Word: howling
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Although there are still troubles to be ironed out (e.g., too much amplification feeds sound from loudspeakers back to microphone, causing a loud, cacophonous howl), churchmen were favorably impressed. Now congregations should be able to listen to historic chants, sermons will sound as if they actually come from the pulpit, not from the older loudspeakers that were spotted under seats and in other improbable locations. The engineers, said Archdeacon Gibbs-Smith, have been clever enough to preserve "the sense of the numinous [consciousness of the Holy] which is so vital in divine worship...
...then find a new partner. The audience began to titter when the basketball player in the group made his sixth appearance with still another "very best girl." Not even the anonymity of grey flannels could mask his six foot five inches, and the audience's titter changed to a howl when it realized the sort of fast shuffle that was going...
...once a few others had been tapped for this policy-stating group, the excluded members could have a right to howl that their chastity had been impugned. As it is, the ones who have protested are doing a beautiful job of self-incrimination. It takes a shady mind to find a double meaning...
Hypocrites Cry & Howl. To help her, Williams composed and sent her "a handful of flowers" plucked from the garden of Scripture and made into "a little posy fit and easy for thy meditation and refreshing...
...children "find a kind of holy pleasure and delight in prayer, whatever be the event or issue . . . Hypocrites in their prayers . . . cry and howl upon their beds for corn and wine . . . but the prayers of God's children chiefly eye heavenly things . . . They also wait for His holy pleasure and leisure . . . confessing themselves beggars at God's door and dogs under His table...