| 单词 | altar |
| 例句 | Bob the Titan sat cross-legged by the altar, happily munching a piece of pizza. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Thousands of candles blazed before the gorgeous altars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The bedroom is dark, even though there are lit candles on the altar and night- stands. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Octavian waved his knife at the pile of stuffing on the altar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z John had swept one side of the church and the chairs were still piled in the space before the altar when there was a knocking at the door. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z ‘The nun Beatrix didn’t run away. Why, there she is over near the altar, sweeping.’ The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A priest in a black robe entered behind the last altar boy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They didn’t say much at first, just “Hi,” and then the boys started looking around at the altars and the things on them. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Below them, in a sheltered depression like a moon crater, stood a ring of broken black marble columns surrounding a dark stone altar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The line moved slowly down the center aisle to the altar, then up a set of stairs to a landing in front of the Virgencita’s picture. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, it looked great perched on a little shelf just above the altar of. the evil god. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z As at the Lyceum, there would have been a sanctuary for the Muses, and an altar for sacrifices, as well as a head priest, in this case appointed by Ptolemy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z John turned suddenly, the movement like a curse, and knelt again before the altar. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z There the bier was placed on a specially prepared altar in the middle of the floor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Helene who never turned her head in church when latecomers arrived; Helene who established the practice of seasonal altar flowers; Helene who introduced the giving of banquets of welcome to returning Negro veterans. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The kid at the altar raised his hands. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then she sat down cross-legged between the fire and the altar and began to chant. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The altar boys collected them in the offering baskets and funneled them through the church office. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Today I was balancing myself just above the altar when I heard Dr. Carhart say that he knew what death was like. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bob,” she said, “offerings burned in the mortal world appear on this altar, right?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It must not be sacrificed on the altar of greed and power merely to obtain a few crumbs for the few. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He read books, slowly, mouthing words, holding them reverently like an altar boy the missal for the officiating priest. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was very low and the shade was deep in the back of the temple where the new altar to Thoth had been built. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The altar and the organ were made by a vacuum-cleaner company in Camden, New Jersey— and said so. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s blood now,” Abel whispered when the priest raised the chalice with the wine, and his thin voice mixed mysteriously into the ringing altar bell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A crooked stone path led past a crazy assortment of tiny altars and massive domed vaults. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At the far end of the room, the altar was elaborately carved with a frieze showing the man with the ice-cream-scoop hat holding a knife to the neck of a bull. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The wealthy septs of the cities had statues of the Seven and an altar to each. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I imagine that I’m sitting in a pew—would Mustache’s church have pews or chairs?—and looking up at a big, big altar, talking to Saint Rene. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z On a small altar sat a bowl with three dried-up, moldy apples. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Bob started cleaning up, collecting their trash in a little pile, using his squirt bottle to wipe off the altar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The tall minister stood again at the altar. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But to Reyna it looked like an altar to Octavian himself. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Several of the best players on that team were his grammar school classmates and fellow altar boys, and they served as his protectors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Goddard stood at the front, by an altar that featured a shining two-pronged fork and a stone bowl of dirty water. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And he coughed and sobbed in the dusty space before the altar, lying on his face. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z In fearful awe they led the bulls to sacrifice and stood about the altar stone, those captains, peers of Phaiakia, led by their king in prayer to Lord Poseidon. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On the right was the birdbath altar with the plaster head of Nefertiti, lovely and gracious in spite of the cracks and chips. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It sparked against the altar and erupted in silvery fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Inside the sept, the great crystal caught the morning light as it streamed through the south-facing window and spread it in a rainbow on the altar. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We stood frozen before the altar of a red-hot cookstove. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ajax—not the great Ajax, of course, who was dead, but a lesser chieftain of the same name—tore her from the altar and dragged her out of the sanctuary. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the holiday passed and the altar was put away, Ethan lived in a small glass mixing bowl that we kept by the sink on our kitchen counter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I practiced a lot beforehand, and I must say, I didn’t wobble once on my way to the altar. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I pass through a room arranged like a church, rows of seats facing the altar, where a marble Jesus lies on his deathbed above a base of glittering crystals. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Not until He laid her low, before this very altar, had she dared to rise and preach the gospel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “So what happens if I burn something on the altar here?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She takes her into the cathedral, up to the gilded altar. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The altar wobbled and threatened to overturn and the collection table sat at a rakish angle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk to the altar, and someone has typed up and laminated a history of the church, which is propped against one of the vases of flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The altar had an enormous Jesus on his cross at the center, the disciples at his feet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Bob swept his broom around the base of the altar, occasionally crouching to study the ground as if looking for something. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In answer to my inquiries after the use of this article, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected near Gateshead. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The next thing he saw was Emilia approaching the altar on her father’s arm. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the sandstone altar on which they had died, the shape of their lives had been determined years before—before the horses began their gallop, their sorrel bodies arching for that final collision. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her fine body, itself a profitable investment through the years, bent reverently over the Formica-top altar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That night the priests snuck in as usual through a secret stairway under the altar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The vaulted roof seems to stretch up forever into the inky London sky, and beneath it the room is arranged like a city square somewhere in Florence, climbing columns and towering altars and archways. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Ma is lighting an incense stick at the small altar of statues tucked in an alcove behind the kitchen counter. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I look away from Thomas and toward the altar, so he doesn’t see the tears in my eyes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She didn’t stop this time but continued immediately to the altar, bound for Elder Thomas, crying “I say, preach it.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As she placed the sacrificial parts upon a blazing altar, the earth rumbled and quaked beneath their feet and from afar dogs howled through the darkness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She lifted her eyes to the altar statue, which held a dagger and a torch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sitting on the floor it was easier to see the congregation than the altar. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It had all come to this: she was on her face before the altar, crying to God for mercy. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The nuns had put fresh flowers on the altars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved a step closer; it fluttered a step farther away, until finally it was against the wall behind the altar. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She went on quickly, and he followed her to where the men of Pylos had their altars. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the two girls went back to their weed pulling, leaving the thistles before the altar of Nefertiti. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the street, on the entrance wall of a project building, was an altar, meaning someone had just died. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When souls came weeping to the altar he scarce dared to rejoice, remembering that soul who had not bowed, whose blood, it might be, would be required of him at judgment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Her temples were neglected; her altars foul with cold ashes; her favorite towns deserted and falling in ruins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruth went and when the congregation went to the altar to receive the host, she went also. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was mighty glad,” said Elisha soberly, “to see little Johnny lay his sins on the altar, lay his life on the altar and rise up, praising God.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And, kneeling on the cold altar stone, it all seemed very simple. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Stephen Carey told you and your father you couldn’t be an altar boy and closed the door in your face. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They were all too busy starting in on Thoth’s altar and planning the ceremony for Consulting the Oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry and his fellow usher walked up the center aisle and stood reverently in front of the altar. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He knocks at the sacristy door and tells Stephen Carey,This is my son, Frank, who knows the Latin and is ready to be an altar boy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Watching Carlos, alone in his room, nothing much in it except the bed, dresser, and altar, I feel sad. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Then—and this was the good part—he would take it to this special altar they would build for Thoth and put the question in his beak and leave it there overnight. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There didn’t seem to be any exits from the altar room, but it was a short drop onto the bench below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In church, at testimony time, her mother was first to hurry to the altar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The whole point of Easter in July was supposed to be an altar call, followed by a joyful procession down to the river with children dressed all in white getting saved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After bowing three times before the red altar decorated with gold and silver Chinese symbols of peace and happiness, they inserted the incense into a yellow clay bowl filled with rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts, but she would not forsake his altars. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I returned to the temple and placed the guitar on the altar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z On the second day the older monk carried in a cane chair for the use of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, placing it near the altar area, bowing and gesturing for him to sit down. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me think of things I shouldn’t even know about—blood spilled on an ancient stone altar, the foul breath of a murderer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The altar boys stood in an arc around the priest as he recited a list of a hundred twenty-nine names, Haitian refugees who had drowned at sea that week. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Hearing the wails of sorrow, the younger Torres children crept back inside the house and stood big-eyed against the wall under the Virgin’s altar. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The altar in the front contained a granite basin filled with water—but the water was cloudy and foul-smelling. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Mormont stood before the altar, the rainbow shining on his broad bald head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The long candles on the altar were bent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded for the old woman to deliver the package at the altar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “She will not have her altar stained with human blood. She has herself furnished the victim and she receives the sacrifice.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There were more statues, an altar, a rail. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They don’t want boys from lanes on the altar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z During the ceremony, many of the married female guests are invited to the altar to hold up a lace sheet over the couple and take turns grinding giant sugar cubes atop the sheet. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Candles glowed above the altar, the cross with the effigy of the dying Christ above that. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Facing the altar, framed by the elevated white-sheeted shape of the vicar, stood the couple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Francie kept her eyes on the floor so that she wouldn’t have to look at the flower-covered coffin standing on trestles before the altar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Reverend paused, resting one hand flat on the altar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z P.J. liked going to Mass, serving as an altar boy for a time, but he didn’t find in church doctrine the answers to the philosophical questions he was already sorting through in his mind. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Thereafter only fat and bones were burned to the gods upon their altars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z First she lit the candles and the incense and the sacred fire, and put the fire-bowl on the floor in front of the altar. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Near him on the floor was a candlestick from the altar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Around the time of his fourteenth birthday, with all the pressures of church and home uniting to drive him to the altar, he strove to appear more serious and therefore less conspicuous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We walked to the altar rail where the idea of God assumed a shape and a scent and a taste. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Reverend towered over the rickety altar, his fiery crew cut bristling like a woodpecker’s cockade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Billy also had charge of a portable altar, an olive-drab attache case with telescoping legs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When she should have stood up from the altar rail, though, he squeezed, almost courteously, as if he only meant to be holding her breath for her, and just for a moment. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Kenneth held everything together until he saw the casket at the altar. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I rushed home from school, to the church, to the altar, to be alone there, to commune with Jesus, my dearest Friend, who would never fail me, who knew all the secrets of my heart. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Then there was a flash of light on the altar, and the guitar transformed into the Crystal Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z All about me was a deep intense silence, and in it I heard my prayer, voiceless, wordless, rising up and up endlessly like the incense which burnt perpetually upon the altar. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A perfect cube five feet high, the altar in our camp was capped with a triumvirate of carefully selected pointed stones, above which rose a ten-foot wooden pole crowned with an elegant juniper bough. