Altar used in a sentence

Altar in a sentence as a noun

All bow down at the altar of GDP, everyone else can burn.

You bring your user data to the altar and sacrifice it to AdSense. If the AdSense gods are pleased, they rain earnings down upon you."

Just because we're posting in a temple of Mammon doesn't mean everybody has to bow at that altar.

Is it common for startups to sacrifice their employees' social capital at the altar of "growth hacking"?

Whoops, time for the Biological and Parental Expectations Clocks and the sudden run to the altar! In another couple years, time for a divorce!

Even when I really do know the right answer, FDA laws require me to go to the altar of the MD to get a signed prescription. I'm forced to wait two weeks to get that appointment, even though I know the right answer.

It's almost as if the culture itself is some altar you have to worship at, rather than being the consensual improv that great cultures turn out to be.

I'm not sure when we decided that we must sacrifice everything but the names, of those involved, at the altar of entertainment

Oh, so the web has given up and is now genuflecting at the altar of video DRM. Next up: picture DRM, because since we're protecting videos we should naturally protect still pictures too. You know what?

It's a strange sort of cognitive dissonance, to at once kneel at the altar of skepticism and rationality, and also to shield my most cherished beliefs from same. To be aware of that dissonance, and yet be unwilling or unable to fix it, is stranger still.

And once a modern industrial state is acquired, governing elites are curiously reluctant to sacrifice it on the altar of pure ideology. So why more money is spent on terrorists than communists is a bit of a mystery to me.

In general the Religious Right has a long history of being courted with wine and roses by the GOP and then left crying at the altar. One thing you can say about social conservatives of all stripes is that they have a boundless respect for history and tradition and zero interest in learning from either.

I'm not ready to sacrifice kickstarter on the legislation altar, especially considering how many amazing things have been launched from it and how many more are still in the works. I'd say the occasional trademark kerfluffle is well worth what KS provides.

> that is altar upon which you sacrifice the abilitity I see statements like this all the time from people that either fundamentally misunderstand Haskell, and use to have the same misunderstandings myself. You really don't sacrifice anything by using it.

Look, we've all genuflected at the altar of lean growth and advertising and all the rest, and the price for that is the complete loss of our privacy. You don't get large viral coefficients without targeted advertising and email collection and exploitation--you don't become sticky by being anti-social.

It does seem, to me, that Apple has begun to sacrifice usability at the altar of aesthetics, or worse, are unable to engineer stable and resilient applications.

Nadella begins at the altar of innovation, a word that at Microsoft has traditionally meant stealing technology. Of course he is the company cheerleader to some extent but Microsoft’s tradition of innovation is hard to even detect, much less celebrate or revive.

It's an argument against bad statistical interpretations that frequently arise in the social sciences and medicine[2] and elsewhere because p-values have become the altar at which all publishing researchers must prostrate themselves. It's not a case of a debate without substance, which would have no observable effects.

They brought these offerings to my altar so that I might perform the "glassware" wrapping and price-check rituals of consumerism. I thought I was taking a job working a register, when I was really stepping behind the altar to become the liturgist of the Enfield congregation of the Dollar Tree denomination of Consumerism.

This practice was sufficiently common in a number of societies for which we have data that between a quarter and half of all brides went to the altar pregnant. One problem with this practice is that it creates an opportunity for opportunistic breach by the man, the strategy of seduce and abandon familiar in folk songs, romantic literature, and real life.

Then there was the entrenchment of the cult of the market into every corner of human thought, the sacrifice of compassion on the altar of misread darwinism and thermonuclear psychosis which now dictates every aspect of existence as a matter of presumed necessity. The deliberate development and adoption of a pseudomathematical framework to justify and rationalise absolute contempt for one's fellow man.

Slight disagree here: it was entirely possible that many people could have sacrificed their health, happiness, and quite possibly lives to the altar of Google's code quality... and changed absolutely nothing about Google's trajectory because Google would neither have noticed their efforts nor, had it noticed them, cared.

And in fairness, these requirements exist for good reasons, because for every artsy type that runs such an event in a reasonable responsible fashion, there's a greedy promoter that will do the same sort of thing for purely mercenary purposes and who is willing to sacrifice the safety of the guests on the altar of profit.

It would be useful for someone to write a good, long piece tying together the growth of a managerial class and the decline in the power of the faculty; the cheap money that is pumping them full of ridiculous capital improvement campaigns; the reduction of the discourse around the proper way to order a University, college, or community college eduction to one that mutates the "market of ideas" to "the market" and worships at the weird altar of efficiency.