Sentences with phrase «for sackcloth»

For the locally ambitious, the loss of an Ulster congressional seat would be cause for sackcloth and ashes.

This is not a book without humour, as for instance when he says the same scientists are «exchanging their messianic crowns for the sackcloth of Jeremiah.

Not exact matches

The readings for Ash Wednesday leave us with conflicting admonitions: to put on sackcloth and ashes, and to wash our faces and comb our hair.

for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes» (Matt.

For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes» (Mt 11:21, Lk 10:13).

«Just look at Job — once he saw God f2f, he only wanted to be excused for daring to ask question... wanted to cover himself in sackcloth and ashes and run.

For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

He went as far as the front of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

For anyone who isn't sick of the debate over Mel Gibson, anti-Semitism, and whether people who liked The Passion should repent in sackcloth and ashes now that its creator's sheets - to - the - wind sentiments about the Jews have been revealed, I'd recommend dipping into Mark....

«Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes,» said the prophet Jeremiah, «mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us» (Jeremiah 6:26).

More's the shame that it's all tattered sackcloth for a performance by veteran character actress Melissa Leo so ferocious and vulnerable that it ranks instantly among the best of the year.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

But just as important was the physicality and materiality of the paintings, resulting from his preference for using sackcloth and raw jute with a very open weave for his supports and raw pigment, soil and ash as his medium.