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z After Papa took communion, he sat back and watched the congregation walk to the altar and, after Mass, reported to Father Benedict, with concern, when a person missed communion on two successive Sundays. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In the inner courtyard around the altar were the women and children and one man, the old King. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Already, though, he was picturing himself walking his bright, clean children up to Pastor Tom during an altar call, sunlight coming through the windows, the choir singing, the whole church looking on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On a table in front of the altar was a wreath with four candles stuck in, one of which was lit each week to mark the coming—the slow, slow coming—of Christ. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried placing it on the altar anyway and nothing happened. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The priest spoke in Spanish, and she was able to light a candle at the altar for Papá’s soul, as she was certain Mamá was doing this morning in Ensenada. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z At the far end stood an altar, where the fiery wraith knelt in prayer, but Nico was more interested in the room itself. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He does not stand at the altar; he paces up and down the church aisle’s pink floors in his white robe, which he wears with broken-down tennis shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes alone, sometimes with my brother and sisters, I would find myself near the altar amid two or three hundred children, many of them dressed like Mexican cowboys and cowgirls. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in the strange, the welcoming faces, it cried up to him from the altar, it sat, as he mounted the pulpit steps, waiting for him in his seat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Papi settled into his place in front of the house, next to an altar with a picture of Don Berto holding his machete. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Next, she twisted the candles into the small brass holders, filled the font with stale holy water, put a small oriental rug in front of the altar, and positioned Michael strategically to the far left. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When April stalked back to them looking wildly secretive, Melanie walked up to the altar and followed her example, doing exactly the same things. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack peered into the darkness, then said, “That’s an altar stone, isn’t it?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z While Lorena fiddles with her phone and begins playing her horribly sexist rap songs, I walk over to the altar her mom has set up in the corner of the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Beyond her faith was a fanaticism to defend the altars of her god. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The ceremony continued for some time, with more perambulations and exchanges of secret passwords and hand signs, more invocations and singing, until C.P. found himself at last standing before the large central altar. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly there was no fork in the silver chest and she would find six on the altar and three in the washroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then he walked with the rabbi and cantor back to the altar and took out the Torah. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Her bracelet tinkled, calling communicants to the altar, but the only one in the temple had been excommunicated from the Faith because of his parentage and continued mopping. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people did not kneel to receive communion at the marble altar, with the blond life- size Virgin Mary mounted nearby, but Papa did. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At that moment the rising sun’s rays reach the rose window above the altar, bathing the sanctuary in blue, red, and gold light. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It sat on its own little table at the front of her classroom, sort of like the altar at the front of a church. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On the altar stood a stone figure of a man sunk to his knees in rock, a dagger and a torch in his outraised hands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She flattened the napkin against the altar and began to write. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z John moved forward, hearing his feet crack against the sagging wood, to where the golden cross on the red field of the altar cloth glowed like smothered fire, and switched on one weak fight. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Down the aisle, in front of the altar, is the casket, gleaming white. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I sprinkled water in front of the altar, and put some flowers on it, violets and dogwood. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I begin to find reason in this, as the priest said when he discovered the dead rat under the altar. How is it your hand is so practiced, friend? Someone has taught you well.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Then, with a satisfied expression on his face, he climbed up to the chair that had replaced the altar. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I crossed myself as I faced the wooden life-size statue of a dying Christ, looking down on us from high above the altar. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z When Troy fell she had been given to Neoptolemus, sometimes called Pyrrhus, Achilles’ son, the man who had killed old Priam at the altar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Or that it was one of the best altars in Enugu, perhaps even in the whole of Nigeria. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z My students always seem to point out the makeshift altars of where the latest casualty went down. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Even when she lit the candle at the altar for Papá, her thoughts strayed to him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z As my heart calms down, as my breath softens, I get up to work on my altar. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Maybe the offerings reappeared on the gods’ altars in Olympus...or even here, in the middle of Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Kneeling in front of one of the crates like it was an altar, I opened the cigar box and let the contents tumble out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Men, smooth-limbed, muscular, tanned, and beautiful in their youth, offer their lives at the altar of love. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He improvised an altar in the square and on Sunday he went through the town with a small bell, as in the days of insomnia, calling people to an open-air mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The statue on the altar began to glow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’m sitting on the edge of Chantal’s bed, waiting for Donna to do my hair, when Pri comes in and stands right in front of my altar. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Another tall, brown-skinned man wearing square glasses walked up to the altar from the front row. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To his left, a marble altar was heaped with fruit and gold offerings, no doubt for the gods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I force her to pray to the Goddess of Beauty each night and leave candles at an altar. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z So when Toby started asking questions about the things on the altars and about Set and Isis, Melanie started giving straight answers. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They had the best spot in the house; warm sunlight streamed over them through the stained-glass windows on either side of the altar. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z A fissure ran across the length of the ceiling and the far end of the cavern collapsed, burying the altar and the pater. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I went to the altar with them to get ashes, shuffling along in the swaying line. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A line of altar boys proceeded down the aisle, each carrying a long lit candle. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Above him, the Christ in agony hung above the altar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So they postponed the game and went instead to scout around in the alley for boards and boxes to use in making things like thrones and altars. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She set it before the picture of the Virgin Mary on the corner altar shelf between vases of pink paper roses. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She beat her fists heavily against the altar. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z More amused than devout, they let themselves be led to the altar rail where Father Antonio Isabel made the sign of the cross in ashes on them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When we were done we rested, and looked at the altar that we had erected. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk up the three steps to the altar and step over the small railing that separates the masses from all that is sacred. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z So Bellerophon went to the holy place and when he was lying deep in slumber beside the altar he seemed to see the goddess standing before him with some golden thing in her hand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The bronze coffin was wheeled inside and placed upon a platform draped in thick dark red velvet, in front of the altar, and the coffin’s lid was reopened. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She placed a bouquet of flowers on the altar along with a framed picture of Abuela smiling. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Many thighbones he burned on the gods’ altars and many a woven and golden ornament hung to bedeck them, in his satisfaction; he had not thought life held such glory for him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I will go unto the altar of God, chanted the priest. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They recalled the sacrifice of Iphigenia, lovely, innocent young thing, trusting her father utterly, and then confronted with the altar, the cruel knives, and only pitiless faces around her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered only the cross: he had turned again to kneel at the altar, and had faced the golden cross. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z In the pearl he saw Juana and Coyotito and himself standing and kneeling at the high altar, and they were being married now that they could pay. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a makeshift altar for Ezili with all the things she loves in the world. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In a copper dish on the altar are three silver murtis, representations. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The altar was decorated in the same shade of red as Mama’s wrapper. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Then she screamed an extremely fierce “I said, preach it” and stepped up on the altar. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z An imposing congregation had massed itself around her first certainties, and now it was waiting and she could not disappoint it at the altar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z That done, she had to go about making a charm out of a piece of blessed palm taken from the altar on Palm Sunday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But when she came to her wedding she was carried to the altar to be killed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z April and Melanie rose to their knees from their deep bows before the double altars of Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “We must pray to the Virgin,” my mother said, and although Deborah objected, saying nobody prayed for a grade promotion, my mother gathered us around the Virgin’s altar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Opposite the altar of the wicked god stood the birdbath throne of the goddess of goodness. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Past stained glass and statues of saints, at the very end of the room, is an entire high altar chapel removed from its church. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Today the altar was lovely with banked scarlet poinsettias and fir boughs with the golden points of lighted slender white candles gleaming among the leaves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That long road, her life, which she had followed for sixty groaning years, had led her at last to her mother’s starting-place, the altar of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The altar bell tinkled and we knelt; we bowed our heads and with our right fist softly beat our hearts, saying we believed in the mystery taking place before our eyes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I snuck behind the altar and I drank the entire bottle of grape juice and I ate the entire bag of Eucharist to make up for all the other times that I couldn’t. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There was a slow drumbeat playing like a death march from the altar. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The church contained a single, open space where we villagers knelt on the rush-strewn floor to face our priest and altar during mass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z When it was time for communion, there was such sashaying and swaying of hips to the altar rail you’d have thought they were offering their body and blood, not receiving His. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Greek soldiers at Aulis came to get Iphigenia where she was waiting for the summons to death, her mother beside her, she forbade Clytemnestra to go with her to the altar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The altar boy assisting the priest plucked the infant from the font and restored him to Angela, who sobbed and clutched him, dripping, to her bosom. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There was a bit of blue light seeping in the windows and a red emergency exit thing going on by the doors, but what really powered the place were the previously subdued altar candles. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She looked desperately around the room—the cracked ceiling, the floor mosaic, the wall paintings, and the carved altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The altar was adorned with thick, fragrant clusters of flowers illuminated by the slender white stemmed candles that burned from six candelabra. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Can that boy walk up to the altar of God and can he lay that hatred out? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lucy held both my hands and jumped small “testifying before the altar” jumps. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “He mentioned this plateau to me, and the altar. I knew Sigurd planned to use the dragon’s blood to make himself more powerful, and...” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Ice cold in runnels from a high rock ran the spring, and over it there stood an altar stone to the cool nymphs, where all men going by laid offerings. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Witch doctors! Murderers! Get out, all of you!” she cried, and swept the image of Obatala off its altar. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma’see’wi and Ou’yu’ye’wi the twin brothers were caring for the mother corn altar, but they got interested in this magic too. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Merely floating the possibility of the role to Lola might provoke a crisis, and could Briony really hold hands with her before the altar, while Jackson intoned from the Book of Common Prayer? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Was you glad,” he asked, “to see me at the altar?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We all stand round them as before an altar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A man wearing a long robe entered through a door I hadn’t seen, right by the altar. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Ugwu did not pay close attention to who was there, though, because, as he stared at the shabby white altar cloth, he imagined that he was getting married. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “May it be mine,” the reaper prays, “beside Demeter’s altar to dig the great winnowing fan through her heaps of corn, while she stands smiling by with sheaves and poppies in her hand.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No sooner had the mournful song run its course than the minister took to the altar and delivered a sermon that in my state gave little comfort. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His dark beard and sharp cheekbones made him look like the cards with Jesus and the martyred saints that Abuelita pinned to the wall around her altar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he made Ken kneel before the altar of Thoth and press the paper to Thoth’s forehead, while Toby sprinkled them both with holy water from the tuna can. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She scrubs till my skin burns and tells Dad she wouldn’t give it to the world to say her son went on the altar dirty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We don’t have pagan altars in our cellars anymore. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Fifty press reporters, photographers and television cameramen clustered beneath religious murals to the rear of the altar, and some stood on chairs to see better. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re a few years away from a trip to the altar, Mattie, and you are too soft to live in the country,” she said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of us faces the altar, holding a lit incense stick between palms in prayer. