Sentence examples for chasing heaven from inspiring English sources
"Chasing Heaven" stops short of burning insight, but it is funny, thoughtful, brightly acted and about as timely as a play can get.
She addresses related questions – when is a theatrical update appropriate, and who decides? – in her play, "Chasing Heaven," which is running at the New York International Fringe Festival through Aug. 26.
MiddleMaddle Ensemble's "Chasing Heaven," you see, is about a 1930s "Negro gospel" folk opera (like "Porgy and Bess") written by a white man (like George and Ira Gershwin), how black people are depicted in it and how a contemporary female artist is trying to reinterpret it.
The same week that Stephen Sondheim's letter to The New York Times about Diane Paulus's forthcoming revisionist production of "Porgy and Bess" became the talk of the town, Ms. Maddrie's "Chasing Heaven" began its run at the New York International Fringe Festival.
In a chase toward heaven, some of the elixir was spilled onto what are present-day Allahabad, Hardwar, Ujjian and Nashik -- marking them as special places.
Dorothy Day, who retreated from childhood piety to a bohemian, sexually active young adulthood before the Hound of Heaven chased her into an all-consuming Catholic faith and a life of service to the poor and hungry.
It was like having a map without the scale," said Andrea Wulf, author of the 2012 book Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens.
"Her biggest sin is that people occasionally see her on that road or that, heaven forbid, she goes and chases a deer," Mr. Land said of the cat, known as Florida Panther 124.
It was a call to arms that would launch a thousand ships according to Andrea Wulf, the author of Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens.
In 1980, the failure of "Heaven's Gate" was enough to chase the Transamerica Corporation, which then owned United Artists, out of the movie business.
What happens to those falcons the vets are unable to save, which have gone to chase bustards in the great hunting skies of heaven?
