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I might have had more compassion for E.F.'s situation had he gained more of my respect by giving a great
sermon.
But the dead-pan gallows humor, elegantly understated, flat and utterly unadorned, subtle and evanescent, evaporates somewhere in the middle, as breezy absurdity succumbs to a grinding Hallmark-greeting-card, art-house
sermon
on the Meaning of Life, to What IT Is All About.
Myself, I went to Sunday school at the Temple, and worked with the stage crew in setting up the monthly illustrated
sermon
settings, and performed in many of them, from the late 1930's till just after her death when I went to the Navy.
When I saw the film with my lover he said, "Who knew he could preach!" when Duval performed his final
sermon.
Why America Will Lead the “Asian Century”SINGAPORE – Not a week passes, it seems, without a big-picture thinker releasing a big-picture book or giving a big-picture
sermon
describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia.
There are Christians who know all about the fire and brimstone of the Book of Revelation, but seem not to have heard the instructions about generosity in the
Sermon
on the Mount.
He embodies the message, delivered in the Gospel of St. Matthew’s account of the
Sermon
on the Mount: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Matthew 5:6).
One Friday
sermon
on Palestinian TV told Muslims "to have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where you are...kill them... and those Americans who are like them."
There is also no shortage of images of abused prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison or the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, which have likewise done more to recruit new adherents to Islamic fanaticism than any
sermon
in a radical mosque.
One only has to recall the vitriol visited upon Rev. Jeremiah Wright during the last presidential campaign for his now infamous
sermon
in which he said that, with the attacks, the chickens of US foreign policy had come home to roost.
Indeed, Néstor Kirchner once accused Bergoglio of being the head of the opposition coalition, and refused to attend a traditional mass – a Te Deum – because he was afraid that he would be the subject of the then-Cardinal Bergoglio’s
sermon.
Observant Muslims gather at sundown for iftar (breakfast), followed by evening prayers, tawarih (longer prayers, including a short sermon), social interactions, qiyyam (another late-night prayer), suhur (another collective meal), and then morning prayers.
The people understood nothing, but they sighed as they always do during a sermon,' continued the Prince.
But what completed their discomfiture was a
sermon
by the new curé, Abbé Ranvier, that lean priest with eyes like red-hot coals who had succeeded Abbé Joire.
This enthusiastic
sermon
lifted him to mystic heights, and the poor people had long ceased to understand him.
He listened with all his ears, as attentive as if at a sermon, not daring even to cross his legs or lean on his elbow; and when at two o'clock the bell rang, the master was obliged to tell him to fall into line with the rest of us.
He thundered against the spirit of the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, to recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring his excrements, as everyone knows.
'In that case,' retorted Julien coldly, 'I request the post of Governor of the Poorhouse for my father.''Excellent,' said the Marquis, recovering his gaiety; 'granted; I was expecting a
sermon.
'You must be feeling very ill to reply to a joke with a
sermon.
'A sermon, from you!Are you thinking of asking to be made a Prefect?'Mathilde very soon forgot the annoyance of the Comte de Caylus, Norbert's ill humour and the silent despair of M. de Croisenois.
And K. would certainly not have noticed this little pulpit if there had not been a lamp fastened above it, which usually meant there was a
sermon
about to be given.
So was a
sermon
to be given now?
Was there really a
sermon
about to begin?
And there was also, somewhere in front of a picture of the Virgin Mary, an old woman who should have come to hear the
sermon.
And if there was to be a
sermon
why had it not been introduced on the organ?
K. now considered whether he should leave as quickly as possible, if he did not do it now there would be no chance of doing so during the
sermon
and he would have to stay there for as long as it lasted, he had lost so much time when he should have been in his office, there had long been no need for him to wait for the Italian any longer, he looked at his watch, it was eleven.
But could there really be a
sermon
given?
The idea of a sermon, now, at eleven o'clock, on a workday, in hideous weather, was nonsense.
He had not given a sermon, he had only told K. a few things which, if he followed them closely, would probably cause him more harm than good.
asked K."If you're not going to give a
sermon
come down here with me.""Now I can come down," said the priest, perhaps he regretted having shouted at K. As he took down the lamp from its hook he said, "to start off with I had to speak to you from a distance.
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