Sentence examples for constant invocations from inspiring English sources

To many ears, her accent, her colloquialisms and her constant invocations of the accoutrements of everyday life will seem cloying.

So the constant invocations of mass death and devastation were proffered to the conventioneers and their television audience not only as a bad thing but also, perversely, as something to cherish, even to celebrate, as a source of unity and purpose.

When, in Poulton's version, Wallenstein cries, "Alone I do it" in describing how he holds a ragtag army together, we hear the sound of Coriolanus; the hero's constant invocations of fate and the stars plunge us into the world of Julius Caesar.

That, at least, is the picture evoked by the constant invocation of a "slippery slope".

This is a world of freezing dirt-floored cabins, where the inhabitants subsist on a diet of potatoes, tobacco and poitín, and gird themselves against the misery of their existence by the constant invocation of time-worn homilies.

One of the major characteristics of the Hesychast tradition is the practice of the Jesus prayer, or constant invocation of the name of Jesus, sometimes in connection with breathing.

My traveling companions only chuckle at my bafflement -- as if constant invocation of the suborder Diplasiocoela in common speech were some elaborate joke, the humor of which only I seem unaware!

An adviser to the mayor, speaking on the condition of anonymity, gave the following as the reasoning behind the constant invocation of the Sharpton name: "Al Sharpton has made anti-Semitic remarks and race-baited, bigoted comments.

Our president's constant invocation of the notion that "the war is not yet over" must not become the occasion for the destruction of democracy, and his anti-Russian rhetoric must not be allowed to obscure the fact that he has done more than anyone else to restore the Russian presence in Georgia.

But constant invocation of the same abstract word leaves the reader with nothing but reiteration.

"How else to explain our constant invocation of the old/new slang 'hipster'?