Sentence examples for feast in the name of from inspiring English sources

It just doesn't seem natural or right anymore to prepare a feast in the name of something that our new friends and loved ones know nothing about, feel absolutely no connection to.

"The calçotada," he said, clearly pronouncing the name of the traditional feast, "is about a moment in season and a joy that's way beyond just the plate".

Anti-capitalists were given plenty to feast on, in the course of the film, and yet what was its lasting effect, if not to brand our brains with the name of a major corporation?

A feast in the time of plague.

Shon visits the feast in the garb of a harpist.

There were a number of different St. Valentines; even Pope Gelasius had no idea who the guy was when he established a feast in his name in the fifth century.

In 946 an outlaw named Leof killed Edmund I in a brawl at a feast in the royal palace at Pucklechurch, which lies about six miles from Bristol.

Feast of the Holy Trinity, also called Trinity Sunday, feast in honour of the Trinity.

In Christian times, the word was used for a feast in memory of the dead.

Some controversy surrounds this feast in France because of the way sheep are ritually sacrificed.

One time, when an engineer asked him to host a feast in honor of a Persian festival named Nowruz, he went out of his way to research Iranian cuisine by going out to local restaurants and asking for advice from employees of Iranian descent.