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He was reaching down to the apostles above the altar to present the four rolled-up sheepskins of the Gospels. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z How had he gotten from wherever Marshall had left him to the hiding place beneath the altar of Set? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood now with his harp, holy and clear, in the wall’s recess, under the window, wondering if he should flee that way to the courtyard altar, sanctuary of Zeus, the Enclosure God. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Two pictures rest behind a small altar: to the side, Ganesha again, and in the centre, in a larger frame, smiling and blue-skinned, Krishna playing the flute. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The only colors come from the Republic flags and circular gold Republic seal hanging behind the room’s front altar, the portrait of our glorious Elector looming above them all. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He runs to the altar and when he comes back the woman gives him a penny to go with his ashes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Twelve: I take my seat on the cold concrete floor, watching as a full-grown woman kneels before an altar made of fudge. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z On the cloth altar, she arranged baskets of food—quinoa and cheese and hard-boiled eggs, and as a special treat for the most recently dead baby, chocolate ice cream and a bottle of Inca Kola. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “That son,” she said, “that Roy. You going to weep for many a eternity before you see him crying in front of the altar like Johnny was crying tonight.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Dreams are revelations,” Tonantzin said, smiling down at us from her altar of cacti. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Before the altar, which was laden with offerings for the ancestors, Grandfather sat, telling stories to the very old and the very young. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It had been before this very altar that she had come to kneel, so many years ago, to be forgiven. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The TV’s the altar. I’m what people are sacrificing to.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z At the altar the coffin loomed in its snow pallor of flowers—the black shadow of something that wasn't there. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Neither love nor humility had led her to the altar, but only fear. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I frequently served Mass early Sunday, wearing my full uniform—including belt and dagger—beneath my altar boy robes,” said Alfons Heck. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He was now smiling at me, bright-eyed, from his place at the altar, dressed in a rented tux and a buffed pair of new shoes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the center of the altar is the picture I made of little Avik, now in a wooden frame. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I rest my hands on the altar, feeling the linen cloth only meant for a priest’s fingers. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Put your altar together and honor your loved ones on November 1 and November 2! The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Like little ducks, the girls mimicked my every move until we were all standing in front of the virgin’s altar, crossing ourselves, one right after the other. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Tata Mwanza’s father came forward to set up the clay voting bowls in front of the altar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was unimaginable that she would ever bend her knees and come crawling along a dusty floor to anybody’s altar, weeping for forgiveness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The altar was shattered, the wall coverings shredded, the walls themselves bare. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The birdbath altar had been moved to the right side, while on the left was the altar of Set, the Evil One. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z "Anita, it is now to be a dress of dancing, no longer for kneeling in front of an altar." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She opened her eyes, blinking against the light of the single candle she had lit on the altar. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They found two empty crates in Miss Rachel’s smokehouse and set up an altar in front of the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z At the Mass people go up to the altar and the priest puts something into their mouths.They come back to their seats with their heads down, their mouths moving. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Put some money in the little gold box by the altar and lit a candle. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod bent down, took the objects from the altar stone, put them in Jack’s open gloved hand. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z At the far end was a stone table, or maybe an altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z An altar originally stood in front of the fresco, marking the transition between the upper and lower portions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The parties now stood before the judge like a couple standing before the altar—Karl with deputy district attorney Scott Ford at his side, Richard with Bill Du Bois. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In a fortnight I have the Mass in my head and it’s time to go to St. Joseph’s to see the sacristan, Stephen Carey, who is in charge of altar boys. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At both sides of the altar are candles in red votives, but not all of them are lit. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Pat, radiant in a ballerina-length accordion-pleated gown, stood before the makeshift altar adorned with evergreens and gladioli and said “I do” to Walter, dashing in a white dinner jacket. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Everything on the altar remains for the day except the portrait. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Or, rather, they passed by a chapel that was thought to contain the conqueror’s mummified body; the actual remains turned up years later, stashed inside two metal boxes beneath the main altar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Boy. Go and kneel on that altar stone. Hands behind your back. Now.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The altar includes seven items that begin with the letter s, all with their own symbolic meaning. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z More bones and scraps of clothing were scattered all the way to the altar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I would take the Bible with me to the church, and some flowers for the altar in spring and summer. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Inside, the rooms were almost empty—a large, once elegant country house stripped of all but a few mats, an altar in one comer of the first room, a funeral urn. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z During the last three years of grammar school, I was regularly asked to ‘serve’ as an altar boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in front of the building stood the priest and two altar boys. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z And she cried aloud, as she had never in all her life cried before, falling on her face on the altar, at the feet of the old, black woman. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The lean-to temple now had two altars and two gods. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no one to hold her boy’s arm tight on the way to the altar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Now and then one or another would approach the altar, bow and drop a scrap of humanity on the flames: a hair or two or a shred of fingernail. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z My sense of belonging in this ceremonial Church was dearest when I turned twelve and became an altar boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I am the goddess of success in battle! Roman generals worshipped me! Augustus himself erected my altar in the Senate House!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The three of us stayed in our seats as the pews emptied and the long, shuffling line started towards the altar again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Little and I walked down the narrow aisle of his tiny church toward the altar while I explained. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The bleach Joe applied to my bangs left my hair a shade of yellow like the marigolds on Mrs. Hidalgo’s altar. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z At its far end was an altar upon which stood a cross of gleaming gold. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z A manger scene was set up at the left side of the altar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam is smoking, too.Well, she says, is he going to be an altar boy? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z From that time on they were so busy playing around with that Ck’o’yo magic they neglected the mother corn altar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One day Melanie brought her poster paints and they painted stars and birds and flowers on the fence in back of the altar; and another day they made a canopy to hang above Nefertiti’s head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z From behind the tattered altar cloth he produced a loaf of barley bread and gave it to me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He walked up to the altar and began to read from a small book. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Set’s altar was made from an egg crate covered by a piece of an old bedspread, and the god himself was a rather pear-shaped figure of dried mud. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of the altar she bowed deeply with her head tucked between her upraised arms, and then placed her fingertips on the Crocodile Stone. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the old woman at the Virgin’s altar turn and nod approvingly when she saw Father Byrnes strike Bones. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When we came to the front, she half knelt, looking up to the altar, and crossed herself again before sliding in to take her seat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They shuffled up to the altar in single file, just exactly as if they were finally coming forward to be saved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An altar had been erected, and the priest was prowling back and forth to one side. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not seen Lola since that summer, so the figure she imagined at the altar was a spindly girl of fifteen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the old Latin mass my mother could recite her rosary while still being at one with prayer at the altar. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Christmas tree’s already up, next to the altar, full of tinsel and a shiny gold star on top. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She stared at the altar statue, which was glowing brighter by the second. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dressed in a cassock like a priest’s I assisted at the performance of mass on the altar. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria would have to be propped up as she walked toward the altar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Father Amadi smiled right at me from the altar, his lips moving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I sit in a pew near the back for a long time, staring at the stained glass behind the altar. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The Blessed Mother’s altar had the nicest flowers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Teams of tenants had gone up and down the riverbanks, the granaries, the fields, and the stables searching for them, and Ferula had got down on her knees before the altar of Saint Anthony. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the cry he had heard so many days and nights, before so many altars, and he cried tonight, as he had cried before: “Have your way, Lord! Have your way!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z At one point we saw a woman get up, kneel slightly at the end of the pew, cross herself, then go to the array of little cups of candles near the altar. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z When the song reached its peak in sound and passion, a tall, thin man who had been kneeling behind the altar all the while stood up and sang with the audience for a few bars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This day Mother prepares an altar to chant for his return, offering fruit, incense, tuberoses, and glutinous rice. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Jones took the handle of the broom and pushed vigorously toward the altar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned more and more to praying before the altar of the Virgin, because when I talked to Her I felt as if she listened, like my mother listened. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I crouched near the cathedral altar, carefully watching the Polish girl. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was in a place of honor at the front of the room, in a fancy case that rested atop what had been the altar. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z On a table is a gold picture frame of Miss Celia and Mister Johnny at the altar and I look close to see what kind of man he is. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The people who went up to the altar knelt in front of the priest so he could put something into their mouths. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Not only were the pews missing from Capricorn’s church, but the altar had gone, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He looked for a moment at each altar and then around the yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the altar both Bear and I knelt and I, at least, prayed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Grace Lutheran is different from any place of worship I’ve ever seen: a simple white building with a steeple, Gothic arched windows, oak pews, and a spare altar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Basta pushed aside two women who were kneeling in the middle of the nave cleaning the floor and strode toward the altar steps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z For a moment, on the altar railing, I thought I had felt His warmth, but then everything moved so fast. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The priests here were famous for arguing to get the best altars for their own services. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The girl had vanished, but on the ground beside the altar lay a deer, its throat cut. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The upstart popular musicians, invited to bow at the altar of High Art, were at first dismissed by critics despite having delighted the audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The altar was covered by a simple linen cloth; above it hung a plain wooden cross. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother has set up an altar on the highest bookshelf. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The dishes were quickly done then we gathered in the sala where my mother kept her altar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The altar was buried under a midden of debris. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z My eyes travel to the altar and then the baptismal font. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Even if it were true,” he said, “what you would do is folly. You must not approach the god’s altar to try to prove him a villain.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the fit gathered so much steam so swiftly that he had to stagger over to the altar and grab hold of it to keep from falling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest entered, followed by the altar boys. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave Chaol an apologetic look and turned her gaze to the altar. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Still... standing at Neptune’s altar, he felt something stirring inside him, like waves rippling through his veins. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The previous week, after listening to the music and the reverend’s sermon, I had walked to the front of the church during the altar call. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Audience members saw themselves as communicants, humble supplicants at the high altar, even while Wagner was still very much flesh and blood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And there was a cradle beside the altar, a blue cloth draped over it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z With a tightening sense of anger, Hazel realized that an ancient altar to Hades had once stood there. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He gestures at a door behind the altar. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z "Every night I pray," she said, nodding towards the makeshift altar. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The salon was deserted, except for Steven and Emilia, who were standing alone and forgotten at the altar. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Over at the altar, the fiery ghost rose. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “She never answered the altar call, did she now?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “There are many altars...we can hope that...in her heart of hearts...” the pastor stammered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In his own high school years, Volpe had been protected by his football-playing friends, his fellow altar boys from Maternity Blessed Virgin Mary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We prayed rosary after rosary, until the monotonous sound of prayers blended into the blur of flickering altar candles. