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  • Throughout the album, Foxy Shazam tries to streamline its songs into the religious theme alluded to in the album name through gospel-like backup singing, religious references, and a projected crucifix on the album cover.

    Judah Joseph: REVIEW: Foxy Shazam, The Church Of Rock And Roll Judah Joseph 2012

  • Instead of Smashing Pumpkins, the music this time was some sort of gospel-like orchestral played over some of the best visuals from the film, including Nite Owl and Silk Spectre kissing while a nuke explodes behind them, extended shots of Rorschach and the ink changing in his mask, and the scene where the original Minutemen are getting their photo taken.

    Comic-Con 08: This Year's Best Panels and Footage « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • “Lord,” with its beautiful piano melodies and gospel-like vocals, has a certain Southern essence about it that would make it seem right at home inside any dive bar jukebox in Louisiana or Mississippi.

    Buzzine » Sleepy Sun 2009

  • For seven months I lived in the greatest realm of darkness in human history, and came back with a gospel-like manuscript about ‘the perpetual Sunday school that stretches from the Baltic to the Pacific’, where the greatest educational project in history was underway, where the schoolmaster ‘summoned by means of Marxism millions upon millions of people out of the darkness of stupidity and despair.’

    Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Nevertheless, the line that it is Israeli settlements that are the problem, and Prime Minister Netanyahu's reluctance to remove them that is the fundamental impediment to peace, has attained a certain gospel-like adherence in certain quarters and, increasingly, among Democrats.

    Obama and Palestine 2009

  • But, in that melodic gospel-like tones of the Baptist Preacher he was, he would urge us never to forget that,

    Clarence B. Jones: The 80th Birthday of Dr. King and the Inauguration of Obama as President 2009

  • But Super Soul sees it as an act of resistance, and his gospel-like incantations about "the big blue meanies" and "the super driver of the golden West" give the film much of its potency, stretching it beyond just another car chase into an epic expression of freedom and the power of the individual.

    Vanishing Point Ed Howard 2008

  • But Super Soul sees it as an act of resistance, and his gospel-like incantations about "the big blue meanies" and "the super driver of the golden West" give the film much of its potency, stretching it beyond just another car chase into an epic expression of freedom and the power of the individual.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • From urban-flavored love songs and hip-hop joints featuring rappers Foxy Brown and Jay-Z, Kelly moves slyly into gospel-like tunes that echo the vocal stylings of Sam Cooke.

    Soul Searching With R. Kelly 2008

  • Blige and U2, Louisiana flavored songs from Foo Fighters and Paul Simon, and a few songs with a very gospel-like feel, especially Kanye West's "Jesus Walks" reworked with new lyrics.

    CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2005 2005

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