"biblical" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Alongside the biblical overtones, The Tree of Life also advances a Darwinist history of creation.
- In the "Jesus-haunted" South, as Flannery O'Connor called it, some even suggest the timing has biblical overtones.
- "I might say this passage should be slangy, or this colloquial; this passage has biblical overtones or this is a distilled quotation from some poet," she explained.
- It's nice to see Sarah, with its biblical overtones, rising to new popularity.
- But the Iraqi letter will also remind many readers that President Bush and Saddam Hussein are both drawing from the same well of outrage, with biblical - or koranic if you like - overtones.
- Sometimes their talk had biblical overtones.
- The biblical overtones are there, but the piece as a whole is not.
- His poems were gloomy, deeply personal and often contained biblical overtones centering around his internal moral conflicts.
- A plaster head on a plate has biblical overtones, but the bulging plaster eyes make Andre Iten's offering comic.
- The great pre-Johnson lexicographer Nathan Bailey nicely defined federation as "a covenanting," with its biblical overtones, agreeing to form a bond that permits each of the covenanters some freedom and individuality within the unity.
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