In Africa, the evening falls almost silently, like a benediction.
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The album's final minutes played out like an intimate benediction.
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Bell ended the evening not with a joke but a benediction.
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Lowery delivered the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.
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Patrick J. Conroy, the House chaplain, and benediction by Rear Adm.
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Word of the Day benediction \ ˌbe-nə-ˈdik-shən \ noun 1.
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He told Diallo it would be a benediction to treat the sick.
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She even got a benediction from Oprah Winfrey, the secular goddess herself.
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The Grateful Dead: "Ripple" (1970) "Ripple" is a psychedelic string-band benediction.
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Stardom wasn't a benediction, but something she had earned role by role.
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In the sacred space this hushed passage sounded like a forlorn benediction.
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Her saffron scarf billowing, Beyoncé raised her arms as if in benediction.
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It has given steady Israeli expansionism the international benediction of mythical reversibility.
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Hagee delivered the benediction at today's opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem.
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For the singing of the benediction, Noble was placed next to Maria herself.
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In Prince's hands "Creep" is an accusation, a commiseration, and finally a benediction.
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I say "benediction" because "Chained To The Rhythm" really is a beautiful song.
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Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel, delivered the benediction.
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What benediction is possible for soot-faced proles shunned by God and man?
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Beauty can be a trap as much as a benediction, including for men.
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Then, with the parishioners' eyes clenched for a benediction, Mr. Roof brandished the .
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Mr. Roof said little until the church members closed their eyes in benediction.
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" It ends with a promise, and a benediction: "We'll eventually all fall asleep.
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Gilles Barthe gives them nuptial benediction, during their wedding ceremony at Saint Nicholas Cathedral.
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Donald will tell us after the benediction whether he accepts this dinner is over.
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"God bless Boeing," Mr. Trump said after offering a similar benediction for the nation.
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Comprised of Willetts, bassist Frank Healy (Benediction, Sacrilege), drummer Andy Whale (Bolt Thrower), and guitarist Scott Fairfax (Benediction, Life Denied), Memoriam's sole focus is on crafting old-school, head-down, meat (or seitan) and potatoes death metal ripped straight from the past.
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There, at 5 AM, I received an electrifying techno benediction from a DJ named Carlos Souffront.
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Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel, delivered the benediction at the ceremony.
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It was last January, January 20th, that Cardinal Dolan gave the benediction at President Trump's inaugural.
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" For the album, King Princess finds a closing benediction: "If you think it's love, it is.
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In a 2015 interview for BOMB Magazine, Notley says of Benediction: It's a very complex book.
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In one hand, she holds a lily, while the other is extended in a gesture of benediction.
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"This need to touch is a concrete way of seeking the benediction of God," Father Guerra said.
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Benediction (2015) is published by Letter Machine Press and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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Alongside bassist Frank Healy (Benediction, Sacrilege), guitarist Scott Fairfax (Benediction), and drummer Andy Whale (Bolt Thrower), Willetts has crafted an extraordinary old school death metal debut that hews closely to the genre's beloved conventions while adding the sort of depth and sheer might that only seasoned hands could deliver.
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Rabbi Rachel C. Hertzman, the bride's mother, led the priestly benediction and oversaw the breaking of the glass.
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He holds his left hand out in a gesture that could be a benediction or a peace sign.
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He holds a finely painted crystal orb in his left hand as he raises his right hand in benediction.
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The person scheduled to give the closing benediction at tonight's Republican National Convention is a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan.
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When the congregants closed their eyes for a familiar benediction, the sound of gunfire roared through the fellowship hall.
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Those airy pink blossoms with petals that float on the wind and fall on our shoulders like a benediction?
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But The Times hesitated to bestow what amounted to an institutional benediction of those unions in its society pages.
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At the 1984 Republican Convention, in Dallas, the benediction was delivered by a favorite son: Criswell, the fiery conservative.
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" Hagee delivered the benediction at the embassy dedication, a day Hagee described as "nothing short of a divine miracle!
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"Forever Young" (1974) Abysmal covers and remixes aside, what better benediction could there be from a father to a child?
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If you listen carefully to Katy Perry, you hear evil named, and accepted, and greeted with both shrugs and benediction.
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With the Blessed Sacrament in hand, Father Fournier, alone in the nave, gave a benediction to the cathedral, he said.
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You get a chaplain calling benediction on the day and post-race interviews in which winners sometimes plead for sponsorship.
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In his traditional holiday benediction, Francis renewed his call to resolve conflicts and to help those who have fled them.
