invocation
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Invocation after invocation of what girls "should" do, without any understanding of what's keeping them from these goals.
From Salon • May 29, 2023
Kholodenko ended where others would have begun, with the Invocation that opens Liszt’s series called “Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2016
Invocation of the rule could lead to bizarre spectacles, as the rule bars senators from "divulging the information with respect to which the vote is being taken."
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2014
The Best Invocation of a Kennedy: Biden played the Kennedy card: “Oh, now you're Jack Kennedy.”
From Slate • Oct. 12, 2012
So far as we can attach any truth of meaning to this Invocation, we must look upon it as a symbolical expression of Divine agency and superintendence in all the various fields of natural production.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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