Sentence examples for an acclamation from inspiring English sources

This season they have started well and should have beaten Celtic again last weekend – they were two up, but Butcher's roar was an acclamation tempered by reality.

In the middle of it all on Friday, members stopped their fighting to give an acclamation to Representative Jane Harman, Democrat of California, who is retiring.

Mr. Garner's nomination for Vice President was almost an acclamation affair from the time last night, when, as California and Texas were about to vote for Mr. Roosevelt, Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee announced that the Speaker had been offered second place on the ticket and that he would accept.

"Of course, we're recommending unanimously Hilda Solis," endorsement committee co-Chairwoman Diana Plotkin told the crowd, prompting whoops of agreement and an acclamation vote of approval.

"But obviously, he'd like to have an acclamation, with everybody behind him, because the NDP are gonna shit all over him".

Two thousand years later, we tend to lump "King of the Jews" together with messianic titles like "Emmanuel" or "Lion of the Tribe of Judah". But in the gospels' telling of the crucifixion story, King of the Jews is anything but an acclamation of praise.

and The section is structured, following tradition, in a threefold acclamation of God, a choral I, a duet Christe, and a different choral II.

Lajos Berkes and Ágnes T. Mihálykó, "A Greek Acclamation in Praise of an illustris from Seventh-Century Egypt (P.Berol.inv. 5603 Reconsidered)" The papyrus, reedited with commentary, can be shown to offer not a prayer as has been thought but a metrical acclamation, probably in honor of a pagarch of the Arsinoite nome.

Movement 5, "" (Recover now, O troubled feelings), picks up the joyful coloraturas, supported by the trumpet and fanfares in triads in the orchestra, Mincham notes that the trumpet "bursts upon us with an energy, acclamation and jubilation unheard, so far, in this work".

To raise both arms upwards towards the sky, moving them around in various ways, commonly in upwardly moving circles, with a cheerful expression on the face, is a sign of acclamation, a way of showing approval of something that one sees or that one hears about.

A responsorial psalm and a Gospel acclamation divide the three readings.