Sentence examples for litany in the from inspiring English sources
The author of a poetry collection entitled Litany in the City as well as a new novel, The Blocks, on growing up in the heroin-ravaged north inner city, Parkinson said such youthful tolerance extends far beyond Dublin: "I perform and recite in schools down in Co Offaly and the kids there have exactly the same attitude.
As this is written, there are an estimated 35 million users, and the litany in the industry is that 1 million new users per day are visiting the Napster sites.
He is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript; he also occurs in a litany in the Tanner of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
One perfect gift was more meaningful than a litany of flash-in-the-pan plastic toys.
And, yes, envy is purged by having the eyes sewn shut, but this heightens the sense of hearing, allowing the envious souls to appreciate voices in the air singing a litany in praise of the mercy of the saints.
His counterblast was Apologeticus ad Praesules Anglicanos and another book, in English, The Litany, in which he charged the bishops with being the enemies of God and "the tail of the beast".
Zinner's solution was to run the litany in its entirety on the soundtrack along with escalating organ music, allowing different angles of the service to dominate the first minutes, and then to build to an audiovisual crescendo with the wave of killings, the blaring organ, the priest asking Michael if he renounces Satan and all his works—and Michael's response that he does renounce them.
In this context, they can seem like prayers, a litany, especially in the dark if you're half-asleep.
There is a better litany waiting in the wings.
The litany in your head goes: "Yes, I could live there, and there too, oh, and there definitely, and... .. And that is the key, I think.
You've heard the litany: in 1950 there were 15 people at work for each beneficiary; that has become 3.1 workers for each person drawing benefits; that becomes 2 to 1 in the 2020s.
