Sentence examples for ancient hymns from inspiring English sources
It subversively mixes up drama, comedy, poetry, popular song and ancient hymns, anecdote and aphorism, WH Auden and Gracie Fields in an eclectically English way.
The away end was the only one still singing at the close, to such an extent the normal repertoire was exhausted and ancient hymns to Eric Cantona, Cristiano Ronaldo and even Paul Scholes were reprised.
Choirs chant ancient hymns that mix lamentations with glimmers of hope, anticipating the celebrations of the Resurrection that will begin late tomorrow night.For Russians, the word Golgotha or "place of the skull", identified in the New Testament as the site of the Crucifixion, acquired new meanings in the 20th century.
The first is traditional, filled with ancient hymns and familiar readings.
Chants of "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" and "Black Lives Matter" have begun to ring as seasonal carols, giving flesh to ancient hymns like "O Come O Come Emmanuel".
Whoever captains the USA and European teams will mouth the ancient hymn to moral rectitude again because that is what is demanded.
Their collective sound was impressively supple as they moved from the wide-eyed asceticism of the ancient hymn "The Good Old Way", through the sashaying, updated shanty "Some Old Salty" to Mike's own anthemic "Rubber Band".
Paul quotes an ancient hymn in his letter to the Philippians that says Christ "emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
The god was invoked in the ancient hymn of the Arval Brothers, whose religious duties had as their object to keep off enemies of all kinds from crops and herds.
In the final movement, he is in hell at a witches' sabbath over which his beloved herself presides, surrounded by echoes of the ancient hymn Dies irae ("Day of Wrath"), from the Catholic requiem mass.
Unless it is included in the penitential rite, the Kyrie is then spoken ("Lord, have mercy…") followed (except during Christmas and Lent) by the Gloria, an ancient hymn of praise ("Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth…").