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He was one of only a handful of boys to attend compulsory Mass on Sundays and voluntary Benediction on Thursdays.
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John C. Hagee, a televangelist who founded Christians United for Israel and leads a San Antonio megachurch, gave the closing benediction.
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The work, "Salvator Mundi," depicts Christ holding a crystal sphere in his left hand and offering a benediction with his right.
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And the scent: orange blossom and rose water, in the ashta, in the syrup and in the air, like a benediction.
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We had to stage an intervention when we caught him about to wear his Sunday best to Benediction on a Thursday.
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But what he finds when he and Scully go in search of a predatory beast is validation and a sort of benediction.
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This exquisite statue of Christ as a child bestowing his benediction was made in Sri Lanka in the 17th or 18th century.
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"He was just a good human being," said Cleaver, a preacher-turned-congressman who delivered the invocation and benediction at Thursday's ceremony.
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It was a free day, with a sung Mass in the morning and a special feast in the evening and Benediction before bed.
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He delivered the benediction at President Obama's inauguration in January 2009, and Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom six months later.
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We strained to hear their voices over the drums and rattles at Mass and to catch their perfume through the incense at Benediction.
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Cardinal Dolan, a native Missourian, gave the benediction at President Trump's Inauguration, and once joined the Rockettes' kick line at Radio City Music Hall.
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All sought his benediction, but when Mr. Biden took the stage and began by saying hello to "my old friend," it didn't sound perfunctory.
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I mean, yeah, it's true, but declaring it breaks the spell, and turns a genuine small moment into a benediction from a dying sage.
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I do not tell them about the snow or how it seemed a benediction at the outset of something I needed desperately to work.
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To watch this routine is to see 20 or 30 or 40 people each receive a private benediction and leave the theater, heads aswirl.
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He said nothing for nearly 274 minutes, hanging his head and waiting for the 183 parishioners to stand and close their eyes in benediction.
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So, let's not give the premature benediction to anything or anyone until the most influential constituencies have their say — starting with South Carolina's voters.
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We ran stuff on many bands including Nocturnus, Benediction, Morbid, OxLxD, Autopsy, Nihilist, Righteous Pigs, Mayhem, E.N.T, Soothsayer, Bloodcum, Sindrome, too many to list/remember.
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Sometimes all three are heaped together, and once I received the benediction of a cow's foot, its collagen leaking a shining trail through the stew.
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His 533 studio portrait of her — Joan of Arc haircut, hand raised in self-amused benediction — is the show's earliest picture and a true beauty.
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At times, the event took on a mystical cast, Ms. Knowles and her troupe extending their arms toward the crowd in a kind of benediction.
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The first song from a Little Dragon album due March 27 is an electro-soul benediction for an undramatic relationship set to a low simmer.
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Ms. Bernhardt renders E.T. single and large, like an icon, often outlined in gold or silver spray paint and frequently raising his glowing forefinger in benediction.
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At heart, Benediction argues for the living to direct our energy toward healing ourselves and each other; it claims this as the ultimate act of resistance.
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Oh, what the hell, I thought, blurry from booze and grass, it's a benediction from a wise elder, the demigod of punk-as-fuck spoken-word rants.
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"Final Follies," which was finished only weeks before his death at 86, is a charming benediction and farewell to the caste whose demise he chronicled so faithfully.
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You were barely aware that the drama was being pulled along at all, until you arrived at redemption music that sounded less a benediction than a relief.
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So to spread the gospel of Bikram yoga, Choudhury franchised: Teachers paid for training that was something like benediction, then opened official Bikram outposts across the land.
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"The senior minister invited him in and when they bowed their heads and closed their eyes for the benediction, he killed them because they were black," Graham says.
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When he finished, Mr. West retook the center, then lay prostrate on the floor as Kirk Franklin, the gospel maximalist and bridge-builder, emerged to give a benediction.
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Bishop Wayne T. Jackson of Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit tells TMZ ... helping with readings and giving the benediction at Friday's ceremony isn't about Democrats or Republicans.
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About 40 minutes later, with the parishioners' eyes closed for a benediction, Mr. Roof pulled the weapon out, and began to fire seven magazines of hollow-point rounds.
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The characters huddle glumly near the front of the stage; Don Alfonso pours bottles of liquor over each lover, a bitter benediction, as his scheme is coolly revealed.
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When one of them told me "You are one of us," it felt like a benediction imposing an oath that I would not disappoint him, then or ever.
