(1) It had taken me a week to track down the underground dervish scene in Istanbul - the only dervish contact I had in the city was a carpet-seller called Abdullah deep in the bazaar.
(2) Photographs can't prepare you for the disorienting feeling that the dervishes are defying gravity.
(3) The dervishes are all Sufis, seekers on the mystical path to God, and are members of different Brotherhoods, chief among them Mevlevis, the school founded by the mystic poet Rumi 700 years ago.
(4) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
(5) To keep cinemagoers happy, Abrams must deliver a dose of cosmic joy so pure and unfettered that it sets the midi-chlorians whirling like star-swept dervishes caught in the half-light of a departing X-Wing.
(6) The dervishes are meditation in movement, prayer as dance.
(7) 1979: Them Heavy People (the radio cut from the On Stage EP), which namedropped the Russian mystic Gurdjieff and Sufi whirling dervishes, a celebration of being intellectually-emotionally expanded: "it's nearly killing me … what a lovely feeling".
(8) Like much of Sufism, the performance of the whirling dervishes works on many levels and is charged with symbolism.
(9) Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith.
(10) At the same time, at the instigation of the Chancellor, it is rushing about like a dervish in an attempt to head off every Labour stunt that comes along.
(11) Every comment on the Games repeats this line, as if Olympic spirit was a subset of whirling-dervish fundamentalism.
(12) In casting this off the dervishes discard all worldly ties.
(13) Finally I found myself at a zikr (a remembrance) among 80 or so dervishes in a hidden tekke (religious house), and they began to chant, rhythmically, the name of Allah.
(14) The abuse hits other religious minorities, too – the Yarsan Kurds; Gonabadi Dervishes, who are Shia Muslims; and Christians.
(15) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(16) Still, there's no getting around it: Pakistan is beset with problems that no amount of jolly beer stories or whirling dervishes can remedy.
(17) However much time Oliver has spent in "poor communities", he is but a tourist there, looking at fire walkers and whirling dervishes and wondering "why on earth would they choose to do that?
(18) There was none of the passion I'd seen among the Istanbul dervishes.
(19) In any case, it is not surprising that Sufis and dervishes have had a tough time in many Islamic countries.
(20) When the tension was close to unbearable, 12 dervishes filed into the adjoining room and, in unison, took off their black cloaks - as if it were a holy fashion show - revealing white robes.
Fraternity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
(n.) A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
(n.) Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
Example Sentences:
(1) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.
(2) The formation of close fraternal relations is of great importance for the personality development of the children as well as of their parents and for the relations arising between brothers and sisters with advancing age.
(3) The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenues and lost development opportunities, while benefiting a relatively small criminal fraternity,” says the UN .
(4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
(5) To call for liberty, equality or fraternity is a rallying call to arms.
(6) Let us always pray for us, one for the other, let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity.
(7) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(8) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
(9) The fraternal twins, i.e., the girl operated upon and her brother, have been followed for 5 years and are without any complaints.
(10) In Boston was performed the first successful isograft between identical twins (1954) the first successful allograft between fraternal twins (1959) and the first successful allograft from a cadaveric donor (1962).
(11) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
(12) His 1895 will said it should go to those promoting "fraternity between nations", the abolition or reduction of standing armies, or the formation and spreading of peace congresses.
(13) Several tests related to lipid metabolism were made on the serum and urine of a fraternal twin with FMF during attacks and remission.
(14) Rolling Stone is walking back and apologizing for an explosive article it published about rape at the University of Virginia, admitting there “now appear to be discrepancies” in the key story in the article, about a woman who alleges that she was the victim of a calculated gang rape that took place by members of a fraternity at the school.
(15) Reasons relating partly to Spain's recent history and partly to the nature of its health system have kept the discipline from attracting the support and collaboration of much of the nation's medical fraternity.
(16) Prenatal fraternity size negatively affected average pup weight at birth (P less than .05) but had little subsequent effect on growth or reproduction.
(17) Number of sleep spindles and sleep spindle density showed almost concordance between identical twin pairs and one fraternal pair (No.
(18) The Russian president continued: "Ukraine is not only our closest neighbour it is our fraternal neighbour.
(19) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
(20) Miliband called for a "fraternal" contest for all candidates who put their names forward.