"WHERE THE FUCK IS DRAKE," someone yelled, which restarted the crowd hymning the rapper's name.
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There was something uncomfortable in the hymning of a lost South while not hearing the other side of the narrative.
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"Darling, it's better down where it's wetter," sang the calypso crab to the fishtailed heroine of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" in 1989, hymning the joys of ocean-floor habitation.
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The NBA's most strikingly groomed players are already celebrated for their work, the world already rich with prose hymning the poetics of James Harden's bombastic beard or Joakim Noah's flowing mane.
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In some cases, this is a matter of elites enriching themselves—the Olympics, right up until the moment they begin hymning universal values and the beauty of human possibility in the opening ceremony, are always driven by all manner of grifting and graft.
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Even before 1953, when the United States National Hurricane Center's move to give storms human names provided clever lyricists with new ways to decry those storms' capriciousness, iconic songs and singers in the Caribbean were hymning the power of hurricanes — to make or break leaders, to wreck industries, to force the vulnerable or devastated, at a weekend's notice, to flee their homes and hunt new ones.
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To a striking degree, the manic activity that arose from the formulation of the original Protestant ethic resembles the strange and obsessively wealth-worshipping world of latter-day evangelical faith — from the "positive thinking" gospel of Norman Vincent Peale (far and away Donald Trump's favorite religious thinker) to the self-hymning splendor of today's prosperity gospel — a vision of boundless divinely sanctioned individual success now identified with its best-known apostle, megachurch pastor Joel Osteen.
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The social historian Alwyn W. Turner has cited the band's "hymning" of McGowan as an example of punk's indebtedness to mod culture.Alwyn W Turner (2008) Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s She was also prominently seen in the video for the 1978 Elton John hit "Part-Time Love", having known John since the 1960s when, as Reg Dwight, he had been a member of Bluesology, the backing band for Long John Baldry.
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However, he was an equerry to Tsar Alexander III, and would not have needed an intermediary to deliver a letter to his own employer. As for the supposed threat to the reputation of the St Petersburg School of Jurisprudence represented by Tchaikovsky's homosexual affairs, Poznansky depicts the school as a hotbed of all-male debauchery which even had its own song hymning the delights of homosexuality.The Daily Telegraph: "How did Tchaikovsky die?". Retrieved 25 March 2007.
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While covering the convention, H. L. Mencken described Curtis as "the Kansas comic character, who is half Indian and half windmill. Charlie ran against Hoover with great energy, and let fly some very embarrassing truths about him. But when the Hoover managers threw Charlie the Vice-Presidency as a solatium, he shut up instantly, and a few days later he was hymning his late bugaboo as the greatest statesman since Pericles." The Hoover–Curtis ticket won the 1928 presidential election in a landslide, securing 58.2% of the popular vote.
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The 1721 first version also included an 'Epilogue' that again presented on stage the king and the twelve young courtiers who had danced with him in the 'Prologue', as well as four other high noblemen each flanked by a ballerina: they were to symbolize the Sun advancing in his chariot, surrounded by the signs of the zodiac and followed by the four continents. The opera concluded in jubilation with Pomone and a follower of hers – accompanied by the general chorus of all the other performers – hymning the praises of the Sun and Louis XV at the same time.
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