Sentence examples for public recitation from inspiring English sources

Since the 1960s, however, public recitation of the rosary has become less frequent.

The Hollywood establishment was outraged by the book and Mr. Shyamalan's public recitation of what are considered very private matters.

On his return from Europe, he gained his livelihood by the practice of law, but his fame came from his Persian- and Urdu-language poetry, which was written in the classical style for public recitation.

One senior administration official said that within the Bush administration, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had pressed for a public recitation of the evidence, which he had all but promised in a television appearance two weeks ago.

A large percentage of poetry (especially panegyrics) was inspired and often commissioned by the ruling authorities for public recitation on many sorts of "state occasions," and the poet would expect to be rewarded for such celebrations of the glories of Islam and its rulers.

It makes one wonder what Putin and Co. will do when faced with, say, a public recitation of Lermontov's 1834 poem "A Holiday in Peterhof": And so, I will not pay you However, if you are a simple blyad You should consider it an honor To be acquainted with the cadet's khuy!

There were poetic contests, theatre, public recitations, and literary gatherings like those of the academies and universities of Europe.

This was the main period of his activity as an advocate, and he devoted himself to the support of literature, organizing public recitations.

His exhibitions and speedy, improvisatory public recitations caused anger, consternation, gales of laughter, and occasionally what he called "a great joy" among his middle-class audiences.

His tactics range from public recitations of his own inspirational anti-sprawl poetry ("Oh, rock. You rock!") to planting trees in the middle of suburban shopping malls.

Then RALPH BUCKLEY, the director of the show, suggested that the choir's powerful reading (preceded by months of public recitations of "The Raven" by the Save Poe House/Save Judson House Coalition, of which Reverend Billy is a member) had done more than just saved Poe House: it had, he said, pulled the Baltimore Ravens, named for the poem, to the Super Bowl.