hymn

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 original plan was to wed in front of 150 guests and walk down the aisle to Calon Lân, a hymn her gran loved.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Caedmon then miraculously composed the hymn, producing a carefully crafted poem praising God for creating the world.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

The other Marines, lifting their glasses, thundered, “The Corps!” and the band struck up the Marine Corps hymn.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

He also used AI to do the call to worship, the prayers, and to write new hymns complete with AI-generated music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The holy scripture contains the hymns and teachings of the Sikh Gurus, along with compositions by saint-poets from different spiritual traditions.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

Some inmates told visitors they could hear the national anthem and hymns sung by families who have held vigils nearby for the past two nights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

Early Blues singers moulded tunes with African inflexions in them on to chords borrowed from American hymns, parlour, folk and vaudeville songs.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

This is Sally as a flaming flapper, the kind hymned by F. Scott Fitzgerald and embodied by the young Joan Crawford in silent movies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014

He first cropped up on the opening track of 2010's award-winning Queen of Denmark, hymned as Grant's "one and only".

From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2013

Whilst Joan of Arc is hymned and numbered among the happy company of saints triumphant, Jane Shore is roared in drinking-songs and ballads of a disreputable order, and is held up as an awful example.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

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

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

We read him for his warm and vast-as-America hymning, and her for crabbed and cryptic messages left in a poetic bottle.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2011

The Venetian painters delighted to put musical instruments into the hands of their child-angels, representing them as choristers, hymning the praises of the infant Saviour.

From Child-life in Art by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)