Translation for "profanamente" to english
Profanamente
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Translation examples
- Debe ser horrible para Ud... escuchar a los marineros hablar así día y noche... tan profanamente, ¿verdad?
- I understand. - Must be awful for you... listening to all this sailor talk day and night... so crass and profane, isn't it?
Descubrieron profanamente que no lo era;
Profanely they found that it was not;
Pude echar una ojeada, solo que en el campo, donde quedó mitigado por el cautivador panorama, que permaneció persistente y profanamente radiante. Pero era muy feo;
I had a glimpse of it, only in the country, where it was mitigated by the charming scenery, which remained persistently and profanely bright. But it was very ugly;
y el otro cura, mi colega de entonces, me indujo a que concurriera a una reunión que él describió —profanamente, diré— como calculada para promover el reino de Dios.
and the other curate, then my colleague, induced me to attend a meeting which he described, I must say profanely described, as calculated to promote the kingdom of God.
Y que el gran instrumento purificador, la víscera esencial de la ciudad, el incinerador, sea visto profanamente sólo como ocasión de las habituales malversaciones en suministros y adjudicaciones, sin quedar abrumados por su alcance simbólico, sin vernos a nosotros mismos juzgados por el amenazador mecanismo, sin preguntarnos cuánto de nosotros tememos o deseamos que se convierta en cenizas.
While that great purifying instrument, the essential guts of the city, the incinerator, is profanely seen as just another opportunity for the customary kickbacks taken from council contracts and suppliers, without our being awed by its symbolic importance, without seeing ourselves judged by the looming machine, without enquiring how much of ourselves we fear or hope may be reduced to ashes.
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