hymn

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

Perhaps the organizers thought the crowd wouldn’t dare boo during a patriotic hymn.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

At four years old, Platner said, he knew all the words of the Marine Corps hymn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

The original plan was to wed in front of 150 guests and walk down the aisle to Calon Lân, a hymn her gran loved.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Ben went to the record player he had brought down from his parents’ room, and put on the Marine Corps hymn.

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

The evangelist Billy Graham solidified his appeal by supplanting hymns with the style of music to which teens and young adults flocked; Broadway even chimed in with the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Some of the hymns and liturgy were the same as those sung by Anglicans around the world, but there were also differences, like the upbeat worship music that had the congregation dancing in the pews.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

He said traditional hymns will be sung by the church's Filipino community.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

After several hymns the priest fell into a long prayer.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

I meet him in the train, and the other day I hymned him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

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

Constantine entered Rome in triumph, hymning these and similar passages to God, the author of the victory.’

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss