Sentence examples for desperate invocation from inspiring English sources
The 19th-century Russian literary trope of longing to escape the provinces (best known from Chekhov's three sisters' desperate invocation of "Moscow") feels like the launch pad for this intriguing story about a 19th-century Russian who looked not just to a westerly metropolis, but vertically upwards, into the stars.
His runs and strums framed and answered her singing, while her voice rose to furious, desperate, timeless invocations of lost love.
Is it not imperiously condescending to those Haitian Christians gathered to worship in the rubble to say that "no invocation of God beyond a desperate appeal for help makes much theological sense"?
We who are, at present, unfairly luckier, whether believers or not, might reflect on the almost invariably uncharitable history of theodicy, and on the reality that in this context no invocation of God beyond a desperate appeal for help makes much theological sense.
Rick Warren gave his invocation.
A supremely unsettling invocation.
RICK WARREN Delivering invocation.
Desperate times, desperate measures.
The invocation ended with a brilliant gag.
The Rev. Billy Graham gave the invocation.
