Sentence examples for private revelation from inspiring English sources

It was private revelation without public significance.

But he's dead wrong to suggest that Gen. Stanley McChrystal is a poor victim of a reporting ethos that thrives on private revelation.

Celebrity portraiture, after all, has to do with the collaboration of subject and artist for the purpose of public spectacle and mythical enhancement, not private revelation.

The trial of Orestes is obscured onstage by three women discussing their sex lives as if on a radio talk show, a not-so-subtle representation of how private revelation has supplanted public inquiry.

Its dramatic skill lies in its rapid and economical garden-party alternation of social decorousness and private revelation, and in the amazing, modernist restraint with which it sets those changes to the various colors of its score, Chausson's "Poème" for violin and orchestra.

Painful stories and funny anecdotes, rites of passage and private revelations.

Some, like Mr. Robertson, will also be Pentecostals who claim to receive private revelations themselves from time to time.

Revelations received on behalf of the whole community of the faithful are often called "public" (as opposed to "private" revelations, which are given for the guidance or edification of the recipient himself).

The devotion was fostered by Carthusian and Jesuit priests and promoted by St. Francis de Sales and became popular following the disclosure of private revelations to a French Visitandine nun, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, in the late 17th century.

In her preface, Niven mentions Wilder's injunction that a biographer should undertake "to revivify" the subject's life, and Niven (who has written biographies of Carl Sandburg and Edward Steichen) claims to have taken this to heart: "Fortunately he left deeply private revelations of that life in his journals, letters and manuscripts".

I am old enough to remember the days when the private revelations from the Richard Nixon White House became public.