Person who remains doubtful

Usage examples of agnostic.

She would probably have been surprised if Father Damon had told her that she was in this following a great example, and there might have been a tang of agnostic bitterness in her reply.

So therefore, when we are newly passed on, you may find an agnostic or an atheist who passes over expecting nothing but utter finality, and will find themselves surrounded by a wall of darkness built up by their own thoughts.

It is interesting to note that this man was an agnostic, and his wife dared not tell him about the seriousness of his illness or the means by which he was assisted to recover.

But soon or late--and probably disconcertingly soon--the great mass of sensible and agnostic women will turn upon them and depose them, and thereafter the woman vote will be no longer at the disposal of bogus Great Thinkers and messiahs.

Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard.

In that hour I learned many things, including the fact that there is something purely acoustic in much of that agnostic sort of reverence.

It looks at the world through a hundred windows where the ancient stoic or the modern agnostic only looks through one.

Thomas Aquinas closely resembles the great Professor Huxley, the Agnostic who invented the word Agnosticism.

I was a confirmed agnostic and avowed disbeliever in all things spiritual and occult.

Barry and I occasionally joked about the faith thing, about his being a True Believer and me the quintessential agnostic, a secular humanist.

It is the Protestant or agnostic American who too often uses one of the preventives of conception.

Darwin, Huxley, Maudsley, and similar agnostic and materialistic leaders of modern thought.

Why was it, he said, that all the humanitarians, the reformers, the guilds, the ethical groups, the agnostics, the male and female knights, sustained him, and only a few of the poor and friendless knocked, by his solicitation, at the supernatural door of life?

And you wonder that the little nihilist groups and labor organizations and associations of agnostics, as you call them, meeting to study political economy and philosophy, say that the existing state of things has got to be overturned violently, if those who have the power and the money continue indifferent.

Another was his interest in the philanthropic work of agnostics like herself.