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course the temple and the two altars had to be decorated, too. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, when they lifted their foreheads from the temple floor, the scrap of paper was hanging in Thoth’s curved beak, and Toby was backing away from the altar, bowing at every step. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z On the altar, Thoth still sat with the slip of paper in his beak, exactly as they’d left him the night before. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z We followed Tonantzin as she walked back up to her altar. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Before the altar of this most rational of churches. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They weren’t easy to find, but I am leaving a bag of Abuelo’s favorite candy on the community altar at Calaca. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z When he saw her appear in a madapollam nightshirt and with her hair loose over her shoulders, the decrepit parish priest thought that it was a trick and sent the altar boy away. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They seemed to bloom so fast, those red hibiscuses, considering how often Mama cut them to decorate the church altar and how often visitors plucked them as they walked past to their parked cars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t much, but he set it on the altar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All linen was swept aside to be washed, but she carefully wrapped the useless cord and the afterbirth and laid the package at the feet of the Virgin on the small altar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, I sit at a table near the front of the room, facing the flower-strewn altar that’ll soon be occupied with a fine of people reading their eulogies to my brother. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She had a special “old folks” seat close to the altar and strolled up the center aisle to take her place. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We marched up the aisle to the altar, which was decked with poinsettias and candles and curtained off with red and green draperies. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Father Byrnes went up to the altar, the altar bell rang and mass began. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At this the two men stirred and picked their way to the door and out, and sat down at the altar, looking around with wincing eyes as though the sword’s edge hovered still. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It satirized the familiar, everyday tragedy of a chaste young girl, with below-shoulder-length blond hair and udder-size breasts, being criminally assaulted in church, in the very shadow of the altar, by her minister. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Emma took the children to church, though during the Trinity prayer, which proclaimed God as three in one—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—she turned away from the altar in disagreement. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At the far end of the room, where the altar would have been, stood a ten-foot-tall statue of pure white alabaster - a young woman in a white robe, a serene smile on her face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Lourdes imagines white azaleas and an altar set for high mass on an April Sunday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The sexton had found James Grew stretched on the floor in front of the altar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad says when he was my age in Toome he served Mass for years and it’s time for me to be an altar boy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When the altar gate was thrown open, the congregation surged forward to touch the infant Jesus for good luck in the coming year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She genuflected before the altar, then knelt at the rail. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the altar die priest was cleaning the chalice and the platters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as quickly, I turn back, carefully placing my hands on the altar, willing them not to tremble. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A priest, or monk, or whatever you call a cult clergyman, was at the altar, chanting in monotone and dousing lit candles one by one. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There was a chance, she thought, just the slimmest chance that an offering burned on this altar might appear at Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The altar boy held the gold platter under each chin, the priest mumbled something in Latin and placed the host on the tongue. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Candles flickered on a small altar, and the woody smell of incense floated in the air. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Ben swung his body toward the priest and the middle of the altar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Two high-school altar boys accompanied the priest, one to hold the lighted candle and the other to hold the incense burner. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Set’s altar, which had always been rather bare in comparison to Isis’s jeweled and flowered throne, was suddenly rich with ornaments. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The huge head, its center marked by a heap of stones that may once have been an altar, occupies the highest point. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Fela had set up an altar with pictures of the girls cut out from the popular posters that appeared each November. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked over to the altar stone set in the floor, where the cup and the brooch and the stone knife sat. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Tormented by Úrsula, Amaranta wept with indignation and swore her innocence in front of the altar, which the carpenters had not finished dismantling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In college chapels I would listen to folk singing and see plain altars draped with bright applique banners: JOY! Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then one day as Jones knelt in prayer at the altar, white trustees grabbed him and ordered him to sit in the back of the church. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It was built of unmortared stones, like the great wall of the keep, and the moonlight came through its single unglazed window to fall on the stone altar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As I stepped up to the altar, the humming of the computers ceased, and the chamber grew silent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I knew she was kneeling at her altar now, praying. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z So they put it on the altar, too, and called it the Crocodile Stone, and from then on it became the mysterious and powerful source of much of Set’s power. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither Condivi nor Vasari, Michelangelo’s biographers who knew him personally mention the master carving this little angel; they mention only the angel carved for the altar in Siena. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an ebony statue of a female saint in the comer, and a tureen on an altar crowded with apples and bananas and dishes of offerings I can’t identify. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The thatched crèche was inside the altar rail. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Hope in God, for I will still give praise to Him, responded the altar boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were an altar boy, I guess,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Warrior's altar, he used one candle to light another. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There wasn’t time to laugh or cry before all three of them were down on the floor behind the altar. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the flowers off the altar in the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Reverend Hunt kneels with me in the dirt in front of the altar. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I believe,” replied Socrates, “the spot is about a quarter of a mile lower down, and there is, I think, some sort of altar to Boreas there.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z April told everyone to wait just inside the fence while she tiptoed forward and lit the cone of incense on the altar of Set and the two candles that stood before the goddess Isis. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked around the altar backwards three times sprinkling holy water. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Lou went to Mass every Sunday, served as an altar boy, and attended BVM’s grammar school before moving on to Father Judge High School, which had three thousand students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I imagined the plain wooden crucifix above the altar swinging back and forth as Father Amadi raised the host at consecration. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a total guess, but the altar showed Mithras killing a bull, so Annabeth figured it must be important. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And at the back was the new altar to Thoth, with its candles and incense still burning in front of an old stuffed owl that Toby had cut his teeth on. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized that on the altar a single image had been placed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The Baptist church looked a lot like the Methodist one we went to, pews, altar, a couple of stained glass windows. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There, I found a raised stone altar with the five-pointed red star etched into its surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Francie believed with all her heart that the altar was Calvary and that again Jesus was offered up as a sacrifice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no carpet, so we could hear our own footsteps as we walked toward the altar, where a crucifix hung suspended—a pale white Christ with bright red wounds. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Octavian slashed open the panda’s belly and poured its stuffing over the altar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She remembered what Tiberinus had said: Find the altar of the foreign god. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As a recording of “Here Comes the Bride” played over the loudspeaker in the Northeast Baltimore church, the rear doors opened and the veiled bride began her slow procession toward the altar. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The child doesn’t have proper clothes for school never mind the altar. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She stood in front of the altar, shaking like a freshly caught trout. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave the crown a final tug down over Marshall’s ears and turned to face the altar of Set. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z At church, at the altar, there were vestments of gold and the climbing voices of a Mozart mass, tossing rings sempiternal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The mirror by the door was not a mirror by the door, it was an altar where he stood for only a moment to put on his cap before going out. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Below Him—on the altar—stood the fat tallow candle, whose constant fluttering flame shed some light upon the white walls of painted lime. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The preacher’s voice rose and fell with the same rhythms that had first drawn Henry to the altar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He paced, paused, spoke, and paced behind his palm-leaf altar, giving every impression he was inventing his Biblical parables on the spot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was known among the neighbors in the brush huts, among the pearl fishermen; it was known among the Chinese grocery-store owners; it was known in the church, for the altar boys whispered about it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad says the altar boy robes will cover the clothes and she says we don’t have the money for robes and the wash they need every week. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It would be Francie’s when she married and she was proud that it had come from the wood of that fine altar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His men leaped to their feet as he rose from his chair and walked slowly down the altar steps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Upon the high altar stood a golden monstrance in the shape of a sunburst, at the center of which—exposed through a tiny window— was the round wafer of bread. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t at all difficult to find the right sort of things for the altar of Nefertiti-Isis. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His footsteps rang on the stone, and then were muffled as he came on to the red carpet by the altar rail. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Over an altar crouched the body of a stuffed hyena. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It appeared I was supposed to place something on the altar, an offering to the Temple of Syrinx. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His sons took up five-tined forks in their hands, while the altar flame ate through the bones, and bits of tripe went round. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned from the altar, tiptoed to the kitchen, and quietly drew a spoon from a drawer. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A small band of young men, the only stationary ones in the room, stood before the phonograph as if it were an altar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We made Lynn’s altar on her desk, facing the big magnolia, which kept its leaves all winter. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Once having set up her idols and built altars to diem it was inevitable that she would worship there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The Catholic church, first on the scene and deeply dug in, sat in comfortable tradition while the missions were gradually abandoned and their roofs fell in and pigeons roosted on the stripped altars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Something bright and serene danced in his eyes, like the strange flames on the sticks near the altar. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The signs surrounding the triangle indicate that the altar should have one angle facing south. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The congregation drew up two yard chairs and sat facing the altar. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable—Caucasian characteristics for all. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Then she advanced to the rear pew and slid along to the end where she still had a view of the altar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the temple inside the cave, I could go up to the altar and talk to the Rain God if I wanted to, but I didn’t have a thing to say to him. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were shut, and I knew that he was no longer behind the altar draped in white cotton, that he was somewhere else that only he and God knew about. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Or else we could be evil high priestesses who are going to offer him as a human sacrifice on the crocodile altar to—what was that evil god’s name?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “The rest of us are priests and attendants of the Oracle. And I’m the high priestess who is the only one who can go into the altar room where the oracle gives out the answers.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And he bowed his head yet lower before the altar in weariness and confusion. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z As soon as Ken had written his question, Toby grabbed the folded paper, and, stepping up to the new altar, he started right in being the priest of the oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, it was Toby who suggested that they march around the altar, beating their chests and sprinkling their heads with ashes and wailing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind their altars, the Seven seemed to watch as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All eyes followed C.P. as he marched a counterclockwise circuit through the hall, pausing before small altars where the men leading him exchanged passwords with other Klansmen before continuing on their way. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As the walls were also glass, the stained windows above the altar appeared to hover in midair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He made an altar with cactus spines and purple locoweed flowers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that sixth-grade boys just normally kept a lot of things around that were perfect for the altar of an evil god. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Startled, I noticed that one of the arrangements, quite near the altar, was wired in the shape of the number 27. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I turn to see my altar—the statue of the Virgin Mary, the tea candle, the bottle of Florida water, the beaded gourd, tin cup, and white fabric. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He pointed to the church where the priest desecrated the altar by pouring the blood of dead pigeons into the holy chalice. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was dressed like a bride, in a white gown, white lace hood, and sheer veil, walking toward the altar, down the aisle of that converted barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t let me be an altar boy, a secondary school pupil, a missionary with the White Fathers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Let me worship at the altar that is her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Octavian took off his toga, setting it and his knife on the altar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Already the birdbath altar of Nefertiti, the fancy pillars from the porch of some Victorian mansion and the crumbling statue of Diana by the entrance were beginning to create a temple-like atmosphere. