harken

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So maybe you draw a line to my kind of modal baselines that kind of harken back to “A Love Supreme.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

At well over three hours long, the shows harken back to the days when big-budget Hollywood films trusted that audiences could sit still for more than 110 minutes.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2023

Along the way, they learn the language, rites, and beliefs of the “craft,” engaging in rituals that harken to Biblical beliefs .

From National Geographic • Sep. 19, 2023

Renovations and renaming harken back to Binion’s Horseshoe, a hotel and gambling hall in downtown’s “Glitter Gulch” where the World Series of Poker began.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

So harken now, ye witnesses Of the decree: if Tristram were to break The bond and secretly, and in disguise Return to Cornwall— 3d Baron.

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various