Sentence examples for colloquies from inspiring English sources

Sor Marcela de San Félix was an illegitimate daughter of Lope de Vega; born Marcela del Carpio, she entered a convent at age 16 and wrote, directed, and acted in six one-act allegorical plays, the Coloquios espirituales ("Spiritual Colloquies").

He participated in the Anabaptist (Reformers advocating adult baptism) colloquies at Zürich and supervised the recantation of the Anabaptist leader Hans Pfistermeyer at Bern (April 19 , 1531.

He perhaps succeeded best in The Country-Wife (1675), in which satiric comment on excessive jealousy and complacency was blended with a richly comic presentation, the characters unconsciously revealing themselves in laughter-provoking colloquies.

In the various colloquies between Protestants and Catholics or between German Lutheran and Swiss Reform churchmen, Bucer often advocated the use of obscure language and ambiguous formulas when explicit agreement between the opposing parties was impossible to attain.

The historian Thomas Macaulay unleashed a similarly devastating riposte to Southey's Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (1829), a major statement of 19th-century political medievalism.

At podium, Clinton notes Moynihan's brevity, quite at odds with early days, when senator's colloquies so detailed that president learned names of workmen who dynamited the old Penn Station: "The more he gets his way, the shorter the speeches".

The idea that the court ruled on it comes from a headnote by the court reporter, which reflected a colloquy between the chief justice and counsel prior to the oral argument, but which is not part of the decision.Thomas Schneider Retired administrative law judge Menlo Park, CaliforniaSIR – If companies have the same rights as people then they should also be able to go to jail.

Luther also attacked the "enthusiasts" among the would-be reformers; at the colloquy of Marburg (1529), rejecting the teachings of Huldrych Zwingli, he proclaimed the existence of the real presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper with a literal est ("This is my body").

At the end of the colloquy, Zwingli and Bucer proffered their hands in fellowship to Luther, who refused their offering.

He accordingly called for a colloquy between Catholics and Protestants at Regensburg in 1541.

There is a colloquy between the Lord of the Yellow River and the God of the Eastern Ocean, in which the complacent self-satisfaction of the lesser spirit is shaken by his unexpected meeting with inconceivable vastness.