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Noun
Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah.—Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024 For me, especially as an A&R person, that’s hallelujah: Let the creative lead and the rest will follow.—Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024 Get The Recipe 10 of 40 Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad
What better time to shout hallelujah than Easter Sunday?—Jorie Nicole McDonald, Southern Living, 11 Feb. 2024 There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable.—Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024 And, as the hoarse hallelujahs from their fans illustrated, the Lakers now have some new magic of their own.—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 At end times, will there be a chorus of hallelujahs or ...—David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023 This bike even features a fan—hallelujah.—Diana Kelly Levey, Health, 20 Feb. 2023 At peak power the cabin is suffused with a sustained, polyphonic power chord, a hallelujah—WHAWWAAHH.—Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
The aftermath of the Madison Square Garden comedy bit has already activated national voices such as Bad Bunny, who decided to republish his paean to Puerto Ricans.
Rafael Bernal,
The Hill,
29 Oct. 2024
The interiors are a paean to nautical good taste, decked with antique oil portraits, brass chandeliers, and white wainscotting.
The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
19 July 2024
Following long minutes of silence, a dirge of bagpipes began streaming from the church, suddenly growing loud as 10 pipers emerged with a corps of drummers behind, playing on as pallbearers rolled the casket out.
No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
The Last Showgirl is a requiem for any woman who has ever been underestimated because of her beauty, her choices, or her art (so, essentially, every woman ever to exist).
Murphy, in one notable section, laments, Tourism is intrinsically incompatible with travelling.
Tyler Thier,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Oct. 2024
But where Knight of Cups often drifts along in a generalized fog of melancholy, Blanchett actually makes the film’s lament for shattered relationships and thwarted potential actually hurt.
According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.
Michael Andor Brodeur,
Washington Post,
27 Mar. 2024
A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.
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