Amen Corner

"Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" through Jan. 28 at the Otis College of Art and Design, for instance, would probably be an amen-corner jumble were it not for the time, womanpower and scrutiny the gallery was able to give to wall upon wall, and vitrine upon vitrine, of primary source material from the mid-'70s salad days of the women's movement in the Los Angeles art world. ❋ Peter Plagens (2011)

This isn't democracy, it's MMORPGocracy -- letting little flashmobs of fanboyz in with the game-devs to become an amen-corner for what the game-devs or a faction of game-devs want anyway. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Another chimed in with the well-worn amen-corner dirge about “our enemies”: “They hate our life and they hate our democratic values.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

The place to take the true measure of a man is not the market-place or the amen-corner, not the forum or the field, but at his fireside. ❋ Unknown (1919)

I do not mean that by acquiring a case of the camp-meeting jerks we will solve the riddle which the Sphinx of Time is propounding to this republic -- that we will find the solution of all life's problems in the amen-corner. ❋ Unknown (1919)

It was Sullivan's treatment of Krauthammer that put me in mind of the foul Buchanan and his "amen-corner" of Jews in Washington. ❋ Leon Wieseltier (2010)

Indeed, far from what Castro and his Beltway and Academic amen-corner say and write, pre-Castro Cuba had a higher standard of living than Belgium and Italy in 1958, and experienced net immigration ❋ Unknown (2009)

After the first outbreak the Baylor bullies of the lost manhood stripe and their milk-sick apologists held a windy powwow in a Baptist church, and there bipedal brutes with beards, creatures who have thus far succeeded in dodging the insane asylum, whom an inscrutable Providence has kept out of the penitentiary to ornament the amen-corner -- many of whom do not pretend to pay their bills -- some of whom owe me for the very meat upon the bones of their scorbutic brats -- branded me as a falsifier while solemnly protesting that they had never read a line of my paper. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Will the Budget [Committee] go along with Dr. Tom [L's] [proposal]? Well, you can count on his Amen Corner to support him! ❋ Elvis Wearing A Bra On His Head (2005)

[Yep], the [lights] are [playing up] at Amen Corner again. ❋ 57 Driver (2006)