently, but the paths later converged -- an unholy alliance.—
Peter Tonguette,
National Review,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This new special is packed with the kind of wild, irreverent fun that only Robot Chicken can deliver.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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For the bast few years the humor with the Sandler and Farley cast was juvenile and irreverent, with lots of funny voices and funny songs.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Antireligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antireligious. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.
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