hymn

If you want to find an observer singing from the same hymn sheet, sooner or later you will hit pay dirt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

But that’s the point of “Rock*.” It’s a lopsided hymn of praise to music—all music—that changes lives for very particular and ultimately unfathomable reasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In the previous Duma, everyone seemed to be singing from the same hymn sheet.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

During “La Noche,” an elegiac piano hymn about trying to find peace of mind, he shakily sings the hook, telling the audience, “I’m not the best singer, but I sing because I love life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

When the hymn was over, the waiters brought coffee and Bull rapped with his gavel once again and announced, “The smoking lamp is lighted.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Through subtle harmonic shifts on “Crepuscule With Nellie,” perhaps Monk’s loveliest melody, he accentuates the song’s inherent connection to blues and church hymns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

While the service is rooted in historical significance, Dame Sarah has had a hand in choosing some of the hymns.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

"The gospel music we grew up on was hymns and traditional music," says Rutendo.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

On a typical day, an American family would be more likely to entertain itself at home by singing traditional folk songs like “Barbara Allen,” patriotic songs such as “Yankee Doodle” or hymns like “Amazing Grace.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

There was no dirge, no incense, no requiem, although hymns were sung in the small church.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

After living for two years in a small cabin beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, he hymned the results in his classic account Walden, published in 1854.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

That has changed, or has seemed to change, recently, with Marine taking on a group of surreptitious haute-fonctionnaire “Horaces”—the name is a reference to the great if obsequious Roman poet who hymned the emperor Augustus.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2017

This is Sally as a flaming flapper, the kind hymned by F. Scott Fitzgerald and embodied by the young Joan Crawford in silent movies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014

And it's life as a whole lot that ends up getting hymned, not the path through it on which the film chooses to bestow its particular seal of approval.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2011

So sings Milton to the sweet Birdmonth—he whose mighty mind "nigh sphered in Heaven," hymned the soft beauty of the first day that dawned upon the infant world, which surely must have been a May-morning.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

Holst leaves the listener in the far removes of outer space, with Neptune being a study in musical mysticism, highlighted by a hidden hymning women’s chorus, as if heard from a mysterious distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Bush went beyond hymning the “thousand points of light” to oversee the establishment of the Commission on National and Community Service.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2018

It’s a useful rejoinder to evangelists hymning the inevitable progress of “tech,” and gurus divining what technology “wants.”

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2015

We read him for his warm and vast-as-America hymning, and her for crabbed and cryptic messages left in a poetic bottle.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2011

At one moment he was hymning the raptures of bee-keeping, at another letting off epigrams on the fascinating subject of hay-making.

From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens