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Then of course there's the little girl who looks up with her innocent praying eyes all but jumping up and down in front of the screen "I'm the Christ Figure!!!
Slater's character walks out of a church where his brother is praying.
You may consider calling someone, writing someone or praying for someone.
Trying to con Harry Canyon in futuristic New York City ("big deal"), striking a deal with Den, having sex with a robot (or, as he puts it, using "mechanical assistance"), bribing Hanover Fiste to testify on your behalf in court, praying for Taarna to save you.
The part that he's praying with republicans, and your answers ("and I think that someone has stolen their sense of humor" - about the Republicans who tried to take him to the tribunals) to them are really amazing.
...you'll be praying for Satan to make an appearance.
Clearly, this devout believer was overtaken by the sanctity of this pagan temple and was praying to his own God in the only way he knew.
The Great American Tea PartyNEW YORK – Who were those flag-waving, cheering, hollering, singing, and praying Americans who gathered in Washington DC on the last Saturday in August at a rally to “restore the honor” of the United States?
There is justice in this, particularly given the hypocrisy of those countries who proclaim their faith in free trade while every day praying at the altar of protectionism.
The Taliban's argument was simple: if your bird starts singing while you are praying, you will be distracted and your prayer will be nullified.
Europe cannot afford to continue throwing money at the problem and praying that growth and time will bring salvation.
Yet draining the poison from Europe will require a lot more than scolding the US and praying for Trump’s early departure.
Although Karzai undoubtedly spent time praying at Islam’s holiest site, his mission was intended to prove more than his piety.
The RSS, the parent body of the Hindu “family” of organizations that includes the BJP, has even called for Muslims to be prohibited from praying at the Taj.
But what most Western commentators refuse to acknowledge is that the champion of competition nowadays is Saudi Arabia, while the freedom-loving oilmen of Texas are praying for OPEC to reassert its monopoly power.
With Christmas wishes from Bethlehem, we repeat this call to the entire world, praying that the arrival of more tourists to our beautiful land will help bring peace to this part of the earth.
The Emotion of Notre DamePARIS – People were chanting, praying, and crying, or just frozen in total disbelief, as the flames engulfed “their” cathedral of Notre Dame, the object of their individual and collective memory.
Knowing all this, Levin suffered much as he saw that look full of entreaty and hope, that emaciated hand lifted with effort, in making the sign of the cross, to touch the drawn skin of the forehead, the protruding shoulder-blades and the hollow hoarse chest which could no longer contain that life for which the invalid was praying.
'I am very, very grateful to you, both for your actions and your words,' said he when she had finished praying.
She was praying.
Do you know for what I have been praying extra?''To learn better?''No.''For toys?''No.
'Well, lie down, and I'll put out the candle.''But I can see better without a candle what I have been praying for!
He, an unbeliever, began xo pray, and while praying believed.
Then I went to bed; but not without praying, like a good Hindu, for the favors of the radiant orb.
Julien was within six paces of the King, who was praying with genuine fervour.
While he was praying aloud, it seemed as though they could not sufficiently admire his fine lace, his charm, his young and pleasant face.
He had the impression that she was praying with fervour.
'Sir, he is on both his knees in the mud,' was the turnkey's invariable answer; 'he is praying aloud, and repeating Litanies for your soul.''The impertinent fellow!' thought Julien.
The town itself is a famous old place, dating from the dim days of King Ethelred, when the Danes anchored their warships in the Kennet, and started from Reading to ravage all the land of Wessex; and here Ethelred and his brother Alfred fought and defeated them, Ethelred doing the praying and Alfred the fighting.
You see a pirate don't have to do _anything_, Joe, when he's ashore, but a hermit _he_ has to be praying considerable, and then he don't have any fun, anyway, all by himself that way.""Oh yes, that's so," said Joe, "but I hadn't thought much about it, you know.
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