| NOUN1 | a self-sacrifice | self-sacrifices | |
| NOUN2 | self-sacrifice | - | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- She posits core religious values of community and self-sacrifice as important to eco-pagan movements, as well as the broader environmental justice movement.
- When Patricia finally awakens, she is deeply touched by Joe's self-sacrifice.
- The scene revolves around the ritual of self-sacrifice, performed by the ruler who carries in his right hand a bag with copal from which the face of the bat god is seen and assisted by his mother, who carries the stingray spines to perform the piercing while his wife holds the basket with the strips of paper ready to receive the blood drops of the ruler, which will later be incinerated in honor of their deities.
- Constant's wider literary and cultural writings (most importantly the novella "Adolphe" and his extensive history of comparative religion) emphasised the importance of self-sacrifice and effect of human emotions as a basis for social living.
- The script occasionally sounds more like propaganda for wartime self-sacrifice over individualism than like the real story of Chopin's life.
- While "Oath of the Horatii" and "The Tennis Court Oath" stress the importance of masculine self-sacrifice for one's country and patriotism, the "Distribution of Eagles" would ask for self-sacrifice for one's Emperor (Napoleon) and the importance of battlefield glory.
- Athenaeus also mentions him, in connection with the self-sacrifice of the "erastes" and "eromenos" pair of Cratinus and Aristodemus, who were believed to have given their lives in order to purify Athens.
- The term usually implies "doing without something" or "giving something up" (see also self-sacrifice).
- While his self-sacrifice at Auschwitz was considered saintly and heroic, he was not killed out of "odium fidei" (hatred of the faith), but as the result of his act of Christian charity toward another man.
- For example Dai said: Japan continued to benefit from their spirit of self-sacrifice, selfless loyalty, and—after Confucianism was introduced—compassion.
- Other religious commentators have written that the book exemplifies important viewpoints, including the power of self-sacrifice and the ways in which people's decisions shape their personalities.
- In Norse mythology, the god Odin is especially known for his wisdom, often acquired through various hardships and ordeals involving pain and self-sacrifice.
- This self-sacrifice, Lewis says, is not something we can escape by remaining earthly or being saved.
- model of parenting and education rejects this coercion as infringing on the will of the child, and also rejects parental or educator "self-sacrifice" as infringing on the will of the adult.
- The Ebionites appear to have understood Jesus as the messianic "prophet like Moses" (foretold in Deuteronomy 18:15-19) who has come to proclaim the abolishment of animal sacrifices, [...] rather than substituting himself for them through self-sacrifice.
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