The sight of Hamlet wrestling with Luther's notions about purgatory casts new light on his subsequent reluctance to kill Claudius mid-prayer, while Faustus's rather disingenuous protests of humility serve as a welcome counterweight to Polonius's palaver.
Lesley Sachs, the director of the group and one of the five women detained on Thursday, said, "We hope that the police will think twice before arresting women mid-prayer at the Western Wall again".
Chilling security recordings that had surfaced on social media showed the white-robed assailant taking a moment to gaze out at a crowd of up to 2,000 men, nearly all of them prostrated in mid-prayer, before blowing himself up.
As Farouk Sultan, the head of the Presidential election committee, began a long and flourishing preamble speech, ranks of Muslims continued their mid-afternoon prayer.
We stop for prayers four times a day, Morning Praise, Mid-day Prayer, Evening Praise and Compline at the end of the day around 7 15 p.m.
The main prayer time was after the mid-day dinner, when the particular concerns of the family were expressed.
Maybe, but it is the non-serious stuff he's loved for – more recently, the feckless overgrown kid of a cop in 21 Jump Street and the burlesque version of himself in This is the End, where, mid-apocalypse, he begins a prayer with this line: "Dear God, it's me, Jonah Hill… from Moneyball".
Normally, Muslims pray five times a day: Fajr, the pre-dawn prayer, Dhuhr, the mid-day prayer, Asr, the afternoon prayer, Magrib, the post-sunset prayer, and Isha, the nighttime prayer.It is recommended to increase ones prayers during such a holy month, so many Muslims will convene in their mosques and in their homes to pray additional optional prayers late into the night and early in the morning.
In one inspired installation, six prayer rugs seem suspended in mid-air: they represent the distinctive and almost unvarying rug style perpetuated by a single village group.
As the D.N.C. got started, in the mid-afternoon, the pastor who read the opening prayer, the Reverend Dr. Hale, was also interrupted with boos, as well as some cheers, when she mentioned Clinton's name.
If only he had been born middle-class in mid-20th-century Middle America, he might have had a prayer of becoming a trivial writer.
