Sentences with phrase «lamentation as»

Contrary to initial reactions from many, though, this shouldn't be cause for lamentation as where it counts the iPhone 4S is up there with the best.

i have decided to stop opening the book of Lamentation as regards Arsenal cos i cant kill myself yle those that should be most burdered are making kool money and enjoying themselves....

Not exact matches

There is in general an undertone of lamentation when people speak of manipulation which points to idealistic expectations — as if the class enemy had ever stuck to the promises of fair play it occasionally utters.

(Revelation 6:10) The writer of Lamentations, bewailing the miserable estate of desolated Zion, cried, «Do unto them, as thou hast done unto me»; (Lamentations 1:22) Nehemiah, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, besought Yahweh against his foes, «Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee»; (Nehemiah 4:5) and in the Psalter are outbursts of vindictiveness the singing of which in the second temple seems scarcely credible:

Jeremiah, also known as «the weeping prophet,» wrote a book called Lamentations.

Or as the great hymnist Thomas Chisolm wrote, reflecting on a passage from Lamentations 3, «Great Is Thy faithfulness!

When you do look at references to cannibalism in the Old Testament, you can infer from the context of Deuteronomy 28:53 - 57, Leviticus 26:29, 2 Kings 6:26 - 29 and Jeremiah 19:9, Ezekiel 5:10, and Lamentations 4:10 that just as much as now people at time understood it to be an act of desperation, but it is never explicitly forbidden by God.

(As in Isaiah 38:17; Job 33:26 - 28; Lamentations 3:55 - 58.)

Some of the clearest statements regarding Yahweh's antagonistic warfare against Israel are found in the collection of poems known as the book of Lamentations.

To the concept of the king as a being, in his religious significance, apart from and above his people, we have numerous allusions: Jeremiah refers to public lamentations at the death of a king such as clearly relate them to the ritual of the fertility - god (Jer.

It is sometimes called the dirge measure, since it is the meter, for example, of the Book of Lamentations; but this is too restrictive; in reality it is widely invoked in more emotional poems, and occurs often merely as a release from a uniform 3:3 measure.

They do not have real life, which is full of tears, lamentation, and «HAN» (a deep sense of justice rising in people's hearts, when they are wronged in history), as well as joy and happiness.

Ruth was then a part of Judges, and Lamentations was attached as one book to Jeremiah.

Songs and parables, such as praise of David's victories (I Samuel 18:7); Nathan's parable (II Samuel 12:1 - 4); David's lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (II Samuel 1:19 ff.)

(btw, did we not hear exactly these lamentations for weeks, as in we are doomed and H. Walker 2.0 and we won't be able to afford ANYBODY ELSE?)

Some might say that UKIP remains the odd - one out here, but while Farage, in his tweed suit, may exude lamentation for a bygone era, others in the party are fully signed up to the future, and what's more, they see at as theirs for the taking.

About the few challenges and lamentations from opposition, the veteran celebrated actress said that opposition will always find faults, but as to the realities on the grounds, Ghanaians are aware that his excellence John Dramani Mahama has worked and thus deserves a second term in office.

Governor Nasiru Ahmef El - Rufai has described the Kaduna Restoration Group as an» epistle of elite frustration, lengthy on lame lamentations and short on substance and facts.»

In a system where the governor is designated as the Chief Security Officer but has no control over the security apparatus, Ortom is often left with no option but a resort to lamentation.

Although Affleck's lamentations of unrealized ambitions are symptomatic of a first - time filmmaker, because he's been around the block as an actor (and is, lest we forget, an Oscar - winning screenwriter), he can, unlike most newbies, talk the talk without coming across as pretentious.

No art without external relations», he explained his famous series paintings «Spanish Elegies», These paintings referred to the Civil War in Spain in the 1930's and were meant as a lamentation for something one cares about - to reveal a terrible death of many Spanish civilians which should not be forgotten.

Keep in mind, this lamentation of the lack of «honor» given to teaching as a profession comes from someone who has repeatedly taken the standard reformer line that all of the ills in our education system can be traced back almost entirely to teachers themselves and who has advocated for policy makers who diminish teachers» workplace protections and their autonomy and who want to tie opportunities for greater compensation to standardized test scores.

The nominees for the finalists spots are as follows: The Beautiful Land by Alan Averill, Grace Humiston and the Vanishing by Charles Kelly, A Chant of Love and Lamentation by Brian Reeves, Dreamcatchers by Cassandra Griffin, Out of Nowhere by Rebecca Phillips, and On Little Wings by Regina Sirois.

Sakurai has been on a bit of a lamentation binge lately due to the stress and almost complete lack of a private life thanks to the time - consuming nature of his work on Smash Bros., but considering the effect it's had on not just his mind but his body as well, it's hard not to empathize.

A leading Abstract Expressionist and the author of over one hundred paintings that he titled Elegy to the Spanish Republic (completed between 1948 and 1967), Motherwell created his mostly monochrome canvases as a «lamentation or funeral song» on the subject of the Spanish Civil War.

``... The lamentation which this work brings to us is an invitation to consider the mourning process in a more contemporary way: as a transformation whose ultimate result is unknowable.

These lamentations by Rubinstein and Schjeldahl — and there are many examples by other writers I could have given — about painting's fallen status, its descent from Olympian greatness, remind me of people who preface everything with, «back in the good old days» or prattle on about how «you can't paint like Rubens» anymore, as if that is what the world needed most.

Some of my personal favorites were photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier in her Homebody series (2010) in which she dons her deceased grandfather and grandmother's personal (and intimate) items, such as pajamas or blankets, in their abandoned apartment as an act of lamentation.

This grand and grandly serious exhibition explored the creative exchange between Michelangelo and Sebastiano, with the help of exceptional loans such as the latter's Lamentation from Viterbo and the imaginative use of a 3D - printed model of the Borgherini Chapel in San Pietro in Montorio, Rome.

I've never thought of Ellsworth Kelly's hard - edged abstractions as having much to do with the clumsy upside - down figures of the German Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz, but the colors and diagonals of Kelly's Green Black (1958) and Baselitz's The Lamentation (1983) parallel each other enough that the pairing grew on me.

Paintings such as the Drunken Silenus and The Lamentation are more accomplished than pictures displayed earlier in this exhibition.

Rather than a lamentation over or a longing for the past, these pictures operate as metaphorical demarcations of an empowered pathway forward for a country — and a people — riddled by divisions.

The story progresses through the Annunciation — his rise to riches as his computer company is sold for millions — and culminates in the Lamentation, with Tim dying in a highway crash against a backdrop of PCWorld, McDonald's, and Homebase signs.

Set in New York City's Times Square, the intimate one - person opera is scaled to dramatic proportions within this most public of settings, giving a candid and global voice to the social and cultural trauma of South African racial politics and migrant labor; a woman's anguish explodes on the streets of New York as an operatic monument to lamentation.

Russell, if we simply replace «firmament» with «the pause» you can understand Anthony's lamentation:... what we view as the pause can be taken from us in an instant...

It would be easy to dismiss the phenomenon of the vanishing trial as simply the self - interested lamentations of trial lawyers looking to preserve their way of life.