On Tuesday, they ranged from the polite to the profane, the humorous to the hateful.
My mind quickly wandered to the profane, and I thought to myself: the world is starving for US currency leadership.
It also deliciously mingles, like so much in the Mediterranean world, the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the domestic.
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The locations featured in these paintings are unrecognisable today but the dual meaning of the beach - a place that is both semi-sacred in its natural beauty and also verging on the profane with its good times - has only continued to grow more powerful.
Creative control on Mydamnchannel means the wackily profane 1990s rap star Coolio gets his own cooking show.
Parks, whose attorney characterizes the song as vulgar and profane, sued the duo in March, saying OutKast used her name without permission.
Since then, Matheny (along with fellow former Cardinal John Mabry) has been helping guide the growth of the elite teams that play under the sacred-and-profane banner of the TPX Warriors.
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Do the sacred and profane really go together?
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Men play the Marimba and perform profane chants while people sing, dance, eat and drink, and recount stories.
Reading through them again, I am reminded at how utterly human they make Woods seem: The texts are alternately profane, funny, frail, paranoid and boring.
The selection currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Michelangelo, Sacred and Profane: Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti, " curated by John Spike, does just that.
Frequent swearing can suggest anything from immaturity to chronic anger or a simple lack of professionalism, she says, and yet 51% of workers said they use profane language in the office.
The externality argument is in many respects just a highfalutin way of expressing revulsion that anyone should be so profane as to attempt to measure the returns on something as ineffable as education.
The number of temples is overwhelming, but so is the media's indifference to this aspect of the city, as is their consistent tendency to sell the world the most glamour-focused, profane vision of New York.
Godtube, a user-generated content site that focuses on Christian-friendly videos and filters out profane or sexual references, became the single fastest-growing site on the Web just after launching in August, according to comScore Media Metrix.
Bourdain took the stage with a beer in hand -- a rarity even for this casual event -- and the resulting conversation was freewheeling, funny and a little profane.
With "Maus, " Mr. Spiegelman found a subject, the Holocaust, which he famously described as "too profane to show directly, " hence his depiction of animals as opposed to human beings.
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We are taught that a certain collection of words is profane, but this no longer makes sense given the readiness with which even the most mild-mannered of Americans use such words.
Nocera is an engaging, persuasive and occasionally profane speaker who mercilessly dismisses every form of energy on the planet besides solar.
"There is no way of getting around its contents, which to many in the Latter-day Saints community will be horrendous, shocking, profane, blasphemous, and something that they will want nothing to do with, " Mr. Ballard said.
They also insist they have taken action against attacks by Salafists, everywhere from the American embassy to sacred Sufi shrines and art exhibitions deemed to be profane.
They are appalled, says the city's most famous chronicler, Suketu Mehta, that Mumbai stands for "lucre, profane dreams and indiscriminate openness".
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