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the high vaulted ceilings, narrow deepset stained-glass windows and elaborately carved altars made it a miniature cathedral. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He rocked back and forth and nodded his head as Hanson gave the altar prayer one Sunday. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As she beat her fists on the altar, the old woman above her laid hands on her shoulders, crying: “Call on Him, daughter! Call on the Lord!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Now is the time to make yourself ready, now, amen, tonight, before His altar. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z On the altar the priest began the ceremony of changing the bread into flesh and the wine into blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I recall standing at the altar at Easter, amid candles and gold vestments, hearing the Mozart high mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Kate and William are at the altar together now, where he turned to her and said something that made her laugh. WEDDING WATCH: Kate tries out her royal wave 2011-04-29T11:33:17Z White pronounced her book another “beautiful and amusing wreath” laid “on the altar of the City of Light.” New in Paperback: ‘Speaking American’ and ‘The Seine’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z She walked down a white-carpeted aisle with her parents to an altar decorated with fireweed and roses. You, Me and 53 Dogs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Though last week’s outdoor wedding - with chairs and an altar set up by other shelter residents - occurred in unusual circumstances, it featured the usual jitters. The bridesmaids wore masks: Colombian couple meets, marries in coronavirus shelter 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z In some houses the altar fills the entire main room. Magical mystery tour: a road trip through Mexico 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Kristen Bell plays Rachel, whose wedding falls apart when she takes a work call before her cue to walk down the aisle, leading her groom to leave her at the altar. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Succession’ and ‘Like Father’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The lows of being left at the altar, seeing your dad after 26 years. “Like Father” writer/director Lauren Miller Rogen: “We heard no after no after no” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z And Rachel has just stood up her fiance, Barry, at the altar and is in need of a place to stay. 'Jennifer Aniston cried in my lap': the inside story of Friends 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z When we last left “Everlasting,” the fictionalized version of “The Bachelor” whose making is the subject of the Lifetime drama “Unreal,” our groom-to-be was left jilted at the altar. “Money. D*ck. Power.”: “Unreal” deconstructs fantasies — and asks what TV looks like with women in charge 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z Rutter characterises the carol as "a little something you lay upon the altar at Christmas time", but admits that a deep Christian faith may not be essential in a carol composer. Bleak midwinter to Sydney sun: King's College carol service gets a taste of Australia 2012-12-22T13:10:26Z But it's also a popularity contest, and in a room full of worshippers at the altar of hugeness, she is the 10th name called, and the only woman. The strength of "Physical: 100" is in what is has to say about our view of the perfect physique 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Once it was neatly terraced with wooden altars and statues and sacrifices. Return to Kailua, Hawaii 2011-09-02T18:14:23Z This sounds faintly heretical, but it also applies to two more of the six—the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the “Last Judgment” on the chapel’s altar wall. The maestro’s maestro 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It is where he played baseball with neighborhood kids, was an altar boy at St. Rose of Lima Church and was knocked around by the nuns at school. Why would Bruce Springsteen need to write an autobiography? Everyone has secrets. 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z They climb treacherous tenement stairs in Little Italy to the spot where Anna’s first husband was whacked; two weeks later Vito “dragged” her to the altar. Podcasts for Horoscopes, Adulting and Phish Fans: Here’s What’s New 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Inside, ceilings and windows shoot up, suggesting an industrial cathedral, with the flames of a wood-burning pizza oven for an altar. The 10 Best Cheap Eats of 2014 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z To get the right shots, she had walked down the aisle four times, said her vows three times, and kissed at the altar twice. Behind the scenes of reality TV: 'You're a little bit daft to apply' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z An unforeseen construction peculiarity caused the vault above the main altar to collapse in the process. Classical Epiphany 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never worshiped at the altar” of integration, he declared, five years after joining the Court. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Each day will start with a Kwanzaa altar presentation, at which children will learn about the holiday’s seven principles and celebrate the first, umoja, or unity, by decorating their own unity cups. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The men she loves either die or get engaged to her sister or both; or are too old or jilt her at the altar or both. Just when Lady Edith thought her luck couldn't get any worse… 2012-11-11T00:06:14Z "Why is there this handing off at the marriage altar, but then in reality, it feels like I've got the rug ripped out from under me, and I'm still under my dad's control?" "Faith is weaponized": Jill Duggar Dillard on how she felt controlled by her family 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z There are truth serums disguised as cafecitos, herbs with magical powers, prayer altars and characters hailing from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Argentina. Dark Magic and Other Escapes in These Summer Y.A. Novels 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s here, in the central story of transformation — how each woman puts her “body on the altar” to free herself — that “Chonburi” achieves the kind of focus it needs to do the same. In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s decked out with stained-glass windows, a pipe organ, two pews and an altar. Let the Wedding Come to You 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z “We made the call at the very last hour of the last moment, right before the altar pieces were due to come down in churches in Italy,” Feldman said. National Gallery forced to cancel its landmark ‘Genoa’ exhibition because of worsening pandemic conditions, travel problems 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Fans worshipped at the altar of Wonder Woman. Here's All the Best Stuff From Comic-Con in One Place 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z And the standing audience looked noble rather than harassed, like worshipers in church at the altar of Balenciaga. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z It was one of four commissions for the chapel altar of an important Jesuit residence. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The work, titled “RGB,” evoked the altar of the media screen. The Details: In Praise of British Design 2012-09-26T22:11:26Z When Lisa Marshall joined her longtime husband at the altar, he leaned in and gave her a kiss. Man with Alzheimer’s forgot he was married to his wife. He proposed, and they wed again: ‘There wasn’t a dry eye.’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Edwards compares the work to Renaissance altar pieces that were opened or closed to show alternate paintings for different occasions. In the galleries: Scenes of nature with allusions to religious art 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Sauvé presented them as Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Francis Thomas, and the couple walked down the aisle before returning to the altar to snap a few group portraits with their families. Two Survivors Make It to the Merge 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Shame on a country that so addicted to "progress" that it cannot discriminate between good and bad and simply worships at the altar of The New. Parenting in the Age of Online Pornography 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z During one of the opening scenes of the movie, as a young Tammy Faye approaches the altar of her parents' Evangelical church, I watched a look of horror spread across my son's 12-year-old face. "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z The ensemble brings to mind a partially-covered ceremonial altar or an adorned exhibition pedestal, and most fruitfully, the uncanny conflation of the two. Canvas minus the painting: the label-defying art of Frances Trombly 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The grooms were escorted to the altar by their mothers and, before the ceremony, the men exchanged and read letters each had written to the other. Relationships with Grandmothers (and God) Drew Them Closer 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Then a train stalls, life happens and Icelandair is left alone at the altar, with only a chilled shot of Brennivín to drown its sorrows. Help! I’m Stuck on a Train and My Plane Is Leaving Without Me 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z A devastated Grohl, who has already built an altar to Sandi in his carport, decides to devote his life to rock-and-roll and, eventually, local hardcore legends Scream. Review | Dave Grohl’s ‘The Storyteller’ is just as upbeat as you’d expect 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z At the altar end is a thicket of golden candles, slowly snuffed out in the course of the evening. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z It’s true; there are perhaps a dozen people in the cathedral and most of them are waiting patiently in front of the astronomical clock to the right of the altar. To Strasbourg, in search of a tale from the crypt 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “Perhaps a song was going through your head,” he continued, musing about Mr. Klein’s slowness to the altar. Love Rocks — And So Does a Walk Down the Aisle With Debbie Harry 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z There are numerous inscribed tombstones and altars around the astonishing Roman Baths – one of the most impressive and important Roman British sites in the country. Speaking stones: the Roman Baths at Bath 2011-04-07T12:02:58Z But it’s also the common ending to most “Bachelor” stories, as the franchise’s couples rarely make it to the altar. Post-‘Bachelorette,’ Andi Dorfman finds happiness in a ‘Single State of Mind’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “They converted the altar from a religious and cultural symbol into a political statement,” the museum said. El Museo del Barrio Rejects Artwork Featuring Palestinian Flag 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z In his 1830 revival campaign in Rochester, Mr. Finney formalized the “anxious bench,” a pew or altar where sinners congregated while members of the crowd prayed for them to repent or become Christians. Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering 2011-05-28T00:30:15Z I met Mr. Lamoureux, talked about my life, answered questions and went to a small room for puja, a ritual performed in front of an altar adorned with fresh flowers and fruit. A 20-Minute Exercise You Can Do Anywhere 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The neighborhood’s landscape is distinctly Latino, with artful front-yard altars dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe and Mexican-American murals bringing vibrant life to peeling walls. Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’ 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z The delicate little symmetries dance and gyrate, connect and disengage, suggesting insect specimens, jewels, orchids, masks, altars, ogres and ornate temples. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z One ends with a funeral for a child’s stuffed bear “lying, face up, on a cardboard altar.” 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s God telling Abraham to lay his child on the altar. RECAP: The Americans Watch: Something Greater Than Yourself 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The museum said in a statement that Baizan had “made a last-minute modification to the altar without further consultation or approval from El Museo as required by our contract with them.” El Museo del Barrio Rejects Artwork Featuring Palestinian Flag 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z For a while Bob, an altar boy, considered the priesthood, but he succumbed to art and, after graduating from Blair academy, New Jersey, in 1948, he departed for California. Bob Guccione obituary 2010-10-21T17:51:00Z Built by 15th-century emperors, it’s a marvel of altars, bridges and painted ceilings. How to see Beijing in three days (because you don’t need a visa for 72-hour visits) 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z She attended Mass three times a week, volunteered as an altar server and was the fourth generation of her family to attend her Catholic school; her grandfather had helped tile the cathedral. The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z A country in miniature, Portugal Bored with all that pesky sightseeing, those endless historical monuments, the dull drag of yet another rococo cathedral altar? 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z For Tom Bishop this year, Ms. Morales sold miniatures — which she makes with her whole family — of an ofrenda, an altar for deceased relatives, and piñatas, among other items. Inside the Big World of Small Objects 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Such parallels charge us to treat bodies as sacred, like altars. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z They insist they are a stable couple very much headed to the altar this May. When Couples Fight on Facebook, Everyone Knows the Score 2010-03-18T00:26:00Z Both of these concerts were useful reminders that the point of the exercise is not worshiping at familiar altars, but making music. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z When they sang along, it was in a unified hum, reminding Mr. Buffett of the recitation of prayers in church during his altar boy days. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z And neither do people of color, which is perhaps why in the fourth season Shy rushes to the altar — with a woman — after Midge's onstage outing. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and her anti-apology 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Stone, “stifling the urge to stand up and start preaching from the legerdemain section,” instead decides to flash her an “innocent altar boy look.” Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z At the front was an “altar” decorated with flowers and candles. Studying your dreams: Bradley Cooper swears by it. Would trying it unleash my creativity? 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z For the altar, she placed a white drape over piping, which was propped up by stakes in the ground. How to Transform Your Place for an Intimate Wedding 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z I was brought up good Christian boy, altar boy and all that stuff, so I mean, I still have all of that. Eric Bogosian breaks down "Uncut Gems" and Adam Sandler's "amazing" performance 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Remaining problems: It’s still a complete and utter mess, logic sacrificed on the altar of 21st century Hollywood action movie pacing. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – the five finest fan theories 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Before going back to email and schedules, there’s a stairway to climb to embrace the statue of St. James at the cathedral’s altar, and one last chance to hug fellow pilgrims. Hike Spain’s Camino de Santiago to connect with land and people 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Although Salovey didn’t mention anyone by name, he surely had in mind some of the tall tales about brave students and professors being silenced and martyred on altars of free speech by politically correct hordes. How’d we get here? The unholy crusade against political correctness was all the cover Trump needed 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Let's not forget who was kneeling next to teen Lottie at the bear heart altar at the end of Season 1. "Yellowjackets" gives us more of Misty's origin story in "Digestif" 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In the sanctuary you could find Beth Gill sliding and slumping along the carpeted risers and altar, as if she were part-riser herself. Eiko, Koma and Soloists Perform in Sacred Space 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Despite the vast altars on which networks make gruesome sacrifices while cantillating to their gods, neither of these shows will last forever. Review: ‘The Mayor,’ ‘9JKL’ and ‘Ghosted’ Offer Three Flavors of Network Comedy 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The setting wraps McQueen’s work in history and gives the historical altar contemporary resonance. