Hymning

And there is a nasty feeling of old scores being settled here, fine politicians' words hymning the need for probing journalism in theory but buttering few parsnips when it comes too close to their door. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Yanks go home!" it declared, hymning a new wave of British groups: Suede, the Auteurs, Pulp, Saint Etienne, and another group whose fame turned out to be illusory: Denim. ❋ Will Hodgkinson (2010)

Since 2005's Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens has become more composer/arranger than singer-songwriter, guesting on albums and hymning the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. ❋ Kitty Empire (2010)

In 2010, Jonathan Franzen reignited interest in Christina Stead's "masterpiece" with a hymning appreciation in the New York Times. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mike Kenny's adaptation also subtly reminds us that Nesbit, as a co-founder of the Fabian Society and lifelong socialist, was hymning communal values. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He's at his best suavely setting out mathematical equations for the optimum sizes of staircase risers, treads and goings, explaining the evolution of chimney technology and hymning the well-known achievements in the field of human waste of Messrs Bazalgette and Crapper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Worlds beyond the mines and the lungrot and foreshortened days, the hymning of the chapels, the morbid conviviality of the pubs. ❋ Gabriel Byrne (2010)

Mr. Schama may leave behind a few of his readers with his epilogue hymning the election of Barack Obama ( "A country remade through a simple, majestic act of popular will," is among the more reserved comments). ❋ Unknown (2009)

'Twas in the day Pieria's fair-tressed choir came o'er the slopes of Pelion to the marriage-feast of Peleus, beating the ground with print of golden sandals at the banquet of the gods, and hymning in dulcet strains the praise of Thetis and the son of Aeacus, o'er the ❋ Unknown (2008)

The sight and sounds brought solace to my sprite; and I walked among the trees, and I smelt the breath of the flowers on the breeze; and heard the birdies sing their melodies hymning the One, the Almighty in sweetest litanies; and I looked upon the apple whose hue is parcel red and parcel yellow; as said the poet: — ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, there is something that you absolutely never hear from a male friend who is hymning his latest (female) love interest: "She's a real honey, has a life of her own … [interlude for attributes that are none of your business] … and, man, does she ever make 'em laugh." ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2007)

The spindle turns on the knees of Necessity; and on the upper surface of each circle is a siren, who goes round with them, hymning a single tone or note. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Necessity, and a Siren stood hymning upon each circle, while ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, there is something that you absolutely never hear from a male friend who is hymning his latest female love interest: "She's a real honey, has a life of her own … interlude for attributes that are none of your business … and, man, does she ever make 'em laugh." ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

However, there is something that you absolutely never hear from a male friend who is hymning his latest female love interest: "She's a real honey, has a life of her own -- interlude for attributes that are none of your business -- and, man, does she ever make 'em laugh." ❋ Unknown (2006)

And when they have emptied and swept clean the soul of him who is now in their power and who is being initiated by them in great mysteries, the next thing is to bring back to their house insolence and anarchy and waste and impudence in bright array, having garlands on their heads, and a great company with them, hymning their praises and calling them by sweet names; insolence they term ❋ Unknown (2006)

And they and their children will feast, drinking of the wine which they have made, wearing garlands on their heads, and hymning the praises of the gods, in happy converse with one another. ❋ Unknown (2006)