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" As Bing Crosby croons the benediction "May all your Christmases be white," the Saigon sky is shredded with gunfire, "a military truck speeds through the intersection, children/ shrieking inside.
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In 1979, Mr. Pannella managed to upstage Pope John Paul II's Easter benediction by staging a reverential march of nonbelievers to St. Peter's Square on behalf of hungry children.
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Walton says that when he delivered a benediction at the Harvard ceremony where Franklin was honored, she burst into tears on stage as he paid homage to her father.
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She had the perhaps unenviable task of following the President as a speaker, but her placement on the program -- between Obama's inaugural address and the final benediction from the Rev.
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Version one feels definitive still, although if you can find someone to cleanly splice "Ultralight Beam" and "Ultralight Prayer" together along Kirk Franklin's benediction, hit me up with a copy.
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It's clear that for some of the men — almost all the workers were men — Ms. Ukeles's gesture came as a kind of secular benediction, and the energy flowed both ways.
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A vibraphone rhythm keeps calling out, a perpetual annunciation; the ensemble surges and recedes, again and again, moored to a mellow piano; a flute line soars, a kind of benediction.
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Her recent book, Benediction (Letter Machine, 2015), an epic written in ragged grammatical form, further concretizes her work to repossess the historically male-dominated epic poem as a feminist genre.
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Now a lecturer at Tufts University, Talusan chronicles that fraught passage from one world, one body, to another, marking with sensitivity how an American life can be both burden and benediction.
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Lowery was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama in 2009, a few months after he had given the benediction at Obama's inauguration.
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At a time when the band seemed to wrestle nightly with newfound popularity, the song's muted optimism — "When you wake up, you will find you can run" — offered a reassuring benediction.
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But Ms. Sanders, in her third round of testimony during the proceedings, said the percussion of gunfire, which began as the worshipers closed their eyes in benediction, haunted her each day.
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He was even more solemn than Father Rector as he swung the thurible to waft the incense over us at Benediction and rang the bell at the Elevation of the Host.
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Thanks in no small part to this complacent benediction of the postwar status quo as the best of all possible mixed-economy worlds, the distributive tradition lost its grip on American liberalism.
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" At the aforementioned apology event on the island in 2010, historian Herb Adams, who had written the resolution expressing regret for the state's actions, offered a benediction: "Peace, at last to Malaga.
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If the poet can dispense blessings as she sees fit, her acts of benediction dwell outside the scientific power structure, just as her poetry has always opposed oppressive economic and political structures.
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And in homage to Giovanni della Robbia's Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Blessing, circa 1510/1520, a figure sits with hand raised in benediction, while globules collect in his sheepskin chemise.
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Burns, a pastor and the founder of the Christian NOW Television Network, sits on President Trump's Faith Advisory Council and gave the benediction on the first day of the 2016 Republican National Convention.
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His position in the painting, with his left foot planted on the bottom edge, is commanding, as if his spade, and not the bishop's benediction, were the final arbiter of Lucy's eternal fate.
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McCabe's first words matched this, as his screams of "Crucifixion / Benediction / It's all I've ever known," played into the band's established premise, but worked just as well as a rejoinder to the band's critics.
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Cleveland (CNN)The Muslim-American Trump supporter who delivered the closing benediction at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night said he did not hear a delegate shout "No Islam!" after he took the stage.
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Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse and president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; and Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, senior pastor of Great Faith Ministries International will also offer readings and give the benediction.
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They had the audacity to compose it in the key of G major, which, in Baroque music, is regarded as the "key of benediction"—connected to positive emotions such as contentment, gratitude and peace.
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Since then, he has become the family's unofficial pastor, leading a memorial service for Clinton's mother, Dorothy Rodham, officiating at daughter Chelsea Clinton's wedding and giving the closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention.
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The "Hermaphrodite Idol" looks more mannequin than human, and, despite its presumably pagan pedigree, it raises its hand in a characteristically Christian gesture of benediction, though there is no one to receive the blessing.
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The production applies the reverential tone and cavernous reverberations of Sigur Ros — tolling piano notes, slow cymbal crescendos, shivery string tremolos — while Jónsi's high voice hovers, in wordless oohs and ahs, like a distant benediction.
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Dating from around 1500, the oil on panel depicts a figure of Christ as Savior of the World in flowing robes, holding a crystal orb in his left hand and raising his right hand in benediction.
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William Rankin, an Episcopal minister and a founder of the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, read a passage from the benediction at Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration, pushing for racial equality, global peace and turning tanks into tractors.
