Sentence examples for hejira from inspiring English sources

Many Muslims resorted to migration as a form of resistance, a tactic known as the hejira, in which those perceived as infidels are avoided.

Hijrah, also spelled Hejira or Hijra ("Flight" or "Emigration"), Latin Hegira, the Prophet Muhammad's migration (622 ce) from Mecca to Medina in order to escape persecution.

With Hejira (1976) and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977), she continued to disregard commercial considerations, while Mingus (1979) was considered by many as beyond the pale.

The emotional depth of Joni Mitchell's 1971 album "Blue" established a new standard for personal songwriting, attaining an artistry that Mitchell refined in a handful of influential records, culminating with "Hejira," in 1976.

I can't even claim to be writing about that superior type of muso epiphany which would at least have the good taste to settle upon one of the "minor" albums that Joni herself seems to prefer: "Hejira" or "The Hissing of Summer Lawns".

But Mr. Hejira said Morocco was on track to meet its goal of a slum-free country by 2012 if all partners in the program continued to work together.

Over time, though, the best of these often slow and brooding songs – Hejira, Amelia, Blue Motel Room – have kept calling me back despite my slight aversion to Jaco Pastorius's relentlessly virtuoso bass playing.

Hejira could only end like this: a paean to the life of self-exile that ends with a dizzying zoom out and in again as a service station provides Mitchell with the opportunity to casually, momentarily widen her scope to the cosmic before splashing water on her face and setting off.

After the richness of Hissing, the mood poems of Hejira seemed to me for a long time to be a muted coda to Mitchell's golden period.

"Out of Sight" (1998) An uncredited appearance as Hejira Henry, the deus ex breakout artist at the end.

"It was a priority of the nation because the slums were a black stain on Morocco," said Ahmed Taoufiq Hejira, the housing minister.