Sentence examples for smoky church from inspiring English sources

A store is a smoky church.

The practice dates back to the party's founding in February 1900, when 129 socialists and union leaders gathered in a smoky church hall in central London to secure parliamentary representation for Britain's stripling labour movement.

The serenity prayer and smoky church basements are now embedded in our cultural imagination.

It's a really solid spot in the Mission where you can get a $15 cocktail with a name like Whiskey in Church (smoky and boozy without a serious bite) or Mumbai Mule (a Moscow Mule with coriander and saffron) that is actually worth $15.

"We Are the Music," shot in black-and-white, takes the audience from the streets of Havana to the back stairs and dressing rooms of a concert hall, into churches and smoky clubs, over the rooftops of Santiago de Cuba, to a beach and to a pier at sunset as a lone couple dance the son.

"I had a lot of Muslim friends," says Armel Konzevele, a Christian sheltering in a smoky camp near a Catholic church.

Local painters were more loyal to the harshness in Caravaggio, and the paintings in galleries and churches here are smoky, tenebrous, often violent.

An intense, smoky fire today ravaged the interior of a newly renovated church that served as both a house of worship and a busy communal center.

The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren's churches and ushered in the Georgian city.

Roger Bruno, a member of that group who would go on to write songs recorded by Cher, Pat Benatar, Teddy Pendergrass and Nancy Wilson, remembers spending Sunday mornings sitting with Maia across the street from a Baptist church so they could listen to the gospel choir, and going to smoky jazz clubs with him to hear organ trios.

One, titled "Smoky City," has great clouds of black, gray and white smoke floating across a skyline with a church, a university and factories.