Sentences with phrase «reciting passages»

When one of the kids unleashes a demonic creature by reciting passages from a cursed ancient book (the Necronomicon), the group finds themselves battling something much more sinister and demonic than Mia's addiction.

LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.

At a wedding or a funeral the religious leaders of Islam were asked to say prayers and recite passages, just as the Buddhist monks did in the temples.

I will not recite passages out of the Bible as proof of my thoughts, and so my response, because I feel that I understood the message.

We recite passages from it.

Danh can recite that passage nearly from memory.

He held out the volume at arm's length, and recited a passage.

Note how long it takes to recite the passage and control your pace.

The fastest way to memorize is to copy down the first letter of every word and practice reciting the passage.

Seb Patane was in residence in 2013, and collaborated with Gustav Metzger on a new sound piece, in which Patane invited Metzger to recite a passage from The Political Theatre (1929) by experimental German theatre director Erwin Piscator.

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Since2004, the school has welcomed new graduateswith an elaborate «ring ceremony» that involves reciting a long oath of membership («I understand that I am now amember of a distinguished community,» goes one passage).

All Christians, I am sure, have favourite passages from the psalms which they recite to themselves from time to time.

On stage Washington recites Micah 4:4, historically his favorite scriptural passage, incorporated into the farewell address: «Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree / And no one shall make them afraid.»

Some Catholics wondered, in turn, if Evangelicals were much more than literalist yahoos, ardently reciting Scriptural passages, but with little serious reflection on fundamental theological and historical questions.

Battery A, 10th AART Battalion, U.S. Army North Africa and Italy, 1942 «1944 Those last three days, reciting from memory Cicero and Vergil, you could quote Long passages of Latin poetry.

Then the person consulted a Bible dictionary and began to find out who these people were and what they meant to the audiences that heard the passage recited.

The land was recalled in virtually ever rite of passage, in the prayers recited following meals, during holiday celebrations, and in every worship service.

who was giving discounts on automobile oil changes to folks who could recite a certain Bible passage for him!

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

In measured tones not usually associated with the actor, Samuel L Jackson assumes Baldwin's vocal cadence and recites key passages from the author's decades - old work that, as with much of Peck's film, offer a clarity of voice that speaks directly to the America of today.

In that capacity, his job was to keep the masses of oppressed African - Americans content with their miserable lot in life by reciting scriptural passages like «Submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cruel.»

It's a passage that's been in my head since I heard it recited in stentorian tones in the mid 1970s by the remarkable Sears R. Jayne, a Brown University professor of comparative literature (emeritus for many years now), when I took his course in comparative Renaissance literature.

BC Injury Law And ICBC Claims Blog Subjective Soft Tissue Injuries And Judicial Scrutiny Last year I criticized the often recited judicial passage stating that «``... the Court should be exceedingly careful when there is little or no objective evidence of continuing injury and when complaints of pain persist for long periods extending beyond the normal or usual recovery...» and pointing out that these comments should no longer be used given Supreme Court of Canada's reasons in FH v. McDougall.

Reciting from the haggadah, Jews congregated around the seder table to commemorate their ancestors» passage from Egypt.