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How to use invocation in a sentence

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A sermon and invocation in Samoan was followed by an impromptu chorale, offering prayers and songs for the doomed.
This gliding technique allows him to play alap, the slow improvised invocation of a raga.
Naming is important in rap and in Afrocentric music in general, where it is an act of invocation that captures the essence of one's being.
The ballet opens and closes with an invocation to ever-changing fate and the wheel of Fortune.
I remember my disbelief when the cell phone on the belt of the man next to me rang during a Yule invocation.
Routing services let you define rules and service invocation sequences to create a simple sequence of if-then constructs.
This larger context is the proem, or introductory poem, which prefaced the invocation.
Instead of a damning critique he offers redemption through the invocation of a moral imperative.
I hear cries of outrange from the human rights campaigners, and in invocation of the Human Rights Act.
The client then uses its filter registry to invoke the filters during a subsequent method invocation.
The narrator's invocation of loss is as strategic as his conflation of genders in his vision of his Muses.
This past Thanksgiving, she offered a Navajo blessing as the invocation for the Sunday service.
I reproduce below Duggal's translation of the invocation and the first verse followed by my rendering of the same.
The other essential part of the marriage service is the invocation of divine blessing.
And it is the attempt to make such decisions beyond challenge, through the invocation of a supernatural authority.
That may not be the most compelling reason to stop the war, but it should certainly temper her teary-eyed invocation of soldier mythology.
Make the presentation much more prayerlike, an invocation for the Spirit to help us with our own baptismal vows.
I have to tolerate mandatory formations being opened with an invocation by the chaplain.
Geoff was back, the invocation and anthem were over, and it was time to go racing.
The invocation started with a soulful rendition of the prayer song by the younger students of Upasana.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The muser dwelt long on this invocation, pacing to and fro on the narrow strip of rock.
The poem is an invocation to summer, to shed its blessings over the country of Gwent.
Did fire from heaven descend, and consume the slaveholder at their invocation?
It was a prayer, an invocation, to the unknown child, as to the unknown God!
In modern crystal-gazing and mirror-reading, however, there is no invocation.
It has also been suggested that their invocation of the spirits of their dead may be a survival of Asian ancestor worship.
I am sure that to them the invocation of Beelzebub is a prelibation of carnality.
It was the voice of the Indian, who, with outstretched arm, was chaunting a solemn invocation to the spirit of the waters.
The second act commences with Dalila's invocation to love, praying for aid in her design to ensnare Samson.
In that case, as a Unitarian, I must object to an invocation in which I do not believe.
We travel with warlocks, but they will not hurt thee.Kim turned it over with the air of a wise warlock, muttering a Mohammedan invocation.
Then, a solemn invocation was made to the gods by the Druid priests.
When first he sees the spectre, he fortifies himself with an invocation.
On this a mollah arises, and with full, rich voice chants an invocation to the Deity.
I feel the same about the invocation of the saints and about images.
In the last act when she began the invocation to the angels, she made all the members of the audience feel as though they too had wings.
In so doing he recited a kind of prayer or invocation, to which, at intervals, the others made responses.
Bax, who had inspired him to write three of the most superb lines in English literature, an invocation to the Deity.
Hutchins said he will likely feel a lot of emotions when he delivers the invocation on the final night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
My point here is not so much to amplify the absurdity of Clark's uncritical invocation of what is, in fact, Foucault's own dramatization of Bentham's totalitarian phantasy.
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