Mr Grossman's imagination is secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic.
To the chagrin of her secular parents, she embraced Orthodox Judaism.
Ironically, Taseer's secular perspective would benefit from a hard look at the real world.
Mr Erdogan's authoritarian bent and his quarrels with the secular press did not help.
Gandhi's Nonconformist ways tend to appall and alienate secular-minded observers.
Indeed, it has been striking how secular, or at least ecumenical, the uprising in Syria has so far been.
Even in such secular, permissive countries as Sweden, doctors tell surveys they oppose euthanasia by large margins.
It reviles its secular rival, Fatah, for its supposed treachery in accepting the Jewish state and the principle of Palestine's partition.
But Mr Abbas has promised that, after his UN bid, he will restart talks on forming a government with Hamas, which loathes the secular Mr Fayyad.
Drumming up new business in America is difficult because the market is saturated (although cashless transactions are showing a secular increase).
As the booming economy upset the God-given medieval hierarchy, secular sumptuary laws, which regulated consumption habits, were a brake on social mobility.
For we assure you, that you have chosen to be exactly where you are, and there is a great reason, a noble aspiration and goal in your celibate secular aspect.
What seems to have escaped the cross-party purveyors of this so-called militant secularism is that a secular state is not the enemy of religion; in many ways it is its product.
It is highly unlikely that any one electoral alliance will win a majority of least one alliance that is predicted to do well has a secular and admirably non-sectarian outlook.
Too many people in impetuous lost, lost in struggling, searching for what it means to allow itself to break free from the shackles of secular, Nirvana and was the force things.
But as diet and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height.
