desecration

Even at the time, many considered this a kind of desecration.

Would no one stand up against this act of desecration?

News of the desecrations was beginning to show up in the local press.

To relatives of the dead, the plan means nothing less than desecration.

Not just an assault but a desecration, and of a special kind.

How could any man hope to resist the Desecration of a world?

What the police saw more frequently were cases of sexual desecration.

The next day, news of the desecration spread through the village.

What she had done to herself amounted to a desecration.

In recent years, it has been a site of frequent desecration.

It was desecration to think of him and Sylvia together.

"But I think the plan to put a huge parking lot there is a desecration."

She, in turn, described her own nightmare of death and desecration.

The Church has emerged from this desecration even more powerful.

"I do not have to emphasize for you what a desecration this is," he said.

Flag desecration is an important and emotional issue for many Americans.

This moves me to my second point, the desecration of creation.

It felt like an act of desecration, too monstrous to talk about.

The desecration was complete in the 20 seconds it took her to get to the scene.

He began to picture, very vaguely perhaps, what its desecration meant to her.

The harm to Earth will thus become a desecration of his memory.

If it did, any Jew who saw such a desecration would have to fast for 40 days.

It would be a desecration to blow such an engine.

Desecration had no power to rid the world of De- spite.

She started into the lead, desperate to escape the growing evidence of desecration.