annunciation

The opening credits — an assembly-line montage scored to the pounding first chords of the blues song “I’m a Man,” sung with new lyrics by Captain Beefheart — provide a brutal annunciation.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

To MacFarlane, this image could be "an annunciation scene from Giotto".

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2019

Such a very public naming of the dead, an annunciation of our universal mortality, would be an act of revelation in the Anglo-Saxon world.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2017

The grand words of annunciation with which Kushner’s play culminates—“Greetings Prophet; / The Great Work begins: / The Messenger has arrived”—are delivered by the Angel with conversational mildness.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015

Like an angel of the annunciation, Mother Ermentrude spreads her arms and folds her hands over my head.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The tradition’s canonical scenes — annunciations, resurrections, saintly transfigurations — are unavoidably miraculous, no matter how they’re rendered.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

In Colvin she is made to deliver her labored annunciations in service of playing a working-class girl motivated to take down venal big-city bosses because they essentially ruined her father’s life.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2011

Hardly a word was dishonourable to him except what turned on his prophetic annunciations.

From Romola by George Eliot

Jeremiah was set at liberty, and continued his earnest expostulations with the people on account of their sins, and his terrible annunciations of the impending ruin of the city just as before.

From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

In all "Holy Writ" we find accounts of "ascensions," "translations," "annunciations," and mortals caught up into the clouds.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Elbert Hubbard