Sentence examples for litany that from inspiring English sources

It is not a litany that would inspire confidence in a skeptical reader.

Many in the crowd began to call out names, a litany that grew into a kind of reverent chant.

As archbishop, he put the English Bible in parish churches, drew up the Book of Common Prayer, and composed a litany that remains in use today.

"Open" devotes a lot of space to thumbnail descriptions of matches and opponents, a litany that would drone on without dynamic, writerly flourishes.

White rebuts this with a litany that seems as relevant today as it was eighty years ago: Without a certain amount of human vanity, the Exchange would be a bust; without selfishness, there would be no short selling.

We can take it from the top — "In my father's house are many mansions" — and head straight through a litany that includes houses as metaphors for bodies, for souls, for illness or health, for love or loss, for renewal or collapse.

So playful, odd and long are these litanies that in his essays and fiction Gass rivals the great inventory-mongers – Rabelais, Joyce, Perec – for sheer pleasure taken in setting one damn thing down after another.

The television ratings of the program peak, he said, during the ten minutes that he delivers the eaters' introductions elaborate, allusion-filled litanies that he works on for months.

What's confusing about this litany is that Iran has blown by each red line in turn, yet the supposed disaster has yet to materialize.

This litany means that statutory regulation of auditors is now essential if investors are to regain their shattered confidence in the financial markets.It is, in any event, pointless for politicians to crow about the merits of their respective systems.

Mr. Romney unleashed against Mr. Santorum a litany of criticisms that were clearly planned.