Sentences with word «litany»
A "litany" is a long list of words or phrases that are repeated, often in a monotonous or repetitive way. It can be a prayer or a series of complaints, but it's basically just a lengthy recitation of things. Full definition
Accidents and armed robbery were top on the list of litanies of the State.
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Reflected in the window / of a pharmacy, he writes in Litanies, you know the distance you've come.
Multiple canvases with in - progress works line his walls, all of them surrounded by litanies of photographic source material.
President Donald Trump tonight plans to highlight victims of violent criminal immigrants, crow about pulling out of Obama trade deal, and run through litany of «promises kept.»
She has by now developed a whole litany of complaints about the school project, and has even gone so far as to rent a room in a park district building Wednesday night for her own meeting between neighbors and school officials.
Now the people lived in the land of the dreaded enemy, reciting litanies of lamentation while ghouls...
They function like low - level bureaucrats — they complete each allocated task to make space for an endless litany of new tasks until the day they quit or get promoted.
It's the usual litany of woes that hitch a ride on Santa's sleigh.
She even had her own colonoscopy broadcast live on the Today show to emphasize the often - heard litany that early diagnosis and timely surgery can cure colon cancer and greatly reduce its death rate.
The pro-AB 32 speaker gave the familiar litany of issues, highly distorted some facts, and with blatant falsehoods thrown in.
Sykes gives us plenty of medieval terminology to enjoy, including litanies of lovely - sounding archaic herbs with aromatic and medical uses.
Above me, above them, I could make out a low wave of moaning, like the murmur of a congregation at litany in church.
New report reveals litany of failures by governments in response to Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
each time a new supposed magic bullet is pulled out to kill the monster and fails, the same litany of reasons gets expressed.
The impassioned numerical pronouncements, full of rhetorical surges, are an endless litany whose corresponding stark white digits appear on a black screen.
There seem to be a never - ending litany of cases involving sexual abuse of young people by the clergy.
As the Psalmist says in a beautiful litany celebrating God's connection to all the life he has made and sustains:
As the old Radcliffe College commemorative litany so aptly expressed, «to be even so small a part of so great a thing is greatness itself,» and that's how I feel about Harvard.
Across the line, quattro AWD, electronic stability control with roll - over mitigation, and the full litany of airbags, including side - curtain airbags that protect across all three rows, are present.
Here is my own Thanksgiving litany to the gods.
At noon this coming Friday, and every Friday, visitors will gather around the altar in the roofless nave for a short service that begins with the Coventry Litany of Reconciliation.
It seems to me more of a group consensus of «we feel bad» or «isn't that sad» when prayers for «the world's hungry» or «the families of 9/11» or «the world leaders» are tossed out in a small litany before moving on to the Lord's Prayer.
For all the perverse ingenuity of their methods of destruction, there is a terrifying sameness to the regimes Royal describes; indeed, he warns that «it is just as difficult to retain a sense of the realities behind these repetitive litanies of horror as it is to see real human beings behind pious descriptions.»
«The public is tired of the ever - expanding litany of scandals and this must be a wake - up call to the leadership in Albany that real, comprehensive solutions must be enacted for the few who have let power go to their heads,» said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause - New York.
Decorating magazines reiterate the same monotonous litany and display most of the art in their interiors without any framing at all.
What matters is that actors — no matter how talented they are — have a hard time making such a depressing litany of social issues interesting, even when they are allowed to visit a few requisite cultural landmarks like CBGB and Tompkins Square Park along the way.
Washburn calls Tramell a «cunt» and a «bitch» and accuses Glass at one point of being beguiled by the «smell of her pussy,» which is the sort of elderly banter the knitting cotillion might still find shocking — though it's light years more appalling than Tramell's pleased reference to Masters & Johnson and her constant litany of «cum» [sic] declarations.
There are those who list the supposed litany of missteps made by our movement's leaders.
In his latest Wall Street Journal op - ed, Matt Ridley provides a predictable litany of reasons why action on climate change shouldn't be a priority right now.
The entire litany of trademarked connectivity and entertainment functions are available on the Elantra, but two features are new and significant, especially in this class.
The growing litany of disasters consuming the world provide fertile visual and narrative material for Marston, who sees these events as part of the continuum of our experience of the natural environment.
Canadian Natural Resources, where Edwards is also a major shareholder, ran into its own litany of regulatory infractions, minor oil spills and workplace accidents (one fatal), all the while slowly losing the confidence of outside investors.
The grim litany of death and destruction — enthusiastically entered into by the IRA, loyalists and the British state — coursed a bloody path through the 1970s and 1980s.
Would you also like to orchestrate the Seraphim to respond to God in a better manner and teach them some of the Churches litany, what do you think?
Dick has assembled a moving litany of testimonials, covering a variety of soldiers and scenarios, giving this heartfelt, steel - nerved, conscientiously argued film an emotional and political maturity rare among «issue» docs.
When we hear the continuing litany of «hottest year so far» etc., how can we fight back?
The lecture itself can be summed up as the usual humdrum, a rehashed litany of half - truths, abject lies, and a scare - mongering escapade for mere political purposes.
When the headteacher and his staff meted out their long - planned litany of horrors, it was not they but Clegg who felt the force of the pupils» revolt.