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In the Jewish tradition, the Hebrew word "chen" for "grace" appears in the benediction "May the Lord be gracious to you," though the word "baruch" for "blessed" is used more frequently to denote an unmerited gift.
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It was a peculiar sight: At the Republican National Convention, Sajid Tarar, the founder of Muslims for Trump, strode onto the stage and delivered the benediction, leading the delegates in prayer and even quoting the Prophet Muhammad.
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When we learned, to our great horror, that Dylann Roof, after strolling into a South Carolina Bible study and being welcomed by strangers, waited for them to close their eyes for the benediction before unloading his Glock .
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"My wish for a happy Christmas is a wish for fraternity," Francis, 82, said during his "Urbi et Orbi" ("To the City and to the World") benediction from a balcony above St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
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But what was remarkable was that it was not the Mexican President who was arriving at Trump Tower for a benediction, but the United States Republican presidential candidate who appeared to come to seek the Mexican President's counsel.
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She ponders the state of the world ("Everything is going upside down") before offering a hopeful benediction: "How are we going stop and [...] work together and make the world a better place to live for all of us?"
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Among them are the late family patriarch, whose black-and-white portrait looms as a benediction and a curse, and his romantically remembered brother, who was killed by British troops during the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916.
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Robert Jeffress, an evangelical pastor at Dallas's First Baptist Church and one of President Trump's key faith advisers, gave the opening prayer at the ceremony, while Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel, delivered the benediction.
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Addressing a crowd from a balcony at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, the pope delivered his Urbi et Orbi — Latin for "to the city and the world" — benediction, which read like a litany of global conflicts and problems.
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" The opener is a celestial benediction over tremulous strings, declaring, "Nothing to stop this being the best day ever," while the finale is a grand crescendo of a march, an arena anthem declaring, "When you think you're done, you've just begun.
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John C. Hagee, a televangelist who gave the closing benediction, has said the Holocaust happened because God's "top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel," a prelude to the Second Coming.
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He moved in circles and danced across the floor, using the restraint as a tool; at times he sat at the edge and let his feet dangle, and at one point lay prostrate and extended his hand to the crowd, offering a benediction.
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Hunt toured the US alongside Bolt Thrower with Benediction in 2013, and calls himself a fan of the band, but denies that his former tourmates influenced A New Kind of Horror, though he admits the two records could be seen as companion pieces.
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These books insist that if curses have any virtue, it may be in returning us to the beginning — that Archimedean point from which every story can be remade, where the difference between "malediction" and "benediction" can be as slight as a switched prefix.
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Memoriam offers more or less exactly what you'd expect a band made up of Bolt Thrower, Benediction, Sacrilege, and Life Denied to cook up—purposeful mid-tempo grooves, slowly roiling riffs, thunderous percussion, crusty production, hoarse growls, and a fine coat of apocalyptic grit.
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"Mastry," an exhilarating Kerry James Marshall retrospective at the Met Breuer, is a big deal for three reasons: it marks the museum's blessing of Marshall and, in turn, Marshall's benediction of the museum, and it affirms a revival of grandly scaled, thematic figurative painting.
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However, if even the existence of bands like Memoriam, Hail of Bullets, and still-kicking OGs Benediction can't assuage your desperate need for artillery-blasted death of a certain vintage, New York City's Trenchgrinder will be more than happy to serve as your guides to no man's land.
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Joye Cottage took its name from its first owner, Sarah Joye, and its address really is Easy Street, which seemed like a benediction when Mr. Smith and Mr. Naifeh bought the disintegrating collection of rotting plaster, timber and brick from a would-be developer for $495,000 in 1989.
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Her benediction, though, could just as easily be directed at the island's other migrants: the hundreds of asylum seekers housed indefinitely in a gigantic detention center deep in the woods, and the millions of red crabs that make the perilous journey to the ocean each year to mate.
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In any event, Inuksuit felt like a necessary benediction for a weekend of challenging sound, a way to summon all the signals of Big Ears and send them out into the world with everyone who had come—from Brooklyn or New York, or even from a few miles over in Alcoa.
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Brad Watson, white, male and already wise beyond his years when the near-perfect story collection "Last Days of the Dog-Men" was published in 1996, has long explored how the peculiarities of our physical selves can be a benediction and a curse (in turns or all at once), how insistently they express nature's beauty and brutality.
