ideas outside of the mainstream

They've done up the house so that they can sell it more easily.

On one hand, nonreligious people worship nongods such as work, possessions, spouses...

He pointed to the macadamized streets about that great hospital, and said, “The managers applied to the Emperor to macadamize the streets, to prevent the noise, and he did it. He does all that is asked of him.” Some say, however, that the Emperor is so ready to macadamize, because paving stones are so convenient in revolutionary barricades.