annunciation
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To MacFarlane, this image could be "an annunciation scene from Giotto".
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2019
The concert began with Ms. Bullock, standing under an apse depicting the Archangel Gabriel’s annunciation to Mary, reciting an English translation of Rosario Castellanos’s poem “La Anunciación” over a cello drone.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2018
Such a very public naming of the dead, an annunciation of our universal mortality, would be an act of revelation in the Anglo-Saxon world.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2017
The grand words of annunciation with which Kushner’s play culminates—“Greetings Prophet; / The Great Work begins: / The Messenger has arrived”—are delivered by the Angel with conversational mildness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
At the end of these recurrent dreams, they watched the grim-lipped officer and the chaplain move toward the unhinging annunciation at the front door.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The tradition’s canonical scenes — annunciations, resurrections, saintly transfigurations — are unavoidably miraculous, no matter how they’re rendered.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
In Colvin she is made to deliver her labored annunciations in service of playing a working-class girl motivated to take down venal big-city bosses because they essentially ruined her father’s life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2011
These sections include the annunciations, the birth, infancy, and childhood of both John and Jesus.
From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Archibald Thomas Robertson
It was not until thirty years after that it attained its full development in the annunciations of sectionists rather than statesmen.
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
Her press then teemed with atrocious falsehoods, insulting threats, and exulting annunciations of our downfall.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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