Sentence examples for as a holiday of from inspiring English sources

By Adam Gopnik Abraham Lincoln, as every school kid used to know, back when his birthday was hived off as a holiday of its own, passed through New York seven times, but only three of those visits were truly memorable.

Abraham Lincoln, as every school kid used to know, back when his birthday was hived off as a holiday of its own, passed through New York seven times, but only three of those visits were truly memorable.

The acts that have brought him before disciplinary panels have not been routine – a punch to the face or boot to the back– but those that are not so much the result of brain fades as a holiday of the senses.

There are no public celebrations of the fifth today, but as the history of New York's long involvement in slavery becomes better known to New Yorkers through lectures, debates, exhibitions and in discussions about the proper way to memorialize the African Burial Ground, it is fitting to reclaim the powerful significance of July 4 and 5, 1827, as a holiday of freedom for all New Yorkers.

The former encourages us to view Hanukkah as a holiday of liberation, when the Maccabees overthrew their Hellenistic occupiers in pursuit of faith and freedom.

I spent many childhood summers in north Wales, so I thought I might as well make a holiday of it.

It was as much an endpoint as a beginning, a holiday of naïveté and dumb luck before the realities of capitalism resumed.

A Holiday of Hope As a rabbi, however, I am committed to a tradition and a people that never gives up hope.

Why was November 4th chosen as a holiday instead of November 7th (the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution), which Boris Yeltsin renamed and which Vladimir Putin, his successor as president, has scrapped?The favoured theory draws parallels with today's politics.

His account was horrific, and not only because of what it foreshadowed: ordinary Germans joining Nazi thugs in what he characterized as a "holiday mood" of bloody anti-Semitic violence.

Located at the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, this tropical isle marketed itself as a holiday destination of debauchery for young, single backpackers: "a great place to get wrecked", as the catchphrase went.