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Mary Fallin (OK)Governor Remarks Dr. Lisa ShinKorean Americans for Trump Video Where You Lead Video Built to Win Remarks Reince PriebusChair, Republican National Committee Remarks Jerry Falwell, Jr.President, Liberty University Remarks Peter ThielEntrepreneur Remarks Tom BarrackChief Executive Officer, Colony Capital Video Donald J. Trump Remarks Ivanka Trump Remarks Donald J. TrumpPresidential Nominee Benediction Roger W. GriesAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus Adjournment Sine Die
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To break through veils like spiders' webs,crack carapaces like a day-moth and achievea clarified frenzy and feel the blood settlelike a brown afternoon stream in River Doreeis what I pulsed for in my brain and wristfor the drifting benediction of a drizzledrying on this page like asphalt, for peace that passeslike a changing cloud, to a hawk's slow pivot.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (R-Ariz.) gave an emotional benediction to close McCain's memorial, recalling the "sacrifice" of McCain's family.
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Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeArpaio considering running for former sheriff job after Trump pardon Overnight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress MORE (Ariz.) gave an emotional benediction to close McCain's memorial, recalling the "sacrifice" of McCain's family.
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S. Representative Benediction Pastor Paula WhiteNew Destiny Christian Center [Adjournment until 27:220 PM (EDT) Tuesday, July 26846] [Tuesday, July 19, 2016/ 5:30 PM EDT] Make America Work Again Convention Called to Order Reince PriebusChair, Republican National Committee Presentation of the Colors Cleveland Police DepartmentCleveland, OH Pledge of Allegiance Patriotic Nationality Ambassadors The National Anthem Dan PolkCleveland, OH Invocation Harmeet DhillonSan Francisco, CA Nomination Process for Presidential Speaker Paul RyanCandidate Permanent Chair Nominating Speeches To Be Announced The Hon.
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As head prefect, he issued demerits for the slightest offenses, marking down boys who did not wear ties with their khaki shirts at Benediction, making spot checks for perishable goods in our tuck boxes and trunks, sniffing for beer on the breath of every boy who had snuck out to Donhodzo, the rural bottle store in the valley below our school, and, from the strategically placed Prefects' Room, making forays at unexpected times to see if he could catch anyone smoking outside the library.
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Virginia FoxxCo-Chair, Committee on Platform and U.S. Representative Resolutions: RNC Membership Reince Priebus& Publication of Proceedings Chair, Republican National Committee Official Convention Photograph Benediction Pastor Mark Burns The Harvest Praise & Worship Center [Recess until 220:211 pm (EDT) Monday, July 27] [Monday, July 220, 221/ 221:73 PM EST] Convention Called to Order Reince PriebusChair, Republican National Committee Presentation of the Colors Parma Fire DepartmentParma, OH Pledge of Allegiance Ed MacNamara Prayers from Maria Foundation The National Anthem Marlana VanHooseDenver, KY Invocation Monsignor Keiran HarringtonCatholic Diocese of Brooklyn, NY Remarks Willie RobertsonDuck Dynasty Remarks The Hon.
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S. Senator Remarks Dr. Ben Carson Remarks Kimberlin BrownActress Benediction Sajid TararFounder, American Muslims for Trump [Adjournment until 7:20 PM (EDT) Wednesday, July 203] [Wednesday, July 20, 2016/ 7:20 PM EDT] Make America First Again Convention Called to Order Reince PriebusChair, Republican National Committee Presentation of the Colors Local Boy Scout Troop Pledge of Allegiance Margo HudsonGraduate, Seeds of Literacy The National Anthem Abby PaskvanBowling Green, OH Invocation Nathan JohnsonThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Remarks Laura IngrahamConservative Political Commentator Video The Trump We Know Remarks Phil RuffinBusinessman Remarks The Hon.
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Mike PenceVice Presidential Nominee and Governor Benediction His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios Greek Orthodox Archdiocese ofAmerica and Exarch of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans [Adjournment until 7:20 PM (EDT) Thursday, July 21] [Thursday, July 21, 2016/ 7:20 PM EDT] Make America One Again Convention Called to Order Reince PriebusChair, Republican National Committee Entertainment Heavenly Joy Presentation of the Colors VFW Post #6846Cleveland, OH Pledge of Allegiance To Be Announced The National Anthem Ayla BrownSinger/Songwriter Invocation Reverend Dr. Steve BaileyPastor, New Philadelphia First United Methodist Church Remarks Fran TarkentonFormer NFL Quarterback, Media Personality, and Businessman Remarks Brock MealerWauseon, OH Video We Win Because Remarks The Hon.
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