Sentence examples for flagellant from inspiring English sources

As an organist in Kensington for 14 years, the passion of God in him often induced him to play with all the stops out; at the piano, like some flagellant, he might improvise until the hammers broke and his fingers bled on the keys.Death as MuseHe was no saint, though.

Adopted first in central and northern Italy, the movement developed into flagellant brotherhoods comprising laypersons as well as clergy and spread from Italy into Germany and the Low Countries in the mid-13th century.

Among these were the Crusades and the Franciscan and flagellant movements.

Dujovne's research cannot account for the transformation of Eva Peron from a pushy, selfish starlet to a flagellant taking on the suffering of an entire nation.

Pinched and idly gestured toward a plinthTwo centuries of customers have careworn          To a shallow trough not quite my length,                    I'm forced to burrowInto a pose much more flagellant than faun.

Or is the positive control an exhausted Catholic penitent carrying a massive cross on his back along the Via Dolorosa, or a flagellant whipping himself in a Spanish rite?

There Mr. Etkind suggested that the name Severin has Russian roots and that "Sacher-Masoch may have learned the pleasures of flagellation from the Russian sect of khlysty," or flagellants.

The mood on the ground in India is more self-flagellant than the baddies were in "The Da Vinci Code .Is all this an overreaction?

Rather, Japan has taken a more self-flagellant view, eagerly pointing to its past failures as a cautionary tale of the challenges and pitfalls that could still lie ahead for Americans.

In the mid-14th century, flagellants fearful of the Black Death sought by their own efforts to mitigate the divine judgment that they felt to be at hand.

Two of these are chapels of pénitents noirs, lay groups of 14th-century flagellants who marched hooded and barefoot through the streets and whose membership included kings of France.