Sentence examples for desperate prayer from inspiring English sources

Ms. LaVette made the song — which is due to appear on her coming album — a desperate prayer.

The slow movement thus became for Rodrigo a desperate prayer for her deliverance from suffering and danger.

In July, when it somehow seemed plausible that the Knicks might trade away the most popular player in franchise history, it became a desperate prayer.

This is majestic orchestral oratory, but it's something other than a scene of triumph; instead, lamentation has changed into a desperate prayer.

Making a herringbone pattern with the oversize galoshes, she ascended to the lights of the church, leaving her father in silent, desperate prayer.

But as his impoverished family knelt round his bed in their cabin in the dust of Oklahoma, praying a desperate prayer to the Lord, he saw his father's face fade into the countenance of Jesus.

The feverish figuration in the piano part depicted the nun's flight from the disappointments of earthly love into a realm of spiritual solace, and the whole song was capped with Fink's desperate, prayer-like Alleluia.

But the relief, an answer to desperate prayers, is likely to be short-lived.

Some of the condemned are bathed in sweat and murmuring desperate prayers for help.

An exodus of young people in search of urban opportunities, coupled with a historic drought, has left the the future looking grim, evidenced by the desperate prayers for precipitation and the vacant storefronts and dilapidated homes dotting Haskell, the nearby county seat.

After the fall of Tripoli, journalists were able to walk through his headquarters, including his own grand corner office, the fitness facility used by his men, the tiny cells scrawled with the desperate prayers of the inmates who had been housed there, and larger rooms used for torture and beatings.