annunciation

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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

At the end of these recurrent dreams, they watched the grim-lipped officer and the chaplain move toward the unhinging annunciation at the front door.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy