priest-ridden

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010 2010

I believe it to be true, as some say, that we are now as much law-ridden as we were priest-ridden some ages ago.

Letter 413 2009

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Think Progress » Focus on the Family to air a second ad during Super Bowl pre-game. 2010

Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality.

An Atheist Walks Into a Bar … 2008

Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality.

An Atheist Walks Into a Bar … 2008

They were as puritanical, censorious, and hypocritical as any priest-ridden Third Worlders could be, and in private -- because Buddy said he knew their most intimate thoughts -- every last one of them was racist.

Beard 2010

Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality.

An Atheist Walks Into a Bar … 2008

Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality.

An Atheist Walks Into a Bar … 2008

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.”

Romney's Mormon Speech: The Highlights 2009

This latter may be because the books are first-person narrated by Uhtred, who as a brash young warrior despises Alfred as a priest-ridden wimp, and I always want to see more than one point of view.

Bernard Cornwell, "Bookclub", Radio 4 on Sunday 1 February Carla 2009