Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...William James was very overheated," Franken said. "Somehow, I fell asleep every lecture." At this, the audience burst into laughter...
...long cancer inside my spinal cord, I found myself--an outlaw Christian who had, and has, no active tie with a church--transported, thoroughly awake, to another entirely credible time and place. I was lying on the shore of the Lake of Galilee with Jesus' disciples asleep around...
...question about all three Gospel reports of Jesus' agony in the garden is this: If the disciples fell asleep, who heard and remembered Jesus' terrible prayer? My guess is only one of several practical possibilities...
...incomparably bitter cross--Jesus had told John more than once that a cross would stand near the end of his road. Now John heard one more thing, several times: "Let this cup pass. Abba, not this cup. But, sir, your will." Appalling as the transaction was, even John was asleep before it ended...
...lullaby power of their voices. Earlier this year, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civic Policy Thomas Scanlon demanded that his students, "Open all the windows! It's 90 degrees in here. I want a challenge! It would be too easy to make you all fall asleep in a room this warm...