annunciation

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

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2019

Christianity was ceasing to be the apocalyptic annunciation of something unprecedented and becoming just the established devotional system of its culture, offering all the consolations and reassurances that one demands of religious institutions.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2017

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 Eliot, George

On the door-posts, the telegraph-poles, the pillars of verandas, the lamps,—over the government letter-boxes,—everywhere glimmered the white annunciations of death.

From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio

These sections include the annunciations, the birth, infancy, and childhood of both John and Jesus.

From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas