Sentence examples for touching hymn from inspiring English sources

Humanizing a world normally glimpsed only it tabloid flashes, the play is also, and most memorably, a touching hymn to the sustaining bonds of fraternal affection.

Meanwhile, the language-tapes essay takes the comedy of inappropriate phrases ("We don't live here, we wanted mineral water") and spins them into something touching: a hymn to our flailing effort to communicate across cultures, to look up sweet nothings in our phrasebooks and whisper them speculatively through the dark.

But Bellamy's words are a plea for the private life, and this final film after so many dazzling studies of adultery, such as "La Femme Infidèle" (1969)—is a touching and unfashionable hymn to married love.

There I was touched to hear an all-female choir singing chants and hymns on a rainy Sunday morning.

(Anderson) MARC RIBOT'S SPIRITUAL UNITY Marc Ribot is a rough-magic guitar improviser whose sound and touch go perfectly with the songs of Albert Ayler, which are like hymns and marches set afire.

At 10 p.m., Barbés, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (347) 422-0248, barbesbrooklyn.com, rayabrassband.com; $15. (Pareles) MARC RIBOT'S 'BELLS AT Marc RibotMarc Risot is a rough-magic guitar improviser whose sound and touch go perfectly with the songs of Albert Ayler, which are like hymns and marches set afire.

People touched their candles wick to wick, recited the 23rd Psalm and joined together in singing a hymn.

It touches the reality they see around them at various points, but it is... like the 'other country' of Spring-Rice's patriotic hymn: 'her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.'..

In particular, he emphasizes Hymn XXV "Mirth" as "showing anew the love for flowers that is a recurring characteristic of his poetry" as it reads: If you are merry sing away, And touch the organs sweet; This is the Lord's triumphant day, Ye children in the gall'ries gay, Shout from each goodly seat.

In an Ivesian touch, evocations of a Protestant hymn and a bit of a rag are deftly folded into the musical fabric.

As in Anil's Ghost, The Cat's Table employs a deceptively light touch, hiding a carefully constructed and tender hymn to the enigma of journey.