Sentences with phrase «sung about in»

Feminists have differed from McWilliams on the value of the privacy norm sung about in Ain't Nobody's Business at least since Carol Hanisch's 1969 essay The Personal is Political.

While much of Ortiz's work has focused on the idea and efficacy of protests in the post-Civil Rights era, a related strain explores the type of melancholic love sung about in Conjunto, Tejano, and Country music.

Often enough this need is spoken of in too easy a manner; it is sung about in sentimental songs and described in terms which can cheapen the reality which is at stake.

One of favorite Christian music groups, Casting Crowns, has experienced this also, and sings about it in their song «Stained Glass Masquerade»:

Smother it in butter and parm, and you'll know what that guy is singing about in that song when he's like, «I feel something so right doing the parm thing.»

Admittedly, Oklahomans have had plenty of football teams to sing about in the past, but they have not had many victories as sweet or as important as the one over USC.

United fans were singing about me in the away end, something which I can not believe still happens.

Even having said that, Dr. Nduom's is exactly what Bob Marley sang about in «Ambush in the Night.»

One in particular picked up the most slack: Paradise Fossil Plant in Paradise, Ky. (Incidentally, that town is the same coal - ravaged one John Prine sings about in arguably the best song ever written.)

This was his original dream that he sang about in «Million Dreams» before he was crippled by his insecurities and betrayed it.

Lawless is populated by the kinds of characters Cave sang about in his days with the Bad Seeds; thugs with hair triggers and wounded women, all operating with a warped code of honor under a cloud of impending reckoning.

Not exact matches

On that day, German and British soldiers «walk [ed] about together all day giving each other cigars and singing songs,» as British General Walter Congreve wrote in a newly discovered letter.

In the film, Huajian chairman Zhang Huarong stands before neat rows of Ethiopian workers singing a song about unity, describing himself as a father to his employees, who «like me very much.»

While waiting to be interviewed by UK station ITV about a merger with fellow grocery chain Asda, Sainsbury's CEO was caught on a hot mic singing «We're in the Money,» the New York Times reports.

No, this time, after defending her controversial views on the topic, she's singing a new tune about the non-physical attributes she claims help females stand out and succeed in business.

In «Doesn't Remind Me,» the late Chris Cornell sings about «the things that I've loved, the things that I've lost, the things I've held sacred, that I've dropped.»

The simple answer — as Simon and Garfunkel sang in the 70s — is all about building a «bridge over troubled water.»

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

(William Daniels, or «Mr. Feeny,» sings in a musical about the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

He showed me videos in which fans sang the Instant Pot's praises, and a blog post about a woman who credited her Instant Pot with helping her lose 83 pounds.

The imagery Trudeau conjures up is roughnecks, businesspeople and coastal yoga instructors together on a hilltop, singing in unison about teaching the world to sing.

A more recent attempt, following the botched singing of the South African national anthem by Ard Matthews, was featured in a Memeburn piece on how viral marketing is about increasing positive brand presence by Jonathan Houston.

It's not every day that the financial press sings the praises of an independent director, but that's just what Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil did on Friday in his column about G. Allen Andreas III, who resigned -LSB-...]

I bet if someone dressed in traditional muslim garb went and complained about a bunch of baptists singing on the plane they wouldn't have been met at LAX with the FBI.

And to sing about that and about how God, despite all of that, is pursuing us as His children, that's where I find myself in worship.

Somehow, Meloy and Co's crazy ambitions (the amorphous story is something about a maiden [sung by Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark] who falls in love with a shape - shifting forest being — and somewhere in there is an evil forest queen and a Rake, whatever that is) don't overshadow the incredible music they produce.

«When I go (to church) tomorrow and sing a hymn, I'm singing about that very fact that I have hated God this past week in my actions,» she said.

I was singing in church for so long, I wanted to sing about something different.

Having kids sing songs about Jesus in a public school is illegal.

«Dear Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent and propagating rape culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards and your belief in stereotypes about how men vs. women «should» and are «allowed» to behave.

Not to be left out of the revenge game, Katy Perry released the video for «Swish Swish» last week, another passive - aggressive single about Taylor Swift in which she sings, And I'm a courtside killer queen / And you will kiss the ring / You best believe.

It used to be that around Christmastime (and Hannukah) there would be all sorts of stories about political and judicial conflicts about the various signs of the season: creches and menorahs in public spaces, carols and songs sung or not sung at «holiday» programs in elementary....

In fact the song is about a family being split by divorce, sung as if by a father to his son.

Then there's a song called «The Spirit vs. The Kick Drum,» during which the former songwriter for Caedmon's Call sings sarcastically about how having sex without being in love is like hell without flames — as in, not gonna work.

I think that it is important to be in a life of worship, it's not about singing songs it's the choices you make in every little thing.

Even for Christians who engage in sung worship each Sunday, many have nagging questions about the entire thing.

Would love to get the words to that song — am serious about singing it in my faith community!

The likelihood of bringing about a higher good, i.e., eudemonia, by rudely expressing one's concern for others» health, voicing unflattering criticism, and forcing confrontational consideration of moral issues is small (and, in some cases, such as the friend who sings off - key, nil).

We used to sing it and jump around and wave our hands because it was a song about the passage of Scripture when David dances wildly before the Lord and his wife shames him for it but he retorts that he'll become even more undignified in his worship.

The plot of the video in relation to the song is difficult to pinpoint, but Bridges sings «I don't worry, don't worry, don't worry about people in my face / I hit»em with the style and grace, and watch their ankles break,» as he brushes off haters, and Elsessner appears to do the same.

My children are among the gaggle of kids who wave flags in the front corner of the school gym, off to the side, while we sing about the goodness of God at the top of our lungs and close our eyes and chase toddlers across the back of the gym.

I would write spoken word poetry about healing and miracles, about prophets and plainsong, about how good it feels to repent, about open doors and wide tables, about plain wooden chairs in opulent palaces, about dry bones rising up in the valley of death to live again, about singing in the streets and the orderliness of stockinette stitch in hand knits.

An Open Doors» worker recounts how he learned about the power of spiritual songs to fortify persecuted Christians in this extract from Anneke Companjen's new book Singing Through the Night.

We sing songs in church about being brave, we blast music in the minivan and shake shake shake it off, we hang prints up in our homes about courage, we talk about brave people or follow them on social media until we somehow make ourselves believe that we ourselves are somehow brave.

In church I used to think many things favoured women — songs like «my lovers breath is sweet as wine» when singing about Jesus that I found repulsive.

I fear that we will instead use her as a talisman, a manger - set figure, in order to feel as if we're already on the right side of the revolution she sings about.

And if you object to repetition in worship you have to think about how many times monastic communities sing the word «Kyrie»!

If you think about the Song of Miriam or those dangerous songs (many of which are in the mouths of women), we are invited to join that kind of singing which is a refusal to accept the dominant definitions of reality.

As an African American Christian who grew up in Robertson's neck of the woods with aunts and uncles who absolutely experienced racial discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, I find his comments about happy, singing Black people to be insensitive and unconscionable.

Steven Curtis Chapman also sang of his pain and his hope for the future in his most recent album, «Beauty Will Rise,» and his wife, Mary Beth, has written a book, «Choosing to See,» in which she talked about the challenges of her life, including Maria Sue's passing.