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  • Composed by a holy master during one of the many Inquisitions where Jews were forced to renounce their Maker or die, Kol Nidre declares the opening of heaven's gates to the cries of the Jewish people; its sacred stanzas calling for the penitent to renounce prior renunciations and return to the Holy One as clean and white as newborn lambs.

    Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011

  • And, if you're writing about a wedding, for heaven's sake, you are STATIONARY when you stick stamps on your STATIONERY, you ALTER the dress to get married at the ALTAR, and you walk down the AISLE and go on honeymoon to an ISLE.

    One of These Words Is Not Like The Other 2010

  • "We don't want to turn the whole food system into just taking a pill because it's the lowest carbon footprint, for heaven's sake!"

    Eating can be energy-efficient, too 2009

  • Composed by a holy master during one of the many Inquisitions where Jews were forced to renounce their Maker or die, Kol Nidre declares the opening of heaven's gates to the cries of the Jewish people; its sacred stanzas calling for the penitent to renounce prior renunciations and return to the Holy One as clean and white as newborn lambs.

    Cheryl Pearl Sucher: Life Is Prayer During The Days Of Awe Cheryl Pearl Sucher 2011

  • But as she sits exhausted on the ground, the blind girl casts her face upward and heaven's light shines on her.

    Victorian art, the sentimental poor – and Cameron's Britain Jonathan Jones 2010

  • "First of all, I'm 67, for heaven's sake, and I'm married to a charming and beautiful 66-year-old, and I would be delighted if she was the face of anything on television," he said, when challenged about the predominance of men on news and factual programmes.

    BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten wants stronger voice for older women 2011

  • Thro 'heaven's high dome their aweful anthem raise;

    Letter 188 2009

  • Hawking said heaven's a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark, and that passes the muster of "Everything I've Been Told About Reality is Totally Wrong 101," but I expect something a little less glib from a mind like his.

    Christopher Cocca: Heaven, Hell And Stephen Hawking Christopher Cocca 2011

  • When she receives a gift from the heaven's (known as godfall; in this case a dead human diver), she must decide: bring the bounty to her pod Mother for all to enjoy or keep it for herself and risk death?

    REVIEW: Interzone #224 2009

  • It abolished the idea of purgatory, and therefore anything perceived to be a ghostly apparition couldn't be a helpful soul whiling away the centuries in heaven's waiting room but must instead be a damned spectre, and consequently much more fun.

    What is it about the English and their obsession with ghosts? David Mitchell 2010

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