But the stage belonged to Mr. Mekurya, who held his ground against two scabrous guitars on his trademark, "Shellela," his tone a mixture of husky stoicism and earnest supplication.
Unlike their Muslim neighbors, the Bataks have embraced Christianity, but they hedge their bets with offerings to their ancient animist spirits in rocks and trees, and when the going gets really tough they turn to their fierce ancestors in earnest supplication.
(Remember the supplication for entering a car, for entering a town, the supplication of place and other supplications).
Mosque preachers across Saudi Arabia, ignoring government instructions, add to each of the five daily prayers a special supplication for God's aid to fellow Muslims in defeating the enemy.
Greenblatt begins with Simon Fish's 1529 "Supplication for the Beggars," (p. 15) an anti-purgatorial (and anti-clerical) tract addressed to Henry VIII.
Mayan shamans frequently spit Quetzalteca onto people in supplication for cures to ailments.
'Amanete - amanetet' (plural forms of the term 'amanet', literally a supplication for God's sake), have become a synonym of living wills, although they concern also property and inheritance issues, as well as advices for the future.
There are no supplications for the sick or the suffering of the world, which had only recently emerged from the Second World War.
After that, God heeded supplications for the land.
I send up supplications for Sadie's special ed teachers as I walk back inside.
I believe that we are lambs, trying to reason with the wolves, with our supplications for gun laws.
