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anacreontic

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as in English sonnet

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Debate has persisted regarding churches with women serving in assistant pastoral or preaching roles.

— Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
Debate has persisted on where to draw the line regarding churches with women serving in assistant pastoral or preaching roles.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 June 2026

Definition of pastoral

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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.

— Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.

— Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026

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Following the success of 2023’s Oppenheimer — which earned Nolan his first Academy Awards for best director and best picture — the filmmaker turned his attention to adapting Homer’s ancient Greek epic.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
The gods speak obtusely, even in Nolan’s script, but this magnificent epic leaves us with the ability to heed their meaning.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

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But from here, in Jacopo’s one-hectare garden, you are tucked away in a Tuscan rural idyll.

— Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
This Robinson Crusoe-esque idyll delivers so much more than the standard palm tree escapism, with a 39-room wellness complex that's a match for anywhere in Europe or Asia.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2026

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By greatly expanding the dimensions of his images, with their muted palettes, tight cropping, found symmetries, and laconic wit, had the maestro of the photographic epigram betrayed his subtractive aesthetic?

— James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Johnson is the author of the epigrams, but Boswell is very much the co-author.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026

Definition of epigram

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The Spiritual Sound Marc-André Hamelin, Found Objects / Sound Objects The Beths, Straight Line Was a Lie A year like no other, my 2025 in music was filled with joyous arias and madrigals of melancholy.

— Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025
This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.

— Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025

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Filmed on special high-resolution IMAX film, Nolan spent approximately $3 million on 2 million feet of raw physical film stock on the nearly three-hour retelling of the ancient Greek poem.

— Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
The rapper, who has the small role of a bard in Nolan’s cinematic retelling of the Greek epic poem, weaves together Homer’s prose with modern lyricism on the ghostly track that alludes to Odysseus’ long journey.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026

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