Sentence examples for slavonic of from inspiring English sources

The brothers translated the greater part of the Bible and the essential liturgical texts into what must have been a Slavonic literary language of Cyril's devising, based on the Macedonian-Slavonic vernacular of his native Salonika but enriched from other sources, notably Greek and the Slavonic of Moravia.

For a program on Tuesday night that offered Russian works and Haydn's "Theresienmesse," the chorus, conducted by its artistic director, Dennis Keene, sounded especially beautiful in excerpts from Rachmaninoff's "All-Night Vigil," this composer's poignant, richly chromatic a cappella settings of Slavonic psalms of praise.

Rostislav also invited the Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius (who arrived in 863) to spread Christianity in Bohemia and Moravia on the basis of their Slavonic translation of the chief liturgical texts.

He was of middle or rather below the middle height, with the plebeian features of the Slavonic type of face, brightened, however, by piercing eyes; and his powerful forehead and his still more powerful head gave him a marked distinction.

She is less obviously cast as Emma, the passionate Slavonic daughter of a Russian art dealer, brought to Italy as the wife of Tancredi Recchi, the uptight heir to a rich Milanese industrialist.

This word, in the Slavonic version of the Nicene Creed, corresponds to "catholic".

Peresvetov wrote in an energetic folk Russian that contrasted sharply with the Church Slavonic style of the period.

Conscious of his musical heritage, Dvořák infused his music with folk-derived elements, particularly dances; his last symphony, Symphony No. 9 in E Minor: From the New World (1893; also called the New World Symphony), even incorporates American tunes, but these are almost incidental to the strong Slavonic character of the work.

Collis describes the young Egon as: "a little white-skinned Slavonic child of about six years who lay very quietly in his cot.

In 1994, he joined the leadership of the Party of Slavonic Unity, a short-lived ultra-nationalist movement whose goal was the reunification of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus into a Slavic confederation that would also include Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks, and Bulgarians.

Though the text of the Kanon is in Church Slavonic, the ease of the Estonians' diction made it sound gentle rather than alien.