Sentence examples for dark sermon from inspiring English sources

Their music stands had little crosses on them, conveying the sense of being in a graveyard, but the music could not have been more alive: the brass was ominously vivid and, together, the players preached a dark sermon.

Sorry for the sermon".

Coach Tom Coughlin entered wearing a dark suit and gave a sermon-like send-off, listing accomplishments and extolling the virtues of Strahan as a player and as a locker-room leader.

True crime has a dark history: early American execution sermons and gallows confessions (which I talk about in an essay on murder in this week's magazine) were followed by the Gothic, blood-soaked sensationalism of nineteenth-century tabloids like The National Police Gazette.

In his memoir, he recalls a pious phase during which he assembled a crowd of dark-skinned domestics and preached them a sermon on the Biblical reasons for their subordinate status.

The book that brought me together with her was a dull sermon on an approaching "dark age"; her conversational aphorisms were infinitely better than the text.

There is no vestige of the melodramatic devices of Sardou and Pinero that inform the other comedies, and none of the dark moral retribution that ultimately makes sermons of even "Salome" and "Dorian Gray".

Trump eschewed Jesus message in "The sermon on the mount" for the dark imagery of the book of Revelation.

Preachers stood atop boxes and gave impromptu sermons, reassuring their listeners in the dark: "It seems like the Good Lord is hiding, but he's here.

My 10-year-old self spent more time sniggering at The Song of Songs, whispering in sermons and scoffing – in almost third-world desperation – dark chocolate digestive biscuits before Matins than should ever be considered healthy.

While Obama's inaugural invoked the Sermon on the Mount, this speech draws to a darker and more foreboding biblical image.