Sentence examples for lawd from inspiring English sources
interjection
Alternative form of Lord
(He played the lead in "Macbeth" and the angel Gabriel in "The Green Pastures," which a school publication described as "a humorous characterization of the Negro interpretation of the Bible". Another student was "De Lawd").
Who should Suraullun - crap, no, sorry, Lawd Sugar (which, let's face it, is a great pimp name) - choose to be the Apprentice?
And every time he triumphantly sings, "Yes, lawd!" it makes me want to go to church (which is where he learned to drum).
Or somewhere nicer than you! "Here in LA, a world away from all things Leeds, this match provides a refuge from US fans suddenly thinking they can 'do' Portugal, etc. Please lawd let the US never realise that cricket exists".
But the work habits of the two men were different, their ambitions were different, and they agreed to part company — Connelly to write "The Green Pastures," a Pulitzer Prize-winning all-black fantasy featuring "De Lawd".
It ends badly, about a half an hour later, with an excursion into megalomania and a feverish trek through a swamp, during which Jones fires his gun at visions of a chain-gang boss ("I'll kill you, white devil!) and a sort of voodoo priest ("Mercy, Lawd!"), while working in a gospel number ("I done repent!).
Screaming Jay Hawkins feels that long-distance pain: Person to Person is for anyone who has found themselves mumbling to someone about how nice it would be to see them, when really you meant just bring your big fine foxy great googimoogy lawd-looka-that self on home!
Lawd-'amercy, Guvnor, the artist previously known as Surallun, meets them in a warehouse somewhere near the river.
The African American cast was highlighted by Rex Ingram, who gave impressive performances as De Lawd, Adam, and Hezdrel.
Many marchers, she writes, speak about King "half in joking and half in reverent tones (most of them referred to him conversationally as 'De Lawd')." While King marches at the front of the procession, his friend, the Reverend Morris H. Tynes, makes fun of him.
Some of the other marchers, who had tended to speak of Dr. King half in joking and half in reverent tones (most of them referred to him conversationally as "De Lawd") laughed out loud.
