Crucifix in a sentence as a noun

Each of them, from time to time, kissed the crucifix a confessor held out to them.

I dont try to get people fired for wearing a crucifix, nor do I burn chatting people at a stake.

Yes but I'm referring to the crucifix in the assembly.

The last one with the skull on a crucifix already had a dark flair even in the child's version.

My dad grew up in a communist country, and always pointed out the rare case on TV where a newswoman would wear a crucifix necklace.

Put another way: if Ayn Rand can hold up a rhetorical crucifix and turn me into a puddle of fuming goo, that's my weakness, and not hers.

If you focus the green axis of the scan just one click to the right from the center of your nose, your brain stem looks just like a dancer leaning against a wall.. Either that or a crucifix.

He's never been knocked out, although he was TKO'd by Hughes when held down in the crucifix position in their second fight, but I consider that different than being completely knocked out.

After a stroke she could find the number of things in a small group only by counting—when asked how many arms a crucifix had, she got Dr Cipolotti to hold out her arms so she could count them.

When idiot #3 decides that a crucifix is a perfectly good takedown response because they saw it in the UFC, idiot #4 is going to spend two weeks with a funny feeling in his neck.

[0] far more frequent than at least the prayers I was raised with in liberal[1] UK Catholicism[1] technically Catholicism, though mum had a statue of Vishnu next to the crucifix

The reason the crucifix is the symbol of Christianity is related to what you're talking about, but the idea is that the normalization is to remind us we are not to fear torture.

Giving $5 of government money to subsidize an exhibition of Andres Serrano whose art featured a crucifix submerged in his own urine or $5 to a high school or college athletic program?

But if TV weren't enough, we had a crucifix in every room and I found the normalization and ubiquity of depictions of torture depressing and confusing, leaving me convinced I was born on the wrong planet.

And if potential buyers knew that it was not even art to the artist, what might that mean to them?Of course, I can't be sure what really is in someone else's mind, but if I doubt that the artist would sincerely want this poo-covered crucifix in his own living room for his private enjoyment, nor that the rich people swooning over its deep meaning would care if they couldn't show off their depth to their friends, it means I'm doubting that this piece of junk is really art to anybody.

Crucifix definitions

noun

representation of the cross on which Jesus died

See also: rood rood-tree

noun

a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally