Then she drew that invitation from that particular spot where women put what they
sacredly hide, and showed it to him.
This was his principle, and indeed, he went so far as to maintain that "our 'doubts' in fact appear to me as sacred," deserving "to be cherished as
sacredly as our beliefs" (121).
posits, "though there was a whirr and roar in the high air, / there was a Voice louder, // though its speech was lower than a whisper," and Ali answers, "You are never going to know which night's mouth is
sacredly reciting / and which night's recitation is secretly mere wind" (from The Walls Do Not Fall and "Ramadan," respectively).
It comes from the Ayahuasca tradition whose historical roots date back at least to the Inca Indians, who used a
sacredly prepared tea, ayahuasca to aid them in their spiritual life.
The price is far too high once you have committed your life publicly and
sacredly. I know how hard it continues to be for me, my closest priest friends, and many that I have counseled and confessed.
The resulting edginess of the scene is vintage black humor, the clash of divergent emotions to create a wave of comic irreverence towards what is normally society's most
sacredly serious subject--the threat of death.
There are charlatans among us--as among you; but there are scholarly, brave, reliable, and splendidly successful women,--not a few--doing your sacred work most
sacredly.
I believe that they will be satisfied with our work, for in every single particular, from the Preamble to the closing sections of the Schedule, the rights and interests of the people have been
sacredly guarded.
sched., [section] 43 ("When this Constitution shall have been ratified by the people of the State of Oklahoma and the State admitted into the Federal Union, under the same, as engrossed on parchment and signed by the officers and members of this Constitutional Convention, it shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State and
sacredly preserved by him, as the fundamental law of the State of Oklahoma.").
At its most basic, dark humor skewers society's most
sacredly serious subjects--especially death.
The resulting position often was relatively unqualified in its assertions and usually appealed to some single,
sacredly held postulate.
"While the rights of private property are
sacredly guarded," he wrote, "we must not forget, that the community also have rights," and government officials must never be "presumed to have taken upon themselves an implied obligation" not to repudiate their agreements--because that would hinder the state's "sovereign rights." (71)