Sentences with phrase «last shovelful»

Women in the pulpit was the last shovelful of dirt on the coffin.

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So I was at first puzzled when I reached into my file, untouched since the first day of Lent last year, and found that I had scribbled the following: «On Ash Wednesday, the minister who just had to be different slung a shovelful of palm ash at his horrified congregation.

And thus, horses were horses last month at Gavin Brown's location on Greenwich Street, for the re-staging of Jannis Kounellis» Arte Povera masterpiece, Untitled (12 Horses): they stood, stepped side to side, snacked on provisional piles of hay, and occasionally provided a team of three grooms a shovelful of what we might call «documentation,» or, perhaps even the chromosomes in the «albumen of the mind» Jerry Saltz mentions in his animated review of the show on Vulture.