Sentence examples for affirmation on from inspiring English sources

A relationship had just come to an end and she had a vision of a journey into the heights, "like a cathedral", to be rewarded by some kind of hope, some affirmation "on high".

They had been given a gift, an image of affirmation on a tremendous scale.

This affirmation, on which "the church stands and falls," has received a variety of interpretations since the 16th century.

It's the caddie's constant affirmation on how to play a hole that relieves the tension of playing somewhere unfamiliar.

Prince Philip's illness drew an unlikely public affirmation on Monday evening when Prince Charles asked the audience at the concert to shout its good wishes for his father, so that he might hear them from his hospital bed.

I know that this paradise can't last forever, and that's why every day I post an affirmation on our family's Web site and I add a few bills from Daddy's wallet to my secret lingerie-drawer bank account.

No film of the 1950s, Mordden asserts, "took such a brutal, clear look at the ego-affirmation of the one-on-one contest, at the inhumanity of the winner or the castrated vulnerability of the loser".

Similarly, in Belgrade a decade later, Kennan reacted to Tito's affirmation of neutrality on the issue of the Soviet threat to Berlin as if it were a personal slight.

The group built its following one town at a time, singing enthusiastic affirmations on life, love and "Home," whistling while they worked and accumulating disciples along the way.

Described as a "21st Century Magna Carta", the charter includes affirmations on democracy, human rights, international peace and security.

He was discussing his ingenious reworkings of field recordings of African-American singers, collected by Alan Lomax in midcentury, into millennial disco affirmations on his hit album "Play" (V2).