Miss Breezy, who clung to certain old shibboleths with the pathetic persistence of a limpet, regarded a pack of cards as the instrument of the devil.
Their motions seemed a little meaningless to one so far removed from all the fetishes and shibboleths of Westminster.
The shibbolethsof the past are ever more real than the actualities of the present.
But we go calmly and stupidly onward, hugging our foolish shibboleths to our hearts, hiding behind them, refusing to do to-day that which we can put off until to-morrow.
We have promulgated other fool shibboleths which we are too proud or too stupid to repudiate.
He behaved as any general solicitous for the strength of his positions on foreign soil would have done, his ruses taking the form of constantly repeating the political shibboleths then used in France.
The Hebrew mind was isolated as their land, and all who could not frame their shibboleths were barbarians, Gentiles, whom they were at perfect liberty to spoil, as with anathemas and swords they chased them over their Jordans.
From Shakespeare down they have one and all run afoul of the critics whose special province seems to be to set up literary shibboleths which every genius is bent upon disregarding.
Though so satisfactory a representative of his times, he did outrage one of the shibboleths of the critics in his efforts to find a new and richer music than poets had before used by bringing scientific imagery into his verse.
Through all the tangled creeds and dreams and shifting shibboleths men hold The false-and-true, inwoven, gleams: a matted mass of dross and gold.
In the disparate universe of discourse in its complete form common shibbolethsproduce entirely different mental reactions--usually antagonistic ones.
Being under the psychological necessity of expressing itself, this mob feeling happened to take as shibboleths some current theological catchwords.
By carefully preserving the ancientshibboleths he was easily able to empty them of their former content.
Other shibbolethssuch as 'The Church' and 'Catholicism' were more effective in this contest.
It is only the demand for advertising space on the part of various crowds for the publication of their shibboleths and propaganda.
People will wherever possible change the discussion of a mooted question into an antiphonal chorus of howling mobs, each chanting its ritual as ultimate truth, and hurling its shibboleths in the faces of the others.
That notion about the Church being unprogressive is one of those shibboleths that our party must drop.
Then there was ignorance of some one or another of the million shibboleths which divide men from each other in India; shibboleths too numerous for one lifetime's learning, which require to be born in the blood, bred in the bone.
They have read the rhetorical "decrees" and "proclamations" in which the shibboleths of freedom and democracy abound, and are satisfied.
What the shibboleths of Karl Marx are to the Bolsheviki the shibboleths of Rousseau were to many of the leaders of the French Revolution.
These concluding phrases of the Manifesto have become the shibboleths of millions.
Nevertheless, there is a perceptible growth of uneasiness and unrest; a widening and deepening conviction that while we may retain the outward forms of democracy, and shout its shibboleths with patriotic fervor, its essentials are lacking.
VII Socialists are too often judged by their shibboleths, rather than by the principles which those shibboleths imperfectly express, or seek to express.
The pet shibbolethsof the opponents of the reform were that the system we proposed to introduce would give rise to mere red-tape bureaucracy, and that the reformers were pharisees.
One of their shibboleths was that the office should seek the man and not the man the office.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shibboleths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
