Sentence examples similar to solemn invocation from inspiring English sources
ALBANY — Between the solemn invocations and bagpipe tributes on Wednesday afternoon, it was hard to overlook the fact that this year's annual tribute to fallen New York police officers took place under unusually fraught circumstances.
Paean, solemn choral lyric of invocation, joy, or triumph, originating in ancient Greece, where it was addressed to Apollo in his guise as Paean, physician to the gods.
With his puffed-up cheeks, the craftsman seems about to laugh, despite the solemn tone of his religious invocation that ends "my two eyes seeing, my two ears hearing, my mouth filled with truth".
Bilingual high jinks continue with the current YouTube craze for misheard lyrics, including a remarkably convincing misconstrual of "Carmina Burana," whose dire invocation, "O Fortuna," becomes the only slightly less solemn exhortation "Gopher Tuna!" In the real world, of course, translators have a certain kind of shadowy power.
She begins to put it forward in III.10, a turning-point in the discussion, which is preceded by the most solemn poem of the whole work (III m. 9), an invocation to God in terms borrowed from Plato's Timaeus.
Rick Warren gave his invocation.
That invocation is important.
A supremely unsettling invocation.
