hymn

Her last true classic, it was a hymn to the liberating power of the club.

From BBC ● 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

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

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

To close the service we had chosen Mama’s favorite hymn, “Fairest Lord Jesus.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

That scientist was annoyed that the scraps of paper he used to mark hymns for his church choir would fall out by Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

"The gospel music we grew up on was hymns and traditional music," says Rutendo.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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

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

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

Two of the credited writers, he says, had probably never even been to West Virginia when they hymned the beauty of its valleys and rivers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2017

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

It is as if poetry had dealt with beans or with bacon and no poet had hymned the more beautiful associations of beans and bacon.

From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott

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

And the poet and theorist Fred Moten, for his hymning of knowledge’s “undercommons,” its deviant intellectual crosscurrents and flight-paths, “fugitive enlightenment.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

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

Now supper is o’er and we raise    Our prayers to the Father of light And joyfully hymning His praise,    We lovingly bid a good-night.—

From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick