Sentence examples for benediction from inspiring English sources

He gazes softly, wisely, from falling curly locks – another Leonardo trait is a love of ringlets and spirals – and raises his right hand in benediction.

But on February 17th, David Sampson, America's Deputy Secretary of Commerce, was delighted to announce in Kiev that in his government's eyes Ukraine was now a "market-based economy".Vietnam may have to wait until 2019 for a similar benediction.

Politicians seek his benediction on issues as diverse as pensions reform and China's currency policy.

For example, last night Mr Gingrich railed against Texas district judge Frank Biery (not by name), who recently ruled that a public high school in San Antonio must not include opening or closing prayers, or even the words "invocation" and "benediction" in its graduation ceremony.

According to Justice Stephen Breyer, Greece failed to reach out to non-Christian clergy to give a benediction and did "too little to reflect the religious diversity of its citizens".

A radio ad features Joseph Lowery, a civil-rights veteran who gave the benediction at Mr Obama's inauguration, telling voters: "In 2008, we changed the guard.

She's the one, for example, who's getting told by a plastic surgeon that her eyes are "crashing down into your nose"; she's the one who has to endure the piercing stares of snooty saleswomen; and she's the one who's saying: "By Jove, I don't care: I want it".Her celebratory consumption acts as a kind of benediction on the reader's own guilty acquisitive urges.

Eighty-seven-year-old Joseph Lowery, who worked arm-in-arm with King while he was still on earth, gave a folksier benediction.