hosannas

• The nonfiction look inside the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit didn't just earn Simon critical hosannas (and an Edgar Award), it got him a TV deal too—the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street was based on the book And that's how David Simon, journalist, began his transformation into David Simon, TV producer. —  AHMM,December2006
• From one side hosannas, from the other sackcloth gnashings. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 05 - May 2002
• Their hosannas were due to a complete misconception of Jesus' aim and purpose; disappointed in him, they would be the earliest to cry out against him, especially when the choice lay between him and a genuine insurrectionist. —  The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
• These hosannas are ours to surrender to till laurel & olive branch into our footpath, an eruption of blooms overtaking our heads. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
• "For those of you not shouting hosannas, it might have occurred to you that we are suffering from a rampant sickness in American life that casts government as the author of your dreams and an Illinois politician as the linchpin of your hopes." —  PA Pundits - International

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