auto-da-fe

• He survives the Inquisition's auto-da-fe as well as just plain, low-down deception, the turmoil of love and complexities of friendship, while moving across Europe, the high seas, to the New World and back again-and finally, down on the farm, quietly insists, "We must cultivate our garden." —  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
• Besides, there's an auto-da-fe scheduled for tomorrow morning! —  Corrente
• The fact that this female Torquemada has, as she puts it, distanced herself from God and man in order to accomplish this auto-da-fe causes us to doubt both her and the priest. —  =ÇÖ££êÈ~HÖÚ§ê~§†ÚÐÌÖ=
• The auto-da-fe was both an expedient way to avoid appeals and a pretty unmistakable way to send a message.
• Also disgraceful was the way in which Ha'aretz implied that ultra-nationalist rabbis were somehow instrumental in causing the IDF to behave in an unethical way - a suggestion which is wholly unfounded but which is now being taken up not just by enemies of Israel but by secularised Jews with obsessive scores to settle against religious Zionism, and who are now themselves thus contributing to the global auto-da-fe. —  Spectator Live

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