Sentence examples for kind of consecration from inspiring English sources

Writing — at least when it is great — is a kind of consecration, placing its practitioners in the way of assaults from large truths and perils.

In the Old Testament, which has served as the basis for many kinds of consecrations in Christianity, among the persons consecrated were priests (Exodus 39), kings (1 Samuel 10), and prophets (1 Chronicles 16).

This guy is again in front of news cameras, and again we have pixilated pictures of his private parts, and so on?" "Being put on the cover of The New Yorker is kind of a consecration," she said.

The Anglicans purposely built Christ Church atop the former slave market as a statement of redemption and resurrection, as a kind of re-consecration.

A magnificent evening of consecration.

There's a kind of conviction in the ordinariness of what this photograph shows us — ordinary even though it was a day, as Lincoln said, of consecration.

Her wanton desire, suggested the 11th-century monk Peter Damian, threatened the efficacy of consecration.

Beyond its specific basis in Judaism, the ketubah represented to the Austins a broader concept of holiness, of consecration.

Eastern Orthodox and Eastern rite churches use a distinct invocation of the Holy Spirit after the words of consecration.

His election was declared invalid, his acts were quashed, and his fingers of consecration were cut off.

Dancers sang haunting hymns and carried fire, that ultimate representation of consecration and light.