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The altar found this year had also been used as ballast to support the walls of a huge timber building in use in the decades following Roman rule in Britain. Fresh insights from the UK's oldest museum of Roman remains 2012-08-15T07:00:00Z What she witnessed was a priest molesting an altar boy, a terrified sixth grader. Stabbed in the Convent, Murdered in the Yard 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z In Couperin’s era 15 lighted candles were placed in candelabra before the altar at the start of the ceremony; the candles would be extinguished individually until the church was completely dark. Music Review: Tenet Performs Couperin?s Lessons for Lent 2012-03-11T22:13:39Z And the exhibition curator, Pep Subiros, in collaboration with Ms. Alexander, makes the most of this by placing the bulk of the art in individual chapels, each a kind of mini-theater, surrounding the main altar. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z The sculpture was in a niche to a side of the elaborate main altar by Alonso Berruguete. Scholar Says a Church Statue From Spain Is by Michelangelo 2013-06-30T21:47:07Z “Not much of a scientific insight?” he writes, genuflecting at the altar of modesty. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z With beaverish industry, armed with staplers, tape, glue and other humble implements of construction, he has transformed his vulgar materials into glittering altars, chalices, papal crowns and icons. Art Review: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, at MoMA PS1 2012-12-06T21:51:50Z Law enforcement objected to it as an altar to a drug dealer. A Vanished New Orleans Captured on “Straight from the Projects” 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z According to Stourton, Clark astonished “the crew during the filming of one of the early episodes when he carried the medieval Cross of Lothar up to the altar of Aachen Cathedral, and burst into tears.” The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z A third couple learns the meaning of devotion while smoking pot; a fourth couple — now configured as two gay men — experiences hiccups on the way to the altar. Review: In a Gender-Flipped Revival, ‘Company’ Loves Misery 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The title conjures up images of a jittery wife-to-be fleeing from the altar — and this movie's got one of those — but it's actually a reference to a real-life event. Engaging 'Bride Flight' lands Down Under 2011-06-23T20:42:05Z She loved men, dating many of the richest and most famous, including Frank Sinatra, Henry Kissinger and Malcolm Forbes, and married eight times, including two visits to the altar with Burton. Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z It’s a day of meditation and multicultural prayer for which Ms. Blake creates an altar with symbolic foods: brightly hued produce, cornbread, black-eyed peas. Hot Links and Red Drinks: The Rich Food Tradition of Juneteenth 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Alyokhina said that "of course we didn't want to offend worshippers" when they protested at the cathedral's altar. Pussy Riot: One defendant freed 2012-10-10T19:24:13Z Eggs painted on the altar symbolize fertility, according to Mr. Osanna. Elaborate Ancient Shrine is Excavated From the Ashes of Pompeii 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z A somewhat sickly child and sometime altar boy, he devoured movies from an early age, declaring once that "movies and religion" had been his whole life. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z Behind him is a piece with a quote from Martí: “The motherland is an altar, not a pedestal.” Can one man’s Cuban road trip fix 56 years of cultural disconnect? 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Is this really going to make people start worshiping at the altar of Audra? ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Church leaders in Ghent, its Belgian home, were overjoyed in 1945, when the altar by Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert was returned. When the Virus Came, Some Museum Curators Lost Years of Work 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Here, the “Return of The Prodigal” radiates over the altar of the Chapel of the Prodigal, a mountain-Gothic building at Montreat College. Following a trail of frescoes in the mountains of North Carolina 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z New to me was the artist Juan de Juanes, whose six exquisite panels created for the altar of Valencia’s Church of St. Stephen are now given pride of place in recently reinstalled galleries. A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Near the top hangs an embroidered Baroque altar front in royal purple and gold. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Because the godless, liberal Benedict Arnolds at Comedy Central have prostrated to the altar of political correctness! "South Park": The controversy continues 2010-04-29T00:20:00Z I stepped closer to examine the pictures on the wooden altar. Queer wedding planning at the end of the world 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Cleveland, with its new galleries of ancient and medieval art, is ideal for viewing the exhibition, which includes an 11th-century German altar, with gold, pearls and cloisonné, from the museum’s collection. The Week Ahead: Jan. 2 ? 8 2010-12-31T15:49:43Z Luckily, I was not left at the altar and I have a fantastic dad. “Like Father” writer/director Lauren Miller Rogen: “We heard no after no after no” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Photographs of the musician, who grew up in Stockholm in the parish that the Hedvig Eleonora Church serves, were on the altar. A Church Remembers Avicii, With Hits Instead of Hymns 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Families place the offerings — usually food and paper made to look like money or personal items — on an altar outside their home. Ghosts and spirits aren’t celebrated only on Halloween 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z These harried parents and their children are drawn with real sensitivity, and despite how horribly some of them act, he doesn’t sacrifice anyone on the altar of his wit. Review | Parents will stop at nothing to get their kids into a prestigious school 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In many cultures, people maintain home altars where they make offerings to their ancestors. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z In the 19th and early 20th century, everyone worshiped at the altar of Sarah Bernhardt. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z View it and the exquisite marble altar inside the church, whose interior underwent restorations sponsored by Save Venice, an organization that has helped preserve hundreds of the city’s works of art and architecture. 36 Hours in Venice 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z A man in a baseball cap is lighting incense on an altar. Dead or alive: culture is kicking in Pátzcuaro, Mexico 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z She loved men, dating many of the world's richest and most famous, including Frank Sinatra, Henry Kissinger and Malcolm Forbes, and married eight times, including the two visits to the altar with Burton. Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z There are also tunic collars for choir members, veils for covering the chalice, banners, crowns, canopies, cases for patriarchal staffs, altar curtains and kerchiefs for the handling of crosses. Middle East: A Culture's History Written in Thread 2011-03-30T20:31:12Z All have left traces — altars, temples, shrines, mosques, inscriptions — some hauntingly beautiful, others erased to stubs. Rome, Sacred Ground for Nearly 3,000 Years, and Counting 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z I say altar; it was actually a tinselled corner of R&R's. EastEnders: it's a Walford crime wave 2013-04-27T05:00:00Z I decided this should come first because this album is my altar. How Banks Found Her Voice on Her New Album The Altar 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z During the war itself, and shortly after the Union’s victory, churches began flying the banner near the altar, with no feelings of contradiction from congregants, side-by-side with the cross. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z A good start, yet Lapine waits so long to hear the result, or any result, that he begins to fear Sondheim will leave him “at the altar.” Sunday in the Trenches With George 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Then, they must zip through relationship milestones – first holiday together, cohabitation, meeting the parents – before they decide, at the altar, whether or not to say: “I do.” Love Is Blind: Netflix's hit is dating TV at its most awful – and compelling 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The bride, clutching a bouquet of calla lilies and hibiscus, followed a path of white delphiniums that led to an altar adorned with a huge arch of white, yellow, lavender and soft pink flowers. The Perfect Window for a First Impression 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Penelope would like them gone, but in the meantime, she has to stave off any trip to the altar. ‘Penelope’ Review: Adrift Between Ithaca and Progress 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The Passion is brought into the present by a loose progression of colors from mostly cool at the rear of the nave to mostly warm near the altar, with its 14th century Tuscan crucifix. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Getting Clooney to the altar “was really one of the greatest achievements in human history.” Barbara Walters Picks Amal Clooney as 'Most Fascinating Person of the Year' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Weak Ends finds Diaz worshipping, ever so listlessly, at the altar of the young Bernard Sumner. New band of the day ? No 797: Million Young 2010-05-28T16:10:00Z Ms. Marquardt, in a white A-line dress with a fitted, sequined bodice from Finley Florence Bridal in New London, walked down the aisle with her father to an altar adorned with white tulle and greenery. They Met on the Court. They Both Won in Love. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z One shows an elaborate altar carved into a wall just feet from steps that led to the trenches, Jakab said. Art made on the front lines of the First World War 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z A batting coach worships at the altar of Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio. Review | Emily Nemens’s ‘The Cactus League’ is a nostalgic look at the world of baseball 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The iconic abbey was airy and calm, the long aisle leading to the altar lined with maple and hornbeam trees as light streamed in through the high arched windows. History in the making: Kate, William are wed 2011-04-29T11:43:13Z Dozens of red candles set in front of an enormous mirror suggested an altar, and wrought-iron chairs contrasted with a red wall that displayed an eclectic set of crosses. Seoul’s Hundred Faces 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Two altar cloths of white Bruges satin, with drops like spots of blood, made of red velvet. The Year in Novels So Far; Plus, Hilary Mantel! 2012-05-16T15:37:58Z Suddenly, the scene shifts inside a church where Pierre waits at the altar alongside Florence. Movie Review: ‘Le Grand Amour’ by Pierre Etaix 2012-10-18T23:49:11Z Glasgow is washed windows, with soap suds dripping down the panes; London is the tinkle of the bell the altar boy rings in Catholic mass. Experience: I taste people’s names 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z At least, that’s how the two very human-looking people at the altar explained it. What I learned about love during my years of reporting on weddings 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z I tried jumping jacks to see if they’d help with panic, sprinting to see if it helped with the fear, making an altar to see if it would help with the existential angst. Seven things I wish I'd known before my divorce: an optimistic guide to the future 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It took him a couple of times to get him to show up to the altar and stay put long enough to marry Carrie. Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z I suppose there was a rebranding explosion when Europe Christianised: loads of mosaics having to be relaid, crosses nailed on to temples, altars altered. David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction 2011-02-13T00:05:37Z There’s also a cylindrical stone block, possibly an altar. Roman Forum find could be shrine to Rome’s founder, Romulus 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The community "ofrenda" - the term for a Day of the Dead offering or homemade altar - features blessings, live music and poetry, Oct. 17-Nov. 'Day of the Dead' expanding in U.S. 2011-10-20T17:08:26Z For a man left at the altar on his wedding day, Frank plays Aretha Franklin’s “Oh No Not My Baby.” Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Sneak a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of Grand Park’s 35 Dia de los Muertos altars and art, which were created by local artists and will be on display through Nov. 6. Six family-friendly ways to experience downtown L.A. at Grand Ave Arts festival this weekend 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Brides, traded by their fathers for a dowry, were once formally exchanged at the altar. Walking Down the Aisle Alone 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z At noon, visitors can create their own offering to people they want to commemorate at the traditional community altar. Spare Times for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The actor who won a permanent place on the altar of pop culture for his portrayal of Mr. Spock on “Star Trek,” was almost as famous for wanting to be remembered for other things. For Leonard Nimoy, Spock’s Hold Made Reaching Escape Velocity Futile 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “And he put the money in his pocket and walked up to the altar anyway.” Taking Down Bad Men Is Her Job 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Bowers visited, and produced a film from the encounter, a portrait of mother and son silently facing the camera, the altar behind them. Andrea Bowers: Her Activism Animates Her Art 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z At an elaborate altar along the route, performers will pay tribute to those who died in the tremors. In burgeoning Day of the Dead parade, Mexico remembers earthquake casualties 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z He’s a Christian who refuses to believe in the version of God he learned about as a Catholic altar boy. Colton Underwood Comes Out and Comes Clean 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z A friendship with one man follows, and reaches its apotheosis when they declare their love for each other while Ms. Jones’s bride waits at the altar. Movie Review: ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’ Stars Rashida Jones 2012-08-02T21:33:44Z An advantage of the verger tour is that it’s the only way to get into the tiny and ancient Edward the Confessor shrine, a raised area behind the high altar. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z He sacrificed everything at the altar of creativity. A Style-Minded Filmmaker at Home With Family Treasures 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z They opened the doors to the Edna Barnes Salomon Room, the Beaux-Arts gallery lined with portraits of the Astors, and proceeded to kneel before a makeshift altar, as Gregorian chant played on the soundtrack. On the Runway: Thom Browne's Convent 2011-02-14T23:45:56Z "Apostle" was a fitting undertaking for a fallen altar boy, beleaguered Peace Corps volunteer, adventure journalist and writer whose short fiction delights in the mishaps of expat Americans navigating foreign lands. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “A kitchen altar brings a sense of reverence to food preparation that can turn mindless snacking into a moment of graciously hosting ourselves and toasting to health and beauty.” The Moon Juice Prosperity Gospel 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z What will he be willing to sacrifice on the altar of his quest for cultural purity? Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Newly restored, the sculpture buzzes in a far corner like an altar to some neon god, at once ominous and magnetic. New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z On the mini-melodrama Cry to the Beat of the Band, Ellis-Bextor even plays a bride who abandons her husband at the altar. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's eerie inspirations 2014-01-22T07:24:33Z They set it apart from everything else, as if on an altar, in a niche-like west-facing window, with open sky and the Hudson River as backdrop. Through Catastrophe, and in Community, the Art of Daniel Lind-Ramos 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Isatu stands in front of the altar, leading the sacraments and collecting donations. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Beneath the shrine, an altar holds traces of burned offerings from almost 2,000 years ago. Elaborate Ancient Shrine is Excavated From the Ashes of Pompeii 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Among the less likely bets: That the happy couple car's will break down outside Westminster Abbey, that Middleton will jilt William at altar, or that Prince Harry will be too drunk to finish his speech. Here come the bets: Royal wedding fuels UK wagers 2011-04-26T11:28:11Z “You never saw her physical body, but you would always see her implements, her objects, her little machines,” Stout said; the pieces are influenced by the “folk altars” of the assemblage artist Betye Saar. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Boyle arrives with the bright red teardrop recreational vehicle and pops open the real galley, which becomes the altar/serving station. Let the Wedding Come to You 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z It stormed as she walked down the aisle to join her husband at the altar, where he waited under a flimsy umbrella. A blind date — to say “I do”: “Married at First Sight” proves the unpredictability of romance 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z At once soaring and torrential, the altar insists on your smallness, your next-to-nothingness in the redemptive drama. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z I spent my childhood in Catholic school, went to church twice a week, knelt and I stared all the hour at bleeding, naked Jesus, ribs protruding, hanging on a cross above the altar. