5 sentences with 'sinful'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sinful and other words derived from it.
• « Biblical accounts taught that women were inherently more gullible and sinful, with Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden both the origin and the model of female wickedness. »
• « Her best-known work was the Book of the City of Ladies, in which she attacked the then-universal idea that women were naturally unintelligent, sinful and irrational; it was a key text in the women's quarrels mentioned above. »
• « Idleness' was still considered dangerous and sinful, however, so middle-class women became increasingly involved in raising their own children, maintaining the social relations that showed they belonged to the more educated classes, and becoming involved in charity. »
• « The demand for sexual liberation was part of the broader Youth Movement, and members of the counterculture struggled against the idea that sexuality was inherently sinful and 'dirty' (an attitude that, incidentally, had only come of age in the 19th century). »
• « The next day, he told them to burn their clothes as a sign to rid themselves of the sinful snares of the world. »