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

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

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

From Romola by George Eliot

It was not until thirty years after that it attained its full development in the annunciations of sectionists rather than statesmen.

From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis