hymn

Beautiful Love, external, co-written with Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, is a soaring hymn to embracing your flaws and making peace with life's highs and lows.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The work features four vocal soloists who represent Native American, Sephardic, African American and Protestant religious traditions, along with instrumental music based on early American hymn tunes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The specifics of Martha Graham’s choreography notwithstanding, it is the bright openness of Copland’s music, its resolutely optimistic cast—particularly his reworking of the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts”—that has implanted itself in the national imagination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Perhaps the organizers thought the crowd wouldn’t dare boo during a patriotic hymn.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

The old hymn, Bull thought, as the band played “Semper Fidelis.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

From every camp come hymns to the principle of free passage without saying how to uphold it in present circumstances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

While the service is rooted in historical significance, Dame Sarah has had a hand in choosing some of the hymns.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

On a typical day, an American family would be more likely to entertain itself at home by singing traditional folk songs like “Barbara Allen,” patriotic songs such as “Yankee Doodle” or hymns like “Amazing Grace.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

The service, which included hymns from the Welsh choir Côr Meibion Taf, took place at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Leeds, before a wake at Leeds United's Elland Road ground.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026

There was no dirge, no incense, no requiem, although hymns were sung in the small church.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The all-conquering love hymned in the classic musical was beginning to look like an increasingly flimsy fiction.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020

More recently, he has hymned a pre-presidential Barack Obama, and railed against Russian oligarchs on Neurosis of the Rich.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

After living for two years in a small cabin beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, he hymned the results in his classic account Walden, published in 1854.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

That has changed, or has seemed to change, recently, with Marine taking on a group of surreptitious haute-fonctionnaire “Horaces”—the name is a reference to the great if obsequious Roman poet who hymned the emperor Augustus.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2017

I'm not in the least as he's hymned me—but that, surely, you've guessed between the lines.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

Holst leaves the listener in the far removes of outer space, with Neptune being a study in musical mysticism, highlighted by a hidden hymning women’s chorus, as if heard from a mysterious distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

It’s a two-hander, also featuring Zach Wyatt, appropriately exploring isolation and also hymning the wisdom of Walt Whitman.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2020

Bush went beyond hymning the “thousand points of light” to oversee the establishment of the Commission on National and Community Service.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2018

It’s a useful rejoinder to evangelists hymning the inevitable progress of “tech,” and gurus divining what technology “wants.”

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2015

By hymning their praises and gratifying them, one becomes freed from every fear.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli