Sentences with phrase «chants of children»

Milkman, propelled in search of his family history, finds it embedded in the history of slavery, recorded in the rhythmic chants of children's games, like a miniature ring shout.

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During a fast as long and stringent as Yom Kippur, the children of Israel chant dirges mourning their alienation from God.

Your denial of evolution sounds like nothing more than a child plugging his ears and shutting his eyes and chanting «LA LA LA» at the top of his lungs.

And as the worshippers chant, «The voice of the coming of the Messiah is heard» maybe they could hear Jesus cry out in pain from being circumcised, and Joseph, lifting up Jesus in his arms and praying, «Our God and the God of our fathers, raise up this child to his father and mother, and let his name in Israel be called Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins» (Matt 1:21).

I am standing in the African village, the hot sun beating down on my shoulders, a group of village children surround me and chant my name, laughing and bidding for...

Some of the children only heard the word «Bon» and began to chant it, until the bewildered, frustrated old pastor left.

The traditional Hawaiian family carefully preserved its own proverbs and chants, its occasions for house blessings and the naming of children, its rites of inhaling the first light of day and the conferring of creative powers by exhaling.

They may not qualify to be part of a minyan elsewhere, but here they have prestigious roles, reading from the Torah scroll, parading it around to be kissed, chanting scripture in Hebrew, blessing children, leading music, preaching.

And it is the children of the most orthodox secularists, the offspring of thoroughly enlightened modern homes, who parade through the streets chanting Sanskrit hymns.

There are loads of old couples and families with small children in attendance, but the chants are still there, the occasional vulgarity can still be heard, and the chanting creates a unique atmosphere we obviously don't get in the states.

The Eerie poetry that small girls chant (or compose) as they skip rope and the strange rhythmical games involving hand clapping or bouncing balls that children improvise on city streets have been recorded by an imaginative sound engineer named Tony Schwartz, in what the New York Times the other day called the most original piece of work ever put on records.

fosters the development of your child's most important instrument, the voice, through vocal exploration, songs, and chants.

My pump definitively chants the name of the child for whom I am pumping.

«For the 97 percent of children represented here today, he won't even come out of his office to accept petitions,» said organizer Zakiyah Ansari, while the children and adults gathered chanted «shame.»

Dozens of charter schools were closed for the morning; parents and children, the vast majority from Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network, were handed matching oversize T - shirts, granola bars and water bottles, and encouraged to chant and dance for about two hours in a show of strength and enthusiasm.

The political leaders are extolling and highlighting your examples, the urban dwellers are chanting your praises, the rural dwellers can not stop talking about your messianic interventions in their lives, the civil servants can not thank you enough, nor can mothers, children, traditional rulers and indeed every group or stratum of the state.

«For the 97 percent of children represented here today, he won't even come out of his office to accept petitions,» said organizer Zakiyah Ansari, while the children and adults chanted «shame.»

The Royal Anglians had to face a chanting mob waving grotesque placards accusing THEM of terrorism and child murder.

The DA's office has charged Chant with one count of predatory sexual assault against a child, a Class A-II felony; in addition Chant was charged with two counts of rape, kidnapping, and burglary.

Chant has been charged with one count of predatory sexual assault against a child, a Class A-II felony; one count of kidnapping in the second degree, a class B felony; two counts of rape in the first degree, both Class B felonies; and one count of burglary in the second degree, a Class C felony.

If you're like me and you have a young child or another circumstance that leaves you rolling your eyes at any type of morning routine, I'm not going to ask you to spend hours journaling or chanting on your yoga mat to reap the benefits of a little morning time.

There's also a landfill that seems to take up half the island, and it's home to a thriving society of those «forgotten children»: a cabal of orphaned rats turned savage predators, who chant, «The future is past, garbage is the present, blood is our law!»

Produced by Kenn Viselman, who imported the massively successful «Teletubbies» and «Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends» series from England, «The Oogieloves» is presented as a new kind of interactive movie experience, with on - screen cues encouraging children to sing, dance and chant.

Chants, songs, games, brief meditations, Mad Libs, group problem solving, imagination and creativity activities — all of these add tremendous enthusiasm to children and help them stay positive for a day of learning.

When we got to the final few races, you could see the excitement in the children's faces — the cheering, chanting, joy, and disappointment with the success (and failure) of each puff - mobile.»

Cheering and chanting for choice, an unprecedented crowd of roughly 25,000 parents, children and teachers swarmed Prospect Park on Wednesday to demand the doubling of city charter school seats by 2020.

Seventeen minutes to hold signs, to chant «never again,» and to have parents take pictures of their children's first moments of activism.

About nine months ago, at a small park playground a few hundred feet from their children's struggling school, a group of parents chanted, cheered and delivered passionate speeches about their...

About nine months ago, at a small park playground a few hundred feet from their children's struggling school, a group of parents chanted, cheered and delivered passionate speeches about their growing frustration with Desert Trails Elementary.

Consider sharing poetry books by some of Woodson's poet influences — for example, Honey, I Love, by Eloise Greenfield; The Dream Keeper, by Langston Hughes; Hip Hop Speaks to Children, collected by Nikki Giovanni; Amazing Faces, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins; Lend a Hand, by John Frank; This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort, edited by Georgia Heard; or What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings, by Joyce Sidman.

The lines of poetry capture the images» themes of anguished love with the rhythm of an obsessive chant, alternating with a colder, more rational voice: «Diego my child Diego my lover Diego my husband.

The singing trumpets of Dorado and chanting children of Africa's Numbani make you feel like Overwatch is a global phenomenon; something huge that transcends languages and borders, and you're a part of it.

The piece reveals Richards» background as a percussionist, as it segues with fine judgment of pace and impact through its spine - tingling sequence: from the relentless chant of a football crowd to the sound of breathing; the hypnotic verbal instruction «gentle»; the smash of glass breaking; children's playground chatter.

There, under the master's tutelage, he creates a rap chant from the instructional material for Lariam, the antimalarial medication he took before leaving home, and teaches it to the enthusiastic children of the village (none of whose families, presumably, could afford the drug).

Beneath bunting designed by Fiona Banner, Bob and Roberta Smith and Jessica Voorsanger played a gig, Katrin Plavcak and Ulrika Segerberg did an electronic sewing machine - enhanced performance, Lucy Reynolds conducted a «choir» who chanted in 20 languages at once, and a large crowd who could trace their heritage to every corner of the Earth ate, drank and generally had fun celebrating internationalism and renouncing tribalist bigotry, while children darted round their legs.

I pinch the stem of the flower, pour water into its cup and recite my version of a piece of his Great Bell Chant: «The miracle occurs when the child appears in the heart of the lovely flower — one drop of that nectar is enough to heal the forests and rivers and wash away the stains in the world.»