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Romantic films wend their way to the altar as inevitably as action films lead nowhere. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z After sardine-ing on a tent floor for three nights, everyone bolted through the four-bedroom cottage to claim one of the four beds, each a high altar of marshmallow pillows and creamy linen. On Cumberland Island, you don’t have to choose between roughing it and pampering yourself 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z With these visions at stake, Blue’s willingness to consider the city’s offer is seen as a race betrayal, or at least as his sacrificing community on the altar of private art. Review: Downtown Renewal Means Trouble in ‘Paradise Blue’ 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Seattle Center hosts a Mexican celebration remembering the departed, with traditional sand painting, art exhibit, music and dance performances, short films, food, craft activities and altars dedicated to loved ones, noon-8 p.m. 18 top entertainment picks, Oct. 23-29 2011-10-19T22:58:08Z But when that pang arises, he also imagines himself offering Mass on an altar and thinks about his experiences ministering in hospitals and using art to teach children about God. This Life: He never imagined being a priest. But then he felt the call — and it terrified him. 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z But on Nov. 21, when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, unveils its new building for modern and contemporary art, visitors will discover her mirrored altar, “Transparent Migrations.” Inspiration From South of the Border Moves Center Stage in Houston 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The Pergamon altar, which is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Berlin, was narrowly saved from destruction in the 1860s by the German engineer, architect and archaeologist Carl Humann. Turkey wages 'cultural war' in pursuit of its archaeological treasures 2013-01-21T19:16:05Z Most of the pieces don’t take the form of literal altars. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s works criss-cross the paths of U.S. colonialism 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The ashes of Edward Burne-Jones lay, in a plain oak casket, on his old drawing table in front of the altar, surrounded by four candles. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z In the chapel at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children rows of teddy bears and other well-loved stuffed animals line the wall above the altar. Faith should harness art's appeal 2010-07-12T15:00:00Z Nour Sassine, 25, a fashion and textile designer in Beirut, had been shopping at Acne Studios next door when she noticed the altar outside Off-White. Honoring Virgil Abloh, ‘the Ultimate Designer,’ at His Store 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z This was once in the altar of the women’s church, Mazzocchi says, where wet nurses and female foundlings prayed before it. This 15th-century orphanage in Florence is now a kid-friendly museum 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z We're about to witness either a midsummer night's dream of a gig or the ritual sacrifice of another promising young songwriter at the altar of industry box-ticking. Kyla La Grange – review 2012-05-31T17:45:01Z Together, the congregants pray over Benny, who’s lain supine on the altar on a simple cloth. Review: Faith Found and Lost in ‘Free in Deed’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “It’s now all about facing the DJ, whether at big clubs or festivals – they are the altar at which you pray.” Creating the ‘decadent twilight world’ of nightclubs 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Heffernan, who worships at the figurative altar of the Old Masters, continues to strike me as a little mawkish, but her chops are undeniable. Five Female Painters to See in New York Art Galleries 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z That doesn’t stop people from seeking that trip to the altar, despite “Love Is Blind” proving how tricky that quest can be. The best takeaway from this season of "Love Is Blind"? Act like Milton 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Rudnick’s “My Husband” is even funnier, a clever spoof of the collective rush to the altar and the competitive streak it can bring out in both the participants and their relatives. | 'Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays': ?Standing on Ceremony? at Minetta Lane Theater - Review 2011-11-14T03:01:01Z Shocked members of the clergy had to drag them off the altar. The eco-sex activists who want to save the world 2013-04-11T18:00:03Z At the Bridge, 400 or so playgoers per performance have the opportunity to follow these characters’ paths to the altar, quite literally. Review: A Mobile Audience for a Moving ‘Guys and Dolls’ 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But the remix seemed entirely new with Prince, and Mr. Enninful worshiped at his altar, loving his ruffled shirts with the Edwardian collars and black matador outfits with the crazy crop tops. Prince Is Mourned by Fashion World, Which Counted Him as One of Its Own 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z So David woke up every day to perform his morning rituals: meditating, lighting incense before goddess figurines and burning sage at the altar in his apartment. This Life: For this witch, Wicca is about personal responsibility and growth 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Even the church’s main altar was a Bosch work, which apparently remained in place until 1629 when the city fell to the Protestant army of the Reformed Dutch Republic in the Eighty Years’ War. From Hell to Heaven in the Hometown of Bosch 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z As a critique of the art world’s slavery to fashion — and its worship at the altar of Gagosian — it’s all rather superficial and obvious. | Francesco Vezzoli's Temple of Obsession 2011-02-09T19:30:37Z He plays, he may even briefly be, the charming, considerate fellow, attentive to his woman’s every need or whim, just like the hero of some classic romantic comedy that ends at the altar. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Once the dancers arrive on the altar, they change into ordinary street clothes, a staple of postmodern dance. Review: Connecting Dance and Worship With Poetic Imagination 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z For too long, Odran is willfully oblivious to his friend’s misdeeds, though he learns that the altar boys call Tom “Satan.” Kelly Link’s ‘Get in Trouble’ and Five Other Works 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Then, as soon as she reached the altar, her veil fell off. Looking for a Wedding Date, He Found a Partner Instead 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The girl carried the doll everywhere she went and, after her premature death, the family placed her favorite toy in an altar in her memory. The homeless couple living in Walmart and 7 other urban legends that won’t die 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Moreover, the character of the boy is perceived at different times to be a Jew or a gypsy; he becomes an altar boy; he is also told to embrace Stalinism, and "act like a Communist." "The Painted Bird" is a brutal masterpiece depicting the horrors and inhumanity of war 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z His own explosively seasoned food at the Mission Chinese Food restaurants in New York and San Francisco is the opposite of minimalist, but he worships at the Hendersons’ altar of perfectionism through technique. The Culinary Couple Who Built a British Empire 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z "I am by no means a worshiper at the altar of Alfred Hitchcock." Review: ‘Phaedra(s)’ Goes Psycho With Isabelle Huppert 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Visitors can hear music being mixed at an "altar" and thumb through well-worn albums and play their own selections. 14 Seattle entertainment picks for Dec. 18-24 2011-12-15T21:08:00Z The 2017 edition of Cannes is shaping up to provide its usual cocktail of white-hot star power and genuflection at the altar of art cinema. Sofia Coppola to Michael Haneke: the movies and directors most likely to make it to Cannes 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z We've heard a few LAC tracks and each worships at the twin altars of '76 punk and Sham 69, with a smidgeon of the Jam if they had never progressed beyond In the City. New band of the day (LAC No 1,529) 2013-06-10T17:08:21Z They're right about the pair making it to the altar, which happened on Nov. 11 – one day before Britney's freedom captured all the headlines. Paris Hilton is her own purse dog – why even the socialite struggles with her engineered image 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Michele Clise, author of the popular Ophelia teddy bear books, delivers a veritable altar of beat-up fabrics, lacy fans, dainty antique furniture, scampering toy mice, the odd chandelier or two and scores of other doodads. 'Slippery Slope': art collection as obsession 2012-03-16T19:38:04Z When Ms. Hogg died at age 80 this past June, the staff decorated the church where her memorial was held with 10-foot lavender gingham bows running to the altar. Inside The World of Interiors, Condé Nast’s Secret Weapon 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It reflects Flanagan’s experience when, after what he describes as a healthy Catholic upbringing — including 12 years as an altar boy — he finally read the Bible, and felt the scales fall from his eyes. Mike Flanagan Explores His Private Horrors in ‘Midnight Mass’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Does he regret leaving Rachel at the altar? Patrick J. Adams Is Happy to Take the Suits Out of ‘Suits’ 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z People celebrating the holiday begin setting up altars on Oct. Día de Muertos: 5 things to know about the holiday 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Burgoa pointed to text that the museum had approved on a painting behind the altar that said, “The police, immigration police, is the same garbage.” El Museo del Barrio Rejects Artwork Featuring Palestinian Flag 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z On January 6, our children put their shoes under our family altar table in the living room. Christmas and what it really means: Tips for keeping us rooted in faith 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z In the hands of an insightful and passionate interpreter, his music leads even the agnostic through a cathedral and up to the altar, there to glimpse glories larger than life. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z Dozens of porticoes along the outer walls are bricked in and divided into dark, gated rooms holding saints’ bones and candlelit altars. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z This piece works almost like a side altar for the show. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z As we approached the door of the pavilion, we explained that this really was the altar of English cricket, a venerable palace. From the Observer archive, 27 June 1954: Groucho Marx goes to cricket's Mecca 2013-06-22T23:05:12Z The photo in the Buddhist altar for her husband, who died two years ago, is smaller than a picture of Masako displayed nearby. 'Superfan' of Japan's royals has followed them for decades 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s not necessarily one person at the altar and the other walking in with a bouquet. A Gay Wedding Is a Wedding. Just a Wedding. 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z And while it's vital for the theatre to engage with the world around it, we should avoid sacrificing depth or complexity on the altar of short-term relevance. Why sex is better in the theatre 2010-09-29T16:05:00Z Behind the altar is the bejeweled 17th-century “Virgin of Hope,” a centerpiece of Seville’s Holy Week festivities. 36 Hours in Seville 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The teenagers might have been up to “mischief,” as one of the movie’s interviewees blandly puts it, but they were effectively sacrificed on the altar of public opinion. Movie Review: The Documentary ‘The Central Park Five’ 2012-11-21T23:45:09Z Bedazzled by the chance to seize the good life in Boyle Heights, Hason assimilates quickly as he seeks the right connections and sacrifices home life on the altar of career. Luis Alfaro's 'Mojada' draws on Greek tragedy, Mexican American immigration 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Later that night, I peeked into the center’s adytum, a dark and lovely stone chapel whose altar glowed with candlelight. Personal Journeys: In Pennsylvania, a Quick Shot of Peace, on a Budget 2011-12-29T18:59:14Z You’ll find altar displays, music, food, sugar skulls and festivities at Seattle Center all weekend, and also at two neighborhood festivals on Saturday: One on Beacon Hill, the other on Phinney Ridge. 5 things to do this weekend, from ‘Frankenstein' to festivals 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z At the annual Comic-Con International expo, pop-culture fandom is elevated to veritable religious status, and the convention's 130,000-odd attendees have countless ways to worship at the altars of their choosing. Comic-Con, Hollywood and the nature of modern fandom 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Installed in a temple, they opened when a fire burned on its altar, to the awe of those spectating. Robots, clocks and computers: How Ancient Greeks got there first 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Indian officials have received a Buddha statue that had gone missing more than two decades ago from its altar at one of the country’s most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites, the Devisthan Kundalpur Temple in Bihar. Stolen Buddha Statue That Resurfaced in Italy Will Return to India 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z For people in other areas, the website deadbird.land lists instructions for making an altar of your own. A Choreographer Who Bridges the Worlds of Dance and Nursing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z When: October 29 through November 14 for Luis Fitch’s contemporary altar and October 29 through November 21 for the traditional altar. On Mexico’s Day of the Dead, the dead are remembered, not feared 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z After the performance, that same space is occupied by “Offering Shrine,” which includes an altar of objects as varied as a crayon, a stopwatch, black beans and turtle figurines. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z At the altar, tucked under a canopy of lush interwoven white orchids, she leaned into the groom for a kiss. For NBC’s Kristen Welker, Love Took Its Time 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z And there are heretofore unplanned challenges, like how to fit two cathedral trains trailing side by side on the exuberant walk back from the altar. For Same-Sex Brides, Choosing Between Gown and Suit 2012-05-23T19:42:29Z Occasionally, around the altar used for Mass or the great basin constructed of skulls, a few people gather, but, for the most part, the experience is a solitary one. Beneath the bustling streets of Paris, the Catacombs are silent as the grave 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Seconds later, when he and Ms. Smith were pronounced married, they walked from the altar arm and arm to Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered.” For Couple With Moebius Syndrome, Love Is Expressed From the Heart 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Chapter 1, “Becoming the Alchemist,” gives instructions for making a kitchen altar. The Moon Juice Prosperity Gospel 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z In one of "Grey's" most popular scenes, on her wedding day, April approaches the altar, and the officiant gives people time to object. Remember her? Why your favorite Black female characters are being "summarily dismissed" 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z They held hands in front of an altar just before Hova placed a ring on his lady's finger. Beyonce, Jay Z share private wedding footage during joint tour 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z I was 47 and it was my first time at the altar; my husband was 35. The other side of 'I do': how the weight of wedded bliss forever changed me 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z They fret about the pressures their kids face while continuing to worship at the altar of getting them into just the right college. Motherlode Blog: The Destructive "Too Much Homework" Myth 2012-03-06T19:00:47Z The problem is, that for many rock climbers the moody gritstone edges represent an almost sacred altar of movement. Rock climbers scale heights of indignation at poet's Cultural Olympiad trail 2012-08-01T15:39:00Z In a case of art imitating life, much of this struggle informed “Anything but Love,” in which the showgirl heroine leaves a flush financial type at the altar and runs off with her lowly accompanist. My Son, My Daughter: A Mother’s Evolution 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Most of the characters fit into three categories — evil men, men who stand in evil’s way and collateral damage — and some from each will be sacrificed on the hard-boiled altar. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z They lowered him into a tomb carved out of the floor near the altar. