Sentence examples for invocation from from inspiring English sources

In one memorable photograph, Invocation from 2007, a PVC-clad groin gyrates against a provocatively angled police baton.

This bit of celestial invocation, from the 1938 musical "I Married an Angel," suggests what the Bible might sound like had it been written by Lorenz Hart.

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The Reverend Jason Pankau, a personal life coach from Stamford, offered an invocation from Proverbs 27:17: " 'As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.' We all share the common bond of having been sharpened... on Ivy League football fields".

In 1983, in Marsh v. Chambers, the Supreme Court upheld the Nebraska Legislature's practice of opening its legislative sessions with an invocation from a paid Presbyterian minister, saying that such ceremonies were "deeply embedded in the history and tradition of this country".

From Neoplatonism he learned the techniques of direct communication with the gods (theurgy) through prayer and invocation; from the church he adopted, as the church itself had adopted from the empire's civil organization, a hierarchy of powers: provincial, metropolitan, urban, with himself as supreme pontiff.

Allen and his core group lay down Afrobeat's familiar loping grooves, and Haitian musicians weigh in with call-and-response chants and invocations from the vodou tradition.

On the way he spent much time on spiritual and magical work, reciting invocations from the Goetia on a daily basis.

If this is the case, why even bother with invocations, from multiple religious voices, in an increasingly diverse American public square?

The evening got off to a rocky start, with Ortega's opening remarks—"We know these aren't the best of circumstances"—almost immediately being interrupted by an attendee shouting, "You haven't said anything about murder!" Through the two opening invocations from neighborhood ministers, and a few remarks by Girmala, the atmosphere got even more raucous.

After an opening invocation adapted from a traditional Kathak dance, the audience can trickle through the plaza and join the movement or dabble in workshops ranging from Latin and sword dancing to creative writing, knitting and mask making.