What's the difference between liturgy and sonnet?

Liturgy


Definition:

  • (a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
  • (2) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
  • (3) Nobody believes any of this stuff, of course, but it has to be said, rather like a familiar religious liturgy.
  • (4) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
  • (5) They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience.
  • (6) No other court in the past 50 years has allowed public school officials to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god,” attorney Dean Broyles said in a statement.
  • (7) While stressing that it is not advocating any change to the church's teaching on sexual conduct, it suggests that the house of bishops may wish to consider whether it should issue guidance on liturgy.
  • (8) Otherwise, there was silence, punctuated only by the comforting murmur of several hundred voices reciting a liturgy they knew by heart.
  • (9) "Appropriating other people's liturgies," whispered one wry cleric, "does bring certain difficulties."
  • (10) Yes, just in case you were looking for some spiritually-uplifting sounds to accompany the white smoke, look no further: Spotify have worked with the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy (NDCL) in the United States to come up with 29 pieces of music that they say will "give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer".
  • (11) A priest hurrying through the liturgy, the commentator at Walthamstow dog track?
  • (12) And I thought: ‘If you’ve not got a PR operation, you’re obviously not planning to open any time soon.’ But their line was always, ‘It’s about to happen.’ There’s a line in the Anglican liturgy: ‘The hope of glory to come.’ It was like that.” As time went on, she says, the mood of the All Saints neighbourhood came to be defined by the empty expanse of land at its heart.
  • (13) The group does not propose any specially authorised liturgy for the blessing of same-sex relationships and says the move would not require any change to church teachings.
  • (14) "The thing that makes evangelical churches popular is the informality, the lack of structure of the service, the fact that they don't use traditional liturgy, and they've got good music that young people love and they engage with.
  • (15) Speaking at a press conference following the report's publication, Sir Joseph said one consequence of the lack of authorised liturgy was the "room for manoeuvre" when it came to the kind of ceremony priests might be able to offer same-sex couples.
  • (16) We think of religion as the bible, morality, sacred tradition, doctrine, ritual, liturgy.
  • (17) The proposals in the church's theological commission report on ordaining gay ministers for a gay marriage liturgy was one of his "worst nightmares", Randall said.
  • (18) This, and the primacy of the word of God in monastic liturgy, made Hume naturally ecumenically-minded.
  • (19) At that time, the morning services replicated the experience of the grander sort of public-school chapel, with a robed choir, a liturgy from 1662 and a well-bred congregation lined up on pews.
  • (20) "It is a consecrated space where important liturgies are celebrated and where popes are elected.

Sonnet


Definition:

  • (n.) A short poem, -- usually amatory.
  • (n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
  • (v. i.) To compose sonnets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
  • (2) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
  • (3) Duffy has yet to reveal which metre her gas poem will be in, though for her first poem in the laureate role she tackled the subject of MPs expenses in the form of a sonnet.
  • (4) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
  • (5) The world's most beautiful sonnet was composed by someone who had shit hanging out of their bum shortly afterwards.
  • (6) Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, has of recent years become as popular a recitation at weddings as recitals of Frank Sinatra’s My Way at funerals.
  • (7) Although it has supplied some “slow news day” fodder the Shakespeare-sex-and-sonnet issue is by no means new.
  • (8) Sir Antony said it had been a "sweet and simple" ceremony, during which he delivered a speech from Cyrano de Bergerac and Mr Doran read a Shakespeare sonnet.
  • (9) ‘I want to go back to my country and teach people’ Majd Haaj Hassan is as quick with a Shakespeare quotation, reeling off Sonnet XVIII in a grubby refugee camp, as he is with a political analysis of Syria’s woes.
  • (10) Over the past year or so I have been talking about these things on and off with the composer Sally Beamish ; she has been setting some poems of mine (sonnets, again) for a new oratorio called Equal Voices, that the London Symphony Orchestra will premiere at the Barbican next month .
  • (11) There are infinitely more in Italian – the home of the sonnet.
  • (12) Websites dedicated to the reclusive author, who wrote her first sonnet at the age of 13, are packed with speculation about the new novel and with wistful hopes that it will live up to the high quality of The Secret History.
  • (13) To suggest that the formal constraints of crime fiction prevent its practitioners from producing good novels “is as foolish as to say that no sonnet can be great poetry since a sonnet is restricted to 14 lines”, she argued .
  • (14) We did a few things for events in the royal calendar, and a couple of larger and independent commissions as well: he set the five sonnets I wrote about Harry Patch , drawing on his own childhood war memories, and I wrote six more sonnets to drop between the movements of his String Quartet No 7, which is a meditation on the architect Francesco Borromini.
  • (15) He was critical of Rupert Brooke's "begloried sonnets", which seemed to him "commonplace", finding their romantic lyricism inappropriate to the ugliness and horror he encountered in wartime France.
  • (16) This article compares Shakespeare's sonnets with those written by Richard Barnfield in order to examine the possibility of homoerotic subjectivity in early Renaissance England.
  • (17) Sonnets, one should note in passing, are hard to read – particularly as they move on to the “sestet”, or last six lines.
  • (18) This paper explores the relationship between Keats's ballad, "La Belle Dame sans Merci," and some of its precursors, including one of the poet's dreams and a sonnet titled "On a Dream."
  • (19) However, he also came away with a pair of Royal Crown Derby candlesticks and a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets contained in a specially commissioned leather and gilt box, made by the Royal Bindery.
  • (20) "First of all, I would launch a 200-billion-pound programme that will teach horses how to write sonnets.