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z The idea, she said, would be to create the inside of a church, with a montage of Waters films spooling near the altar. John Waters, an Auteur of Trash, Would Like to Thank the Academy 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z She is also the officiant at the 10-by-10-foot chapel outfitted with a square of grassy turf and a corner altar draped in sheer white fabric. Brought Together by Fate, and Three Finicky Cats 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z "Clearly these books contain Christian content, but there is no altar call at the end of each one," said Granger. Religion: Final gasp of the 'Harry Potter' wars? 2011-07-18T16:00:06Z Three bangs of a gong ushered the bride and groom to an altar adorned with decorative screens and a throne made from animal bone and hide. Star Trek fans tie the knot at "Klingon wedding" 2012-10-19T20:15:56Z She was escorted to an oceanside altar by her son and her brother, James Nichols Jr. Awaiting her there was Mr. Hall, in a cream-colored suit. For a Motivational Speaker, It Took Years to Feel Worthy of His Love 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z "This is what people do at times like this," Sutherland intones while White Mike gazes blankly at the altar. "Twelve": On the intoxicating badness of Joel Schumacher 2010-08-05T13:01:00Z With no room around the high altar to maneuver such heavy machinery, scaffolding is being installed there to put soiled surfaces within arm’s reach. St. John the Divine Cathedral Is in Recovery Mode 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z I was instructed to “feed” my altar every day with some pennies to “create positive energy.” How app culture turned astrology into a modern obsession 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z You don’t have to sacrifice health and family at the altar of contact sport. Pull no punches: how sports movies swapped triumph for truth 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “I try to put it all into one place, as if it were happening around an altar, if you like,” he said. ‘The Exorcist’ on a Los Angeles Stage 2012-06-22T00:23:01Z Why would anyone be a worshiper at the altar of Alfred Hitchcock? Review: ‘Phaedra(s)’ Goes Psycho With Isabelle Huppert 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I try to approach the altar, to feel something, but a tour group thwarts me. In Israel, a search for tranquility amid the Holy Land’s most popular tourist attractions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Hollywood lined up to kneel before the altar of Daniel Day-Lewis. Oscars 2013: how Argo beat Lincoln 2013-02-25T08:47:00Z And in the show at Baxter Street, small photographs of altars in his family’s homes hang on the wall in a line that runs throughout the gallery. A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z I'll never forget standing at the altar and I saw her coming down the aisle – immediately a sense of calm came over me. Steve Carell: My family values 2013-06-28T11:59:01Z Although the altar room and north wing are set to reopen in 2027, other parts of the building will not be accessible for a further decade. Restitution Is Moving Quickly. The Pergamon Museum Is Taking It Slow. 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z It made its way from Rome to Florence, where it was installed behind the main altar of the city’s cathedral, underneath large candelabras whose wax drippings left marks. Bringing a Deathly Michelangelo Sculpture Back to Life 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z During his procession to the altar, Francis stopped to pray with family members of victims of the Sewol ferry disaster, one of whom handed him a letter and said: "please do not forget." Pope Francis denounces wealth gap in open-air Seoul mass 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The altar was lovingly decorated with religious icons painted on wood panels, some charmingly naïve, some quite accomplished. Explorer: In Ukraine, Churches With a Distinctive Allure 2011-07-15T16:00:00Z The lamb has been sacrificed on the altar of the profitable sex trade. Review: Roadkill 2010-08-12T15:49:00Z Dark scorch marks from altar candles are still visible on its frame. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z In the 18th century, a Qing dynasty emperor visiting the Qufu temple was surprised to find its metal altar vessels to be of indifferent quality. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z When Taylor got married a few years ago, his then-fiance gave him an ultimatum, he says: Get a professional haircut or she wouldn’t show up at the altar. Miles Taylor spoke out against Trump as ‘Anonymous.’ Now he’s gone public and is hiding out. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Just as when this painting graced the altar of the Innocenti church, it is displayed above a predella, which shows a series of scenes. This 15th-century orphanage in Florence is now a kid-friendly museum 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But the work, evocative of both a lectern and an altar, is open to multiple readings. Anselm Kiefer Sculpture Will Go Up at Rockefeller Center 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Her eyes lower as she looks at the brightly beaded ason she’d removed from her altar, a sacred rattle made from dried gourd that serves as an instrument of power for a Vodou priest. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z When a studio has already made the decision to sacrifice two of its greatest properties on the altar of box office success, organic storytelling becomes rather less vital than toy sales and fast food tie-ins. Godzilla vs Kong: whoever wins Hollywood's monster mashup, we all lose 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The police found him dancing the farruca, naked, on the altar of the church of St Martin in the Fields, and he spent the rest of his life in an asylum in Epsom. Step-by-step guide to dance: Ballet Nacional de Espa?a 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z A personal altar for communing with a higher power. Aretha Franklin Was the Personification of Black Woman Magic 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Wearing the isn't-this-silly smiles of a modern, young couple fresh from the altar, they gave the crowd not one but two. Sealed with 2 kisses 2011-04-30T05:15:58Z In “Palo,” or “Stick” in Spanish, Kùlú Mèlé African Dance & Drum Ensemble of Philadelphia offered a dynamic work exploring the use of sticks in the preparation of altars to honor the spirits of ancestors. Dance Review: The Dances of Africa, as Filtered Through the Americas 2011-05-29T21:58:56Z If there was an altar call at the end, there never would have been a Potter mania. Religion: Final gasp of the 'Harry Potter' wars? 2011-07-18T16:00:06Z Masks were optional for the outdoor ceremony, for which candles were arranged into a circle to serve as a makeshift altar. They Fell for Each Other Over a Fall Lunch 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The women caused outrage when they stormed on to the altar of Christ the Saviour Cathedral, and sang an obscenity-laced song that implored the Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out". Pussy Riot deny protest charges 2012-07-30T11:12:53Z Tarantino is one of many Hollywood heavyweights who bow down at the altar of Leonard. Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award 2012-09-19T13:26:31Z For true fans, it’s a major blast of memories: Stipe’s crazy curls and tortured musings; Buck’s caustic humor; Mills’s transformation from altar boy to glam rocker; Berry’s unibrow. R.E.M.'s New Business Plan: Cashing In on ’90s Nostalgia 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z He deemed the altars as a cross between tombs and places to pray. My Bill Viola Video Marathon 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z He also composed a collage, situating a famous photographic likeness of Genet by Brassaï in a bombed-out church and placing above the altar an image of Jesus injecting himself with a syringe. A Lover’s Impact on David Wojnarowicz, for All to See 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The monumental mound of salt — a preservative and curative that also inflames open wounds — conjures altars and offerings, as well as pain and healing. Art Review: Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine 2011-03-10T16:30:07Z Ms. Carter was both guest and performer; she played her violin near an altar decorated with pink flowers. She Sang. So Did His Heart. 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z The side door opens again and church leaders Martin Davis, Larry Glasgow and Maria Wolf take their places on the altar. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z I'm like, why is there this handing off at the marriage altar, but then in reality, it feels like I've got the rug ripped out from under me, and I'm still under my dad's control? "Faith is weaponized": Jill Duggar Dillard on how she felt controlled by her family 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z The Buddhist temple, on the other hand, made very little changes to the interior, aside from removing the Stations of the Cross and the altar. A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Watching the bride approach the altar, Mr. Ma said, was a moment that will always be “very, very clear in my mind.” At Coachella, Connecting on a Deeper Level 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z As he recalls, processions from the west door of the abbey up to the high altar took 10 minutes, which was perfect for the Prelude to Wagner’s “Meistersinger.” Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z Then, each woman is responsible for cleaning some part of the hamlet and for placing flowers on the small altars in the dance studios. In India, a Dance Haven Shuts Out the World 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z He calls this the “Pompeii altar,” which seems to amplify the eeriness of the place. The joy — and challenges — of restoring a neoclassical horticultural ruin 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z All the sculptures are arrayed, somewhere just above or below eye level, like offerings on stepped pedestals that Mike calls altars. Michael Heizer’s Big Work and Long View 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The exhibit was closed a few days after it opened after a group of altar boys defaced many of the contemporary paintings, which used religious allusions to express attitudes toward religion, culture and the state. Moscow curators face 3 years in prison 2010-07-07T12:28:00Z Apparently people don't make things anymore, we just consume, like the passive foolish consumers we are, worshipping at our altars of mass consumerism. What is Rule 34, you ask. Let Charles Stross explain 2011-08-11T11:25:12Z Celebrated in Mexico and Central America, this holiday, the Day of the Dead, honors deceased ancestors with memorial altars and festive displays of molded-sugar skulls. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z After Des was jilted at the altar, Daphne moved in with him to help pay his mortgage and romance blossomed. Neighbours at 30: Memorable moments 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The entire space was transformed into a replica of the church where he spent his teenage years as an altar boy, with videos he made relating to his battle with cancer. Old Patina Encircles Fresh Art in Venice 2011-06-05T21:15:27Z I wound up at the altar, making my solemn vows, wearing a little Spider-Man on either wrist. I love Spider-Man – but would my son? How I learned a hard lesson about heroes 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The restoration is addressing the woodwork, gilding, Torah arks and bimahs, or altars. Reviving the Renaissance Temples of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The Mass was performed by the priest standing with his back to the congregation and his words and actions directed to the altar. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z Even she, all of whose defences are down as she heads for the altar, cannot let this go: "But tell me, what did you come to Netherfield for?" she asks in exasperated fondness. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z She once suggested a wife build an altar to her husband’s lover to remind her of how she had reinvigorated her marriage. Esther Perel: the relationship guru who thinks infidelity isn't all bad 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s as if these villagers are addressing a church altar, and as if we were behind or above it, like God. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z Rarely did florists worry that they could not acquire the dozens of white flowers needed for an altar backdrop, or the Eskimo roses for an arrangement at a sweetheart table. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z “Let’s bid farewell to the hoaxes piled up on the altars and in the palaces,” Yoshihara urged, “the drawing rooms and the antique shops…Lock up these corpses in the graveyard.” The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Robert Langdon Lloyd is quite amiable as Hero's father, Leonato, until he erupts sensationally in a furious tirade when Hero is dishonored at her wedding altar. Review: Buoyant, zestful 'Much Ado About Nothing' 2013-02-20T00:16:04Z Regal and severely gorgeous, it suggests both a group of figures and an altar. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Nearby, other creations by Graves — part jury-rigged home science experiments, part occultist altars — included religious figurines, medical models, electrical audio gizmos, and tangles of wires and pipes. ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Crowds congregate in one darkened corner near the altar, where stone cherubs surround a jewel-studded casket. In Old Goa, India, a saint’s relics raise mysterious questions The same sensibility distinguishes an altar in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the glistening red mosaic walls at One Wall Street, which turn to orange the higher they go. Hildreth Meière, the Forgotten Art Deco Artist 2014-05-02T18:06:08Z Here in Seattle, though, a lot of folks are still steering clear of the altar. Same-sex couples account for 1 in 6 Washington weddings 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z They were walking down the street, and he suddenly grabbed her hand and took her into a Catholic Church, where he went up to the altar and knelt down. My Absent Father 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z He may not be “as devout” as Mr. Elliott, Mr. Shea said, “but I was an altar boy my entire childhood.” Finding Devout Faith in Each Other 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z And the live action shorts range from the topics of time travel to altar boys in Sunday Mass. The slide show above takes a look at the nominees included in the collection. The Carpetbagger: A Brief Look at Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2012-02-10T18:30:20Z Almost instantly, the rows of plastic chairs arranged before the altar were filled, and congregants began competing for floor space. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z But many pious Turks believe turning Hagia Sophia into a museum denigrated the memory of Sultan Mehmet, who strode into the ransacked cathedral to pray at its altar. Muslims pray to turn Turkey's greatest monument back into a mosque 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Parishioners and church officials hustled the women off of the altar in less than five minutes. Pussy Riot denied bail 2012-07-10T21:20:00Z But not during today’s thoroughly enjoyable show, in which each look was revealed as the model altar boys removed the nuns’ habits one by one. On the Runway: Thom Browne's Convent 2011-02-14T23:45:56Z His background differs from that of his director, Jack Hofsiss, a former altar boy and another long-absent force in New York theater. Albert Innaurato Returns to the Stage With ‘Doubtless’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Cut-leaf alder is slowly growing in as the chapel’s roof, but for now sunlight dapples the earthen floor, wooden pews, and Italian marble altar. A Church in New Zealand Is the Epitome of Going Green 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z After dessert, the hosts took a moment to explain the history of the altar and its intention. A Monument to the Lives of Black Women and Girls 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The last shot of the series is a dazzling image of an altar Mae has set up secretly in the woods with candles, roses, ribbons, offerings and an image of herself and Suzanne. "Devil in Ohio" creator on reinventing the Satanic cult and that ending: "Is she a force for evil?" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Get there for the 5:30 p.m. ceremony when priests in saffron robes pull back the curtains to the altar holding Lord Krishna, playing the flute under golden umbrellas. 36 Hours in Jaipur 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z He projects himself into the mind of Isaac — imagining the shock and fear the boy must have felt, describing how the sky might have looked to the youth bound on the altar. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z When artifacts do return, officials in Nepal must decide whether to send the sacred sculptures back to their altars or — as is usually the case — keep them in a national museum. Citizen Activists Lead the Hunt for Antiquities Looted From Nepal 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z He hesitates as if approaching a sacred altar of sound, and then surrenders to his solitude, allowing himself to be haunted by their absence but not diminished by it. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Here, many of us dine with religious fervor and pray at the altar of neighborhood farmers markets. Michael Pollan "In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution" 2011-01-12T03:01:04Z And as Lady Bracknell, Mr. Bedford presides at the cathedral’s altar with supreme skill and stylishness — and a hint of substance too. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z And once again, there is a chancel at one end, with an altar ablaze with devotional candles. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z On its 2013 debut album, “The Bones of What You Believe,” the Scottish band Chvrches knelt at the altar of new wave romanticism. Chvrches Offer Hymns From the Altar of ’80s New Wave at SummerStage 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Rather than trooping to the altar for communion on a Sunday morning, congregants would immediately feel the gentle push and pull of gravity. Claude Parent, Visionary Architect of the Oblique, Dies at 93 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In his poems we see him kneeling hour after hour before a bare altar waiting for God to break his silence. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z |
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