Sentence examples for moving hymn from inspiring English sources

The very strange Sam Beam's moving hymn to the promise, "'Til death do us part".

A Hungarian Australian in the audience suddenly volunteered a spontaneous, passionate and quite moving hymn of praise to Australia.

But most do not know that Mr. Ungar's moving hymn helped save the Catskill place that inspired the song, resulting in the Ashokan Center, a $7.25 million campus here dedicated to traditional music, Catskill history, environmental education, and local arts and crafts.

And yet Yosef is among Kaniuk's greatest characters, and taken all together, his books compose one of the most moving hymns to failure I know of: failure to become the person, the country, the people we meant to be.

Her rendition of La Javanaise (a pun on a forgotten Javanese dancing craze that doesn't really translate, inspired by his mentor Boris Vian) was well received, though it is Gainsbourg's version of the moving and poetic hymn to love that has endured.

In the 9th century, Māṇikkavāḫakar, in his great, moving collection of hymns in Tiruvācakam, sees Śiva as lover, lord, master, and guru; the poet sings richly and intimately of all sensory joys merging in God.

The second series, which aired two years later with McGovern less closely involved, tipped into soap opera grand guignol with a plethora of overheated plots – although I still have a soft spot for the complex relationship between Lucy and Danny – but the first season remains as moving and mournful a hymn to the fatalism of youth as has been written.

If you're not moved by "January Hymn", on which Colin Meloy describes clearing snow "to green the ground below", consider your wintry heart frozen.

HarperCollins traces its history back almost 200 years, on one side of its lineage to Glasgow-based millworker William Collins who set up to print sermons and hymn books, later moving into dictionaries and atlases and obtaining a licence to print the Bible; on the other to New York's Harper Brothers, who brought the Brontë sisters and Thackeray to American readers.

Angélique Kidjo, who has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2002, sang a moving version of 'Afirika' – her hymn to the continent she calls home.

It has always been difficult to know what to make of this work: the slow-moving, hymn-based string writing has a seductive, melting quality, yet there seems a hint of parody in it as well.