Sentence examples for occasion beginning from inspiring English sources

Genesis, the very first poem, takes the creation myth as its own creative occasion, beginning: "Against the burly air I strode, / crying the miracles of God" and ending: By blood we live, the hot, the cold, To ravage and redeem the world, There is no bloodless myth will hold.

The show: The "Glee" gang chose songs for the occasion, beginning with Darren Criss on the guitar for "Somewhere That's Green".

The occasion, beginning only a few minutes after the first pitch of the World Series up the road, was the annual awards banquet of the Baltic American Freedom League, an organization of Baltic activists who try to jostle public opinion on the subject of their homeland's subjugation.

My notes for the occasion begin: "Kitaj!

The occasion begins at 6 30 with with a half-hour interview with Mr. Rorem.

The scandal of "Heldenplatz," the verse drama that was Bernhard's contribution to the occasion, began well before opening night.

Only when they were shown how to carry the flag, which turned out to be trickier than she'd imagined, and made her thumb go numb, did the magnitude of the occasion begin to sink in.

Jukka Tiensuu's "Nous" (2010), commissioned by the society for the occasion, begins as a post-Minimalist essay in insistently repeated notes and gradually expands, ending up with a series of short but frenetic solos for each instrument (piano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello).

Here, however, I shall take the liberty to defy that convention and to tell you that the lunch on this occasion began with soles, sunk in a deep dish, over which the college cook had spread a counterpane of the whitest cream, save that it was branded here and there with brown spots like the spots on the flanks of a doe.

Lumps in throats became the order of the afternoon as the enormity of the occasion began to seep in.

I don't hate them, actually, it's more that I find them so exhausting that I can, on occasion, begin to feel physically violent.